Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Brief Paragraphs Of the Worlds Lare~'
Occurrences.

Minnesota. Many or the fires were
started by careless fishermen.
Rev Charles Henry Brent, bishop
of the Philippine Islands. has been
elected bishop of theA Episcopal do
cese OF Washington, In succession TO
the late Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee.
Frederick II. May is dead at his
home in Newark, n. j. He won fame
during the civil war by keeping the
Illinois Central north OF Cairo open
for troops and supply trains for Gen
eral Grant
President Roosevelt has tentatively
promised to be a guest at a barbecue
to beh ED at Point of Pines, Revere.
Mass, on July 16, under the auspices
of the Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and
Plymouth clubs, all Republican organ
izations.
Immediately following his prelim-
mary trial at Naples, Tex. on charge
of assault to murder and rob, John
Williams, negro, was taken in
charge by a mob and hanged to a
tree. Williams was charged with as.
saulting a white man.
The ranks of Pittsburg army of
unemployed have been depleted to the
extent of several thousand men
through the resumption of some plants
that have been idle and through in
creases of the working forces Of
others.
Twenty-seven families were rem
dered homeless by a fire in East St
Louis, H., that damaged the plant OF
the General Roofing company $125,000.
A high wind drove the flames TO de-
stroy twenty-seven cottages worth
S25 1000.
The president has transmitted to
congress a letter from Secretary Root
counselling the commencement at
once of an international investigation
into the opium question in the far
east and recommending at congress
appropriate $4,000 for this country's
participation therein.
Maurauders, supposedly from Ken
lucky, ruined the tobacco beds on the
farm OF Henry Keiser, at Aurora, Ind.
They dug a grave, put in an old
warning Koiser that if he attempted
to raise any more tobacco he would
occupy the grave.
Caught by a big wave as they were
crossing the bar off Plum island at the
mouth of Merrimack river, nine men
Of Newburyport, Mass. who were on
a pleasure cruise in naphthas launch,
were capsized, and five of them were
drowned.
While the Chicago and New York
express on the Baltimore 4 Ohio rail
road was passing Hammond. seven
miles east of Fairmont. w. Va, a
large rock rolled down from the hill
side and crashed through the roof OF
the smoking car, injuring three pas.
sengers.
The Manila chamber of commerce
is sending cable messages TO Washing
ton urging their desire that the battle
ship feet be allowed 10 remain their
upon its arrival "as long as possible
The messages set out the great ad
vantage which will accrue to the isl
ands through the presence of the
fleet. No action has been taken on
the message.
Charles Barry, lawyer and promoter
who claims 10 own coal lands in West
Virginia worth $l0.0O0,000, is under
arrest in New York on a charge OF
grand larceny. His arrest followed
the investigation which Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Kindelberger is making
into the operation OF gang of coke
brokers. who have been working ex
tensively for many months past in
New York and other eastern cities
Norman White, lad OF fifteen
years, of Niagara Falls. n. Y. accord
ing to the story he subsequently told
the police. had seen his mother abused
by his father ever since he could re
member. He spent his savings for q
revolver. and when the elder White
returned home and began abusing his
wife, Norman shot his father In the
lung. fatally wounding him.
DR.. Charles +. Aked the noted
pastorS of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church in New York, has declared, in
sermon, that the pulpit was out o.
touch with the times and that min
listers have become a laughing stock
He pointed out that church attend
ance was decreasing, and that wher
money was needed to advance the
cause Of christianity, commercialisn
stood In the way
Henry Frawley, a teamster in Chi
cago, eighteen years DID, was shot and
instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of a revolver I'm the hands o
John Helfell, who, with a companion
was enacting a mock holdup in +;
bakery on Forty-seventh street. Fraw
ley. who entered the store to buy {
few things to take home for supper
flourished a handful of bills. Hefeli
an employe I'm the shop, jokingll
threatened to take the money ava,
from him, and a few minutes later
having enlisted Steve" Korscae II
the plan, sprang in front of the younl
Austrian as he was about to leave
with his bundles and playfully ordered
him. at the point Of the gun. to stant
and deliver. In friendly scufiie
which followed. the revolver was dis
charged, the bullet passing through
the victims chest. Hefeli and Kors
cae were arrested.