Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-06-11
Godfrey Knight Of schoolcraft IA. b.

Godfrey Knight 81 Schoolcraft has be-
gun on his second century ~ life the first
having been completed May 2'th. For "A
years the old man has risen every morning
at O'Clock. has never employed ply
stefan for himself, and is in the enjoyment
Of excellent health. On his loOth birthday
he lifted and carried five bushels of grain
for "a short distance.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Third National Bank of
detroit Ia begin business with capital
500 and the city National Bank of Ian
sing with a capital of 100000.
Reliance Barton. wife of Hon Jane,
Barton OF Newaygo. died IN that village a
few days ago Mr. and Mr. Barton were
among the earliest settlers IN thi, state.
Philo II Budong "X-lnember of the
legislature from Calhoun county, but since
le1j living at Friendship Emmet county,
i, dead, aged 6
Senator Hueston al Wayne, has obeyed
the scriptural injunction, and take unto
himself a wife. the happy event occurring
ia Lansing on the 2d iHs;.
August Zauel, aged 90, employed at Hol-
lands mill in East Saginaw, in piling
lumber, fell from the tramway and struck
in the descent "A piece of timber, which
knocked him insensible, and falling into
the river he drowned before aid could he
rendered. He had been III the country but
three weeks.
A man named Louis Lane has been ar
rested for the murder of the man Brock
way in Cascade, Kent county, recently.
Lane admits that he mad quarreled with
Brockway, but furtherI than this lis non
commtal.
y Judgment for $4,000 has been rendered
against the Lake Shore d Michigan South
ern railroad company, for the killing of
Isaac Monheimer by one of its trains at
the Union street crossing in Hillsdale in
October, 1879.
st. Clair county normal school opens at
Fort Gratiot, July 20, and continues five
weeks.
Rev. DR.. Henry n, Strong, "the fighting
chaplain" of the old Fourth Michigan In
fantry has been admitted To the Soldiers
Home. At the battle o. Gaines Mills he
had horse shot out from under him, and
received injuries which have since incapeci-
tated him for labor. He was at one time,
way back in the fifties, rector Of the Epis-
copal church in Marshall, and was then one
of the brightest men in the Episcopal min
istry in Michigan. At Gaines Mills he saw
Col. Woodbury. fall, pierced with "a fatal
bullet, and eased his dying bed. Shortly
afterward when Fastening To another part
of the field his horse was killed by u bull
let through she head.
Chas. T. Allen, s. II. Clizbe, Geo. Green
wood, n. w. Sherman, j. w. Burk and
Samuel Kanous are the stockholders in a
new ufacturing enterprise in Cold
water for the manufacture of the SHEER
man road cart. The organization is not
fully completed but will be at once The
company has capital of $4,000. The
gentlemen making up the new company
are men Of integrity and capital, and will
push The business for all there is in it.
While Dir. and Mrs. Isaac Alden of
Coldwater were attending the Salvation
Army jubilee in the NJ. +. church the other
evening some one stole their horse and
buggy. They were found the next morn
ing in H. c. Fenn's meadow, two miles
southeast Of the city, the thief taking the
trouble TO pass through five gates, unlock
ing the horse from the buggy, and leaving
the property forty rods from the road