Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-09-04

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bonds to improve the water system.
Eastern horse buyers are picking up
large numbers OF fine driving horses In
Van Buren, county for the New York mar
ket
Aid. Darias, OF Bay City. and George
Nobath playfully scuffied for the posses
sion of a revolver Nobath is seriously
wounded
The Indian camp meeting at kewadin,
| Antrim county. has closed after success
| full season. over 800 Indians were in at
tendance.
Johanna Schilnus. OF Grand Rapids, is
| the mother of Ii children, but votes mar
rage failure and wants "a divorce from
her husband.
Mrs. Emma A. Sanborn, of Alpena, dis
trict organizer for the l.. O. Il. NJ, has
just established hive of lady Maccabees
ut Carsonvile.
DIR. II. p. Mowry, of Bronson, has been
appointed United States examining sur
geon on the pension board in place of DR.
Ewers, resigned.
Fred Goodenough, a Greenville hotel
keeper, has IA queer name for one who is
to be tried on the charge of felonious as
suit upon one OF his dinngroom girls.
James b. Brainerd post c. A. r.. of
Eaton Rapids. have passed resolutions
thanking Detroit for the reception given
the veterans during encampmcnt week.
Camps are already being started in the
Georgian bay district, and it is estimated
that 100. 900, 600 feet will be cut there this
winter aud RATED to Saginaw valley mills.
a powder resembling paris green was
scattered along the road near Addison
Ri|es' farm, in Jackson county, aud two
of his cows died with evidence Of poison
ing.
A clever talker is swindling farmers and
merchants throughout the state. He is
selling seeds and claims to represent ID. NJ.
Ferry & Co., of Detroit. who say be is a
fraud
Mrs. Burr Hurley. keeper of Marquette
boarding house, and Mrs. Curtiss, of the
500, are said to be among the heirs to a
fortune of SO, 900, 900 left by English rel
atives.
Gilmore Scranton, of Grand Rapids has
begun an ejectment SUIT against the United
States. claiming that one OF the govern
ment piers in the 500 canal encroached on
his rights.
Theora Swift, Q years Of age, was shot
in the side by the accidental discharge OF
rifle in the hands OF her sister, Lavinia,
aged II, at Marquette The wound may
prove fatal
Croswell had a watermelon picnic and
there were enough white people present to
get away with $50 large melons. 1t was
for the benefit Of the doctors, druggists
and undertakers.
The Ingham county soldiers and sailors
held their annual reunion in Mason. DR..
w. w. Root, OF Mason, was elected presi-
dent; II. G.. ireland, secretary. and Capt.
Cheney, treasurer.
The Three Rivers paper company has
been awarded the state contract for news,
report and law paper. and the Kalamazoo
paper company will furnish the paper for
the legislative manual.
A West Bay City woman bound for
Stapdsh was about to take the train, when
the gatekeeper noticed that baby in her
arms was dead. 1t had died in the mothers
arms without her knowledge
Joan Grandborg. the Swedc on trial 70
the murder OF Gilbert Hall at Cedar River
on July 4, has pleaded guilty TO the charge
of manslaughter. Sentence will not be
passed until the last day of court
One of the most enthusiastic gatherings
ever recorded in Sanilac county was the
Union Alliance, p. of l., picnic and X. o.
T. Nj. mass meeting at Elmer on the 26th
inst. Over 80 associations were repre-
scented.
The citizens OF Brown City have raised
over 500 by subscription for the purpose
of purchasing a site for fair grounds. This
project is sure thing but the time is too
limited TO warrant the holding Of a fair
this fall
An Albion man named Murdoch tried in
a mean way TO get even with his mother
in-law. He charged that she conspired
with DIR. Thomson. OF Albion. 10 poison
her husband. Dr.. Thomson has had Muir
dock arrested for SANDER.
A chambermad in a Roscommon hotel |
found roll Of bills in room and handed |
them to the office TO be given 10 the owner.
Now the hotel proprietor says that she !
shall have the money unless the owner
comes around pretty quick to claim it.
A young colored porter at an Adrian ho-
tel was stung by bee ald for fear that !
the spot would swell and be painful he cut |
out some flesh with a jackknife. In so do
ing he severed an artery and bled profuse-
ly. The lad was more frightened than
hurt.
Gas has been struck on the farm Of !
George Ludwick, two miles north of Hub
bardston. at depth of 53 feet, while bor-
ing "a two-inch hole in search of water.
The workmen set fire 10 the escaping gas,
and the column of flame is now four feet |
high.
John Doyle, a gang sawyer who has |
been employed in N. b. Bradley & Sons
saw mill has been missing several days. |
He is charged with assaulting a 10Y ear
old daughter of Edward Murray. The |
child's cries brought help. The father Of |
the girl took after Doyle, but lost him |
among the slab piles across from the house |
at which Doyle was boarding.
The survivors Of the Eighteenth Mich
O.. 81 l..