Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-10-05
WOLVERINE WHlSPERINGS.

DIR. Minnie Il. Sinclair, who was gradual
I'd from the university OF Michigan and att
prwards taught in the Sarnia schools, has
gone TO Pekin, China, To assume charge of
large mission hospital for women. The
American board of foreign missions sent
her.
The farm barns of James Riley near
Unadilla, with 500 bushels of wheat and
200 of rye. were destroyed by fire few
days ago. Loss, $500.
Emerson Lewis, aged II, son OF Edwin
Lewis, trackman employed upon the
Grand Trunk railroad, and Chas. Earle,
son of Orson n Earle, well known resi-
dent Of Pewamo, have been arrested for
placing the rail upon the track which near
ly ditched passenger train near that place
the othor evening The boys were put off
A train at Muir and the theory is that they
tried 10 cause "a wreck for the sake Of re
venge- The boys have been held TO the
circuit court, and in default of 500 bail
each go 20 Jail.
The boiler in J. r. Frecney's shingle
mill in East Saginaw exploded the other
morning with great violence, killing Noah
Smith, fireman, and wounding seriously
Vim. Wooley, and slightly Minis. Jones and
Fred Hartford. The explosion was caused
by low water in the boiler, il is thought.
Mrs Bidwell, who skipped with Waldron,
The abscondng banker Of Hillsdale, return
ed 10 her home in Quincy the other day, but
ttuTIlUR lldI a WdTEuHI q II lSSutu lOI
her arrest on a charge of adultery, at once
left town.
Oliver Black, a plumber, who was shot in
The thigh on June by James McGregor
during "A saloon fight at the latter's place on
Michigan avenue, Detroit, has been award
ed Judgment of $500 by default in the
Wayne circuit court Black is seriously
crippled by the wound, and he asked for
$1,000 when he began the suit. The defend
ant did not fight the case at all, and the jury
was but few minutes in fixing the amount
Of damages
John Malcolm and Ed. Scribner Of Wais-
lSai Bay one aged Is and the other L. killed
four bears one day recently; and Albert
Shook Of Gulford, Tuscola county, aged ~
years killed boar and two cubs while out
coon-hunting the other day.
The Grand Rapids press club sent $50 TO
the Jacksonville fever sufferers.
Fifty young Indians from the Isabella
county reservation are TO be sent TO the
government school at Carlisle, Pa.
Norman Johnson, pine dealer of Bay
City, has bought 10000 acres Of pine land
In Chippewa county.
The L'Anse Sentinel says that the game
law that is needed in the upper peninsula
is a state bounty on wolves With less
wolves there will be more deer
The headquarters of the Michigan geo
logical survey will soon be removed from
Marquette 10 Houghton, where Prof
Wadsworth, the new state geoogist, re
sides.
Robert Lauchlin has been made superin-
tenacut Of the Tuscoa * Huron railroad.
Mrs. Louisa Stowel, a professor i'm the
university at Ann Arbor, who has been
all for several months is slowly recover
ing.
The new city hall in Grand Rapids which
cost $4,000 was dedicated on the 26th ult.
Edward Kennedy, who tried to kill Chief
Of Police Skully at Ishpeming in May last
has been released upon payment OF 800
fine.
Col. Rafensberger, a prominent real es
tate man of Ann Arbor. is dead.
Mrs. Nellie Bidwell. the woman who
eoped with Waldron, the absconding bank
or OF Hillsdale, was arrested in Angola
Ind, the other day, and taken 10 Hillsdale
She was afterward released on bail
The Flint & Pore Marquette railroad
company has decided TO extend the Cole
man branch 10 the forks Of the Tobacco
river, within six miles Of Gladwin, and it's
extension 20 the latter place will be accom-
,,,lished again
The reunion of the Sixteenth Michigan
volunteer infantry at Flint, Sept. ~, was
largely attended The officers elected are I:
President. John Weller, East Saginaw /;
vice president stephen Martin, Detroit !,
secretary aud treasurer, Frank d. Keller
East Saginaw; historian, Benjamin +.
Partridge, Bay City; chaplain, w. II.
Brookway, Albion; executive committce
III. III Apin, Bay City; Thomas McGraw,
Detroit; A. Cameron, Lansing.
An ore train OF % cars was wrecked near
Alba the other morning, at a loss of 81, 900
The wreck was caused by broken draw
bar.
In 1879 Thomas Harvey, an Euglishman
living at Manchester, died leaving a coasid.
cradle property, but no heirs could he
found. The money, amounting TO ei,5JSCS,
was turned over 10 the county treasurer
and placed In the unknown herr fund.
Recently petition was received from a
woman named Elizabeth Walker Susannah
Thebald of Northdown, Isle of Thanet,
England, who said she was q cousin Of the
deceased and his hair. Upon Investigation
this was found - be true, and Judge Har-
riman has ordered the county treasurer V
turn the amount ever 70 her attorneys.