Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-11-11
SUMMARY NOTES..
Brief Paragraphs Of the Worlds Latest
Occurrences.

Bradley Barlow Smalley, formerly
secretary of the Democratic national
committee is dead at Burlington, VT.
! He was seventy-four years old.
Sven Hedin, the noted explorer, has
been made knight companion of the
Order of the Indian Empire by King
| Edward
DIR. William V. Ames, aged eighty
eight. prominent physician, reputed
I to be the oldest active member of the
Elks in the United States. is dead at
Fremont, o.
| Fire did 100000 damage in a five
story building occupied by the Fuller
| Burr Paper Bob company and the Ma
tional Pad company, at Nos 41S-420
| West Broadway, New York city.
Four persons were plunged into
| the Chicago river at Jackson boule-
ward, in Chicago, when an automobile
ran into an open drawbridge. All
occupants of the car were drowned.
The Academy of Science. in Paris,
has awarded gold medals TO twenty
one aviators including Bleriot, Far
man, Ferbeer, Santos Dumont, Voisin,
Orville and Wilbur Wright and Count
| Zeppelin.
The Presbyterian church has been
sued by the Cumberland Presbyterian
church for the possession of the Mis-
souri, Valley college OF Marshall, Mo-.
which with its endowments represents
value of 100000
Peanut shells poured iato the cook
stove at her home caused a column OF
| flame to shoot upward which ignited
the kimona worn by Mrs. Kate Hoov-
er, at York. Pa, and before the flames
were extinguished she was fatally
| burned.
John II. Baker, aged seventy-nine, a
well known farmer OF Enfield. ~ Y,
is dead from the effects of inhaling
| flames and smoke at fire which de-
stroyed his home. Miss Martha Baker,
his daughter, who lived with him. is
in critical condition as the result
OF the shock OF the fire and her
fathers death.
An aero club has been formed at
Cornell and over 100 students have
| joined already. The club plans 20
J petition the university trustees that
a course of aviation be offered at the
university. and an effort will be made
TO raise enough funds for building a
heavier than air machine
Insane with jealousy when he found
| Della Sands, a young woman friend,
! in a room with John Reising, John
Hudson, an ex-city employee of Peoria,
ILL.,, attacked his rival and in the me-
lee received two bullet wounds in the
stomach and died later. Reising was
captured six hours after the shooting
and made complete confession OF Il
! the crime.
The dead body Of Roy ID. Cannon,
| thirty years old, wealthy real estate
man. was discovered, by his girl steno-
grapher. hanging from the roof of the
fourteen story Office building known
as the Campbell building in Okla
homa, Okla. Cannon had been dead
several hours. and the police are con-
fronted with the most mysterious
southwestern crime in recent years.
Robert Demmler of Pittsburg, VINO
has been sight seeing in Rome for
some days, lost 81 900 the other night
| as the result Of a confidence game I
played upon him by two Americans 4
whom he met several DAYS ago and !,
with whom he has been visiting vari.
| out points of interest. The details OF 7
the affair have not been made public.
! Mr.. Demmler is twenty-five years old /
Thanksgiving turkeys are not going
| to be scarce this year, according to
| Chicago reports. but the richly
Drowned gobblers will be a luxury.
! South Water street commission men
say that the farmers in all sections
of the middle west states are shipping
| in the toothsome birds in abundance
and the price of fresh killed turkeys
will be about the same as they were
! last season.
Reports from the American legation
at Lisbon indicate that the Portuguese
government will permit the return OF
Rev. Wesley NJ. Slower, an American
missionary, to Portuguese Africa, :,
from whence he was expelled last
year on charge of committing acts
| contrary to Portuguese sovereignty. /
The authorities charged that Mr.
Slower melted the natives to rebel
against the local authorities.
Professor Thomas Bliss Stillman, ID.
s. c.. professor of analytical chem
istry OF Stevens Institute Of Technol-
ogy in Hoboken, n. j.. has been re-
tired under the provisions of the Car
negie foundation for the advancement
OF learning. He was a member of
the faculty for thrty-fve years and
has long been recognized as an author 1
| ity in his line
Captain William Mitchell Lewis,
who is to run for governor in Wiscon-
sin on the Lafollette ticket. announces
his candidacy in the following words:
MY candidacy is in no sense case
of the Office seeking the man. but the
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