Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-04-08
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stock company nineteen years ago.
has suspended publication.
Lord Rosebery has been elected
chancellor OF Glasgow university, 10
I'LL the vacancy caused by the death
of Lord Kelvin, who was chancellor
since 1904.
Rev Edward Abbott, DID,, pastor
emeritus of St James church, Cam
bridge, a prominent preacher, journal
list and author, and a brother of Rev.
DIR. Lyman Abbott, is dead at the
Homeopathic hospital In Boston.
Judge James 4. Cantrill of George
town Ky, is dead after a long illness.
Judge Cantrill was the presiding
Judge in the first two trial of Caleb
Powers, charged with completely in
the assassination of William Goebel.
Supporters OF Judge Gray OF Della
ware for the Democratic nomination
for president have completed arrange
ments for establishing headquarters in
Washington, and they will actively
enter upon a campaign in behalf of the
Delaware statesman.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, from Washington. shows that
at the close of business March 81,
1908, the total debt. less cash in the
treasury, amounted to 1903, 1897,
which is an increase for the month Of
s9,299.591.
William j. Troop, formerly a pro-
fessional roller skater, committed sui
eide in a hotel in Philadelphia by
swallowing laudanum. Troop was
forty-five years old. He left several
letters, in one OF which 1t was init
mated that a love affair was re-
sponsible for his suicide.
Count Leo Tolstoi has written TO
the "Tolstoi birthday committee" in
st. Petersburg, expressing apprecia-
ton for the honors which are being
arranged for him on his birthday. but
firmly declining to accept them. AS
a consequence, the committee ceased
its preparations to celebrate the event.
j. A. Hossack, an Odell (In.) banker,
Jumped from the eighth floor OF the
Auditorium Annex in Chicago He
was instantly Killed. The window
from which Re leaped opens on a
court, and many guests of the hotel
saw the suicide. The act is thought
to have been the result of insanity.
The Chilean government has issued
IAN invitation to all the prominent gun
makers to send representatives to San
tiago, Chile to witness the tests to
be made next October. It is the pur-
pose of the government to acquire a
new artillery armament, and it is
hoped in this way to create interest
in bidding for the equipment
II bill passed by the senate be-
comes law, it will be unlawful for
any advertiser to announce that his
wares are guaranteed by the gov
eminent of the United States under
the pure food law" The bill is in
tended to prevent the misleading
statement that under the pure food
law articles are guaranteed as to their
purity of character.
After an illness Of almost a year,
Joseph Howard, Jr., one of the most
prominent newspaperman in the
country, is dead in New York. He
was seventy-three years old. Howard
had been in the newspaper business
all his life, and Towards column
was long a well know newspaper fea.
ture. He was president OF the inter-
national league of press clubs in 1897.
On the ground that the operation
Of automobiles constitute menace TO
public safety, the Prince Edward ISL
and legislature has voted a resolution
favoring the complete exclusion Of
motor cars from the province. A bill
carrying this resolution into effect will
be introduced and passed at the pres
ent session, the members OF both DO
litical parties being in accord on the
question.
Charles Howard, aged twenty-five
years, a well known potter of East
Liverpool o., shot and killed Mrs.
Lemuel Raush. He also attempted 70
kill her mother. Mrs. John De Wolf.
but the bullet missed, and the woman
was uninjured, except that her face
was burned by powder. After the
shooting. Howard walked to the police
station, told of his crime and surrend-
cred. There is no known motive for
the crime. Howard had been a board.
er at the Raush home for several
months. He is married, but does NOT
live with his wife.
Through the operation OF an order
recently issued by Commissioner
Blackburn, the head Of the depart
ment of civil administration OF the
isthmian canal commission, convicfs
serving sentences at hard labor in the
penitentiary at Culebra are TO be sent
to work on highways construction be-
tween Gatun and Mount Hope. Be
cause OF the increasing number OF
such convicts. II has been found i'm
possible to utilize their services near
the penitentiary.
Alexander Dickson, carpenter on
the United States collier Abarenda.
has been acquitted, in San Juan, p. r.,
Of the murder of Chief Officer Walter
Weichert. A jury, composed of Amer
leans and Porto Rfcans. brought in a
verdict of self defense. The killing of
Weichert occurred on board the col
Her last February. Witnesses testified
at the trial that Weichert treated the
prisoner in brutal manner. On the
occasion In question, after some words
had passed between the men Dickson