Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-04-22

Kenora, Ont, derailing the train and
causing the partial destruction of four
coaches. Engineer Love was killed
and Fireman Saunders seriously in
jured The passengers were shaken
mp, but no one was injured.
Frank Sprague, twenty-four years
old, walked down the street In Davis
City, Pa, and saw his sweetheart
riding in a carriage with another man.
Sprague spoke pleasantly to the
couple and passed on. Before he had
gone twenty-five feet he drew q re.
volver and shot himself dead
John Weber, aged eighty-seven
years, who was member of Co. l.
First New York volunteer artillery
and who had just been discharged
from the national military home at
Leavenworth, Kas., fell from a New
York, Chicago & st. Louis train, east
OF Fostoria, o., at night. breaking his
neck.
Carl Hedfeldt and Earl Gustavson.
cousins. each eleven years old, were
suffocated 10 death by the caving in
OF a dug-out in which they were play.
ing at Sheridan road and Waveland
avenue, in Chicago. Police attempted
10 rescue the entombed boys by dig
ging away sand with their hands, but
the mound was too deep. The bodies
were recovered by members of fire
engine company.
A graduate school of business adj
ministration at Harvard university Is
to be established, to begin with the
next college year. The board Of over.
seers of Harvard college, at their
meeting on April s, approved the
plans OF the president and fellows for
such a school and appointed Edwin
F. Gray, now professor of economics
at Harvard, dean of the new depart
ment. The requirements for admis-
sion will be a bachelors degree, and
the course OF study viii cover two
years.
An interesting piece OF work, which
shows the improved state of civiliza-
ton among the Indians at the mis-
pleted at a Grand Forks On. d. book
bindery. Four thousand prayer books
have been printed in the Sioux
tongue and will be distributed at Pine
Ridge, Rosebud, Cheyenne. Stephen
| and Standing Rock agencies. The
typesetting and the press work were
done at the Fort Totten mission. and
Grand Forks bindery completed the
work Rev. Jerome Hunt of the Cath
Ole mission at Fort Totten is the
! publisher and translator.
Judge Pollock, in the United States
circuit court in Oklahoma City, Okla.
has sentenced c. r. Billingsley, for
merly president of the Capitol Ma
tional bank, in Guthrie, TO serve sever
years and five months in the fedora
prison at Leavenworth. A. S. Hayes
OF Little Rock. Ark, formerly cashier
of the First National bank Of Lexing
ton, Okla, was sentenced TO five years
in the penitentiary Billingsley was
convicted on a charge of misappro
priating bank funds and Hayes TO
classifying reports TO the comptrolle
OF the currency.
The death Of General Tung Fl
Hsiang. who conduct as supreme com
mander OF the Chinese i.itary foro
during the boxer uprising led to hi
Punishment in 1901, has been made
the subject of an official report 4
the state department in Washington
from the America legation at Picking
He died March 10, at Kansu. Genera
Tung. since his Punishment, has beef
! a constant source of worry to the CHI
nese officials, who have been BON
, barded with reports that he was T.
return to the capital with secon,
boxer army.
Army orders. just issued at WASH
ington. contain a prohibition agains
POLITICAL activity on the part of class
fed civil service employees and ais
against the contribution or sollcits
} ton of campaign funds. The orde
is based on a direction by the pres
5 dent to Secretary Taft, enclosing
communication from the civil servic
commission setting forth the regul;
tons on the subject. The penalty 70
political activity, as set forth in hes
REGULATE ons, is, "Any man violating IA
: provision OF the rule In questio
. renders himself liable to punishment
by remtTal"