Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-11-17

Emile, sailor on the cruiser Mary
land, who had never laid eyes on each
other before, met on the deck of the
ship. They were born in Newark, n.
j., but Paul left home before the birth
Of his brother and never returned.
Superintendent Meyers OF the Hot
Springs (Ark.) government reserva-
ton in his annual report to the secre-
tary of the interior declares that the
watering place has enjoyed the most
successful season In its history the
last year.
Charged with writing a threatening
letter to John ID. Rockefeller, demand
Ing $4,000, Peter Lillijohn, a Hungar-
ian, twenty-three years old, is held at
New York police headquarters.
Gunner ROWAN of the Work Point
garrison. British army, near Victoria,
b. c., shot and killed Corporal Rad
cliffe and killed himself TO avoid cap
ture.
Delagua (Col) mine disaster has
reached the total of 49, Sevel =
bodies. including that OF Willis Evans.
the youns mining engineer who gave
up his life % save a Slav miner rom
suffocation, have been taken out.
Five men are dead and eighteen In
jured as the result of an explosion IN
the mine of the Shoal Creek Coal
company of Chicago, at Panama, IL
miles north of Hillsboro. III. Four
of the men were killed outright and
the fifth died later from injuries.
Japan is preparing a factory law to
be brought before the diet next sea
ment OF children under twelve years
old, and those of sixteen and over Will
not be permitted to work more than
twelve hours a day
Royal millinery in huge quantities
was the final feather that caused the
Portuguese revolution. says Frances
p. Paulus. a Detroit artist who has
returned home from seven years resi-
dence in Europe.
Steamer reports tell OF the cere-
monies of the SOW soul" celebration
which took place in Tokyo recently to
appease the souls" OF the animals
slaughtered to feed the Japanese army
during the recent war with Russia.
With the hearty approval of the
judges of the juvenile court and the
police commissioner the newsboys'
court was opened in Boston with three
schoolboy judges. II will dispose of
petty offenses by newsboys.
Reversing the decision of the gen.
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church in America, the superior court
of Hamilton county, Ohio declared IL
legal proposed merger of the First,
Second and Central Presbyterian
churches of Cincinnati. Property val
ued at s750,000 is involved.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union opened in Baltimore with an
address by President Lillian NJ. n.
Stevens.
A monument erected by the fed
eral government over the grave OF
Gen. James Shields at Carrollton, Mo-.
was unveiled in the presence of dis
t'nguished gathering
Mail advices received at Hongkong
from Leinchou, in Kwans Sp province,
report that rioters have burned and
demolished numerous buildings there,
including the American Presbyterian
church, hospital and college. and pro-
ceeded to Tsoi Yuen Pc. intending to
slay the missionaries. The gentry,
however, assisted the latter to escape
in boats 70 Canton.
Fifteen officers and directors of the
Imperial Window Glass company
pleaded nolle contendere before Judge
James s Young in the United States
district court at Pittsburg Pa, TO
violation OF the Sherman antitrust
act and each was fined $500. At the
same time a fine C $4,000 was i'm
posed upon the corporation itself with
costs
The high cost of living does not
appear TO have diminished savings, ac-
cording to figures compiled in the
treasury department Deposits in the
1853 savings banks during the year
increased to more than $4,000, 000, 600.
The average depositor's account was
S44522. just s2477 above the average
Of the year before The total of the
deposits has sweled 1857 100000 dur
ing the year.
BY the overturning OF the Sharp
Arrow car at the auto race track at
Savannah, Ga. Albert Fuchs, the
mechanician. was instantly killed, and
William T. Sharn designer of the car
and William II. Piger. driver. were
seriously injured.
Prof. Herschel G. Parker of Column
bia university has just returned from
Alaska with what he declares is indis-
putable proof of the falsity of DR.. Fred
erick Cooks claims to having assembled
to the top of Mount Mckinley. Parker
declares that his proofs, in the shape
of photographs. show that Cook really