Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-01-21
SUMMARY NOTES.
Brief Paragraphs Of the Worlds
Latest Occurrences.

General George Won Setback, United
States army. retired. is dead in New
York. He was eighty-two years old.
Henry p. Booth. widely known in
shipping circles throughout the world,
Is dead In New York. He was seven,
ty-three years old.
Lieuteant Colonel William Gross
sixty-cight years old, commander OF
Illinois Knights Tempars. is dead at
Springfield. H.. Of paralysis.
A remonstrance against further In.
crease of the United States navy,
signed by 224 clergymen OF various
denominations in Boston and vicinity,
has been sent to congress.
Major William Graham McCandless,
who fought with the army of the Po-
tomac in every one of it's battles dur.
ing the Civil war, is dead in Pittsburg,
aged seventy-one years.
Fire has completely destroyed the
upholstery and lace curtain warehous
and factory of Oehrle Bros, & Co.. in
Philadelphia. causing loss of $685..
900, covered by insurance.
A southbound passenger train on
the Missouri Pacific railroad collided
head-on, with a freight train near
Coffeyville, Kas. Twenty-four passen-
gers were hurt.
C. C. Slade. for fifteen years super
intendent of delivery Of the Salt Lake
City postofiice, has been arrested on
a charge of opening letters and ex-
tracing their contents
Fire has destroyed practically every
business building in the town Of Oil
City, La. Most Of the buildings were
frame structures built since the oil
and gas rush began.
President Roosevelt and the nine
members Of his cabinet will take with
them as souvenirs the chairs they
have occupied at cabinet meetings
when the president retires from Office
on March a. They will replace them
at their own expense.
"A Socialist demonstration In Ores
den in behalf Of electoral reform led
to a serious riot in which twenty per-
sons were seriously hurt and at least
one hundred slightly injured. The So
cialists were endeavoring to force
their way to the palace of the king,
Friedrich August
Representative Edwards of Ken.
lucky has introduced a bill into the
legislature to appropriate $500 to
erect q monument to Daniel Boone at
Cumberland Gap, where the state lines
of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia
join.
The Philippine band at Manila will
be brought to Washington to take a
prominent part in the parade, ball and
public concerts of the Inauguration in
March. The band numbers eighty-six
members, all natives of the Philip
pines.
The explosion Of q bomb, evidently
manufactured by an amateur, caused
considerable excitement in Louisville,
KY, in front of the Trinity Methodist
church, Third and Guthrie streets. No
damage was done. and no cause for
the act, except malicious mischief, can
be assigned
M. II. Stream and his three year
old son, living five miles west of Roby,
Tex, were burned to death, and five
other members Of the family were
probably fatally burned by a gasoline
explosion. A member of the family
mistook gasoline for kerosene and
poured the liquid on a fire.
After forcing the engineer OF the
light plant to cut off the current, leav-
ing the town in darkness, a party of
young men at Hope, Ark, took an
eighteen-year-old negro named Hill.
lard from the county jail at night and
hanged him TO telegraph pole. The
negro had spoken insultingly to a
woman.
Mary Adelaide Yeryes, widow Of
Charles T. Yerkes, has filed petition
in the probate court in Chicago ask
ing the removal Of Louis 8. Owsley as
executor of the Yerkes estate. She
lleges that he has wasted and mis-
managed the assets and declares that
some Of his act were In fraud Of the
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