Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-22


Thomas Jarret of Grand Rapids, cele-
brated his Goth birthday anniversary We'd
nesday and while he is not as clipper as
a boy of 10 he could give many men OF
90 points on being lively.
Two years ago Mrs. c. T.. Lesher OF
Lansing fell on the street aud hurt herself
so badly that she never entirely recovered.
Monday night when near the same place
she fell again, breaking leg.
Superintendent Meredith of the Tuscola
S Saginaw railroad, says that the rails are
all purchased and the road will be running
trains over a standard gauge track by
July |. 1t is narrow gauge now.
The Michigan weather Office and crop
prediction shop sends out word that the
winter weather Of early last week was
disastrous 10 the crops and the subse-
quent dry spell did not help matters any.
The industrial home for girls at Adrian
was investigated by a senatorial commit
tee of the legislature Saturday. Work?
Bless you. no; they just looked around and
said pretty speeches about everything they
saw.
Senator Taylor of Lapeer is a very sick
man, and serious results are feared. His
| Illness SldIJcu WIN inc grip, anu lHc
whole list of human ills seems to have fol-
lowed after. The doctors hope TO pull him
through.
5. NJ Baird's carriage and paint shop at
Holly caught fire Saturday evening and
everybody thought the town was doomed.
The fire was stopped however, after the
shop and two small dwellings burned. No
insurance.
There was a second serious cave-in at
the Canadian approach to the Port Huron
tunnel Wednesday. Several thousand
dollars will be needed to put the approach
in as good condition as it was before the
earth settled.
Rev. II. n. Bssen, highly respected
and early resident of Mt. Clemens. died in
Erin township Oxford county. Thursday
morning. He was aged 75 years and for
80 years was pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Mt. Clemens.
While digging for the cellar of the new
Catholic church at Ishpeming last week
the workmen unearthed lot of collins and
bodies and piled them up like so much cord
wood until the prominent citizens gathered
around and kicked about it.
| Grandville had fire Wednesday that in
less than half an hour left nothing out a
pile of ashes of what was previously Loren
Days plaster mill. The loss will be fully
SIS, 600, with about $4,000 insurance.
Nobody knows what caused the fire.
Margaret armstrong. II years old, OF
| Arbela, a village near Clio, Genesee
county, was building a fire Saturday, when
the sleeve OF her dress caught fire. She
ran shreking out of doors and was fatally
burned before the fire could be put out.
The Michigan Central railroad company
has paid Zagelmeyer & Zeder of Bay City.
S., 600 for crashing into boat owned by
| the latter. The railroad company
destroyed the boat purposely over a
| question of ownership and have now had
TO pay.
c. w. Mellor formerly newsdealer in
Ann Arbor has received official notiica-
ton from England of the death of Harriet
Mellor, the owner of the Lord George
Radcliffe estate, valued at $500, 900. He
is one OF the nine heirs, and has started for
England.
Mrs. Gallagher, living near Owosso, was
bitten by mad dog some time ago.
Neither she nor anyone else knew that the
dog was mad until cow that the same
has gone to New York TO undergo the
Pasteur treatment.
The food dam on the Main river near
Alpena went out Saturday afternoon, caus-
ing considerable damage. The damage is
more prospective than present, as the loss
of the cam stops the drive for some time
ana may result in hanging up millions of
logs the entire season.
John Poet, ST., 81 years old of Romulus
was thrown from a street roller by the
horses running away Monday. On ac-
count OF his age. and the fact that the
roller passed over him, he had no chance
for life from the first and died without re-
gaining consciousness Wednesday night.
Mrs. Hattie f. Campbell OF Detroit
visited Flint Wednesday and left her little
child with a friend. Later the child was
kidnapped and there is a row on now The
father of the child is supposed TO be the
abductor the pair having been divorced
two years ago, aud the child given TO the
mother.
Manistique is hopelesslv divided on the
question of time. The schools run on one
| time, the workshops on another and the
stores on another. Standard time Is only
dream in that section and the inhabitants
cannot have a town clock because they
could not agree on the schedule Of time on
which it should be run.
Railroad Commissioner Whitman has
seen Attorney General Ellis. and the
result of that conference is that the Ashlcys
win be brought to book for that track
tearing episode at South Lyon a few Sun
days ago. They will show cause for theii
unlawful action or forfeit their charter,
says Commissioner Whitman.
Samuel w. Shockey, who claims to be a
once notorious ''Ohio boy preacher" was
found wandering around Grand Rapids
Wednesday night as crazy as loon. He
was locked up, and then tried four
times TO hang himself. He tells all kinds
Of stories, and win be held until his rela-
tives in Ohio can be communicated with.
Robert Smith, who killed his brother
Jude in the township of Fraser last Deem
ber is nearly heartbroken in the Bay
| county Jail at Bay City. He was sentenced