Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-12
SUMMARY NOTES.
Brief Paragraphs OF the Worlds
Latest Occurrences.


leans have gone on a strike. leaving
only a small working force In the
mills.
Admiral George Dewey Will, on Aug.
22, visit Portsmouth, N. H.. to attend
the unwilling at the Portsmouth navy
yard of the bronez tablet erected to
the memory OF Admiral Farragut.
Miss Mayme Hulen OF Lancaster.
Mo-, i'll with typhoid, married F. c.
Hoover OF Memphis. Mo, at a hos
pital in Des Moines. La. During the
ceremony the nurse propped the girl
up In bed
Mrs. Alice H. Webb Duke. formerly
the wife of Brodie l.. Duke. the to-
cago, charged with defrauding the
Great Northern hotel by means of a.
legged worthless checks.
Three children were burned to death
at Minneapolis The mother. Mrs. Lind
berg, left the house to go shopping.
She locked the children In a room.
The house caught fire and was burn
ing fiercely before the neighbors heard
the screams of the children. 1t was
then too late to rescue the little ones.
A special dispatch to the st. Paul
(Minn.) Pioneer Press from Winnipeg
says: The steamer Premier, Captain
Stevens, was burned TO the waters
edge at Warren's Landing. the north
ern end of Lake Winnipeg. Six pas
sengers and two of the crew lost their
lives.
Brigadier General Frederick Funs-
ton has turned over the command Of
the department Of California to Col
onel Marion p. Maus and will 90 to
Fort Leavenworth, Kas.. where he will
take charge of the cavalry school.
Colonel Maus has a brilliant record
as an Indian fighter.
Naval recruiting officials In Wash
ington are in high feather, az they
say recruiting has never been better
than at this time. Last week from
the recruiting stations alone there
were returns OF 473 recruits, and more
applications are being received, bStb
at the stations and at the buraau OF
navigation, than ever before
The Gloucester (Mass.) schooner
Maggie and May, CAPTAIN McCath-
ran, was run dowL and sunk by the
German school Ship Freya, Captain
Hass. sixty Ts1es southeast of Hall
fax, ana Csfain McCathran and eight
OF the cfew of the schooner were
-droynned Four men were rescued.
A dense fog prevailed.
William vandermaas, a groceryman
OF Grand Rapids, dropped dead while
at the telephone talking 10 General
Manager Freshney OF the board OF
public works over a matter of pub
lie concern to the Fifth ward. Van
dermass was excited. Freshney
heard the receiver fall. He knew
nothing more of the matter until a
clerk called up freshney's Office, say
ing that Vandermass had fallen dead
while talking.
Charles Fsldman, deaf mute TWEEN
ty-one years old. was killed on the in
terurban tracks few miles north of
Milwaukee while going to a baseball
game He was seen a long distance
ahead by the metorman, the track be-
ing straight The motorman gave
ample warning with both bell and air
whistle. and he expected Feldman to
move as soon as the car drew near.
His body was ground to pieces.
When an automobile plunged over
an embankment, two and one-half
miles west of Sylvania, o., Charles
w. Pohlmann, a wealthy Cleveland I'm.
porter and merchant tailor, and Faith
er George Vahey, pastor OF Columb-
kills parish, Cleveland. were instant
ly killed beneath the car Mrs. Pohl-
mann, her daughter, Florence. and
F. c. Dietzel, a Cleveland dentist.
were in the touring car, but were
saved from injury by the high back OF
the tonneau.
At Auckland, N. D., Admiral Sper-
ry, commander in chief Of the
United States Atlantic fleet, and his
officers received Official welcome to
Australasian waters Sunday at the
hands Of Prime Minister Sir Joseph
George Ward on behalf of the govern
ment. The landing was made at the
newly erected quay at the foot of
Queen street. Grouped about the
prime minister we're the members OF
4 the cabinet and other officials I'm
mense crowds saw the reception
Covered with bruises, showing they
had been beaten to dead In perform
ing their duties, the bodies OF
Charles II. Emerson and Frank Nc
Dermott. members of Methuen CMass.)
police department, were found on the
outskirts of the town after a search
OF several hours. The two officers
were sent out at night in an effort
to catch petty marauders. II is be-
lieved that while the two officers were
following the man or men they sus-
pected Of thieving, they were attacked
from ambush.
Lewis Nixon of New York city.
battleship builder for Uncle Sam and
former head of Tammany. announces
that he is preparing to give q pub
lie test of a new and distinct type
OF flying machine that will revolution
izs the entire system Of present con-
stSucuon of the heavier than-air YES
sells. The greatest secrecy has teen
maintained up to the present tims
about the makeup and theory OF the
asw machine. It IL known 10 depart
from ell We previous Meas - ths In