Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Montana senate defeated a
woman suffrage bill.
Mrs Charity Green (colored), aged
1913 years. died at Omaha.
Edna Lyall, the novelist, died at East
bourne, England, of pneumonia.
Sixty-four japanese coal miners
were killed by a gas explosion.
A cyclone at Wilmington, Del, I'M
rooted 80 houses and injured two men.
Secretary Root has accepted the res
ignation of Naval Constructor Rich
nond T. Hobson.
The keel was laid at Newport
News, Va, for the new lG,000-ton bat
tleship Louisiana.
Miles Johnson (colored) was
hanged at Augusta, Ga, for assault
ing white woman.
Nine. Adelina Patti signed the con-
tract calling for go concerts in America.
beginning November 3 next.
Hardic Henderson. wcll-knowr
baseball player, was instantly killed
by the cars in Philadelphia.
Theodore llostetttr. late millionaire,
is said 10 have lost ~ 100000 in year
in New York Smbi,ng houses.
Nearly all the large rivers in IN
diana are on the rampage as the re-
suit of heavy rains and thaws
Mary Ann Mills, the oldest woman
in Canada, died in Woodham in her
one hundred and fifteenth year.
Five men were killed IN railway
collision between two Rock Island
freight trains near fecolate, y. NJ.
The South Carolina legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting child labor
in textile manufactures and mines.
Weekly trade reviews report car
and fuel famine felt 10y many indus
tries. Activity in building trades is
noted.
The Morocco pretender was de-
feated at the gates of Fez by the sui
tan's troops, and $500 rebels were
killed
Lee Hall (colored), who shot Sher-
iff Crawford, was taken from Jail at
WriQhtsville, Ga, by mob and
lynched.
James j. Hill says financial re-
verses are coming, and thinks labor
unions a large factor in threatened
reverses.
John II. Carroll, United States con-
sui at Cadiz, Spain, died at Mentone,
France. He was appointed from
Maryla nd.
The Alabama legislature is plan
ming a law to invite trust incorpora-
tions 10 that state by removing re-
strictions on them.
Copenhagen papers say fresh
proposals will be presented for the
purchase of the Danish West Indies
by the United States.
Henry &. Hayes. for years promi
nent as a correspondent and legisla
tive reporter. died at his home in
Washington, aged ~ years.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor. OF Fallsburg
y. Y, was arrested following "A con
fession that she killed her husba nc
and burned his body in a stove.
Old Boxer leaders in China, headed
by the dowager empress, are said tc
be plotting vigorously 10 again at
tempt 10 crush the foreigners.
Marconi is reported at work on ar
invention to give an unseen vessel
latitude and longitude and to senc
duplex messages on air currents.
The president has signed the bill APP
propriating $500, 900 for the construc
ton of new building for the depart
ment of agriculture in Washington.
San Francisco officials are urged
by commercial bodies of that city &c
cooperate with United States officials
in stamping out the bubonic plague
DR.. John Romans, one of the lead
ing surgeons OF the United States
died in Boston. During the civil
war he was assistant surgeon in The
navy.
Hundreds of homes hidden away il
the forests of northern Sweden ar,
absolutely without food, and are miles
from any railway which carries ade
quate supplies.
Cole Younger has complied with tn
condition imposed by the Minnesota
board Of pardons and filed pledg'
with Gov. Van SAINT not 10 exhibit him
self as an actor or participant in AM
exhibition.