Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-11-06

At Bellefontaine, o.. James Harsh
field. aged 16, was instantly killed and
his father, Charles Harshfield. badly
burned by contact with an electric
light wire which had blown down.
DIR. p. McF. Allen, prominent
physician. was shot and killed at Yves,
Nashville. Tenn. by Thomas s. Bush
The main Office building OF the
Nelson Morris packing plant at East
st. Louis. ILL.,. was destroyed by fire
the loss being 100000.
John Mitchell. president of the
United Mine Workers of America
was reported to be in critical condi
ton in the hospital at La Sale. Ill.
Two Catholic papers in Brussels
asserted that King Leopold had given
$4,000, 900 to Baroness Vaughan.
The president has decided to ap
point Roswell p. Bishop OF Michigan
formerly a congressman from that
state. to the vacant place in the Span
ish treaty claims commission.
William II. Higgie. who was FOL
many years lake captain, with q
residence In Chicago, died at the
Mercy hospital there after undergo
ing amputation of limb.
Dispatches from Batavia say thai
100 armed natives attacked Dutch
patrol of IS men on the Island ol
Flores and killed all OF them. After
wards the same band of natives mas
sacred eight women and children.
English mountain climbers and ad
mirers OF Alpine scenery have taker
up the protest made by many Swis:
against the building of a railway or
the Matterhorn.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will not be g
witness for the defense in the second
trial of her husband for the murder
of Stanford White.
The executive committee of the
Amalgamated Society OF Railway
Servants of Great Britain voted To call
a general strike and II was thought
the trouble was unavoidable. despite
the efforts of the president OF the
board of trade and others To effect a
settlement.
Dynamite in trunk exploded in the
Union depot at Pittsburg. Pa. and
two men were seriously injured.
Police headquarters at Buffalo. N
Y, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire. all the records were burned and
eight firemen were badly injured.
A life convict at Rawlins, Wyo.,
killed a keeper. tried to effect his es
cape with dynamite and failing, killed
himself
The G. r. Rickmans Wine company
cellars at Brocton, N Y. the largest
and Oldest plant In the Chautauqua
grape belt, were destroyed by fire.
After travelling around attired In
mans clothes for six weeks. a girl
giving her name as Rosa Moore, OF
Newark. o, was arrested at Kanka
kee, I'll
Ton male inmates and one woman
nurse were attacked by diphtheria al
the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the
Insane at Kankakee.
Cows Glenn. Of North Carolina
Cooper. OF Alabama, and Smith, OF
Georgia. reached complete agree
ment on the question Of railroad rates
within their states
of state of Minnesota conveying 10
the Great Northern Railroad company
all the subsidiary lines of that system
in Minnesota.
Huntington Smith. wealthy resi-
dent OF St Louis. died in his summer
home in Castleton. VT. following a
stroke OF apoplexy.
Papers in suit for 100000 in sal
airy ana commissions we're served up
on Mrs. L. z. Letter. or Chicago. as
she landed from transatlantic
steamer In New York The suit is
brought by Hugh Crabbe. of Chicago
who declared be was Mrs. Letters
confidential agent
Cotton growers in all parts of Okla.
homa and indian Territory held secret
meetings and decided to hold the
1907 pick until cotton prices have ad
vanced 10 certain point
Ernest Saunders. aged II years, was
found guilty at Pana. H.. OF the muir
der of John Iundak and his sentence
fixed at rs years in the penitentiary
The Illinois senate passed the Ogles
by direct plurality primary bill as
mutilated by its amendments.
Pope Plus was reported to be con
fined TO his bed with heart trouble.
Lieut.. Gov Sanders. Of Louisiana
refused to fight duel with Donelson
Caffery. son Of the former United
States senator
Wages OF Grand Fork (B. CT
miners and smelter employees were
cut by the Granny Smelter company
so cents day. A strike may follow
Mystery surrounds the death oi
Princess Shun. sister OF the dowager
empress of China. Women connected
with the foreign legations are stirred
up over the princess death
Physicians say bubonic plague
caused the death Of Mrs George Os
borne at Seattle. Wash. This is said
to be the third death from the plague
there in two weeks.
Capt. Granville Foriescue. u. s
A.. retired. accepted from Gov. Ma
COON or Cuba n commission that car
ries with 1t the duties Of special In
strhctor to the Cuban forces
City Councilman g. G. Linde. oi
st. Louis. was indicted for malfeas
ance In Office and confessed. iInpli
eating other members of the city's
Legislative bodies
Charging that football is prize fight
ing. Attorney s. II. Moore. of Kanka
kee. ~. filed bill in the circuit court