Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-12
Rapids Is turning out crooked dollar and
half dollar pieces.

| St Clair river have been abandoned by the
people who are building the St Clair tun-
mel ut Port Huron, and the contractors are
now going back with their machinery to
the points on either side where tho tunnel
! reaches the surface Work will be pushed
from each end rs soon as the preliminaries
have been finished.
Rev Washington Gardner, who Is still
department commander OF the Nj !chigan G..
"A. r., although he lives now In Ohio, has
sent ont general order No. o. He expresses
| thanks to various railroads for their excel
lent service in transporting nearly three
| thousand Michigan veterans To and from
! the meeting at Columbus; dwells upon the
good behavior of the men while there; sug-
| gests that each post appoint committee to
! look up delinquent members, and states
| other matters of interest 10 comrades.
Mrs. Jane Labadie, resident OF Paw
Paw for 80 years, is dead.
The product of the Calumet & Hecla
mine for September was worth 81 900, 900
Capt. George W. Adair, assistant sur
geon is relieved from duty at Fort Brady,
| az the 500, and is ordered TO report for
duty at Fort Robinson, Neb,
There are 1853 veterans in the soldiers
home at Grand Rapids, 81 of whom are sick
| in the hospital.
Gen. Don G. Lowell, now quartermaster-
general Of Washington Territory, and who
Michigan cavalry, is visiting old friends in
this state
During September the shipments Of mill
products from the Saginaw river amounted
10 a, 25S 900 feet of lumber, l5,550000 shin
giles and 3,910,O00 pieces Of lath. From the
opening of navigation to October l there
was shipped $50, 81, 900 feet of lumber So
100000 shingles and 20, 3S6, coo pieces of lath.
The shipments are the smallest TO date OF
any season since 1876
Fred. Leach, conductor on the Chicago
* Grand Trunk freight, was killed at Otter
burn the other morning while attempting
10 board the engine while il was in motion.
lie slipped under the wheels and died in
stantly. Leach lived in Flint and his re-
mains were taken there.
Two dangerous charges escaped from the
criminal asylum at lonia few days ago.
One was Chas. Jahnke committed 10 the
state prison from jackson three years ago
and still having two years TO serve, for
larceny of cattle. He is "a years old, 3 feet
inches in hight, weighs about 40 and has
light hair, blue eyes, "a light mustache, and
talks English imperfectly. The other man
was Geo. Croak, committed from Eaton
county for robbery, and has served but "A
short part of his 10 year sentence. He Is
40 years old, feet inches in hight danl1
hair, whiskers and mustache, and face
SCARED. The men improvsed a knife out
of horseshoe, unscrewed the fastenings OF
their door and succeeded in working their
way 10 the yard after the Waterman passed
through their hall. DR.. Long offers a re
ward of S,5 for their capture, of so for
either.
Edward Ryan Of Hancock, democratic
candidate for eiector- ut large, has with
drawn from the electoral ticket. Mr.. Ryan
is pres dent and director of the Calumet
national bank, and as il is question as to
whether or not his position of director Ia a
government Office, which will disqualify
him, he decided TO withdraw rather than
take any chances.
Charles B. Howell, we'll known lawyer
OF Detroit, is dead.
Jailcr John Smith Of Adrian, has inaug-
urated new national ticket, with him
self for president. He says if all the
Smiths N the country will vote for him, he
VIII have an overwhelming majority.
The Bay View assembly elected the fol
lowing officers; President, Rev. j. II. Oxto-
by, ID. d.. East Saginaw; epresident,
II. NJ Loud, Oscoda; secretary, ID. Howell,
Lansing; superintendent of public instruc-
ton, j. NJ. Hall, Flint; treasurer, W. H.
Shier, East Saginaw.
The new apartment house Of the agri
cultural college has been named Howard
terrace in honor OF Sanford Howard, who
was secretary of the board from ls54 to
ISL.
Chas Flu al of Port Huron. has lived at
that place % years, ana is now 30 years of
age
Negotiations are pending whereby +. ID.
Hogan of jackson, will send an aeronaut
10 Australia with Spalding's base ball club,
TO make ascensions and parachute drops in
connection with the base ball games.
Andrew Saruska was killed at the At
lantc mine in Houghton the other day.
They are getting ready to make the Port
Huron Il Northwestern railway a stand
ard gagged road.
The Gilliland electric works, at Adrian,
will make 30 photograph cases per day for
the Edison company
The Michigan sulphte fibre company's
pulp factory at Port Huron will be put in
operation about January |.
Wheat quotations in interior Michigan
newspapers touched 81 per bushel Oct g.
for the first time in five years.
An Albion boy aged years, son of G.. +.
Freeman Of that place, died few days ago
from blood poisoning, resulting from hav
ing tooth drawn.
laundering in the upper peninsula will be
far in excess of what it was last year.
The Woolsey wheel company has moved
from Sandusky TO Kalamazoo.
Pickpockets made good haul at the
Blaine meeting in Adrian. Sheriff Teach
out was shot at by one or the llght-hngered
gentry, but was not seriously injured
Doe Milligan is in Jail at Hudson for
stealing - from Beardsall's grocery while
the clerk was waiting upon him.
While sowing wheat few days ago Mr..
c. NJ. Slayton Of Grattan found copper
ak, very fine specimen of ancient work
manship. II is a little over four inches
long, two inches across the bit, by one
fourth of an inch thick in the middle. He
also has IA copper spear head, which was
taken from well in Cannon, 80 feet below
the surface of the ground. 1t is similar in
shape 10 the common flint arrow points,
but nearly seven inches long.
The Congregational church in st. Louis,
occupied by portion of the union school
pupils, caught fire from a defective chin
ney the other morning and rapidly burned
to the ground. The building was brick,
built about five years ago, and is fully in
sured. The children all moved out in safe
~ and good order.
The residence OF w. G. Wiley, in Green
vile, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. This makes the second residence he
has lost within year.