Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-12-08

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Illinois were expelled by the council
of administration after investigations
Of alleged plagiarixing by them.
Hurled over q 26-foot embankment
and pinned beneath an automobile, the
baby daughter of Mrs. Frank Berry OF
Trinidad. Col, clasped tightly In Its
mothers arms, was taken from the
wreckage unframed. The mother re-
ceived serious injuries.
Frank Belding, a student In the Uni
versity of Kansas at Lawrence, Will
lose the sight OF both eyes. physicians
sodium In the organic chemistry lab
oratory In the university.
Electricity henceforth will be used
to do all the cooking for sailors aboard
the new ships Of the navy. - tests
have shown the superiority of the
not only In convenience but tn
economy.
clash at Padernalles, 90 miles
west Of chihuahua. Mexico. has taken
place between $50 Government troops
and a somewhat larger body Of insur
rectos
countrywide reduction of upper
Pullman berth rates Of 20 per cent.
where the lower berth rate exceeds
$3.50, and various reductions in lower
berth charges were announced before
the interstate commerce commission
at Chicago by G.. s. Fernald, assist
ant general solicitor of the Pullman
company.
Jack Thomas, negro, was shot and
killed when he was robbing the pas
sengers of a Memphis-St Louis Frisco
train. A B. Walton, Frisco watch
man, killed the negro.
New Jersey will receive $1e4.434.46
as collateral inheritance tax from the
estate of George Croker, the mine
owner. The property left by Mr..
Croker, who died in December of
last year, is valued between $11, oo0,-
900 and $4,000
Leads to amazing revelations con-
corning the boodling operations OF
the racetrack lobby at Albany, N. Y,
were opened by the joint legislative
investigating committee. Based upon
estimates made by members OF the
committee IL seems likely that before
the inquiry is closed it will be shown
that more than $1,o00,0o was raised
by the racetrack interests in 1908 TO
defeat the AgnewHart law.
lu
jured when a Missouri Pacific pas
senger train was wrecked two miles
east of Knobnoster, Mo. The wreck
was caused by a broken rail
The Ulster Unionist council of Bel
fast, Ireland, decided in view of the
Irish political crisis, to invite tenders
for the immediate delivery of arms
and ammunition.
The Berlin Academy of Sciences
elected Prof. Lewis Boss, the astrono-
mer and since 1876 director of Dudley
observatory at Albany, n. Y. a CORE
spending member.
The country home OF Mrs. c. l..
Koch just outside Quincy, ILL.,, was
burned. 1t was a historic place and
the old mahogany furniture II con-
tanned had been collected piece by
piece by the late Doctor Koch.
Reports to the bureau of statistics
of the department of commerce and la
Dor show increased receipts OF cattle
and sheep and shortage of hogs at
the seven leading interior markets.
An ordinance prohibiting smoking
at polling places on election day was
passed by the Seattle council. The
ordinance is the direct result Of the
adoption OF the woman suffrage
to the state constitution.
The United States Steel corporation
with an SIS, 5000 fund has combined
with the 100000 relief fund estab-
lished at Pittsburg by An Few Car
negie some years since. making s12,-
000. 900 to be known as the United
States Steel and Carnegie pension
fund. From this there will be paid
TO employees of the United States
Steel corporation all over the coun-
try pensions as warranted in condi-
tons laid down.
Macao, China, dependency OF
Portugal is In the hands of the local
garrison and the crew of the gunboat
Patria, who revolted, marched to the
public square and took possession Of
the city government at the point of
the bayonet. All the demands of the
mutinous force were granted by the
povarnor upder threat