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

state commerce commission is being
waged In the hope that victory will
bring the opportunity TO make still
further advances in the near future.
This was admitted by G. G.. Burnham,
vice-president of the Burlington rail
road, in charge of traffic, and by At
| torney Dawes, counsel of the road, at
| the hearing.
Fifteen hundred schoolboys of Kan
sas City, Kan, cleaned the streets of
the Sixth ward OF that city. The city
has not been able to employ men for
the work and the pupils volunteered
! their services.
After a desperate hand-to-hand en-
counter with a burglar who had en-
tered his home. Guy wilkins, a solicit
| tor for the Prudential Life Insurance
company of Chicago, was shot and
killed by the intruder. Williams wife
and two young sons saw the struggle
of the husband and father with the
| burglar.
Uttering covert warning that a
Democratic victory in New York would
| be taken as a reputation Of the Taft
administration and the turning of the
Republican party to Roosevelt or
still more radical candidate in 1912,
! United States Senator Elihu Root de-
livered a speech at the Manhattan
Casino in New York City.
The strike of drivers and helpers
employed by all the larger express
companies that for several days has
been In progress at the railroad ter
minals on the Jersey City side of the
North river, has spread TO New York
City and as a result the entire bust
ness of receipt and delivery of all
goods in transit was materially af-
fected.
Assertions made by western rail
roads in justification of the purposed
increase in freight rates were held by
Governor w Il. Stubs of Kansas
TO be false and the roads guilty of
stock and profit juggling. He was
testifying before the interstate COM
merce commission at it's session at
Chicago in the rate hearing.
The Illinois Central Railroad COM
pany received setback when the SUI
preme court decided that the $751;
600, 600 back tax suit brought by the
state must go TO trial. The state won
every important contention with the
exception that the opinion holds the
accounts prior TO 1905 have been ac-
copied by the state and payment made
thereon, and that therefore they are
not subject to further inquiry.
Maurice Tabuteau broke the worlds
aviation records for time and distance
by flying 2S9 miles In six hours in a
continuous trip at Etampes, France.
He used Farman biplane.
The cupola furnace of the Pasadena
foundry at Los Angeles, Cal, was
blown up with dynamite. The explo-
sion undoubtedly was the result of ma
licious intent. The foundry has been
from the beginning an open shop.
The provisional Portuguese minister
of justice has drafted a divorce law
which proposes the most startling
marital emancipation yet presented to
Europe 1t is based simply on mutual
desire.
young American student of the
piano. Lucinda Farrar OF New Orleans,
committed suicide by gas in her rooms
In the Latin quarter OF Paris. She had
been in bad health
SiXty-six Jewish artisans were ex-
PEELED from ST. Petersburg on the
ground that they were not following
trades. employment in which would
entitle them TO live outside the re-
stricted district set apart by law for
their habitation
Complete remuneration of popula-
ton OF Tacoma. Wash, was ordered
by Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel as a result of the protests made
by the people of that city.
The gruesome sight of blaze in the
clothing of a woman's body in a COZ.
lin greeted the mourners preparing for
9 funeral in Boston. An overturned
eassddi.e, sttaFteG lie FIRE:
The largest automobile ambulance
ever built for the transportation OF ami
mails has been put in commission by
the New York Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty TO Animals. 1t is a gift
from Mrs Russell Sage.
A combined railroad and public utili-
ties commission is provided in propo-
sition which was TO be presented to
the Arizona constitutional convention
meeting in Phoenix
Plans for the establishment of a
Mormon colony in Mexico have been
| communicated to this government by
Consul Luther r. Ellsworth of Ciudad
Porfrio Diaz. The colony is to be 20
miles west of Ciudad Porfrio Diaz.
M. A. Unruh, executor of the will Of
the late K. j. lucky Baldwin, filed
an answer in the Los Angeles probate
court in which he denies that Beatrice
Anita Turnbull Baldwin is the daugh-
ter-at-law of the turfman.
Proposed advances in live stock
rates between Missouri river transfers
and Miscicainni river trancfere and