Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-10-15
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Latest Occurrences.


several hundred employees
William M. Potts, a football player
at Cannonsburg, Pa, who was injured
in game on Oct. 3. is dead. Potts
was twenty-one years old. He was
kicked ON the head.
General Eppa Hunton, ex-United
States senator, and one of the last
surviving generals of the Confederate
army, is dead in Richmond, Va, aged
eighty five years.
Postofiice Inspector James Il. Stuart
has begun an investigation in Chicago
involving the sending Of an alleged
bomb through the mails, the recipient
of the bomb being, il is said, a city
police officers or an army officer.
Mrs Charlottee Decker OF Tyre Sc
neca county, N. Y. is dead at the age OF
teen days. There was much comment
when, at the age of 1872 years, Mrs.
Decker married her third husband.
The health department of Chicago,
In report just issued, says that the
dust and SCOT in the atmosphere in
Chicago, as shown by tests just taken,
are three times as great in quantity
as in the atmosphere of London.
Refusing TO permit surgeons to am
putate her crushed foot. Miss Sallie
Speacht. aged seventy-eight years, OF
Posssville, Pa, died. She was run
down by train. and her right foot.
above the ankle. was severed.
Jim and Frank Davis, negroes who
were charged with having shot and
probably fatally wounded John c.
Kendall, conductor Of the Illinois
Central railroad. were taken from the
Jail at Lulu. Miss, by a mob and
hanged.
Irene Dickinson. a twelve-y ear-old
girl OF Big Muddy, Wyo., killed rat
tlesnake which measured forty inches
and had five rattles and a button
She had been into the pasture for her
horse. and on her return she encoun-
tered the RATHER.
The navy department in Washing
ton is informed that Rob Roy K. Null
verhill, an ordinary seaman on the
United States steamship Wisconsin,
died at Cavite. F. J.. on Oct. s. from
meningitis His next, of kin is Mrs.
L. b. Crawford, 904 Jackson street,
Houston, Tex
William Jones, who tried to avenge
the death of President GARFIELD by
shooting at his assassin, Guiteau.
killed John A. Mcpherson. a dis
charged member OF the marine corps.
Mcpherson was killed on Bates farm,
near Brool1land on the outskirts OF
Washington. Jones is in custody.
Fire of unknown origin was dlscov-
cred in the loft of the White House
stables. causing SIS damage. But for
the prompt work of the stable keeper
and his assistant the building. in
which are is housed several of the
presidents thoroughbreds, would have
been destroyed.
Alfred Paul, twenty-five years old,
~
shire, has been convicted in Clinton,
Ia. of attempted extortion by threats
and sentenced to penitentiary for an
indeterminate term The conviction
followed Paul's attempt TO extort $500
from A. G. Smith, a Clinton banker,
by writing a Black Hand" letter.
Suits against seventy milk dealers
in Chicago have been filed i'm the mum.
cipal court there by City Prosecutor
George H. White. The suits embody
charges of selling milk and cream
below the standard in butter fats. SELL
ing skinned milk without labelling it
as such and selling mixtures of milk
and cream not properly labeled.
A new record in wireless telegraphy
is reported by the United States Wire
less Telegraph company which, from
its San Francisco station on Russian
hill established communication with
the Kuhuku station on the island OF
Oahu. one OF the Hawaiian group.
The distance TO Honolulu is 1900
miles
Washington is about 10 issue a first
edition of 100000 copies OF the year
bool1-the volume that is said to have
more general readers than any other
government publication. The full is
sue as authorized by congress is $780,
600. and the remaining copies will be
printed in subsequent editions if the
demand warrants II.
Women are now to learn to fly. The
New York Women's Aero club is in
its genesis. The project of the femi-
nine aeronauts was conceived by Mrs.
Lake. wife of the constructor of the
submarine vessels. and Mrs. Gillespie.
whose husband won fame for his aero
plane. Mrs. Leo Stevens. wife of Cap
tain Stevens. has been selected as
leader of the organization.
George Judson. a fiveyear-old ne
gro boy. saved the life of Rosa Month
celia. three years old, of Montclair.
N. j. The little girl had wandered
on the tracks of the Lackawanna rail
road and was playing with pebbles.
The negro boy was engaged i'm the
same occupation on tlfe other side.
about forty feet away. When a train
came around the curve. the boy called
to the girl to get out OF the way. but
che did NOT hear lust as II sqemed