Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-23

persons to locate land as homesteads on
Bots Blanc island. a year afterward
about half the number were notified that
their claims were held for cancellation UNI
der a claim of the state as swamp land.
There are thirty eight cases TO be tried on
Aug. 5, and the state must show that over
one half of each subdivision is swamp
land in order to hold it. There are great
many poor settlers who have invested
their all in improving their land and are
very anxious as to who owns the land.
Gov. Alger inspected the asylum at
Kalamazoo the other morning. He speaks
in high terms of the asylum and its man
agement, and is especially pleased with
the new departure of the institution in
the farm work and provisions. The farm
work will afford healthful occupation for
many patients who need outdoor exer-
else and country air. This is TO be first
lass model in all respects and something
TO win admiration and will DO copied by
other states.
Gov. Alger says that it will please him
greatly if no crowds come TO the camp
grounds at Island Lake when the militia
are there. There will be no drilling, nor
even the usual attractions on that day;
only devotional exercises. 1t is necessary
to pass Sunday there because of lack of
time to get away within six days, and the
governor hopes that the people of Michi
gan will keep away.
Oak Grove Springs is the name of new
summer resort opened at Sebewaing HUI
ron county.
No liquor is To be sold on the fair grounds
during the state fair. The state society
has passed resolution that none shall be
sold at any of its future exhibitions.
The supreme court sustains the liquor
law. In n case appealed from Mecosta
county against parties at Paris the court
confirmed the finding of the circuit, and
the defendants had to come down with
$3.50 or go to Jail.
Joseph Ganahl, Jr., aged 20, recent
graduate of Ann Arbor University, has
1een elected Professor of Richmond Uni
versity, Augusta, GA.
Butterworth q Lowe, proprietors Of the
Grand Rapids Iron Works. which have
been running the eight hour since It's in
auguration, May /, have returned TO the
ttii-HOul Sitli anu l4lt Oli NhStA' bhSia
men willingly agreeing so TO do
The Polish National Alliance which met
in Bay City recently, adonted protest
against the tyranny OF European nations
toward the Polish people copies of which
will be sent to the Reichstag at Berlin, the
Austrian Government at Vienna and the
Polish convention at Limburg. Austria
The state board OF education has grant
ed first grade certificates, good for 10 years,
to l.. c. Hull, principal of Detroit high
school; Supt II. VI. Slanson, Houghton;
Supt + NJ. Russell, Paw Paw Miss Fannie
Gray, Ypsilanti; Mrs. Carrie Stanley,
Kalamazoo; Miss Mary Bassett, Alegan.
Second class certificates were given to
Fred Glofke, ir., Mendon Abram knechtel,
St Charles w. l.. Tripp, Weston. Mrs.
and Mrs. T. ID. Brown, Port Austin; Mrs.
f. Gallop, Milford; John Everett, Moose
park.
Says the jackson Patriot: The Jackson
guards have taken hold of the project of
having grand parade and competitive
drill of military companies in this city
the last day of the state fair, the purse TO
Ice 81 900 probably divided into three
prizes, the first being 500. \ committee
consisting of Mayor Bennett, Burr LOOMS,
George :. Bennett and Henry Hunt, cir
culated paper yesterday for subscriptions
to the fund, and met with excellent sue
cess They were out but short time and
reported that they felt encouraged 10 try
and make the last day Of the fair the
most successful of the week
The large frame barns and breeding
stables of VI. V. Wagner of Marshall, were
consumed 10y fire recently. \ large guam
THY Of grain and hay was burned. The
loss is total arsl will amount to $500.
J. +. Parkinson Of Parkinson station. on
the l.. \ Mt. L. road, five miles north of
Alma, offers grounds free for staye and
heading mill and charcoal works there,
and says thousands of cords of hard wood
can Toe had handlly for years TO come. The
nearest postoflice at present i Alma.
The Quincy Herald thinks candidates
for goyernorship should come out boldly
and state how they stand on the pardoning
power, what answer they have TO make to
the pressing questions of labor, capital,
temperance, suffrage oetc.
Two ladies were on the ticket for school
trustees at the election held in Kalamazoo
on the 18th inst. The ladies were defeated
by $50 majority.
George Bostwck and William Miller,
two young men in the employ Of Bennett
q Sons manufacturers of farm implements
in Lansing, are under arrest, charged with
stealing from the firm
Mrs. :. +. +. Seeley, who served in n
Michigan regiment as Frank Thompson"
is happy, the president having signed the
bill removing the charge of desertion fLom
her record.
Peter Devereaux of Saginaw City, has
commenced suit as administrator against
j. W. Carlisle, administrator of the estate
of a. NJ Root, for $4,000 damages for the
death of Joseph St Mary of Carrollton,
who was capsized and drowned last month
by the steamer Burt while rowing in a
boat. 1t is claimed 10y the prosecution
that the Burt was racing and the officers
were negligent
The supreme court sustains the action Of
the Boyne City faction of the board of
supervisors and the fight over Charlevoix's