Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-11-16


shot through the heart with rife ball.
Herman Vesser is charged with having
committed the murder.
Patrick Daley, In Jail at Marquette, in a
| tit Of delirum tremens stabbed himself %
times with pocket knife, dying AN hour
after he was discovered.
Engineer Ranney Of the steam barge S.
&. Baldwin, was scalded TO death the other
day at Sault ~. Marie. The connecting
rod Of the barge broke and the cylinder
head was blown off.
Gov. Luce has accepted the resignation
of III. Piper of Detroit, "a member of the
board OF control OF the reformatory at
Ionia.
The depot at Harbor Springs was des-
troyed by fire the other night Some
freight, mail and money were burned with
IT, but the aggregate loss is not heavy.
O. b. Oliver. wealthy farmer living
near Jackson, dropped dead the other day
of heart disease. His death was superin-
duced by political excitement.
Dandy Dan and Richard Foster escaped
by the usual route from the county Jail in
Grayling, the other night, through an en-
trance into the court room made by cutting
through lath and plaster wall.
Joseph Orrin and Massey Parks were
arrested in Bay City the other day, charged
with taking 500 from the pocket of Ed
ward Funnel.
The postoffce in Hubbardston was
robbed OF 80 in stamps the other night.
The safe was completely ruined, the robbers
evidently being experts.
At the annual sale of forfeited and re-
stored state lands On the Sth inst, 400 acres
were sold at from s. to 81 per acre. Al a
subsequent sale 900 acres were disposed
of at from 81 10 - per acre.
A railroad il being built from Oscoda to
the Potts lumber camp.
The state board OF pharmacy held meet
ing in Lansing on the 9Th inst. Seventy
eight persons were in attendance for eX
animation. OF this number forty passed
the registered pharmacists examination
and twenty two failed. Thirteen Of the lat
ter will be entitled 10 assistants certfi-
Gates. Seven persons passed the registered
assistants examination and nine TAI ed.
William Moore, young man about 20
years of age. son of Henry Moore OF Elk
Rapids, fell beneath wheel of the large
logging truck which he was driving at the
Smith lumber company's camp, kalllasSa,
and was instantly killed, the wheel passing
over his head and crushing il.
Miss Minnie Heveran of Rich, Lapeer
county, is missing.
NJ b. Sheets Of Grand Ledge raised 795
bushels OF Dent corn on six and one half
acres OF ground.
Durand, on the Chicago K Grand Trunk
railway. is about TO receive great boom.
A. w. Wright of Alma, has purchased two
hundred acres OF land in that place and viii
erect "a hotel. school house and a large fac
tory there. The two hundred acres will be
cut up into building lots and sold out TO
actual sett ers on long time.
The Valley City street and cable car com
pany OF Grand Rapids has mortgaged its
property for sl.0o0,OO0, with which TO build
further extensions.
1t is reported that the Flint K Pere Mar
quette railroad company have arranged for
consolidation Of the Flint x Pere Mar
al g ate the Saginaw x st. Clair, the Sagi-
nav x Mt. Pleasant the Saginaw Il st.
Clair County and the Manistee roads, which
VIII take eject May l., 1859 These last
named corporations are owned entirely by
he Flint * Pere Marquette, and are con
solidated merely for the sake OF economic.
ing and simplifying matters preparatory 10
building into Detroit. The capital stock
and debt of the Flint ~ Pere Marquette is
not altered ~ the consolidation.
Mrs Charles Kimbal of Kalamazoo a
pretty brunette, aged -, committed suicide
the other morning by taking morphine. No
reason is known for the deed.
j. III. Sigemore was robbed by highway
men of So on the street in Lansing, the
other night.
George Thompson wants sl0,0 900 damage
from Lake Shore road for the loss of his
hand while coupling cars at Grand Rapids
July TO- He says switch engineers care
lessness caused accident.
Daniel Edwards suit against Lake Shore
road at Lansing for $1,000 damages for re
ection from train has been decided against
him. He failed 10 have excursion ticket
stamped at office in Chicago as prescribed
in printed contract on back and was put OF
cars because he wouldn't pay fare.
The Appleton block and adjoining proper
" in Brighton, was de stroyed by fire the
other day. Loss about $4,000 The fire
was undoubtedly of incendiary origin.
The Children of Zion church in Grand
Rapids. viii be mortgagcd To the extent Of
900 TO defray the expenses Of Bishop Pat
erson's funeral, and TO defray the debts.
grocery bills, etc. incurred by him the past
two years while living and travelling in
Europe and pales inc with the "Handmaid
OF Christ Mary Hawley, and her sister
Emma, with both of whom he was on
or minally intimate terms.
The average yield of potatoes in this state
is - bushels 10 the acre.
Michigan reports an average of l2.5 bush
els of buckwheat per acre
The East Saginaw lumber and salt com
pany have purchased three timber tracts
on Spanish river, Ont, estimated TO cut 20,
900, 900 feet.
Mrs. Matthew Blers or Quincy has Just
completed quilt containing >, 500 pieces.
Bay City has been obi ged to borrow
$1,000 10 run its school until Jan. next.
Mrs William Green Of Kecler towdship,
Van Buren, county, is lOl years old.
Mrs. \. X. Silvcrnail, for 10 years a resi-
dealt OF Fife Lake, committed suicide the
other day by throwing herself head first in
TO a shallow Wei. SIZE had been for some
time insane al inter -alS
The Pennsular gcl mining company.
capital 81 900, 900, mas filed articles OF asso-
citation in Detroit. The principal stock
holders are well known Detroit capitalists
The company's mine is located on the upper
peninsula Of Michigan. near the celebrated
Ropes mine and ad dining the equally well
known Michigan mine. 1t has an immense
vein of gold bearing quartz, hes des mum
Der of smaller veins and spurs. The experts
report ii rs probably the richest gold mine
in the Lake Superior region.
Mrs Jesse Hoyt, the widow OF the mi l.
lionaire, died in New York on the 10th inst
Jennie NJ. Sweetland of kalamazoo.
charged with uttering forged mortgage dis
charges and tampering with the abstract
books VIII oh she had in charge for years.
was bound over for trial in the circuit
court with bail at 81 OCO. The case will at