Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-07-24
STATE NEVIS.

part of the State.
Al on, $50 applications for freedom are
now before the State board Of pardons.
Branch couuly's wheat yield will be
600. 600 bushels when Its all threshed out.
Kalamazoo county is now gathering one
of the finest and largest wheat crops in all
lis history.
Cadillac is to have a rev jail brick, two
stories high, 80 feet square. the same TO
cost s., 200.
A counterfeit half dollar, dated 1877. is
, being circulated in the State. Bite your
half dollars.
All deaf and dumb persons between the
ages of and 20 years are entitled 10 ad-
mission To the asylum at Flint.
The planning mill of Degraff, vricling &
Co. a, Grand Rapids, was destroyed by
lire Friday night Loss 5000, insured
for $40. 900.
Harvesting is in progress in Lenawee
county with wages from 81 80 10 81 80 per
day. Wheat Is at least ten days behind
its usual time for ripeDing
At Kalamazoo there are thirty commits.
sion houses engaged in the sale of celery.
,rhc result OF las, years crop was siG5 900
to producers and 5000. 0t0 to dealers.
John b. Mcfarland, an Evart lumber
man, claims TO have had 81 400 taken
from his vest pocket on a train while com
ing from Muskegon Thursday Of last week.
The Oscoda salt and lumber company
are putting in large camps 80 miles from
Crawling where 30, 600, 900 feet OF lumber
is TO be cut and 100 men will be employed
AtGrand junction lightning descended
the chimney struck Mr.. Stout aud glanced
off hitting Mrs Stout, burning off her
shoes and stockings Neither were much
hurt.
An old log house standing near Benton
Harbor since the time the morning stars
sang together, has been taken down and
will be shipped 10 Chicago where it will be
rebuilt and form part of the Gettysburg
panorama.
The manufacture Of brushes was begun
at Grand Rapids in ISL the average
weekly output amounting 10 $500. Now
rs persons are employed in the business
and ] 900 dozen brushes Of all kinds are
urn ed out weekly.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Charlotte are
becoming considerably interested in hedge
fencing, and many of the best farmers who
have gone into il quite extensively, claim
that it is the most economical and attract
We fence to be had, and is likely to take
the place Of al Others.
On Monday Judge Parrish granted per-
peiual injunction restraining the mayor OF
Grand Rapids from executing a contract
for the construction OF towers for lighting
the city by electricity. The common coun-
ell instructed the city attorney to appeal
the case to the supreme court
The officers who are working up the
murder case recently reported from Big
Rapids, where the remains Of man were
found a mile and a half west IF the town.
say that they are almost ready to tell who
The murdered man was and who did the
killing.
A few days ago a large mock or cloud
of grasshoppers, about three-quarters of al
inch long and very green, alighted in /:
acre clover field belonging to Benjamin
Parker, near Royal Oak and completely
destroyed it. They also destroyed q
acre field of wheat belonging to p. Wheel
er. Without doing any further damag
they mysteriously disappeared.
A strange and fatal disease is prevail
ing among the horses in the vicinity o
Clio. Veterinary surgeons are overwork
I'd both there and at Flint, and some o
them have as many "a twenty or thiri
cases on hand at once. They say they d
not understand the disease and do not
therefore, understand its treatment \
many as fifteen or twenty horses have die
in one township alone. Violent purginI
is one Of the first symptoms, usually ems
ing in death in two or three days, or re
eovery.
While berrying near IIungcrford Saiui
day afternoon some children found Tia
body of a dead man in a log barn ON til
farm of Srmier Barsiow. An inquest re-
vcaled the fact that the mans name WA
Henry Dorman, and that he had come I
nis death through some unknown cause
An empty half pint bottle. which had con
tuned solution Of morphine was found
in his pocket, but no money. The deceas
cd was about IS years of age, had worke
in lumber camp near Woodvllle sever,
ears and had been on IA drunken sprc
since the fourth of July.
Last week Thursday the caboosc of
freight train standing on the main trac
OF the Chicago IL Grand Trunk railway
Charlottee, was run into by n wild engir
moving south at the rate Of abont 6 milk
m hour. Albert Upham. an old gcntl
pan. and bis wife were passengers in IL
caboosc and attempted to escape by Il
rear platform, when Mr.. Upham was q
most instantly Killed, and Mrs. Upha
badly but not dangerously injured. y
body else was hurt. The deceased LIVE
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