Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-23

Randall Mcdonald. a school teacher
wa run over and killed by the cars neal
Roe Lake the other night. lie was N
toxicated and had laid down near IN.
track.
Claire Falls. the ll-year-old son OF q
prominent business man OF Tecumseh,
viii o at home In company with several
small boys of his own ago pointed a re
volver, which he supposed was not loaded
at his head. He had his hat on, and say.
ing he would shoot 1t, pulled the trigger
An explosion followed and Claire dropped
dead shot through the temple. His par
ents were not home at the time.
Ferdinand Sope one of the proprietors OF
the Michigan Journal aud Herold Of De
troit attempted TO get on a moving train IN
Grand Rapids the other day. He missed
his footing, was thrown under the wheels
and crushed to death.
The union labor party will meet in Ian.
sing on the 9TH OF May.
a company has been formed in Cadillac
for the manufacture OF patent oil cans.
Woodtord, the colored man Who was
caught in an attempt to burslarize the
female seminary in Kalamazoo, has been
sen ltuttl " llAtt NNhio III h'NHNhs
Michigan men have purchased 10000
acres Of pine in Mississippi in the past six
months.
Hastings talks about bonding itself for
500 0 TO secure the Lowell a. Hastings
railroad.
Every state and territory in the Union
is represented among the students at the
university OF Michigan, while in addition
are Students from Ontario, Japan, Eng
land, New brunswick. Nova Scotia, san
wich Islands Italy, Turkey, Costa kica.
Quebec, Russia scotland and Unit d
States of Colombia.
\ number of f. 4 p. NJ. conductors have
been summary bounced for cause
Other decapitations, it is rumored, will
follow.
The crop bulletin for week ending March
L., states wheat aud clover TO Toe in ure /
in southern counties, gives more favora-
bile report in central counties and in north
ern says wheat i, uninjured.
Recent disputes about the b%oundpry
line between Michigan and Canada at the
Nebish rapids, in IT. Mary's river, eau eel
secretary Of state Osmuu o. addres. the
secretary OF state at Washington asking
Tor a map showing this boundary n
The secretary of state in orms Mr.. Osmun
that no map had ever been published
which showed the location of this line and
all the islands in the vicinity OF the Nebish
rapids. Deputy secretary of state Egan,
together with a draughtsman, have gone
to Washington for the purpose of making
accurate copies of these original maps
which Secretary Bayard says are in a sad
~ dilapidated condition. While there
they viii trace the exact boundary line
from the mouth Of the Detroit river TO the
mouth Of he Montreal.
reelov. Seely OF Moreuci, Ienawes
Co.. who Is the widow Of Jonathan 5 ely,
a revolutionary so der who served in the
Vermont volunteer, has applied for n
pension as "a revolutionary W. widow.
She is now so aud was II AIRED TO Seely in
l,l6, when he wa 81 and she was Ii years
Old. There are two revolutionary widows
no W drawing pensions n Michigan-Nrs'
Leroy \ drich Of ingham, and Mrs. Olive
Morton of Tuscola county.
Senator Palmer, in hIs report 70 accom-
pany the p.euro-pneumonia bill, says that
contagiou. cattle diseases, esl ecially
pleuro-pneumonia, have not only caused a
direct loss TO the country Of SO, 0 80,
but their interference with Interstate
and the restrictions they have
brought upon our ex ort trade in live
cattle have occasioned the loss OF many
millions more. Tuberculosis among cattle
and cholera among swine nave also be-
come dangerous TO our food supply.
Up TO March Z thirty-six Michigan
,ountie, have voted on the question Of
.ocal option, and thirty four of them have
declared for prohibition and two against
it. Those against il were Iosco and Wash
tenaw. Those i'm favor Of IL are Antrim,
Otsego, Benzie Leeianaw Grand Traverse,
Kalkaska, Isabella, Genesee. Sliawassee,
Eaton. lngham, Barry, Allegan, Van Blu
rem. Calhoun, tass st. Joseph, Branch,
Hillsdale, Gratiot. Osceola, Tu,cola, Char
levoix. Lake. lonia Lena wee, Livingston,
Newaygo, Clinton b rrien Emmett, Jack
son, Mason and Oscoda.
Charles Hicock of Midland has invented
a device for the instant coupling Of hose.
The state military board ha- officially
decided i'm favor of holding the next en-.
campment at Mackinaw island, and Gov.
Luce endorses their action.