Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-03-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Brief Paragraphs OF the worIS~ a,..,
Occurrence

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Andrew Carnegie will probably be
asked TO aid. financially In securing a
library for Hancock.
Just after Miss Lucy Page OF Birch
lad been taken to hospital at Mar
auette In an ambulance. a gust OF
wind overturned the vehicle.
Miss Iva Bowers OF Edwardsburg is
dead from the effects of Paris green
taken with suicidal intent. She was
wenty-one years old. No cause can
De assigned as a motive for the act.
The monthly statement OF the pub
lie debt shows that at the close OF
business. Feb. 20. 1908. the debt. less
cash In the treasury, amounted to
5000, 421,146. which is in increase for
the month OF $7.7S3,109.
The National Cash Register COM
pany suspended operations OF its i'm
mense plant in Dayton. o. Three
thousand employees are affected.
Officials of the company say they can
not tell when w>k shall be resumed.
Representative Harrison of New
York has introduced bill into con-
gress making the twelfth day Of Oc-
tober OF each year, the day on which
Columbus discovered America, legal
holiday.
A general reduction in the wage
scale for engine and train crews on
the Erie railroad has been announced.
The cut will affect engineers, firemen.
trainmen, clerks, shopmen and sta
ton agents. in most instances, the
cut Is 10 per cent
While defending his mother in a
bitter family quarrel, Constantine Pei
legrino, seventeen years old, shot
and killed his father, Angelo Pelle-
grino, at their home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The boy was arrested.
A book dealer in London has dis
covered a copy of book by Desiderus
Erasmus, "Christiani Matrimoni Insti-
tus." II is a first edition and con-
tains marginal notes believed to be
in the handwriting of Henry VIII.
DR.. Eli Marsh Turner, formerly
president of West Virginia university.
Is dead of apoplexy In Morgantown, w.
Va He had just consented to take
nomination for mayor Of the city on
Citizens party ticket.
Antohony Schultz, fifty-fve years
old, and three OF his children, Nellie.
thirteen years old; Joseph, eleven
years old, and May. eight years old.
were burned to death in fire in their
home in Depew, ten miles from Buff
falo, N. Y. Mrs Schultz and her four
youngest children were rescued. A
married son, who lived next door,
risked his life twice in rescuing his
mother and the younger children.
Taking advantage OF the usual win
ter dullness in Industrial lines, farm
ers around Battle Creek are recruit
Ing hired men for next summe's work.
offeing yearly contracts to all who
will accept The farmers will give
1925 a year cash, In most instances, as
well as providing a home, horse, other
stock and fruit and vegetables for
the help. For the past few years IL
has been almost impossible to supply
the demand for farm hands.
Daggers, skulls and crossbones and
fervent curses adorn a letter which
Andrew Finucan. 73e Erskine street,
Detroit, received through the mail.
The missive, which breathes threats
and curses, informs him that he is
in the way, and this leads Mr.. Finu-
acn to believe that 1t was written by
an admirer OF his wife, from whom he
Is now separated. The police are now
investigating.
Three men lost their lives by &C
cidentally falling into q tank Of hot
water In the chemical works of M.
Calm & Co. of Jersey City. The
three men. Joseph Wesag, Joseph Bal
acsag and John A. Shaz, only lived
a few hours after being rescued by
fellow workmen. While standing on
the edge Of the tank, they were over.
come by ammonia fumes and plunged
into the seething liquid.
Attorney General Bonaparte has d.
rected the various United States at
torneys to institute suits against TWEEN
ty-six railroad companies In different
sections Of the country, TO recover
penalties incurred by them for ninety
one alleged violations OF the safety
appliance law. The facts upon which
these prosecutions are based were re
ported to the Interstate commerce
commission by It's inspectors OF safety
appliances.
DR.. Steuben !. Samuels, stepfather
of Frank and Jesse James, Is dead al
the state hospital for the insane In
st. Joseph, Mo-, aged eighty-two years
When DIR. Samuels was a resident oi
Kearny. Mo-, in 1876, a bomb was
thrown into his house. supposedly by
detectives, and II blew off the arm
Of his wife, mother Of the James
boys, and killed DR.. Samuels' seven
year-old son. DR.. Samuels was ir
the house, but he was unhurt- The
man had good reputation.
An effort has been made to Interest
President Roosevelt in Esperanto. tn,
new universal language. The mat