Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-04-20
Mosher & Fisher of West Bay City have

Mosher & Fisher OF West Bay City have
a stock of 5000, O01 feet of lumber on hand.
Patrick Wade, wlo shot Mrs. Burke OF
Norway because she refused TO marry
him, has been convicted OF murder in the
first degree.
Ann ArLor had a "a, 600 fire on the 18th
inst.
Convict Burton escaped from asylum
for insane at Ionia and was overhauled
by Keeper Jay o. Post, who pursued him
on horseback. terrible hand TO hand
conflict ensued in which the crazy man
was overcome. He has five years yet TO
serve.
passenger train went through the
bridge near Luther the other morning
The train was completely wrecked but no
lives were lost. The engineer and fireman
were seriously in jured.
Clarence ferguson was struck by
bursting wheel in Ferguson IL Moore's
machine shop in Greenville and instantly
killed.
The Traverse City asylum is caring for
53i patients.
The crop bulletin of the Michigan wealth
Ell service for the week ending April Il
says The temperature, rainfall and sun
shine have been slightly above the normal
yet the beneficial effect of these favorable
conditions on wheat aud clover seed have
been more than Offset 10y severe freezing
on the sth, TIA, ! TIA and 18th Wheat and
clover just begin TO show life and are be
lieved to be severely winteI-Silled. Plow
ing is under way in the southern sections
of the state, though probably only on the
dryer soils. Oats are being sown in some
sections Reports from the northern sec
tion state that 'the snow has melted con-
siderably, but still covers the ground"
Mrs. George G.. Van Alstine wife of the
private secretary 10 Auditor-GeneralA APP
lin, died in Lansing on the 18th inst. Her
husband departed for Mexico on the LIST
inst. To look after mining interests there,
leaving his wife and four children in ordi-
nary good health He had been gone but
two days when his only son was taken Ill
with scarlet fever and on the 9th inst died
The mother, worn out with watching and
borne down hy grief at the loss of her son,
fell i'll. Her ailment developed into pneu-
monia, which in a few days complicated
with rheumatism OF the heart. She grad
ualIy grew worse until the end came. Mr.
Van Alstine Is now some where in the in
terror of Mexico, beyond the reach of mail
and telegraph, aud does not know of his
affection.
Admiral Worden Of Monitor fame, who
is visiting friends in Grand Rapids, was
given a dinner by the Peninsular club the
other night.
The survey for the street railway from
Lansing TO the agricultural college has
been completed.
An organized band of burglars IN Battle
Creek has been broken up 10y the arrest OF
the leaders, who are boys, whose ages
range from II TO - years. All are the
sons of respectable people.
Frank Glover OF Bay City, has been
sentenced to - years in state pris IN for a
Grim nal assault upon an ll-year-oId girl.
George Dewight and Charles Stanley,
the trampS who knocked German down
and robbed him in -. Johns, have been
sentenced by Judge Smith 60 the state
house OF correction, Dewight for ten
years and stanley for eight.
George Morse, a son OF NJ NJ. Morse Of
the firm of Mors, * Co., large general
store of Grand Rapids has been arrested
charged with committing an assault and
battery on his mother who sues him for
$4,000 damages. lie gave bail in a. 900
with his father and brother as securities.
Morse denie, the charge.
Mrs. Mary De We're died at the residence
OF her only daughter, Mrs. James Beatty,
in Bloomfield recently. She was 50 years
Old and had been a resilient of Oakland
county hfty-Gve years.