Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-06-21
WOLVERINE ITEMS.

Mrs Jennie Waters Of Ithaca has brought
suit against Swartzmiler ~ Mo er, sa-
loOnlieepers. for dam ges TO her husband
nj family. She states that before her
husband took TO drink he was kind and in
dustrious, and possessed of considerable
property, but that now he Is poor and
negiects his family. She thinks the men
who made her husband "a drunkard should
pay for the work
Bottoms mill in Troy township. Neway-
go county, burned the other night, and
Aionzo De Lacey and Ole MeLemy perish
ed in the flames
The commissioner of pensions has re ar
ranged the pen sion ex mining boards OF the
e ghth district in accordance with the con
CHEESEMAN'S recommendations The Sagi-
nav district board is onsttuted as follows:
Or Samuel kuchen, DR. Harvey Williams,
and DR.. .. II. Barber all republic ms In
Montcalm county DIR. Nicho.s remains and
has for his associate DIR. y. +. Bachman
of Stanton. Shiawassce county gets "a
pension examiner Tor the first time N the
person of w. >. Jones OF Corunna. He is
appointed in the place Of DIR. Gilman of St.
Johns.
In the event of the formation
of the North American salt com
pany, the main office will be In New
\ ork. 1t was the intention to locate the
Office in Detroit or East Saginaw, but the
action of the Legislature relative TO increas
Ing slOCh VI tIiS
posi- ole.
Harvey King died on his farm near La
peer recently, aged IL years. He was ana
tive of New Hampshire, came to Detroit in
1888 and was for years ddiryman on the
Cass farm, having been a close friend OF
the old general.
Five railroad men were held up by a
gang of tramps in Jackson the other night
md robbed OF money in sums varying from
81 TO So.
1t is thought that by Jan. | next the De
trot 81 ST. Clair river railroad will be in
operation. Surveyors are now at work on
the route.
The common council of Kalamazoo re
fused 10 approve the liquor bond of Cath
erine Amperse on the ground tn I she ran a
dsOrderly hoJrSe. The woman sued the
city for damages. The supreme court de
cides against her on the ground that mu-
nicipal officias created by AN act of the
lie islature, is the council, are not the
agents of the city, and the neglect of the
council TO approve good bonds, is in no
sense the neglect of n municipality unless
there is distinct unders standing in the
! charter to that erect.
Miss Lizzie Phelps, daughter OF Rev
DIR. H. Phelps, "A former president OF Hope
college, Holland, was one of tho victims of
the Johnstown Hood.
Representative Hon Oliver s. Smith Of
Owosso h s become insane.
IL h been settled at the war department
that all of the Twenty third infantry shall
encamp with the NJ chigan state troops at
LAKE Goguac, with the exception of a small
number, who will be left behind to take
care of the several posts. Companies f.. G.,
II and / win go from Fort w yne; com
panies "A and Il from Fort Brady: com
panies h and X from Fort Mackinac. and
companies & and ID from Fort Porter at
Buffalo, ". Y
The faculty quarrel at the agricultural
cole e is in ate OF erupt N again. IL is
reported that Prof. johnson, IN reproving
some OF the students i'm the class room re
marked that he was aware OF the hostility
OF tie faculty and students, but that the
agricultural board aud the people OF the
state were supporting him and that he
would succeed.
Col. A. T. McReynolds of Grand Rapids
is over 30 years OF age aud was created a
knight Templur in Ireland before he was
twenty zone years OF by special dis
pensatiou. He is the only living charter
member Of the first Ma onic lodge in De
tro.t, which was instituted over fifty years
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