Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-08-10
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.


WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.
Elizabeth c. Bates of Detroit, widow Of
the late Mai Kinzie Bates, has been granted
widow pension arrears.
Gen Alger visited Gen. Harrison at In
dianapOlis the other day.
James L. Harry, Grand Rapids mail car
rler has been sentenced TO three years i'm
prisonment in the Detroit house Of correc-
ton for stealing letters.
The supreme court decides that woman
who signs her husbands notes 10 raise mon
ey not tor her own use. IL not liable.
Grand Rapids people are interesting
them selves 10 secure new trial for r. T..
stevens fraudulent Paw Paw banker, sen
fenced 10 five years Imprisonment, because
he has made good his defalcation.
Allen Cook, pioneer Of Coldwater, is
dead.
Mrs. Lydia Wheelock. resident Of Bat
tie Creek for half a century, is dead.
Eli Hoover OF West Bay City, who tasted
for - days, died July 81
John :. Gage, a resident Of Wayne town
ship, Cass county, since 1910 Ia dead.
c. II. Hsckley of the lumber firm of
Hackley y Hume, who recently gave the
school board Of Muskegon $4,000 with
which TO erect and maintain public libra
~, has given the board $4,000 more with
which to pprchase books for the library.
Prof. Goetz Of Vicksburg, the well known
composer Of band music, is dead.
G.. A. r Commander Gardner, pastor of
The NJ. +. Church OF Albion, has been called
TO the pastorate Of ST. Pauls NJ. +. church
Of Cincinnati.
In the United States court in Grand Rap
Ids, Judge Severns granted the motion for
4 new trial in the case Of Frederick Gard
ner IS. the Michigan Central railroad
Gardner lost leg al Niles, whore he was a
switchman, and received verdict against
the road of $500. The case will probably
20 10 the supreme court Of the United States
before IL is settled.
One woman was killed and another seri-
ously injured by lightning IN Calumet on
the }Dth ult.
H,.a. Weiss of Calumet, 4 single man
az. scharged a shell Of hercules pow
ier mouth, scattering the brains 100
Tee l 7!etely tearing he head, neck and
top shoulders 10 atoms. No cause is
Egastus w. Lawrence. the oldest Grand
Army man in Detroit, died on the 30th ult.
aged - years.
Should the bill fathered by p. NJ Gen
Dickinson, for the erection of pOstOffice
buildings in all towns whose annual post
office receipts exceed 5000 be passed by
congress, 80 Michigan towns will have such
buildings.
Charles O. Seaman in Jail at Mt Glenn
ems since July II, for the shooting of Louis
Weiss, who died OF his wounds, has been
leld for trial on a charge Of manslaughter.
Dr. Jacob Benthum died at Ottawa
Beach recently, aged - years, OF malig-
aant typhoid fever. He was a native of
the Netherlands and the first Holland
physician who settled in Grand Rapids
whittier he came in 1862.
Reported that the Milford cultivator
works are about to removed 70 Marshall.
VIM Fame, Jr. OF East Saginaw, is under
arrest, charged with an attempt 10 kill
William Cats.
The appointment of Rev FIR j. Foley Of
Baltimore IA bishop Of the Detroit diocese
IS officially confirmed
Western Michigan democrats have pre-
scented President Cleveland one Of the por-
table houses manufactured by the Grand
Rapids portable house company. II IL
perfect house % by 30 feet ia size, and al
though diminutive, commodlous and cool,
u contains five rooms handsomely furnish
ed. IL is stone colored, with brown cor
nices and ornamental decorations.
Joseph Polehm, injured in Az accident
on a logging road near Grayling, is dead
Albert Tooley was crushed between cars
at Jonesville, and died the next morning.
The single mill at Lakeside was burned
the other night, at a loss Of $4,000.
Work has been commenced on the De
troit, CharlevoX & Escanaba road.
Seventy new houses are in process Of
erection at lshpeming.
Thomas Parkinson died in Emmett on tho
lst inst, aged 100 years
A beautiful memorial window, in honor
OF fallen braves. has been placed in the
Court street Methodist church at Flint.
Capt Clough of Sault Ste. Marie, we'll
known all along the lakes, suicidcd the
other day.
The sink holes on the Lansing & Grand
Rapids road are still c9using some trouble,
and it is said the one west OF Lake Odessa
is so treacherous that it must be watched
day and night
The corner stone OF the new court house
at Bessemer, was laid on the first inst.
One hundred and fifty miners have been
discharged from the Barnum mine at Ish-
peming. The reason given the men is that
the ore in stock cannot be sold at profit.
ole Olsen, aged Is, of Norway, placed the
muzzle OF rifle at his cheek under the
eye, and pulled the trigger, blowing the
whole top Of hls head of Temporary in
sanity was the cause
On the logging road about fifteen miles
east of OtsegO Lake train Of empty fiat
cars struck the dry limbs OF fallen tree
across the road and jumped the track
piling up the cars. Twenty Ave workmer
are reported injured. Sixteen seriously
One was killed and three others will prob
ably die. They are nearly all Poles
Congressman Fisher has made up hi.
mind that he will accept nomination for
reelection.
Considerable cedar oil Is being mad
rod cedar boughs at Deep River