Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-04-06
are TO encamp at MackInac they shou'd

are 10 encamp Mt Mackinac they shou'd
be supplied with overcoats
here is woman in Argentine town
snip, enesse county, who ha' terrorized
the whole neighborhood. She keeps load
ed arms in her house Co shoot any one
who may try to arrest her, her landlord
can collect no rent, and no one dares re
fuse her anything she asks for, for fear
that she will Kill them or set fire TO their
houses.
Warren Haven. a prisoner or Blooming
dale, Kalamazoo county, is dead.
An enthusiastic reception was given
General Alger upon his return from the
Pscitic coast, hy the Alger club of Detroit
Twelve thousand brook trout were
planted in the stream, near Adrian the
other day.
1t is announced that the ron bridge and
machine works of New York city have de
ciied to establish western branch OF
their works IN Owosso, and have pur-
chased land for that purpose.
President Graves Of the southeastern
Michigan G.. \. Il. association, has issued
a circular letter TO the various posts in
the district, asking an expression of views
relative TO attending the national en-
campment of G. a. II. at Columbus, o.,
and foregoing the usu Il encampment
the association. This action is tGk>n m
view of the fact that number OF com
rades have expressed their financial in
ability TO attend both meetings as we /
as the additional one that no place in the
district has offered reasonable bonus for
the location of the southeastern encamI-
ment.
The Niles paper mill company are max
ing improvements and increasing the ca
pacity OF their mill.
At the combination horse sale at Cold.
water a day or two since Z. horses were
sold at auction the prices ranging from
- TO Sl,a0.. Branch county produces
more fine horses than any other county
N the state.
a valuable horse belonging To James
Miller of Vaudeville, was choked TO
death the other morning while eatingha
y man named Stevens of Battle Creek,
is suffering from the glanders contracted
10y caring for horse suffering from the
disease.
Clinton county capitalist, hold 70S mort
cages on Gr1tiot county farms amount
ing 10 S3j $50.
There are now in tho northern asylum
for the in ,ana at Traverse City. 5}i m
tient,, 50 males and 2ij females. The NAL
wing and small cottage are full TO over
owing, and long before the new cottage
can he ,om n.ete ,. it vii be 'om, a serious
question how 20 care for new cases There
are still twenty-five or thirty bel on tn
male side, Tut those will Don be filled
Work vii begin on the new ma cottage
as soon as tn weather vii. permit. This
cottage VIII accommodate fifty patients.
The report OF the lircctor Of tue Michl-
gan wealth service for March 81, says
that in re ereuce 20 wheat the reports
from CORE sp)rdents are m re favorable
The etre Is - thu weather on the growing
crops has been fayorab q in all localities
excepting Berrien county. where It l. re-
iortel as being still unfavorable to a
slight extent
The 81. I-nsce, Sault Ste Mario A North
ern railway has been organ ed. with
capital stock OF s ,ojt, % ru. 4 twenty
five mile, OF road from 2. ICnqce 10 the
500 line thereby shortening the al,
tauce between the $500" and IT. Iynace
forty miles. The engineering corps are
making The preliminary survey.
one hundred men are at work in the coai
mine, just north OF \ bion.
The new freight depot at Baraga was
destroyed by fire the other night