Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS
Happenings Of the World In the Last
Week Told In Brief Paragraphs.

BY the collapse of tenement house
IN Lyons, France, Friday night, FIVE
children were killed and several adult
tenants severely injured.
Fears are expressed in Russian
Turkestan, Of a renewal of the Arme-
nian-Tartar war on account of the
recent murder OF prominent chief
George G. Thomas, a retired bank
er, of Philadelphia. has presented
100000 to the board of missions OF
the protestant episcopal church.
The president has decided to ap-
point Manly Lawton, son Of the late
Major-General Lawton, to be a cadet
ut the military academy.
Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit, after
attacking and burning Ramna vii.
lage, was repulsed by the inhabitants,
who. ct latest accounts, were await
ing further attack.
Bishop Arseny, Of Yaroslavi, Russia,
who recently created sensation by
issuing, without authority, an anathe-
matization of all revolutionists, has
been removed and exiled to Siberia.
The state department, at Washing.
ton, has forwarded $4,000, collected
by the Red Cross, to Mr.. Wilson, the
American charge at Toxic, for the re-
lief of the Japanese famine sufferers.
At meeting Friday, in Chicago, OF
the passenger officials Of the Ohio
railroads, it was unanimously decided
to put the two cent mile passenger
traffic in effect to the exclusion OF all
other rates within Ohio
In a fi,o which destroyed barn on
atxxzxA TxasRe In Cleveland, Tues
day afternoon, four valuable race
horses, belonging to 1. T. Dewey, were
burned to death. The horses were
high bred animals with good records.
Albert Veltner. 35 years old. and Ed.
mund Bury, 3S years old, were killed
by the explosion of a casting. at the
Bury Compressor works, in Erie, Pa,
Friday afternoon. Both men were
struck with pieces Of the casting.
Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Russian
author, publishes an open letter thank
ing Poles living in the United States
for the funds which they contributed
toward the relief of the Polish work
men made idle by the recent strikes
and industrial depressions.
According to Toxic correspondent
OF the Londan Daily Telegraph, Jap
aaese residents OF China having re-
Quested protection, the government
has decided to send the warship
Takachiho to Chinese waters.
The supreme court in Jefferson
City, Mo, has held to be constitutional
the statute making it felony for
man to live in Missouri with his sec.
ond wife, though he married her in
another state, the first living and not
being divorced.
The Ohio house of representatives,
by a vote of so to s, has passed bill
creating a railroad rate commission.
The bill provides for the appointment
by the governor of a commission OF
three members at salary Of $1,000
year each. The commissioners are to
be subject to removal by the governor
A passenger train on the Erie rail-
road, hit a street car at the East Ex-
change street crossing in the heart
Of Akron, Ohio. Monday night. The
street car was cut In two and the four
occupants were thrown fifty feet, but
none were fatally hurt.
The United States army transport
Logan, sailed from San Francisco on
Monday for the Philippines. In ad-
dition to a number of cabin pass
engers, she carried the Eighth in
fantry and two troops of the Third
cavalry.