Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-09

The Muskegon boom has closed down for
| an indefinite time, throwing 500 men out o.
work.
Ten thousand quarts OF strawberries
were picked on the Battle Creek sanitarium
farm this year.
Horse thieves are making life miserable
for farmers in Branch and Hillsdale coun-
/ ties.
Michigan has s27, $40 acres in oats which
1 will yield about %, 1874 SJj bushels.
State Commander Brown has ISSUED an
! other circular urging all veterans 10 stay
away from the q. A. X. encampment at
| Milwaukee.
The Ward lumber company is the name
of "a company just organized at Port Huron.
which will put million and quarter IN
! timber in Mississippi county, Mo. The
stockholders are Charles A Ward and
,jonn w. Porter Of Port Huron, Joseph NJ.
| Ward Of Battle Creek, Henry Il. Thurber
and Elliott q. Stephenson OF Detroit
Mary Dunn ran away from her wealthy
| farmer father near Dow giac in 1879. He
wanted, so the story goes to put her in a
! Catholic convent. She was secret con
vert TO Professionalism, and in the last
month of 1879 fled. Her parents finally
gave her up for dead. The runaway has
| lived at Plymouth under the name of Lizzie
Gray, and few days ago was reuDited
with her parents through the efforts OF a
friend.
Mary Strahl Of Montague has sued the c.
x w. Nj. railroad for y 600 Her whey rd
and garden were des rOyed by fire which
she asserts originated from the dead mater
ial in the company enclosure near her
premises
John Compton Of Jackson filed piece of
garden hose with powder and then touched
"A match 10 il. John will lose one eye and
carry "A badly SCARED face to his grave
Elk Congressman Horn was fined 500 by
Port Huron authorit es for sailing yacht
without license
The three children of John Grafton Of Os-
coda were playing on a boom and fell into
into the water. Two little girls, aged five
and seven, were drowned, but the boy
dragged himself 10 shore.
The patrons of industry, who propose to
compel merchants TO sell ~ ten per cent
above cost, have eight camps in the vicinity
of Morley.
Emma Hawks and George Polly of Mon
tague were married July 10, and July 20
were in the courts asking legal separa-
ton.
William Woldeck was so severely kicked
by gang of toughs in saloon row in De-
troit that he died from injuries received,
two days later.
Melvin J.. Foote Of Michigan has been
dppOlHlGu " Sl,-OO ClCIhSulp III bue pen
sion office.
The exports from Detroit for the twelve
months ending June 20 last amounted 10
,9il, osi as against 81, 49, ~ for the pre-
vious year. The imports were 90 $50 as
against 3, ,411 for tnoyear before. From
Port Huron tho exports were $40, 7S9 5:}4
against S9s56l 20 for the previous year and
the imports -, 80. 40 while they were So
40l, 700 the previous year.
Tohu npvla nf Ionia bas hnap apnoi NJ
superintendent OF tracks, bridges and
buildings OF the ID. l.. ~ y. system.
A son of Christian Maske of Monterey
township, Alegan county, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed the other
day.
ID. a. Pettibone, real estate dealer, is
erecting brick block in Last Saginaw,
employing non union men. The other
night some one or more persons pulled
down 20 feet of the wall tO.a depth OF over
three Get, evidently h wing tried 10 pull IL
all over, but were unable 10 do so. The
bricklayers' union discountenance any
such methods. Probably one individual
member did it out of revenge Tor non union
men being employed.
Hon. J. w. Mccormick Of Fenville, Ale
gan county, a member OF the state senate,
died July Is MIR. Mccormick was born in
Allegan county February %, ISIS, and in
early life read law, but abandoned that
profession for fruit farming He held
many local offices and was elected repre-.
setative in l,sj and 1887, succeeding to the
senate l. st fall.
James f.. Joy Of Detroit has been cleo ed
a director of the consolidated Wabash rail
way system.
Car loads of marble are being taken from
the quarries near lshpeming every week.
j. II. q. Smith, at one time a resident OF
Port Huron, died in Norfolk, Va, few
days ago.
1t is confidently asserted that the build
ing OF the Detroit, Charevoix 81 Escanaba
railroad is settled fact.