Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-02-09

serious. Thousands are perishing
from starvation, the dead remaining
unburied. Fears are entertained for
the safety of many American mission
aries.
The machinery OF the National
Grange, an organization Of 100000
farmers in 80 states, has been started
to defeat the ratification by congress
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
The Lexington winter carnival"
which is to be given in aid Of the COM
bined armory and museum to be erect
ed under the auspices of the National
the minute men of '76," will be held
at Lexington, Mass.
At Clifton, Ariz., Mrs. Jack Cham
bere, a milliner, when being taken TO
Jail on a charge of having sold thir-
teen-year-old white girl to Chinaman,
shot and killed herself The bullet
passed through her heart and into the
hand of Sheriff English.
The constitutional amendment for
the submission of the question of wom-
an suffrage to popular vote was
passed by the California assembly, SO
TO G. The amendment already had
passed the senate.
Eastern capitalists, headed by
George e. Roberts, have closed a con-
tract with the state of Wyoming
whereby they will take over the Wyo-
ming central irrigation project, the
| largest ever undertaken by private
capital.
Owing TO the prevalence of scarlet
fever the schools of Petersburg, H.,
were ordered closed and all church,
social and other public gatherings
were prohibited.
BY series of parliamentary tactics
in which progressive Republicans and
| Democrats outgeneraled the Republic
an old guard, the resolution on the
subject of direct vote of senators has
| become the unfinished business of the
senate.
! After % weeks OF bitter struggling
| the Chicago Garment Workers strike
was officially called off by the union
| leaders. The strikers must return to
work as individuals and at the en-
! ployers' terms.
The text of the kilograms between
| Davila of Honduras and President
! Taft, made public at the state depart
ment, show that the president is NOV
! ing to have an armistice declared be-
| tween the warning factions in Hon
! duras. Commander Cooper of the Mari
| eta had been ordered TO bring this
about If possible.
Congress may fail TO act at this ses-
sion on the bill to promote Robert r.
| Peary to be a rear admiral The bill
was reached on the private calendar,
| but consideration was postponed. 1t is
not probable that private bills will
again be taken up before adjournment.
The nine West Point cadets dis
missed for hazing from the academy
| in 1908 by President Roosevelt and
Secretary of War Wright were rein
stated under a bill which passed both
houses of congress.
The American Breeders association
devoted 10 lettering the breed of
/ plants, domestic animals and the hui
man race, began its seventh annual
meeting in Columbus, O., as the guest
of the National Corn exposition.
At least a score of persons were
killed, 100 or more injured and prop
erty damaged TO the extent of $500
900 when 25 tons of dynamite eXplod-
ed at q pier close 10 the Central rail-
road of New Jerseys passenger ferry
slip at Communipaw, n. J.
|
twelve soldiers were killed In a battle
at Sierra Monija. near San Lorenzo,
| Chihuahua, January 20, according TO
an off cial telegram received in Mexico
! City.
Prince Tsai Chun, brother of the
| prince regent of China, will pass
through the United States on his way
| to London to attend the coronation of
| King George V. The prince will leave
China in May.
The kaiser and the % other ruling
sovereigns in Germany will not have
| to pay the new tax on the unearned
! increment from land When the
reichstag read the bill for the third
| time ii restored the exemption clause.
Poisoning by wholesale, to enable
aristocratic Russians to rid themselves
oil undesirable persons. for sums as
! high as $250,000 was developed in a
confession at st. Petersburg by Doctor
Pantchenko the notorious poisoner
, Pantchenko was arrested with Count
! O'Brien De Lassy some time ago
charged with the murder of the
counts brother-in-law in order that
vast estate might be inherited by De
Lassy.
The Inaba Maru, which arrived
| from the orient, brought news of the
loss at sea of the Japanese trawler
! Bando Maru, with crew OF n men.
| The steamer foundered in storm off
! Inbaraki prefecture.
The annual report of the New York
! Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Animals shows that in 1910 the so
/ ciety put to death 307,0 900 small ami
mails. gathered from all sources. OF
this number 1000 were cats.