Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-07-22
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Brief Paragraphs Of the Worlds attest
Occurrences.

ne incorporation In the Democrat
&c platform OF "A plank fayoring the
exclusion OF Asiatics is taken In Jap
an as direct slap against the Japs,
and the opinion is expressed that II
Is an infringement of Japan's treaty
rights.
Four New Jersey boys are dead OF
lockjaw, due to accidents on tho
Fourth OF July. The victims are: Ar
thur Beny. nine years Union Hill:
Harry W. Hall, fourteen years, Union
Hill, and Rollo Terasino, ten years
old, Edgewater.
The Chicago board of health. In its
bulletin for the week ending July II.
states: In the ten months of the
school year which ended June &c, the
medical inspectors examined 406,919
pupils and excluded 1920, or 3 per
cent, on account of contagious, In.
fictitious OF parasitic diseases"
Giving up his Methodist Protestant
charge in Adrian, Mich Rev. Dr. j. H.
Lucas will on Sept. l take charge of
the First Congregational church In
Pittsburg. one of the most inluen-
tial Congregational bodies in the coun
try. Dr. Lucas is said to be one OF
the most eloquent ministers OF tho
west
Mrs. Anna Abias, suffering from an
especially severe attack of peritonits
was treated with oxygen In Beth Israel
hospital, New York. and is on a fair
way to recover. The treatment was
an experiment and was later tried
successfully on four other sufferers Of
the disease that kills SO per cent Of It's
victims
Brooding over his losses at poker
Frank Fret, a Cincinnati tailor, soaked
his naked body In gasoline and
touched match to himself Barri
cading himself in his room, he danced
about. bowling ike a demon. until the
nremen turned several streams o.
water on him and extinguished the
blaze. He will die.
Miss Anna S. Cammack, daughter
OF the late Washington millionaire,
John Cammack, refuses to contest his
though It is acknowledged almost any
court would give her $1,00000 She
quarreled with her father over her
marriage and takes that as the reason
70 the cut in her bequest, so will con
tinue as a postoffice clerk at $3.50 a
year.
Right Rev. A. A. Curtis, formerly
A. Curtis. fuinerly Roman Catholic
oisLor of Nim ngtcn, Del. and for
many years vicar general Of Baltimore,
is dead at ST. Agnes sanitarium there.
He has been under treatment at that
sanitarium for cancer of the stomach.
and his death has been for some days
momentarlly expected. Bishop Curtis
was born In Maryland in 1881.
Police bloodhounds, at Superior,
Wis. have found the body OF Max
Hockworth, a gambler. in the woods,
the top OF his head blown of by
shotgun. Hockworth had shot Mrs.
Ada Loos OF Pike Lake while riding
With her. He was seen taking to the
woods, and bloodhounds were put on
the scent, revealing the suicide.
Although both his legs dropped on
on the way to the hospital In Sou'h
Bethlehem, Pa, physicians cured John
Pupoli OF dry gangrene.
Athletes from twenty countries are
gathered in London for the Olympic
games. which began Monday. The com.
petitors from the four corners OF the
globe constitute a small army in them
selves, almost every country. follow
Ing the example OF American and
Great Britain, having entered In the
various events the full quota of men
allowed by the rules, in most cases a
round dozen. AS there are twenty-five
events on the program, the number
OF athletes taking part Will total near
ly 1000 many of the men, OF course,
representing their respective coun-
tries in more than one event.