Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-04-29
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is dead In Buffalo. lie was large
exhibitor at all the horse shows.
At Lordsburg. New Mexico. oliver
Garrison shot and killed his wife, shot
George Allen through the abdomen,
wounding him fatally. and then com
mitted suicide. Garrison had been in
Termed that his wife and Allen were
about to elope.
Eugene Munsell, manufacturer OF
New York, committed suicide By
throwing himself from a seventh story
window in the Van Dyck apartments
IN West Twtney-second street, where
he lived with his family. He had been
greatly worried by financial matters
The board OF food and drug inspec.
ton, In Washington, with the approx
al OF Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
has decided that the term 'Moca"
should be restricted to coffee grown IN
that part OF Arabia to the north and
east Of Hodeidah known as Yemen.
The Canadian government has sent
through Ambassador Bryce an invita-
ton to the United States government
to have the American fleet. now cruis
ing in the Pacific ocean. visit the
Canadian Pacific coast cities OF Vic
toria and Vancouver.
The secretary of the treasury In
Washington has announced a further
call upon the national banks for APP
proximately $4,000, 900. $40, 900, 900 to
be paid on or before May 8. and the
remaining s25,O00,000 on or before
May 90, 1908. --'s * ~. So y ts.sa-
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change has just sold for $4,000. This
was an advance OF $4,000 over the last
previous sale, which was made late
in March, and represents a gain OF
$4,000 since last November, when an
exchange membership was sold for
$51. ZOO.
L. X. York and his son, Earle, Of
Osmond, Neb.. were burned to death
in a singular manner. They took
refuge In hay stack during thunder
storm. Lightning, which rendered
them unconscious. started fire. when
partly consumed the bodies.
Three men, John Swisher, Andrew
Coats and Barney Callahan, were
drowned in the Canadian river. It
Shawnee, Okla, by the capsizing of y
reft. The men had liberal supply of
LIQUOR on board, and, It is said. the,
became involved I'm a fight, during
which the raft was overturned.
President Roosevelt has been pre-
scented with a magnificent Turkish
rug, the gift of the sultan of Turkey,
by the Turkish minister, Mehemed Ali
Bey. The rug, which Is said to be
Ct an exclusive design, is the product
of the sultan's private factory, To-
Gated near Constantinople.
Entering the weave room of the
Lancaster mills. in Clinton, Mass,
William Brown fred three shots at
his wife, Lillian and killed her.
Brown turned the weapon on himself
but il failed to explode. He then
drew a knife and gashed his throat
several times, but none of the wounds
are serious.
Masked Might Riders" crossed the
river from Maysville, KY, In skiffs
and applied the torch to the large
warehouse of Paul Kautz, at Hondes
Ferry, about fifteen miles west OF
there on the Ohio side, and destroyed
II with contents, a large amount OF
tobacco, the loss amounting to SIS.
900, with small insurance.
Fines OF $1,000 each and sentences
OF two years in the penitentiary a,
Saltwater were imposed by Judge
Page Morris, in the federal district
court, in st. Paul, on Frank B. Hol
liday, Herbert f. Robinson and John
l.. Layne, formerly associated with
Edward A. Vaughan In the commits
sion and brokerage business In Mime
apolis.
BY a ruling which has been ar
ranged between the departments oil
state, justice, treasury and agriculture
at Washington, whisky manufactured
abroad and alleged to be nisbrended
under the American pure food law
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the country, after which IL will be sub
jects to the adjudication of the courts
under that law.
Steve 10th, said to be an anarchist
and suspected OF completely in a plot
to assassinate Emperor Francis 10
seph, has been arrested at Cokedale
Cal, and taken to Denver TO await
extradition papers. He had been fol
lowed from Austria by an agent OF the
Austrian government. who caused his
arrest. 10th admitted that he was
wanted in Austria, but denied that he
was ever concerned in plot to assas-
Einate the emperor.
A total OF approximately 42,50O
miles will have been covered by the
atlantic battleship feet when it ar.
fives at Hampton Roads on Feb. %,
next, according TO estimates made by
the naval officials. The distance to
be covered, according to an itinerary
Just made public, for the voyage of
the feet from San Francisco to the
Philippines, thence to China and Jap
and and back to Manila, is 1928
miles. The longest lap OF this dis
lance is that from Honolulu to Auck.
land. 1850 miles, said by naval
officials TO be the greatest steaming-
distance ever made by any battleship
feet in the American navy without
stopping for coal. This will require
sltghtly over sixteen days.