Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-04-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Belief Paragraphs Of the Worlds Latest
Occurrences.
9 Troy NJ. e. church conference.


the general conference proposition for
racial bishops.
The Solace, formerly hospital ship
and now on the Pacific coast, is TO
be fitted out at mother" ship for
the submarines and torpedo vessels
on that coast.
II has been decided by the govern
ment to have a representative at the
international conference on tee
graphy. to be held at Lisbon, Portugal.
beginning May 4.
A federation OF all the union men
employed in the shops OF the Canadian
Pacific and the Canadian Northern
railroads in Winnipeg has just been
completed. They will fight the reduc-
tons in the new wage schedule.
Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassa-
dor. has left for Russia. The baron
is going home on a vacation and ex.
poets TO be away from Washington
until October.
Death sentences have been handed
down, in Tobolsk. Siberia, in the cases
of thirteen prisoners implicated In a
recent prison riot here in which a
warden was killed. The men were
tried by court martial.
The Lincoln Educational league
has provided a fund of $4,000 to be
used toward placing in the school
houses throughout the country bronze
tablets bearing the full text OF Abra.
ham Lincoln's address at Gettysburg.
Rev. William S. Friedman has been
elected rabbi for life of Temple Eman-
uel in Denver. This is an honor sci.
dom bestowed upon Jewish rabbis.
Rev. Friedman has already served the
congregation at rabbi eighteen years.
Oil burning apparatus is to be in
stalled on two of the five torpedo boat
destroyers now under construction by
the government, the bids for such In
stallation on the remaining three be-
ing regarded as excessive.
Army officials at Fort Totten, N. Y,
have received instructions from Secre-
tary OF War Taft that hereafter car
penters employed at work about the
post shall be paid 81 instead OF IS
each for a days work. 81 being recog.
nized by him as the prevailing rate
of wages" in New York.
A jury in Minneapolis convicted
Herbert F. Robinson, ]. L. Layne and
f. f. Holiday of sending letters
through the mails falsely claiming in
side and exclusive information on
the grain markets. II is believed the
defendants realized 800, 900 from their
operations.
Professor ]. H. Bailey, former prin-
cipal Of the high school at Cannon,
Ca, who was horsewhipped and driv-
en- out of his school. Feb. Z, by CON-
pany Of women. has filed suit In the
United States court at Atlanta for
$4,000 damages against twenty-nine
citizens OF Cannon.
Gatun village, on the Chagres river,
opposite the railroad station at Gatun,
Isthmus Of Panama, with population
OF about 500 people and containing
about 10 dwellings, Is being removed
to a new site, about two miles away,
a change necessary because the VII
lage is on the proposed site Of the
dam at that place.
The worst snowslide in the history
OF the Canadian Pacific railroad oc-
Cured near Alberta canyon, In the
Cascade mountains, sweeping away
two boarding cars, filed with forty
japanese laborers, and carrying them
down the mountain side. Only a few
bodies have been recovered.
Jacob d. Buss of Rawson, o., aged
seventy-six years, and Mrs. Susan
two years, have just been married
Buss is worth $4,000. This Is his
fifth marriage. The woman he wed
ded was his youthful sweetheart. blu,
quarrel had estranged them. The
old love was rekindled.
The Door-Street Savings bank, in
the factory district OF Toledo and pat
ronized principally by workmen, has
closed its doors. The trouble is due
to the financial depression, which
caused laborers to withdraw deposits
for immediate use. The bank was
capitalized at $4,000 and had $125,
900 deposits. Assets will pay depos
itors in full.
Friends of Charles c. McCleverty
manager of the marine branch of the
Standard OIL company In San Fran
cisco. are worried over his absence
In Lower California McCleverty left
there a month ago to Join the feet Al
Magdalena bay, going down on the
steamer Curacao as far as La Paz
and the last seen of him was at that
place.
After having unsuccessfully attempt.
cd to use the strength OF the ocean
tide and four teams of horses to re-
move the decaying body Of an enor-
nous whale that had washed up on
the beach in front OF the city hall in
Seaside, Ore, Marshal Linsley tried
dynamite. Instead OF blowing the
huge bulk out to sea. the explosion
distributed the carcass over the city.