Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-01-28

Brief Paragraphs OF the Worlds
Latest Occurrences.

The Swis Aero club has selected
Zurich as the starting place for the
International balloon race for the
James Gordon Bennett cup next fan.
Mystery surrounds the death OF an
unknown but richly dressed ard evil
IDENTIFY refined young woman whose
body has been found in the Mononga-
hela river at Charleroi, Pa.
In Rome, Sunday, many Americans
were present at the ceremony in the
hall of the consistory at which Pope
Plus read the decree approving the
solemn Identification of Joan OF Arc
The house Of representatives met
Sunday TO hear eulogies on the life
of Charles Tappan Dunwell. who rep
resented the Third congressional dis
trict OF New York.
AS the result of jumping from fast
freight train at New Kensington, near
Pittsburg, girl hobo received pain
full injuries. SIZE gave the name Of
Rose Snowlen OF Verona, Pa.
The dead body OF William Roberts,
who has been missing since Jan. 8,
was found at the bottom OF a $50 bar
rel oil tank near his home at Wolf
Pen, w. Va II was weighted down
with iron.
Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman. arch
bishop of Toronto, metropolitan Of the
ecclesiastical province of eastern Can
ada and primate OF all Canada, is dead
at the See house in Toronto of bron-
chial pneumonia.
Governor Charles Deneen OF Illi-
nois has committed to life impris-
onment the sentence of death which
had been pronounced on Herman Bill
Tx of Chicago, condemned TO be
hanged for murder
Twenty-four passengers on the
thrilling experience. Al midnight fire
was discovered on the vessel. and with
great difficulty all the passengers were
transferred TO a passing ship.
j. Pierpont Morgan has purchased
from Miss Virginia Tayler Wise of
Baltimore the sword worn by General
George Washington when he resigned
his commission as commander in chief
of the American army. in Annapolis,
in 1888.
In local option election. just held,
Larue county, Ky, in which Abraham
Lincoln was born nearly 100 years
ago, voted dry" by a majority OF
1,0s5. the vote being more than four
to one against license
Running fifty miles an hour, the
second section OF the st. Louis Elk
press on the Pennsylvania railroad
crashed into the first section, which
had met with an accident at a point
between South Fork and Summer Hill,
Pa.
Two hundred stage children have
Just met in New York and effected a
permanent organization, 10 be known
as the Society of Stage Children, for
the purpose of protecting themselves
against what they consider unjust
legislation.
When Morgan L. Morse, a milkman
entered John Kliff's restaurant at
Hopewell Junction, NJ Y, he found
Klin lying behind a counter with his
brains battered out In her bedroom
Mrs. Kliff lay with her skull fractured
Mrs. Kliff will probably recover. A
satchel which contained $500 is miss.
ing.
Historic Trinity Protestant Episco
pal church, one of the most famous re-
ligious edifices Of Washington, was the
scene Monday OF the conservation of a
new bishop of the national capital
The incoming bishop is the Rev. Al
fred Harding. successor to the late
Bishop Satterlee.
Creditors of Princess Louise of Bel
GUM have come to an agreement
whereby the jewels bequeathed to the
princess by her mother. the late Queen
Henrietta, will not be sold at auction
as previously arranged. They will be
held as security by the creditors until
the princess is in a position to pay off
her debts.