Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-10-09

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prisoners to Traverse City for safe keep
| ing.
The treasurers Office of the Flint & Pere
Marquette railway will not be removed to
Boston-so says General Manager Bald
win.
The Hessian fly is flying about the new
] ly sown wheat fields in Kalamazoo county
and several acres have been greatly dam
aged.
The Twenty-frst infantry will have
reunion in Grand Rapids October s. This
is the day of the great Allerton-Nelson
race.
West Bay City's common council ex-
tended the fire limits TO shut out wooden
I barracks, about TO be erected by the Saliva
ton army.
William Sugeri, an employee Of Buffers
/ & Peters lumber company. working in the
woods near Stetson, was killed last week
/ by a falling tree.
! Lightning struck an electric motor car
at Jackson Monday evening. Passengers
were slightly shocked and the car some
I what demoralized
/ The fourth encampment of the Union
/ Veterans Union of Michigan will be held
at Greenvlle Tuesday and Wednesday,
! October 20 and %
The house of j. II. Corwin, prominen
! farmer of Windsor township. Eaton county,
was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss,
/ s., 900; partly insured
Rev. b. B. Bigler, graduate of the Nc
Cormick college of Chicago, was installed
as pastor of the First Presby ch urch,
! Jackson, Tuesday evening.
The Bentley boys struck vein of gas
while digging well at Bentley and are
now going deeper for the vein Of coal they
believe underDes the town.
Thomas Smith. farmer of Atlas town
ship Genesee county alighted from his
new seed drill to pick up whip the other
day His team ran three miles and wrecked
the drill.
! Sand Beach people are arranging fne
program for the dedication of their new
town hall and Masonic temple Every
town in Huron county Will be asked TO join
the1u0ilee
The German Lutheran Emanuel confer
ence of the northern and northeastern dis
trcts Of Michigan viii be held at the church
in Bay City beginning October and con-
tinuiug till October II.
Frank Martin, bill poster, in attempt
ing to al.ght from rapidly moving cleo
trio car at Grand Rapids fell under the
wheels and had leg taken off, Doubts
are entertained for his recovery
A majority of the directors of the Bay
City electric street railway company have
decided to erect large hotel at Wenona
Beach. A three minute car service Will
| no asto shed hpt tho cities
Over 200, 900 feet of seasoned lumber IN
the yards of the Oval wood dish company
burned at Mancelona Monday night. The
loss is estimated at S25, 600. Sparks from
a passing locomotive caused the fire.
Judge NJ. Brown. of Big Rapids, says the
Chippewa Valley railroad, which is TO con-
uect Big Rapids with Mt. Pleasant. will be
completed within Is months. The road
will be 20 miles long and Will tap valuable
pine lands.
J. c. Hofstetter. ticket agent Of the
Lake Shore road in Kalamazoo for many
years, has been appointed union ticket
agent at Erie, Pa. for the Lake Shore.
the Pennsylvania lines and the Pittsburg
* Erie road.
Zion a. NJ T.. conference just closed in
Grand Rapids, will meet next year IN
Fond du Lac. Wis. Bishop Thompson
| declared at the conference that white and
colored people could not affiliate and ought
not TO try it,
Capt. G. j. IugersoI, of Buchanan. .
charter member of Masonic lodge No. 4. of
Miles, aud the oldest mason in the state Of
Michigan, was % years on the 2Sth nit.
He has been blind and confined TO his bed
the last Is years.
The dds-Nugent child, which has fig
ured prominently in a Bay City chancery
suit, is again missing. Mai T.. b. Nugent
prominent lumberman, has been arrested
upon circuit court warrant charging him
with abducting the infant.
The September product Of the Calumet
& Hecla mine is the largest on record, be-
| ing 4, 225 tons and / 40 pounds. The
Atlantic's product was 203 tons / 800
pounds; the Quincys, $40 tons go pounds;
the Pen usula, 100 tons $50 pounds.
Thursday evening the handsome new
church of the Terrace Street Holland Re
formed society, MusilcGon, was dedicated.
! When the great fire Of May l6 last swept
over Muskegon the church of this congre-
| cation was totally destroyed. The new
church cost S7, 900.
At the Clarks machine shops at Kalama-
a.
man was caught in the shafting and whirl-
ed around three or four times. His clothes
were half torn from mis- body his left leg
broken in two places and his sides and
arms badly cut. DR.. McKi0b.n thinks he
may recover.
The governor has pardcned Howard
Allen. who was sent from Bay City, Dec.
Z, 1890, to the Ionia house Of correction
for one year. under the provisions of the
indetcrminate sentence law Of 1889. Allen
was convicted of the larceny of bicycle
and Gov. WInans believes that he has al
ready been sufficiently punished.
G. Sumner Burroughs. resident manager
Of Redmond's opera house at Grand Rapids
was convicted last week in the police court
of violating the states blue law in giving
"a Sunday night entertainment. Another
similar case is pending against him. Tho
case will be appealed. This will stop Sun
day theatres in Grand Rapids for time
OF Ions