Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-01-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tn. Week Ending Dec. 80.


lionaire cigar manufactures. died at
Carlsbad. v NJ.
Gerhard Krull, the largest man in
Ohio weighing $50 pounds, died sud
denly in Cincinnati.
Nine thousand Chicago union truck
teamsters have been granted $500 600
annual wage increase.
Admiral Dewey arrived in Ponce,
Porto Rico. overland from san Juan
and received rn ovation.
The profits of j. T. Morgan, the
railway magnate. for the past year are
estimated at S42 OO0 900
Old-timc Methodist hymns and re-
yival, are discrcdited by Chicago
ministers Of that denomination.
Emphatic denial is made of tine tory
that the president had been injured
during fencing bout with Gen Wood.
People of the United States paid
26O.000.000 for maintenance of churches
aside from S5O,OO0.0O0 given 10 charity.
Fire destroyed the Star theater at
Atlanta. Ca. and the post office and
adjoining building, at Braddock. Pa.
The national building trades council
will require all union men to ascertain
if house is union bHilt before moving
into it,
Chicago health department experts
corrobOrate the theory Of London
physician that lemon juice kills
germs.
There is much suffering among set
tiers in eastern Colorado and hun
dreds of cattle are perishing as result
Of billiards..
Gov. Durbin of Indiana has re.
moved sheriff Dudley, of Sullivan
county, holding him blamable in the
billiard lynching.
matrimonial club has been organ
iled by girl employees in Troy u. "
collar factories To help emigration
10 western cities.
gen. Nelson \. Miles reviewed the
legation guards at Picking. was given
reception 10y mandarins and attended
diplomatic dinner.
Twelve thousand miners i'm the Flat.
Top coal field in West Virginia will
= & I
TO twenty per cent.
NiceroH Curlon. with a brilliant pa
geant. opened the durbar al Delhi In
dia. 20 celebrate the accession 10 the
throne of King Edward VII.
The public school system of Hi
nois is arraigned as loose and inefH-
Gent by President Tracy of the llli-
nois Teachers association.
The United States transport Sher-
man struck rock of southern Luzon.
but finally reached Manila with %
inches of water in her hold
Btuminous miners of the country
are preparing 10 demand an advance
of Is to 20 per cent in wages at the
coming national convention.
Earnings of emigraut bureau rail-
roads for 1902 gained 1888 per cent.
over 1901. Arrivals at New York in
creased 31.5 per cent. in ten months.
Railways have established a record
during 1902 by adhering TO published
tariff schedules and avoiding cutting
Business was the greatest ever known.
Everett Barnes and Miss Birchlane,
clippers from Princeton, Ky, were mar
ried in a cab at Metropolis. H.. while
driving AT breaknecll -peed to catch a
train.
While attempting to cross Cum-
berland river near Gainesboro, Tenn,
in a canoe. Miss Verdi Rich. Miss Hat.
tie Rose and Walter Rich were
drowned.
Maj. Gen. Bates has directed that at
every army post In the department Of
the lakes monthly field day" be set
aside 90 be devoted TO athletic games
and exercises 10y the enlisted men.
Mis- Jessie VI. Nandiyer Of Franklin,
Ind, has been notified that she will
inherit $1,000 600 1000 acres of land and
four houses from j. w Dawson, Of
New York, who has made her his heir.
Oliver Miller. am actor, was shot and
killed by William Fogleson during a
performance Of "Crawford's Claim" at
a Marion Ond) theater. The revolver
was loaded with ball cartridge 10y mis-
take.
Representative educators propose
memorial 20 the life and work Of Alice
Freeman Palmer. former president If
Wellesley college and advisory dean OF
the woman's department Of the Uui-
versity Of Chicago.
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