Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-11-12

eral years ago, ana another was Killed 10y
lightning last year.
The body Of an unknown man was found
concealed behind pile of wood at Six
Lakes, Montcalm county. The body had
been there SO long that when il was moved
the head dropped OFF. No clew.
George Wells, an employe in the Anchor
barrel manufacturing company's works
near Detroit, fell into vat of boiling
water the other day. After lingering in
great agony for several hours death came
TO his relief
The Marquette Houghton & Ontonagon
railroad has been sold to "A syndicate Of
New York and western capitalists. The
purchasers agree TO pay $40 a share for all
common stock and Sll0 for the preferred
stock at any time within sixty days. The
road Will be made IA part of the through
line between Duluth and Sault Ste.
Marie.
Lieut.. Bartlett OF Detroit, has been de.
tailed for duty at the Michigan military
academy.
Mrs. Alva Winters OF Kalamazoo was
one of the victims of the railroad accident
at Rio, Wis.
Chas NJ. Ruggles of Peru, o., president
Of the junior medical college class of the
university, died recently OF malignant
tonsilitis.
Chief Justice Miller Of the United States
supreme court has accepted an invitation
to deliver an address before the senior
laws of the university, commencement
week
John Anderson, Norwegian, was in
stantly killed in Barker q Akely's saw
mill in Muskegon the other morning.
The Tennessee basket factory company OF
Benton Harbor will at once begin the cree
ton of another factory.
Il. H. Thayer Of Plymouth, Wayne coun.
~, formerly law clerk in the supervising
architects Office, treasury department,
has been admitted 10 practice before the
supreme court Of the United States.
Gov Alger has pardoned John Fay, sem
fenced 10 Jackson from Mecosta county,
December 81, 1883, for five years for burg
larry. The pardon board physician says
that Fay will die of consumption inside a
month The sentence of Mrs. Edna Brass
the Missaukee county murderess, has been
COMMITTED TO the Detroit house of correc
tion for life.
The Presbyterian college at Alma viii
cost about 100000.
3. +. harrington, a well known business
man OF Detroit, was seized with an attack
Of vertigo the other day, and fell down
the elevator shaft. He is terribly injured,
and there is no hope of his recovery.
+. J Sheap of Reading, Hillsdale coun-
ty, has grown $500 head of cabbage this
season. all of which have been shipped %
Ohio, Tennessee and Minnesota.
Charlotte is having an epidemic of
whooping cough. over - deaths have oc-
CURED.
Mrs, y b Eldredge, wife of Hon. n b.
Eldredge Of Adrian, died on the 2nd inst.
There are more inmates in the indus
tria, home for girl, at Adrian thanGan be
accommodated
Thos l. Bates of Traverse City has been
elected president of the board Of trustees
of the northern insane asylum and John
Goode secretary.
VIM. f. Hively has been honorably dis
charged from the soldiers home having
received SLIGO back pension and SD per
month for the future
VIM \. Pratt, at one time a bright
member of the Ionia county bar died in
the asylum at Pontiac recently.
The Knickerbocker milling company Of
Jackson, has shipped a carload of its
goods to Ireland and filed orders from
Constantinople, Turkey.
Elmer Macarthur the young man ar
rested in Charlotte for forgery, made an
Jail the other night. When Sheriff Perkins
was locking him in his cell box, "A bottle
was discovered in his pocket, which proved
TO contain cayenne pepper. Upon further
search three small steel saws and small
file were found. He also had SlS5 sewed
in the lining of his coat. Two of the bars
TO the cell and one across the window
were found TO be sawed and filed Off.
DR.. NJ W. Smith, n well known physician
Of Mt Clemeus, took chloroform 10 relieve
headache and the next morning was found
dead IN bis Office His friends scout the
idea Of suicide, as no man had happier
or more even disposition DR.. Smith had
been secretary OF the board OF school ex-
aminer, of Macomb county for three
years.
Nearly 5000 barrels OF apples have been
shipped from Beding this fall. chiefly to
Minnesota and other points in the west
and northwest.
The new silk factory in Belding will
when completed have the finest line of
machinery of any silk factory in the
world.
Henry Fries of Mt. Clemens, aged 80,
died the other evening after a lingering
illness lie has been "A resident there since
1850, and held the Office of superintendent
Of the poor for p years. Half an hour
after he died his wife died She has been
a sufferer for some years. Both were held
in the highest esteem.
VIM. l.. Stewart OF Buffalo, ". Y, who
had been stopping in Detroit about n
week, dropped dead on the corner of JEFF
ferson and Griswold streets in the latter
city the other night. a small wound in
the region of the heart led to the belief
that he had been murdered, and the whole
detective force of the city was set TO work
on the case. Stewards wife was held as "A
, witness and the case becpme more inn