Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-05
SUMMARY NOTES.
Brief Paragraphs o. tire Worlds
Latest Occurrences.

lhcIc Is Dullef FAMINE through
out Australia. and prices are rising
gapidly.
After suffering nineteen years with
elephantiasis, Mrs Lynch is dead at
Der home near McKeesport, Pa AT
her death she weighed $40 pounds
Three deaths from heat prostration
and the suicide OF a fourth person be-
cause OF the high temperature Mon
day was the record OF the day in Chi
cago.
During a jealous quarrel. II is al
legged Roy Warner of Bradford, Pa,
twentythree years old, shot Anna
Peeler, twenty-five years old, through
the head and breast. He then killed
himself 1t is believed the woman will
recover
Miss Elizie Green OF Savannah, Ga,
and Porter Parish of Memphis, Tenn,
were run down in a skiff about forty
rods off the Chatuaqua pier on Lake
Chauttauqua, jamestown, n Y, by
the steamer Chadakoin, and both were
drowned
One man was killed and five others
hurt. one fatally. when an automobile
was struck by "a train on the Suse-
quehanna railroad at a crossing In
Bogata, n. ]. donald Holmes, twenty
eight years old, lawyer of Patter-
son, n. j.. was killed.
While whipping his wife during q
dor, Actin Ouarral Franz Talvnar ~
Canonsburg, Pa. was shot through the
abdomen by Mrs. Talmer He was
taken to a hospital, probably fatally
injured, while the woman is at her
home in an unconscious condition
from her injuries.
The borough Of Wlnsted, Conn, was
visited by a fire. in which the state
armory, containing the largest hall In
northwestern Connecticut, the Odd
Fellows block, and the Manchester
building were destroyed. and fully
dozen other buildings caught fire and
were badly damaged. the entire loss
being placed at $4,000
William Wilson, performer, was
instantly killed In theater in Gosh
octon, O., when he tried a new kind
Of 'loop-the-loop. known as the
"whirl of DEATH" on bicycle. Will
son was thrown forward and high in
the air. his head striking a beam. He
was almost decapitated
Dispatches from Nova Scotia tell of
great damage done by heavy gale
and rain storm which swept over
Nova Scotia. Telegraph and tele-
phone lines are down in all directions.
buildings were unroofed, crops lev
elled and fruit trees damaged. Sew
eral small vessels are ashore and
fishermen sustained heavy losses.
George Pettibone, for years promi-
nent in the councils Of the Western
Federation OF Miners, and charged,
with President Meyer and former Sec
rotary Haywood, with completely In
the murder OF former Goverffor stuen.
snberg Of Idaho, is dead at st. Joseph
hospital. Denver. q the effects Of an
operation for cancer. Pettibone had
been iii ever since his confinement in
the Idaho penitentary, which began
more than a year before the trials at
Boise.
Leading members OF the Syrian COL
0ny In New York have started q
movement to present Turkey with q
modern batteship The money to
build the vessel is to be raised among
all he Syrians in the new world. their
number being estimated at upward OF
5000, 900, and the gift Is not only to
commemorate the granting OF a con-
stitution to the people OF Turkey. but
also to express the confidence felt BY
the Syrians and young Turks in this
hemisphere in the genuineness of the
reforms.
Fire which was so hot that the fire
men could not get nearer than a block
OF IT, and which made IL necessary
to play streams OF water on buildings
three and four squares away, de-
stroyed the Burlington elevators "E"
and "F," the dock transfer warehouse
Of the road and either burned or rem
iered useless 100 box cars In Chicago.
The loss on the grain in the two le- /
vators is placed by Armour C Co.,
who owned It, at s700.0OO The total
loss is placed at 100000.
Life imprisonment was meted out |
10 Mrs. Sarah Morasch in the |
district court of Wyandotte county,
Kas., for the murder Of four-year-old
Ruth Miller a niece of the woman by
Mrs. Morasch sent poisoned
candy though the mail TO Ella Van
Meter fourteen years old, half sis
er to the murdered child. The older
yirl, for whom it was intended, did
lot die. The candy was sent In a
spirit of resentment because the girl
lad laughed at the woman.