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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1886
Page
3
A long, jumbled report details various ills and incidents across the nation. It mentions Pinkerton guards, prison damage, insurance, and financial matters, plus local crimes, resignations, highway projects, and a chaotic glimpse of court cases and public notices.
A broad, disjointed summary of international and domestic notes reports conspiracies, arrests, and military actions. Mentions include a Washington undertaker, General West's mail security case, Mrs Lily Hepburn, Mangus Apache chief, Mangus movement, Babine Pass relief fund, Gen Miles reports, Geronimo link, Farmington Maine fire, prohibition arrests in Atlanta, and various imperial and colonial items.
An OCR fragment recounts the Champs de Liberty statue project led by Bartholdi and French and American supporters. It covers fundraising, design, key figures, Paris and New York involvement, and the dedication in New York Harbor with mentions of officials and spectators. It also notes related ceremonial events, speeches, and the statue’s symbolic meaning for liberty.
To Sella Railroad, suit filed in U S circuit court Detroit to foreclose a 2,000,000 mortgage on the Chicago and Canada Southern railroad, a Lake Shore line branch from Fayette Ohio to Detroit. The road was revived in 1872 with 2,541,000 debt, 100,000 held by G W Thomas of New Jersey and Thomas S Hughes of New York. no payments since, debt now 2,000,000. They seek appointment of a receiver.
The report details a bold robbery on a passenger train near St Laude involving forged letters and a plan to steal jewelry and gold. Investigations focus on Cummings and Parthen aia, with Superintendent Barer and Officer Fotheringham linked to the inquiry.
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