Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-30
Henry c. Henderson CT Mason has been


The Coldwater papers Indignantly deny
/ that there is any scarlet fever i'm the state
/ public school. They admit, however, that
/ there have been several cases OF mild
form of scarletna.
! G.. \. Merrill, for some years state agent
for the state public school and assistant
superintendent, has been appointed super
| intcndent of the state school of Minnesota
1 located at Owatonna.
VIM. Ben OF Saginaw City, VIII o was
/ found the other night laying on the rail
way track at Wabash, Ind, unconscious,
/ recovered sufficiently 10 state that he was
! pushed of freight train by brakeman,
/ fell under the wheels and was horribly
crushed He died the next morning.
/ The coroner has issued warrant
for the arrest Of the brakeman.
The Twenty third regiment will hold its
annual reunion in Perry, Shiawa ssee
county, August II.
Mrs NJ A. Hazlett of Hudson, has been
/ invited by the department commander OF
the woman's relief corps of Ohio to ac-
company the sixty delegates from that
state 10 San Francisco Aug. 3, rs speaker
of the delegation 10 the 6 a r. reunion.
One of the relics from the fated Oregon,
the steamship lost of Fire Island, which
have drifted TO this state is letter from
/ Llandudno. North Wales mailed March
/ 3 to X. j. Wood, an employe at the purifier
shops at Jackson. recovered from the
wreck July and forwarded from the New
| York postottice.
Mortimer Jones Of Vernon, while driv-
ing home from Bancroft was struck 10y n
d.. G.. II. q VI. train at that place. His
left arm was crushed his horse killed and
his buggy wrecked. The injured arm was
amputated. There was a heavy fog which
INSTRUCTED the view of the crossing,
Joshua Tuthill, one of the oldest citizens
of East Saginaw, died suddenly few days
ago.
Dr. y. c. Hall, formerly of Pontiac, who
was accused of poisoning his wife some
years ago, is charged with having poison
ed his second wife in Cascade, Wis re
Gently.
Sim Church, an old time resident of
Kalamazoo, was drowned in Long Lake
the other day.
Michigan citizens having contributed
1902 toward maintaining Mount Vernon,
the home of George Washington, during
the past year.
Mrs Chatterton Of Bovine township
Kent county, who shot and killed her hus-
band on the evening of July 9, has been
examined by medical commission and
pronounced insane. Judge Montgomery
accordingly issued an order for her remov-
al 10 the Kalamazoo asylum.
Diphtheria is reported at Il places in the
state; scarlet fever at nine places; typhoid
fever at six places, and smallpox at De-
troit and Pickford, ChippeVe county.
Twenty companies of state troops have
signifed their intention of taking part in
the prize contest at the state fair, a. fol-
lows: Six companies of the first regiment,
four from the second, two from the third,
the whole eight of the fourth one from
Orchard Lake, and the company from the
agricultural college. The Detroit Grays
and the company from the agricultural
college have already entered for the prize
drill contest.
Mrs Dawson, wife Of D. j. Dawson,
United States Commissioner and clerk Of
the United States District Court in De
troit, died on the 10Th inst. in Heidelberg,
Germany. between which city and Leipsic
she had spent some time, engaged in the
grateful task of experimenting the edu-
cation Of her children.
Charles Traver who has charge of Shed
den Company's business in Port Huron, is
short in his accounts several hundred dol
lars. Mr.. Traver has left the city.
Forest fires are raging to an alarming
extent in the vicinity of Cheboygan
Ex-Mayor Wheaton OF Detroit has
brought suit against Luther Beecher of
that city for libel, laying damages at $685.
600.
Over 5000 visitors inspected Camp Alger
Sunday, the 18th.
DR.. George +. Ranney, for the last TWEEN
ty years secretary of the state Medical
society. has gone 10 England as a delegate
from the American Medical Association,
which meets in August. He will make
tour or England and the continent, visit
ing hospitals and medical institutions,
and will be gone some months.
John Myers W no shot and killed an un.
known man in East Saginaw, May - last
has been sentenced TO fifteen years in the
state penitentiary. Myers is - years old.
In the Ncwaygo circuit court per-
manent injunction has been issued re-
straining Manager Mulliken of the Chicago
q Western Michigan railroad from OBJ
structing the course of the canal by build
ing piers. Last winter Mr. Muliken took
force of men one Sunday TO build the
piers, which extended into the canal, and
d. =. Clay objected.
Gov. Alger has issued pardon to
VIM. Fish, sent from st. Clair county,
December 20, 1854, to Ionia for four years
for burglary also TO VIM. Gage, sent
from Oakland county, September %, 1884,
TO Jackson for six years for criminal as
sault; the pardon board certifes that Fish
Is dying of consumption and that Gage is
paralyzed on the left side, is suffering with
diabetes, and can live but n short time.
George Kennard, arrested recently.
cha rCed with firing n railroad bridge near