Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-07-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

Floods have washed away the vii
lage of Juszeyna, on the Galician es-
tate of Archduke Stephen, in Austria.
Twenty-Five people have been drowned.
Mrs. Alice Hale Hill. widow Of
United States Senator Nathaniel =.
Hill. is dead at the family home in
Denver, aged sixty-eight years. She
was born in Providence. r. /.
Two men were killed and a third
seriously hurt by premature explo-
sion of blast in the SEQ Dog mine,
at Webb City, Mo
A. G.. Wells of Wellsville, o., old
est resident, and the son of the found
er OF the city, is dead from the in
firmaries of old age, his Tooth birth
day anniversary having been celebrat-
ed June 3, last.
Herman Unger, seventy years old,
a member of the firm of Unger Bros.
silver manufacturers OF Newark, N. j..
has committed suicide by shooting
himself with revolver.
The comptroller OF the currency In
Washington issued q call on the ma
tional banks OF the country for a re-
port OF their condition at the close of
business on July Is.
Charles Wesley Simble, thirteen
gears old, is lead in Paterson, N. j.,
from tetanus. On July 4 he shot him
self In the left hand with blank
cartridge.
Whitelaw Reid, the American am
bassador, and Mrs. Reid gave large
dinner at Dorchester House in Lon
don Monday night. At which Princess
Henry OF Battenberg was the principal
guest.
According to advices just received
by the war department, cholera has
been stamped out in the department
of the Philippines. Sporadic cases OF
the disease recently had been report
ed. but at no time did the trouble ap-
proximate an epidemic.
Fifteen business men, arraigned in
police court in Topeka, Kas., for VIC
lating the Sunday labor law, were
fined 81 each, which they paid. -Four
others will make fight In the higher
courts.
The great oil well near Lake Tamia
hue, in the Ceronia oil region. in Mex
leo, Is burning The surrounding coun
! try is in great danger from the over
flow OF burning oil. One fortunate cir
cumstance is that just now is the
rainy season in that region.
Reports from Delaware and Mary
land indicate that the peach crop n
those states this season would be big
ger than in many years. The rail
roads have estimated the output Of
Delaware alone will be 1,779, 00(
baskets.
Army and navy officers in Washing
ton are greatly interested In the com
ing of Henri Farman with his aero
plane to this country. If the date'
fixed for the Prenchman do not con
nict with the tests to be held at For
Meyer. several army and navy officers
may be present to witness Farman'!
fight.
immigration to the United States
from all countries, particularly Rus
STA and Japan, showed marked fall
ing off for the month Of June as com
pared with the same month of 1907
according to figures made public b,
the bureau OF immigration and natural
ization. The total immigration aggre
gated 31,947, compared with 1913
IN 1907. a decrease of 70 per cent.
Commander Robert Peary, now el
route to the Arctic ice fields in tn
quest OF the north pole. arrived a
Belle Harbor, Labrador. on the steam
er Roosevelt. Monday. The following
telegram was received in New Yorl
from Belle Harbor. Arrived 6 o'clocl
this morning. Taken on whale mea
Cape Charles. Fine weather, All vel
(Signed) PEARY."
Startling evidence OF the CROWN
unfriendliness between England an
japan came to light in London whe
IL was announced that the house Q
commons will shortly take formal NJ
tice of the charges that Japan is gras
unlly crowding British commerce on
of Korea and Manchuria. The cor
troversy has been pushed into parlis
mentary prominence by the Chimes
association. a powerful organization
Fnglishmen with interests in the ia
east. which has urged sharp protes
to Toxic.