Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-29
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Il. ID. Hall of Detroit lost SIC, 900 worth
OF logs in Clare county during the recent
Arc.
IL is said that Jackson pays 300 per
month into the treasury of the louisiana
lottery.
5ohn Stewart Of Britton was killed by
Wabash railroad train near Adrian We'd
nesday.
The Lake Odessa business men have
organized d company to manufacture the
Irish road cart.
John Hit, st. Clair county farmer,
ate wild parsnips and died in 20 minutes
FROM thor effect
Shafts IA" and ~ r. OF the Chaplin
mine have been closed, decreasing the out
put considerably.
Fifty acres of timber land in Alba town
ship Antrim county, burned over Monday
and endangered the town.
The Great Western mine, owned largely
by James NJ Turner. will DO closed down
at once and the pumps lifted.
l.. Steketee of Grand Rapids, lately APP
pointed to the Holland college council, has
positively decl ned TO accept.
The Lansing driving club has perfected
arrangements for oetinS and series OF
races Jane 23. "a, 20 aud 81.
If that Allcgan OIL well does not pan on;
a greater now thaS IL has shown 50 far it
will hardly pay for the boring.
Marshall Cobb OF Kalamazoo has pro-
hibited the carrying OF banners on the
streets to advertise busines1 houses.
The Sturgis fair association, with s25,-
900 capitalization, WAS organized Monday
They will have fair and horse trot this
falL
w. S. Hainer, Manstee miller, fell
through the floor OF mill Thursday, and
was found unconscious. Internal injuries
are feared.
The Grand Rapids papers say that
Mel Ford left sl2, 900 in debts. and his es-
tate will be swallowed up. Most OF them
are unsecured.
George Parker or Ann ArDor, late u con-
vict i'm the Ionia house of correction, drank
some alkaline substance while at work
Monday and died.
The oldest building ~ Decatur. owned
by the Phoenix ire insurance company Of
by an inceEdiary fire.
Reports from Allcgan county state that
alt the small fruit was killed by last week
winter, and even the apples injured. The
farmers arc very blue.
Samuel Rose the oldest resident Of Ne
waygo county. died Wednesday of dropsv.
He leaves family. and large property in
pine woods and the like.
Meuom nee is to have a now round
house erected by the Chicago 81 North
western railroad, aud they hope that il will
bring business 10 the city.
Rev. l.. b. Bangs of Eaton Rapids an
houored minister OF the NJ y, church, died
Thursday, aged ~ years. He had been in
the m n stry about 80 years.
Negaunee ght another serious fire
Monday, when 100 worth of property,
covered by only $500 insurance, went UP in
smoke by "a fire that st lrted in barn.
Annie Jane Walsh. II years old, Of Grant
township. Huron county, pulled a kettle of
scalding water upon herself Wednesday
asd died the next day from the effect of
the burns.
Harrison. Clare county, is anxious 20
put up O., 500 for any man who win put up
a S., 600 grist mill there, aud will antc
81. 900 for any eS, 600 wooden ware factory
started there.
G. j. Patch. prominent business man
OF Boston, has purchased the Lawrence
house at Adrian, and is going 10 overhaul
tho house throughout, making IL one of the
best hotels in southern Michigan.
Michigan postmasters recently appointed:
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ed, Crooked Lake Glare county; +. A.
Armstrong, vice w. Opdike, resigned,
LambcrtviIle, Monroe county; w. II. Cot
ton, vice S. L. 1unis, resigned, Macon,
Lcuawee county.