Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-01-18
The Michigan press association has unani-
mously adopted resolution favoring an in
crease in tie salaries of state officers.

/ has been appointed mechanical engineer Dy
the commissioner of railroads.
All the township officers OF Glade. Kali
kaska county, except the clerk. elected last
spring were residents Of logging camps aud
have drifted 10 other parts of the state, and
there is but one officer in the township.
Geo. NJ. Dinehart OF Owosso was killed
at Shenago, Penn, recently, while trying TO
get of IA moving train.
Alvin Russell, employed in a feed mill at
Lake Odessa, attempted TO kick belt of
| running pulley, but tipped and fell upon
the pulley. He was carried to the shaft
| and his leg below the knee wound around
| it, crushing the bones and flesh into shape
less mass. The leg was amputated.
The M6Graws OF Bay City are to build
| logging road up the valley OF the Dead river
| in the section around Silver lake and the
county line between Baraga and Marquette,
where they own an immense tract OF pine.
Bank Commissioner Sherwood will APP
! point T.. A. Sunderlin OF Lowell as his
deputy
WI. Magee OF Marshall has been appoint
| ed law clerk in the general land office at
salary of g., 200 year.
Bronson offers 500 reward for the con-
viction of the fire bug that infects that
| place,
While Samuel Arnold, who married
| Phileppi La Grue at Florence, Wis,
| couple of weeks ago was sitting at a table
with his wife reading, at Iron River, Iron
| county, the other evening, John Blessing
ham, former husband OF Mrs. Arnold,
whom she had disc lrded, walked into the
room unannounced and coolly and deliber-
aiely riddled Arnold with bullets from
33-calibre revolver, putting four through
| his body. He then assaulted him with the
revolver, striking him on the face and head
Arnold's recovery is impossible. Blessing
| ham surrendered himself 10 the officers.
| ont has been
seen since.
Charles A. Dixon of Saginaw,
deputy county treasurer, has skip
| ped with a woman with whom he had been
Tor some time enamored. Defalcations OF
considerable amounts have been discovered
| in his accounts.
The aggregate of deposits in the 10 saw
ngs banks of Detroit, is $500, s7l.35.
JAS II. Kinnane, attorney of the state
board of pharmacy has been investigating
| Detroit druggists, and says that several
| of them have been filing Prescriptions With
| out having certificates of competency from
the board. Tney will be brought TO ac-
!! count.
Dispatches from many points in Michi-
| gan say that the storm of the 9th inst. was
general In upper Michigan TIE fall of
snow ranges from eight inches 10 foot
| The snow belt starts in the southwestern
| part of the state and extends diagonally
across 10 Cheboygan.
A. A. Shaver, eX-county treasurer OF
Clare county, is being Investigated, and it
] is alleged that shortage of e., 500 has been
! found in his accounts.
Adrian typographical union has voted 10
ask Gen Harrison to appoint member
of the typographical union for public
printer.
The state funeral directors in session at
| Grand Rapids elected these officers: Presi
1 = 49,
dents, W. W. Bennett, Jackson, Nj. ID.
| North, Owesso, NJ. J. Buck Lansing; sec
| rotary, G. &. Merritt, Greenvlle treasur-
err, John A. Dick, Detroit; executive COM
mittee. NJ J. Buck, Lansing, George ALL
med, Iona, and p. n. O'Brien of Grand
Rapids. The next meeting will be held in
jackson.
NJ Van Every, resident OF Coldwater
| since 1876, died on the 10th inst.
A man giving the name OF f.. II. Swartz
| got nice horse and buggy from II. Cole
mans livery barn in East Saginaw and
went over to Saginaw City, where he gave
the name of George H. Franstock, and OBJ
| tanned from George l.. Burrows private
bank 500, giving as security mortgage on
| the rig. He then paid Coleman and skip
| ped. An officer is after him. The swind
| Ter is 40 years Cd, walks lame, has full,
smooth face and has lived around South
| Saginaw, where he is known as a horse
Gov. Luce has pardoned out of state
prison Ally Dingman, sentenced from Tus-
| cola county May 5, 1882, TO ten years i'm
| prisonment for assault with intent to kill.
| The reason is eXtenuating circumstances
arising from domestic troubles; the condi-
tons are abstinence from intoxicating
| drinks.
A little girl named Bushaw was ground
to death beneath the wheels of a logging
engine at Wileyville, near Ludington, the
| other afternoon.
In the Electric sugar refinery company
case suit has been commenced in Ann Ar
| Dor By summons in the circuit court by
| Mrs. Friends attorneys, asking $4,000
! damages from President Cotterill and Off
Ger Sutherland for attaching her property
at Milan few days since. The papers
were served upon Sutherland but Cotterill
has left the city and gone to New York.
The annexation of North Muskegon and
Lakeside TO Muskegon, is being agitated
| Probate Judge Lyman d. Follett left
Kent county two years ago heavily in debt
and with large sum belonging to estates
in his care. He had been dabbling in
wheat and was supposed to have lost heavi.
~. He has been in Honduras for long
| time, but is now supposed TO be visiting
relatives in Helena, Montana Sheriff
Bishop has left on a mysterious mission,
and 1t supposed to be en- route to Helena TO
arrest Follett.
l The Hotchkiss mill which was recently
burned at West Bay City will be rebuilt at
a cost of $4,000
O. j. Harrington was killed In well
near Jonesville about two months ago by
the earth caving in on him. Mrs. Harring
| ton has begun suit against the owner OF the
well, Aaron Blauvelt for 5000, alleging
that Blauvelt induced her husband 10 work
in the well knowing it to be unsafe.
/ Mrs. Sarah Lyman, a very old resident
OF Highland, died on the 18th inst. Her
will bequeaths a large fortune to Adrian
college.
A cavalry department is to be added to
the Orchard Lake military academy.
The East Saginaw National Bank has
purchased 81 900 site, and will erect a
four-story brick building
j. Richie of Woodbridge, Hillsdale
county, has been held to the circuit court
in 5000 bonds, charged with burning a
neighbours barn.
David Henning of Chicago has presented
the ladies library association of Ann Ar
Dor with $1,000, and the Ann Arbor Epis-