Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-07-03
THE ALMA RECORD.
FRIDAY. JULY 3.
STATE NEVIS.

Twenty-Five miles OF pipe are required
to supply Kalamazoo with water
Miss Root. AGED II, suiclded at Farm
inglop Thursday night by hanging
Burglars reported At Ionia. The II o.
G. had no terror for them evidently.
The crops in Chippewa county are re
ported as locking unprccedenty well.
Boync City is rejoicing over a new tcle.
phone wire connecting with Churlevoix
and Petoskew
In Tuscola county wheat, oats. barley
and buckwheat are looking well. but corn
IS much damaged by the cut worms.
Joseph Jcas. Of West Bay City has he.
come insane over business troubles. He
is about 80 years of age and has family.
4 nule son of r. b. Richards, Sagi.
nav City, laborer. fell head foremost into
4 post hole partly flied with water, Satur-
dag noon, and drowned
Geo. n Davis has entered upon the
duii 3 Of collector of internal revenues at
Grand Rapids. having been appointed to
succeed c. w. Watkins.
Mortimer Smith, of Birmingham, while
overhauliug lumber in lumberyard Fri.
day, had both legs broken 10y the falling
of alarge pile upon him.
On Thursday last week Caspar Neider,
Chippewa county, disembowelcd himself
with scythe, but whether Intentionally
or not, no one knows. lie will probably
die.
Mollie Sprick who was sentenced last
week at Muskegon to 81 years at the De
troit house of correction was found dead
in her cell Friday night, having taken
morphine-and another route.
The once well-Fnown Bay furnace prop
erty at Munising, upper peninsula. some
$4,000 acres in all. has been converted into
a cattle ranch Munising expects to be
greatly benefited by the enterprise.
Saturdays storm did considerable dam
n
10y lightning and paralyzed and another
instantly killed Crops were injured by
the rain which fell in sheets for 4 hours.
Solomon Kaufman of Grand Rapids,
committed suicide Saturday evening. His
wife had commenced proceedings for a
divorce and that is the supposed cause of
the act
Ex-Judgs Edwin Lawrence died of apo
pexy last Friday morning at Ann Arbor
aged -. He had been member of the
bar al years, a circuit judge in 81 and at
one time editor Of the Michigan State
Journal.
Paul Coster a Chicago sta dent of Hope
college and an excellent linguist, was dis
covered placing Instructions on the track
at Holland Thursday. He and his small
brother were arrested and taken to Grand
Haven.
Some evilminded person cut one of The
guy ropes to flying trapeze at Fore
padgh's circus at Ionia, Friday night
The rope extended under the seats and
was cut there. but just TOO late to injure
the performers,
The incoming passenger train on the d..
L. & n road due at 80 Friday night.
ran into an open switch at the stone quarry
one mile east of Ionia. The engine was
damaged the engineer, fireman and bag
gageman injured. aud the passengers
shaken up. None of the latter were in
iufed, however
Clio and vicinity was visited Saturday
afternoon and evening by several severe
storms Of rain, thunder and lightning and
wind. y barn belonging TO W Darwood,
seven miles from Clio. was struck by
lightning XII ing hired man who was in
the barn. a barn in the town of Birch
Run, belonging to c. L. Hunter, was also
struck, killing horse. The heavy wind
lodged the wheat quite badly.