Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-09-24
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

the assignees of John Roach, in final pay
ment for the Dolphin and for the care of
the monitor Puritan. This is complete
settlement Of all claims OF Roachs against
the government, and the Dolphin becomes
in law what she long has been in fact, the
property of the government.
James W. Miles, president Of the Artil-
lery Association of Michigan, would like
each member of the organization to send
his address to him at Hubbardston, togeth-
or with the letter and number of the bat
terry to which he belongs and whether light
or heavy artillery. President Miles has
( something OF Importance TO communicate
I to each member between now and October
II, when the first-annual meeting occurs
at Lansing.
Geo. Gray, aged -, and unmarried a
brakeman on the Manstee q, Luther rail
road, was killed while coupling cars at
Manistee. No blame is attached to the
road. Deceased has relatives in London
Eng.
Mr.. Crawford, a Boston horse fancier
who came to this state for the purpose Of
purchasing stock, had his pocket picked Of
sl25O in Jackson the other day.
A new postofice has been established at
! Colos, Calhoun county, with John Badger
as postmaster.
Charles Brown of Michigan has been
promoted from class one to class two in
the Office of the first comptroller of the
treasury.
Albert Williams, Jr. of San Francisco,
geologist in the geological survey has re-
/ ha nrip nols ~ ha
! Michigan school of mines.
Michigan captured a goodly share OF
awards at the Percheron hores show in
! Chicago, including one of the French gold
NedaIs.
Mrs. Mary +. Thede, a widow OF East
| Saginaw, died very suddenly the other
night She had been preparing supper
| and sat down to rest a moment when she
suddenly expired. Her husband suicided
/ six years ago.
Chas. w. Long created quite a sensation
in Kalamazoo n few days ago by boiling
the body of human being in an open
/ kettle in the rear Of house owned by him
on Kalamazoo avenue in IA thickly popu-
/ lated part of the city. He boilded it all
afternoon and thestench which rose was al
most unbearable. Several small bones.
! including finger nails and the tongue, were
/ found on the ground where he emptied
/ the kettle. He claims that he shipped two
/ bodies from Ann Arbor by freight to his
sister He now has the bones soaking in "a
/ barrel. Long is graduate from the state
/ University Law Department and now
/ claims 10 be studying TO he doctor.
/ J. Il. Carpenter of Grand Rapids, former
/ ly general passenger agent of the Chicago
q West Michigan railroad, died in Cincin
/ natl recently.
An English gentleman has purchased 900
acres of the big marsh near Marshall and
will set it out to basket willows.
\ reading room has been established in
connection with the Buchanan high school.
II will be supplied with the leading daily
papers and periodicals.
the first snow of the season fell at Ish-
peming on the i2:h inst.
Kalamazoo celery raiser; are beginning
to complain that the crop is Improbable.
Overproduction.
Muskegon has a police regulation ro-
/ curing all keepers OF houses of ill-fame to
register. Thus far seventeen have
registered together with their inmates.
The Michigan military academp has Sc
cured as a teacher of eocution Mr.. Irvah
l.. Winter, graduate Of Harvard, where
he carried of the first prize in oratory.
Giles McKeon Of Brant, Saginaw county,
dropped dead the other morning at Brant
/ Center, in Mr.. Holidays wagon shop;
/ cause, said to be heart disease. Mr.. Nc
Keen was pne of the pioneers of Brant
and a prominent farmer.
Gustavus Clark OF Romeo, while in a
state Of intoxication, went home and
routed out his entire family, who had all
retired. Selling chair, he attacked his
wife, when he was iDterfered with by his
son, a young man of H. who received a
severe blow on the head, cutting big
! cash and otherwise bruising him. Clark
was arrested and lodged in Jail. The
| young man Is alive, but his recovery is
I doubtful.
The entries for the state fair, which are
now closed, are larger than ever before.
In cattle there are 40 entries against us
last year; horses 500 against 5l7; sheep,
$50 against 303; swine 3l6 against 15l;
poultry, $50 against 249; farming nipple
ments, $50 against 273.
Natural gns has been discovered on TINS
/ farm of John |. Schnell in Frankenhust,
| Saginaw county.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Bronson give
away apples, pears and grapes as there is
no sale for them.
Mrs. Louise LOOMS, an old woman ar.
rested at Grand Rapids the other ght for
begging from door to door, had 800 sewed
mp in her dress lining when searched.
80 Wesleyan Methodist conference at
Il Rapids adopted a resolution con
demning the Knights of Labor, "for inter
fering with the freedom OF laboring men
and the rights OF employers, ms threaten
ing the welfare of the country" Also
resolutions favoring prohibition and to
send a missionary into northern Mich.
gan.