Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-02-16

ueciarhuOn oil PreelQont ldit IN al nu
dress before the National Corn expo
sition at Columbus. Ohio. While his
speech was devoted especially to
showing that the farmer had nothing
TO fear, but much TO gain, he attempt
ed to prove also that all the other In
terests of the country would be bene-
fitted.
Mrs. Roberta Menges-Corwin-Hill In
the United States circuit court plead
ed guilty to smuggling and was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of 1000 and TO
remain In prison four days. Mrs. Hill
smuggled a sable coat valued at $3.50.
Unless relieved 100000 people In
China will die of starvation. This is
predicted by American Consul Gener-
al Wilder at Shanghai. He appeals
for quick assistance and says 100000
is needed Immediately.
Mexican forces under General Luque
sustained another defeat in their at
tack on insurrectos, whom they nave
been fighting in the vicinity of Mulata,
Mexico, for some days past. The fed
erals assaulted the insurrecto force
intrenched about Mulata. They were
repulsed after a battle lasting five
hours.
In a coffin made of cherry wood
that had been hewn by himself more
than fifty years ago, the body Of Will
liam ~ Whitley. manufacturer of
reapers at Springfield o., was Gre
mated at Cincinnati.
Within four months of her CEN
tenary, Mrs. Rebecca Spring, mother
| of Steele Mackaye, the dramatist and
friend OF most of the literary celebri-
ties of mid-Victorian days, died at Los
Angeles, Cal.
The first gun in the congressional
battle over Canadian reciprocity was
fired In the United States senate by
| Senator Beverage of Indiana and he
lined up on the side of the administra-
ton. He presented strong arguments
to show that the natural resources OF
| Canada might be depended upon to
| reduce the cost of living in this coun-
| try and to replenish the loss suffered
| by the premature destruction of Amer
lean resources.
u0Oulb III HdNC INV
and violated the mausoleum Of the
late William l.. Scott, who was con-
gresham, a millionaire coal and rail-
road magnate and an intimate person
al friend of former President Grover
Cleveland. The body of Mrs. Anna M
McCollom, sister Of Mrs. Scott, has
been removed from the coffin. Much
| hn
In a gas explosion at the Wilburn
house at Carpentersville, ILL.,, Howard
Mann and Adam Oberst were killed
and 20 others injured. four fatally
! The hotel was wrecked Carpenters
vile is small town six miles north
of Elgin
Three women were drowned at
Sheboygan, Wis, when a local street
car went through an open draw into
the Sheboygan river and became sub
merged. The cause OF the accident Ia
believed by the motorman to be due
to defective working Of the brakes.
With Bluefields, Nicaragua, given
as her destination. the gunboat Siren,
! formerly owned by the United States
government, secured clearance papers
at Norfolk. Va.
Miss Clara Barton. founder and for
many years president Of the National
Red Cross In the United States. Is
seriously Ill at her residence In Glen
Echo, Md.
Unsecured notes aggregatng $780,
600 have been found among the pos
sessions of d. b. M. Brown, secretary
and treasurer of the old Illinois Can
ming company at Hoopeston. ILL.,. who
committed suicide. National bank eI-
aminers, II IL said, have bean invest
eating Mr.. Browns affairs for some
time.
President Taft has served notice on
congress through Senators Crane and
Carter that there must be q vote on
the reciprocity agreement with Can.
ada, or he would call congress back
In extra session almost Immediately
after March l.
A terrific tornado Of three days
duration has passed over Reunion
Island, French possession In the
Indian ocean, killing scores and
wrecking villages, according to ad.
vices received at Paris from the
French governor general there.
Many million dollars worth of prop
erty in the heart Of the business sec
ton of Brooklyn was threatened by a
fire which destroyed the twostory fac
tory of the F. Bischoff Cocoa and
Chocolate company on Ashland place.
The loss was 100000.
Seventeen residents of Pekin, Pc
oria. Eureka and Bloomington, H.,
we're injured when two passenger mo-
tors on the Peoria electric terminal
railway collided on an open switch. a:
South Bartonville A broken switch
device was the cause.
An explosion OF dynamite at the
mills of the Piute Powder company,
three miles south of Ispheming, Mich,
killed ten men and seriously injured
/ ,no4bar Tho nitric acid house WAS