Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-20
Two large barns and their contents, be-

Two lTclBnI trains on the d., ". II. ~ M.
road colllded near Waterford the other
morning. Sixteen freight cars and two en- g..
gines were piled In heap down an EN-
bdnkment. A brakeman was badly hurt.
ID. Is. Merrill OF Kalamazoo, W. A Combs
OF Coldw alter and h. w. Stock OF Hillsdale
have been appointed by Gov Luce as dele
gates TO the conference OF the three Ameri
cas- winch Is 10 DC neid IN washington oct
A farmer named Lang, living near
Rome, Lenawee county. was driving home
the other night when two highwaymen
sprang in front Of him, aud ordered him TO
throw up his hands. Lang put the whip To
his horses and escaped. Five shots were
fired at him as he fled, one taking OF u
finger.
At the election of the order of Chosen
Friends held in Minneapolis n few days
ago, cx Senator Edward T.. Edwards of
Fremont was chosen supreme vice coun-
sellor
Niles refuses TO make certain changes in
some Of its streets in order 10 have the new
Michigan Central depot properly located,
and the railroad company refuses TO build.
Gen. Alger, the newly elected command
err OF the q. A. r., Is making "A tour OF the
south, and expects TO be absent until Oc-
tober /.
A grand jury has been chosen by the
Wayne county circuit cOur;, and is now in
vestigating various matters in connection
with the city government of Detroit
Albert Nickeloy has been sentenced TO
% years in jackson for criminally assault
ing Libbie Spanglcr at Perry last fall.
While \. a. Sayer OF Pittsford was re-
pairing the mudpipe in his saw mill, the
pipe blew out of the boiler, which had
100 pounds pressure OF steam. Mr.. Sayer's
feet were severely scalded, and his son
Irving, who was standing near, WAS fatal
ly scalded, and driven into a small room
close to the boiler. Irving was literally
cooked before he could be gotten out Of the
room.
Marshal Malaam of Three Rivers at
tempted to arrest John Cannif the other
day. Cannin resisted, and the marshal
fired, and put bullet in Canniff 5 leg.
On the Menominee reservation is a half
breed who claims and is reputcd in that
country 10 be a son OF JeH Davis The
man 5 name is kahGemohat but he prefers
10 be called JEFF Davis, Jr. Tie 81, inns that
Davis, while stationed at Fort Howard,
met his mother, who WAS at that time an
attractive looking squaw. He served
through the war on the union side and is
now installed as officer Of the guard in the
g. a. k. post recently organized on the
reservation.
Gov. Luce has appointed Edward Tay
Tor OF Jackson agent Of the state board of
$500
Thomas Barron a l3-years old boy Of
Port Huron, attempted to Jump on NOV.
ing train, but slipped and both legs were
cut OF. He died soon after.
George Belcher Of Marshall has been
convicted of criminal assault on his little
step-daughter
Five tons OF turtles have been shipped
from M.rcellus 10 the New York market
this season.
Michael Gordca, one of the Oldest resi-
dents OF Greenvillc, and a veteran of the
Mexican war, is dead.
The Iron Bell mine in the Gogebic region
has suspended operations because it caunot
get the price asked for 900 tons Of ore
already shipped.
George Palmer, NJ. c. brakeman, had
his leg smashed at POAagou the other day.
Amputation was necessary.
The Graham & Morton transportation
company are having built $40 900 steam.
er, 10 ply between Benton Harbor Il Chi
cago
The Herald and Courier of Saginaw
have been consolidated, and the new paper
has the hypeuated name of Courier Her
aid.
a contract has been let for building
seven miles of railroad between Beech.
wood, on the extension of the Chicago *
Northwestern railway, 10 the site for the
proposed new Eill OF the Metropolitan lum.
Der company.
a conference OF the prohibitionsts of the
state, at which 20 counties were represent
ed, was held in Lansing the other day, and
resolutions adopted declaring uufaltering
faith in national prohibition, with a party
in power 10 enforce it, and condemnug
local option.
The state board Of agriculture has APP
pointed a. b. Noble of Iowa assistant pro.
fessor CT English literature ard modern
languages at the state agricultural college,
in place of Clark, declined. +. A. Burnett
of Bancroft has been appointed assistant
IN farm experiments, while &. C. Holden
of Leelanaw county, has been made assist
ant foreman. Burnett graduated from the
college In - and Holden this year
Doty Is Company, who operate a single
mill at Sights station, substituted "a 5l.2J
per day engineer for the one they had on
the 2jth day of July. The men struck, and
not single has been cut III the mill since.
Albert :. Fairbanks of Fillmore, Ale
gan county, gathered seventeen and one
half bushels Of Bell pears from one tree
this year.
Mrs Israel Hall of Ann Arbor will give
the state university a $1,000 site for the
new hospital building.
The annual reunion Of the "Muskegon
Valley soldiers and sailors association
was held in Newaygo Sept IL. Hiram
Bell, veteran of the war of 1912, was
present.
The United States senate committee on
relations with Canada began its public
hearings in Boston on the llth inst.
The town of Shoat Lake, Nan, was al
most completely wiped out by fire on the
18th inst.
The treasury department was closed on
the 18th inst TO commemorate its one hun
dredth birthday
John +. Andrew, prominent member
Of a MuskegOH lumber firm, was drowned
the other day, while tallying lumber.
Prof. j. Q. Williams Of Hilsdalc college
died on the 10th inst.
c. NJ. Moffatt of Joncsville and L. A.
Howard OF Jouesville have been admitted
10 practice before the interior depart.
ncut.
j. r. Markell a director. and J. H.
attorney OF the Columbus, Lima
x milwaukee, railroad, aud representative |
men from Saugatuck, Douglass, Feunvillc !
md Allegan have orrauged 10 secure 500
)OO and the right OF way through Allegan
county for the road.
John Thompson and Andrew Anderson
Ought with picks in the Champion mine ]
1t Champion the other day, and Anderson |
vas fatally injured. Thompson has BEEN |
arrested.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is spread. !
ng rapidly at Negaunce. The disease |