Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1902-11-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


TOT the cfh ihulhS nov. IL.
Rev Hugh Price Hughes, the noted
Wesleyan preacher. died suddenly in
London.
After 80 years Of prohibition. YER
mont j, likely TO turn 10 high license
and local option.
Eight persons are dead a. the re-
suit of boiler explosion in fur
mace ar Lebanon, Pa
Pool operators i'm Wall street, New
York. were hit for S50.000.O00 10y
slump in the market
The Japanese empire will maintain
a permanent fleet in the American
waters of the Pacific.
Postmaster General Payne will urge
on congress two-cent postage rate
To England, France and Germany.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden recommends new rat. #
-four cents per pound on newspapers.
COY. La Foliettc crepD has a plu-
rality over Rose i'm Wisconsin of ~
275, according 10 the official returns.
Engineer H. :. Moore and brakeman
J.. Y. Dicrman were Killed in Penn
syl'ania freight wreck near Bolivar,
Pa
Gen. Booth, founder If the Salvation
Army. addressed three large meeting.
in Chicago and gained numcrou, con-
vert>
The Princeton Ol) football team
has won The championship of athletic
club football teams Of the United !
States.
Clifton -. Beach, former member Of
congre~~ from the Twentieth Ohio |
district died at Rocky River O., aged |
- years.
Ihirty-fvc thousand textile opera
tives in 800 mills in Philadelphia
have made a demand for shorter
work day.
Harlan Buckles, sentenced 10 life
imprisonment for the murder of Rob
ert L. Reid, was hanged by a mob at
Elizabethtown, Ky.
At East Carondelet. H.. two high
waymen shot and killed Nick Bois-
menue, robbed his saloon and four
customers and escaped.
Increases Of wages by various rail-
road companies will swell the year
~ income Of the 100000 men affected
by at least 100000
Harry Robins, aged eight, Of Peoria,
H., is dead from an injury caused by
a brick thrown by William Curtis aged
line, in quarrel al school.
John Movingo, aged Is, shot and
l.r., !,
I'D, near Pulaski. Ia. with a pistol
TO be unloaded.
John W. Holleck, farmer and al
legged pension agent was sentenced
n st. Louis TO ten years in the peni-
tertiary for pension frauds. +.
Frank O'Connor. Il years old. died {
n New York from injuries received
II the fireworks explosion election :
light, making the fifteenth victim. /
The post office department cannot
'ar mails 10 a business Rouse because
most people disbelicyc i'm it, accord
nc to federal supreme court deci-
ion.
President Roosevelt had another
nlucky day in the Mississippi
wamps, Mr. McDougal being the
My member of the party to get
ear.
The nonunion mine workers.
trough their attorneys, have fled 3
be statement Of their case with the
nthracite coal strike commission at
The full text Of the arbitration de- 4,
sion by King Oscar IT, on the Sa- -
ioan dispute shows Germany upheld z
n all paints against England and -
ie United States. %
Survivors Of the wrecked British 81
Gamer Elingamitc driftcd for four
lys on a raft. the only food for IS
ersons being two apples. and eight n
ed before lring rescued.
Mrs. Hattie Hart. Of Pckin. ILL.,. ~
ed after taking a beauty prcscrip- a,
on sold by Dr. Rosetta EtzIer. Of
'oria. The medicine is declared to
ntain arsenic. and is poisonous UNI 7
SIS directions are followed DR.. Et-
,r was arrested. W
Mrs Roland b. Molineux, wife Of ce
g recently acquitted murder sus-
Ct has arrived at Sioux Falls. s. Il
, Ia sue for divorce. Six months
sidence are necessary before pa
rs can he filed. Grounds for the DC
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