Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-13

get OH anu Rus company, Dotu opcrutHhS III
the Ohio field, have sold out to the stand
ard OH company.
| w. II. Burt has given his son s,-law's
railroad, the Il. A. A. * n. NJ, a contract
TO haul 5000 car loads Of salt at the rate
OF 100 cars "a day.
j. G.. Summers OF Midland has been ap.
pointed agent OF the census bureau Tor the
| collection OF court statistics in the eight
| congressional district.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor x North Michi-
gan railway company has ordered five new
| locomotives, 300 HAT cars, 100 box cars and
six more passenger coaches.
The G. A. Matthews suit against Daveu.
| port, Fairbairn II Co, for Sl0,OOJ on trial
| at st. Ignace, is finished, and the jury gave
Matthews verdict for $50 600.
james s. Wyckoff of Michigan has been
! transferred from the dead letter Office TO
the otfice OF the first assistant postmaster
| general and promoted from $500 10 81 600.
Chas. Hackman broke his lantern while
| transferring some oil from the tanks at the
| Muskegon electric works and was severe
| ly burned by the explosion that followed
Miss Maud Mary Cobb was buried at
Kalamazoo the other day. She was a
regular contributor TO the Chicago Herald
and Times, the Epoch and American Mag
aZine.
Abel Barber. of Algansee, Branch county,
was lately held up on the highway and
robbed of $500, and Austin Il. Conrall and
David Rawson have ocen arrested Tor the
crime.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michi-
gan raj way company has contracted to
handle 100 car loads day of Saginaw Val
ley salt until it has hauled $1,000 cars Of
the product.
Nick Grayhardt was arrested in Pncon-
ming the other night, and when the turnkey
went TO the Jail the next morning he found
Nick sitting upright with his throat cut
from ear TO ear.
William BROKER of Pine City. Mimi,
killed William CoomOs and his wife by
shooting them with gun II was a fami-
~ quarrel, Brooker and CoOmbs having
married sisters.
a Port Huron citizens committee has
been appointed to collect ST tstics, etc, TO
present 10 congress showing the great
benefits to be derived from the proposed
dredging of Black river
Assistant Cashier Perrin of the Hurley
bank has been held for trial Tor completely
ID the $40 $50 robbery. He proved an alibi,
but is charged wi n giving the burglars the
combna ton OF the safe.
Alex Aletelo, a timber boss, when down
leo feet in the south Hccla mine and was
killed by rock ling Oh aim. He leaves
a wife and six children.
An English company has bought prom
isiug mining claim on the west branch OF
tue Ontouagou river in OntOnaEon county,
and Will develop a splendid water power in
the river near the property.
The dispa tching offices of the Toledo,
Ann Arbor Il North Michigan railro q,
which are being erected IN OwossO, are
non LOT ION md IL Anfa cd IA NJ
business will commence in them soon.
The Centennial copper mining company
owns property Immediately north of the
Calumet Il Hecla, and is sinking a shaft in
the expectations of cutting the Calumet
lode. The shaft is now down % feet.
At the meeting of the state horticultural
society in Hart, the old officers were re-
elected, and the following members OF the
executive board, for three years l.. ID.
Watkins Manchester; l.. X. Tast Lansing.
G. X. Perrine, brakeman on the T., a.
a. * y. NJ, nearly had his leg amputated
while stalking out a car in the Coruuna
yard. He was taken 10 Owosso, where the
company's physician dressed the wounds.
John L. Roy OF Bay City has been SEN
fenced TO the Michigan state prison for four
years for burglary, and Robert t'inney for
three years for attempted criminal assault
in West Bay City on 5-year old Stella Kan
nell
The will of j. Warren Merrill, who re-
Gently died at Cambridge, Mass, be
queaths 10 Baptist missions, charities. and
associations, sill, 800; and 10 Brown
university and Vassar college, $1,000
each.
1t is stated that a young man named
Clarence Foote, employed in the United
States express Office in Grand Rapids, and
ar.ll Of mi
one OF the packages, ii is said, contained
diamonds.
The lumber shipments from the Sagi-
nav river for Novem Der foot up Al, 1873, 900
| feet, making total for the year of 43J 22i,.
900 feet The shingles shipped in Novem-
Der were lv,292, 900, total for the year OF
lOi l67, 900.
The wife Of Adam Summers OF Grand
Rapids died, supposedly. from inhamma
ton Of the bowels, aud was buried. Two
days later the body was eXhumed, and il
is said that there is a strong case OF poison
ing against the husband.
The United States express company offers
reward of $1,000 for he discovery of the
missing cashier, Clarence j. loot of Grand
! Rapids. The sheriff Of Kent county offers
an additional reward of 81 900 for the arrest
OF the murderers or abductors.
Thomas Jenkins, the oldest coal miner
! in Jackson county, coming there in '13, fell
! down the air shaft of the Poole mine
| three miles north of jackson the other
morning, distance Of 80 feet, and was
crushed into IA misshapcn mass.
William Nevson of Coldwater was
! charged with burning building but the
case has been dismissed The prosecuting
| attorney says a man had rght To burn
! his own property if ii was not occupied and
! the tire was not for purpose Of fraud.
w. NJ. Gaze a Nestaburg merchant, was
arrested and tried for ussauIting Ann Bur-
! iage, whom he had engaged IS domestic
! The jury acquitted Inn The litigation
used up all his properly. and he is com
| PEELED To commence life over az in.
VIM. Sharkey. one of the people connect
] ed with the Dupee murder, near Green.
/ yiilc, was shot ia the ieg Oy unknown par
/ ties as he WAS ldAing care OF the sheriff =
! team AL stanton the other night Sharkey
turned st ties evidence in the Dupee case
The villain who ravished u woman in
Fork township, Mccosta county, "A few days
ago W . captured near Lake Station. His
ndrne is Fred ennis, alias Lame Joe. His
victim is in delicate condition, and there
is no small Likelihood that he will yet be
| lynched.
Mrs. David McCullum, one Of the very
Oldest inhabt nts OF Ann Arbor, where
her girlhood was spent, died few DAYS
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