Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-07-24

bite while he was asleep, is likely to
kill DIR. Alex. Dawson, a leading physi:
clan Of Atlanta, Ga.
MAJ.-GEN. s. NJ. b. Young will be.
come lieutenant general on August 1.
The promotion is made by the retire
ment of Gen. Miles.
president ROOSEVELT is thoroughly
Disguised with Russian diplomacy and
some of these days the bear is liable to
hear something drop.
THE law of New York state requires
2 200 signatures to give an independents
candidate place on the official ballot
in Greater New York.
KING EDwABD is in the dumps. His
Irish subjects declined to present an ad.
dress of welcome on the occasion of his
approaching visit to Dublin.
WHILE King Ed and Admiral Cotton
were enjoying three-course dinner aft
the man behind the gun was mushing
beans and canned beef forward.
A STATE of lawlessness prevails in
Northern Wyoming as a result of which
all law and order seems to have been
abolished. The governor has been ap-
pealed to for aid.
FARMERS in Berrien county have
offered as high as 81. 90 per day for farm
hands and are unable TO get them.
Fruit will be ruined unless help can be
secured to market it.
DON'T try to get revenge on the auto.
mobile by throwing rail fences at it. 1t
cost ST. Johns farmer $50 for throw
ing a fence rail at one OF the pesky
things the other day.
THE stork visited the home of Grover
Cleveland Saturday for the fifth time.
This time it was boy. The family now
consists of Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland,
three girls and two boys.
AN ANN ARBoR woman wants d.
vorce because she had to take in wash
ing. Hard lines. The husband came
back at her and said she was saving
money TO buy q horse and buggy.
THE civil service commission an.
nounces that regular examinations for
positions in the government service will
be held in Michigan on the following
dates Detroit, Sept. 81 and %, Oct.
81; Grand Rapids, Sept. 81 and %, Oct.
81; Lansing, Manistee, Marquette and
Saginaw, Oct. and 81; Sault Ste.
Marie, Oct. 81.
"CHIcAGo to Paris by rail-" is the
latest pipe dream. And yet it may not
be such fantasy as it might seem. The
idea is to run by rail from New York to
San Francisco, thence to the most
westernly point of Alaska, extending to
the Boring Sea, where a tunnel is to
connect the two mainlands. The road
would then run to st Petersburg, and
from there through Europe to Berlin
and Paris
WHILE the end of the postoffice in.
vestigation is said to be In sight the
overhauling is going on Systematically
and vigorously. Drafts and checks are
being traced. Grand juries Of the diff
ferent cities are hearing witnesses and
now and then new charges develop
against already implicated officials. All
in all it looks as though thorough sani.
tary methods were being employed to
cleanse the foul hole
THE government clerks at Washington
are fighting to get the legal Saturday
half.holiday allowed them by Uncle
Sam. The federal government usually
does about as it pleases in the District
OF Columbia, over which 10 has exclu.
sive control but the construction OF an
act passed by Congress itself relating to
holidays in the District seems to make
Saturday legal half. holiday so far as
governmental and banking operations
are concerned. 1t is believed that the
Attorney. General will be called upon
by the President for an opinion on the
subject Should the Departments close
at noon Saturdays it would amount to