Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-02
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Brule River railroad land grant case is
about to be settled.
For several weeks past religious meet
ings have been held in the Methodist
church in Iron Mountain by n stranger
claiming to be "A Methodist preacher. He
made quite free with people generally and
was looked upon as rather a singular
character. He turned out TO be n detective
In search OF "A man named Wollianper,
charged with murder, and arrested the
man there. The murder was committed
ten years ago near GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Gladstone will vote March q on the
question OF bonding itself for $4,000 for
street paving.
It's rumored that the Gale plow works
Of Albion will remove from that place. st.
Paul, Mimi, has made an offer to the con-
Germ, and Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo
Battle Creek and Jackson are also holding
out inducements.
Ernest X. Dowing Of Kalamazoo, wa.
cut in two by the cars in st. Paul the
other day.
Jackson young men will soon organize
a battery of light artillery.
Rumored that the local option election
in Branch county will be contested be
cause the petition asking for it was signed
10y residents OF Ohio, and that the vote
was not officially canvassed on the day
prescribed by law.
Lansing want TO have the state asylum
for the insane.
The earnings of the Toledo, m Arbor
q Cadillac railroad amounted TO Sl3l2j
during the month of January. Its first
months work and this in the face of a
disastrous snow blockade.
The grand lodge of |. o. O. f., in session
at Lansing, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year; Grand master
George NJ. Dewey, Owosso; deputy grand
master, g. V. X. Pond, Quincy; grand
secretary, +. H.. Whitney, Lansing; grant
treasurer, b. ID. Prichard, Allegan.
Michael Scully, a Chicago q Grand
trunk fireman, met a horrible death on
the track Immediately in front of his
boarding place in Battle Creek the other
morning. IT is supposed that while walk.
ing or crossing the track he was struck by
a backing engine. His remains were scat.
tered along the track for "A distance Of
thirty rods. Scully was g years old and
unmarried. When found, his pockets con
tanned 500 in cash, he having just drawn
his months wages.
At the annual meeting Of the
Daughters of Rebecca, in Lansing,
the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year; President,
Mrs. Sarah Willard of Flint, %vice-presi-
dent, Mrs, Alice Pratt of Detroit; score
tary and treasurer, Mrs. Mary A. Down
ing OF Bay City.
David Heming of Chicago, has given
$1,000 10 the endowment fund OF the
Episcopal college at Grand Haven. Bishop
Gillespie has given $500 as an anniversary
gift OF his conservation as bishop Of the
diocese.
There are 296 Mormons in Michigan.
Niles is trying To have the Michigan
Central locate its shops there.
James Stewart, the man arrested for the
murder of al unknown man in Hudson, has
been sentenced to eight years in Jackson.
Commandant Pierce OF Michigan sol
diersi home writes thanks TO Mrs. Abbie
j. Curry, post president Col. Fenton, post
w. Il. {. No. d at Fenton, for box Of
books sent TO veterans. He says old
soldiers 'spend their time in reading,
writing, eating and sleeping, with as few
restrictions as l. consistent with the nee
essary discipline, and Notwithstanding
their lives nave lark clouds mixed in,
they all appear to be contented and hap.
by in the home a generous state has pro
vide1 for their old age"
Grand Master Dewey of the Michigan
Oddfellows has appointed the following
officers Grand chaplain, Henry King of
Brockway Center; grand marshal, John
Northwood of New Lothrop; grand con-
ductor, II. II. lehman OF Negaunee;
grand guardian, George III. Brooks Of
Hastings, grand herald, VIM. r. Simpson
OF Detroit.
The Methodist church in Charlotte was
badly damaged 10y fire the other day.
The state association of spiritualists, at
the annual meeting IN Grand Rapids,
elected the following officers: President,
". @. Kno wles o. Grand Rapids; vice
president, a. w. Day of Detroit secreta-
ny, c. NJ. Potter Of Grand Rapids; treas
urer, Mrs. T.. j. Winch of Grand Rapids;
trustees, DR.. j. b. sullivan of Stanton.
Mrs. Sarah Graves and l.. II. Austin of
Grand Rapids.
Levi b. Fisher, whose horse was killed
and himself seriously injured during a
runaway caused by his horses fright at a
Michigan Central train in Kalamazoo,
has compromised his suit for damages for
$1,000.
Little village of Manitou has library Of
80 volumes, and town clerk says hat no
fewer than 80 OF them are exchanged
weekly by intelligent residents there.
= In the circuit court in Adrian in the suit
ofr.tterson against the Cincinnati Jack
son q Mackinac railway for $1,000 dam
ages the jury brought in a verdict Of s., 59j
for the plaintiff, who was injured on the
road near Moscow last April.
Al a public meeting in Sault Ste Marie
the business men attended and all united
in telling the temperance men that they
would kill local ~optiondsader n a nit. The
! county would have beaten ii 500. A com
mittee OF law and order was appointed to
see that the laws are lived up to.
X. VI. Delmas, a Michigan Central brake
man, was struck by a switch engine in
Jackson the day and instantly killed.
President +. Il. Welch and Secretary
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