Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-06-22

management, making continuous line of
about ten thousand miles, extending from
Sault Ste. Marie, in Michigan, TO Bismarck,
Dakota.
a conference committee has been APP
pointed by the two Bay Cities TO confer
about the proposed consolidation.
Seventeen young men received diplomas
from the Michigan military academy June
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Gov. Luce has written 10 all the prose
cutting attorneys in the upper peninsula,
directing them Ia Investigate, and report
as 10 the existence of the dens of infamy in
that section of the state.
John a Cook, claiming 10 represent the
| Chicago street car company, with several
carloads OF horses 10 sell, who has been
dead beating around the state for some
days was arrested at Manchester few
days ago.
While Mrs. w. II. Leonard of Muskcgon,
sat at the breakfast table the other morn
ing, n bottle filled with catsup exploded
with great force, and piece Of glass struck
her under the eye cutting a7deep cash and
iniuring her severely.
Ballastng on the Toledo, Saginaw &
Muskegon road will be completed ia about
| 30 days.
Robert Judge. Tom Primrose and Ben
COulters are under arrest At Port Huron,
James Farrell OF Cadillac, patient at
the Battle Greek sanitarium, committed
suicide the other day.
George Heneveld, one Of the earliest
Dutch settlers of Holland, was killed by
| sunstroke on the 18th inst
Albert Burgott and wife of Kendall were
arraigned before "A United States deputy
! marshall in Kalamazoo the other day ON u
charge of forging pension certificates and
a h.sl4 al.afh
| Nelson. aged ~ years. Robert Nelson, Mrs
Burgott : brother, and Burgott met in the
| court room and had "A terrible fight before
they could be separated Burgott was held
for trial, but the wife was released.
The Michigan land company has bought
10000 acres of timber in Conecuh county,
Alabama and will build three saw and plan
ing mills.
Several new cottages are 10 be built at tho
Kalamazoo asylum this summer.
Dynamite is being used with considerable
success IN sinking he tunnel shaft in the
Michigan side Of the river al Port Huron.
Andrew Mucklc. conductor on the O.
! *. X l., railroad, was killed by the ears at
Leroy the other morning. He was switch
! ing and his foot was caught between the
| ties.
The ware houses OF Labar x Cornwel
aud George W Wood in Lake City, were
burned the other morning. The origin Of
the fire Is unknown.
The governor has appointed Senator l..
! G.. Palmer of Zig Rapids TO represent
! Michigan in an address 10 be delivered at
The Northwest Centennial celebration in
Marietta, Ohio, in July.
Johnson : tub and barrel factory in Cold
water was struck 10y lightning the other
day, and burned 10 the ground loss $ll 900
Wcuzc, NIatzke. who has been convicted
OF murder IN the second degree, for killing
John Pun i'm lumber camp near NewaygO.
has been sentenced 10 10 years in jackson
Prof Beal Of the agricultural college
says Altoona county may bc developed into
a regular dairyman's paradise.
Michigan military academy alumni held
a banquet in Detroit ON the 18th inst, and
! the following officers elected President
/ ". c. I.atimcr. -. Detroit; vice president,
| Stanton Bliss. -. saginaw: secretary and
treasurer G. h. Liu1ce, '~!. Detroit; cxecu-
tive committee GEORGE FdrWell, Charles
G.. Pease, j r Wing. = X Dixon, w. *.
/ Penney, A Gocbel, Jr.. all OF Detroit
The new directory Of Gland Rapids gives
some very important statistics concerning
! tine business OF that city. There are 81,
manufactures, employing lS,1s7 males, 81
females, 233 travelling statesmen and an az
| grcgatc of $l5 U2O 400 of capital. producug
| Sl3. s.. 500 OF output. The imports of
Grand Rapids merchants and maMuiactuy
] tlN LOT lNNs Was So sow
The state millcrs' association will meet
in Lansing June -;
While Gerrct Ticn. "a Young man living @
few miles south from Holland, las loading
a shotgun, IT went of. and hc received a
charge of powder in his face, burning him
! in a terrible way. He will lose on eye. aud
be horribly dishgured for life
Lansing knights of Pythias will dedicate
their new hail on the PIT inst
The two-ycar old son Of Mr. and Mrs
! Conrad FTcdeustein OF Saginaw, fell int
the river the other afternoon and was
drowned.
John H. Rice, a well.to-do farmer Of
Dandy, hung himself the other day.
The price Of salt has been reduced lC
! cents and manufacturers Will receive but
| ~ cents a barrel. The cut in price is owing
10 the large mount Of salt being sent from
the east 10 the western market.
James Hickey, aged u, a district messen.
ger boy of East Saginaw, was drowned
while bathing IN the river the other even
ing
Frank Wilson and Isaac Wade. the two
Grand Rap. j. boys arrested for attempting
4, To wreck train on the Reeds Lake DUN.
| my line June q. have been discharged. NJ
evidence being found against them.
There are only $50 Indians left at Sagi
min, Arenac county, out Of over 800 living
| thcre a Few years ago, disease having re
| moved large number. This remnant be
longs 10 the once famous Chippewa tribe
which came from Canada some forty year,
ago. crossing Lake Huron, and strucl
point whore theY are still located
Dispatch from Washington states tha
vcxatious Ryan Fort Brady question IA,
! been at last compromised and satisfactorily
| adjusted. Hence there will be no further
delay in construction of new fort at tn,
| Sault
At the annual meeting of the state medi
cal society in Detroit. the following officers
were elected for the coming year: Prcsi
dent, DIR. Simeon O. French, Kalamazoo
first vice president. DIR. Charles \. Lewis
Jackson; second vice president, DR. r. B
! Ward Laingsburg; third vice president, DIR
| David Inglis, Detroit; fourth vicc-presi
dent, DIR. Simon Bclknap Niles; secretary
DR.. George Duffcld. Detroit; treasurer
! DIR III. b. Hemenway, Kalamazoo; mem
bers Of judicial council DIR William Brodie
Detroit, DR. +. X. owen. Ypsilanti: DIR. J
! III. Bennett, Coldwatcr: delegates TO British
Medical association. Drs II. a. McGraw
II. A. Cleland and G.. j. Lundy, Detroit
delegates 10 Medical society of Ontario
Drs. Mulhcron, Maclean and Kaiser. DE
| frnif and Dir I,pprvp NJ tho TTpivaraitv nj