Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-11-16
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The people of Peck, Sanilac county,
are talking OF having their village in
cOrpOrated,
Bedding has another diphtheria scare
on al present and one death from the
disease has occurred.
A hunter in Moutmorency county kill
ed a white deer last week and has had
it mounted. Such an animal is very
rare.
The reform school boys at Lansing
harvested 100 bushels of popcorn this
season, and have twenty-five left oven
from last year.
A new Catholic church will be erect
ed in Deerlield, Livingston Co.. next
summer. 1t will be of brick and stone
and will cost $1,000.
pump factory employing from %
to 30 men will be located at Alpena if
the citizens will donate a site, and the
| chances are that the citizens will.
The Ironwood Times is evidently not
| discouraged over the result of the late
| election. 1t Is running the Democratic
state ticket at the head of one of its col
ums.
A popular young lady of Sturgis who
| clerks in a dry gooes store here is some
what absent minded. She recently
went into a meat market and ordered a
yard and half of beefsteak
Edwin Camp, of Hartford, who shot
himself with suicidal intent a few days
ago, and c. j. Jackson, of the same
place, who attempted suicide by the
same method, are both recovering
Samuel Smith, the Bear Lake farmer
who is charged with assaulting Minard
Mix with an AK, was admitted to bail
last Thursday morning. His alleged
victim Is in precarious condition.
The trial of John Talso, who shot
Herman Lahti in the latter's saloon on
October Sth, was ended at Hancock on
Thursday last by the jury returning a
verdict of guilty of assault with intent
to Kill and murder.
1t isn't often that anyone works
Observation-Disclosures machine without COM
ing out loser, but there was a case at
Davidson last week where certain par
ties made $40 out of one. They were
burglars and worked the machine,
which was in a saloon, with Jimmy.
Last Friday young man called at
county clerks office at Grand Rapids
and made known his intention of get
ting married. The license was made
out, but when it came to filling in the
name of his inamorata the fellow had
forgotten it. He didn't get his license.
Unless someone puts in a claim for
their property soon, the sheriff of Oak
land county will live high about
Thanksgiving time. He has in his pos
session fourteen turkeys which he
thinks We're stolen about month ago
between Milford and Flint He is hold
ing them awaiting the appearance of an
owner.
Edward and Peter Alec, of Marquette
are missing, and 1t is supposed that
they have been drowned in Lake Supe-
rior. The last heard of them was when
they went out fishing with a small sail
boat The boat was found upside down
upon a rock with hel upper works gone,
but no trace of the men anywhere.
Masked men entered the station at
Cohoctah one night last week and or
dered the operator there to throw up his |
hands. but the latter refused to do So |
However, the men went on with their !
work and took 50 in cash and some
railroad tickets and made their escape.
The reason the operator dld not throw
up his hands is because he is one
armed man.
At the annual meeting of the Van
Buren, county Pomona grange resolu-
tions were passed asking the legislature
to amend the drug store law so as to
prevent the indlscriminate sale of liquor
in local option counties, and to enact a
law compelling persons found intoxi-
Gated to furnish information a to whom |
they procured the liquor.
Venier Pelletier, of Au Sauble, is
only ID years old, but has a record of
shooting people. He thinks it is manly |
to carry revolver. and while he was
showing the weapon to a companion
named Bert Brady the other day it was
discharged and the bullet struck Brady
over the heart. Fortunately it struck
a rib and was turned aside. This is the
third boy that Pelletier has shot. and
be has also lost one of his own fingers
by the accidental discharge of the re
volver
Editor Baldwin of the Alger County
Republican was married some time ago
and on his return to his residence i'm
Au Train a lot of hoodlums collected
in front of the house and commenced
to raise a disturbance. Baldwin order
ed them to desist but they did not and
finally they became so troublesome that
he fired a shotgun into the crowd He
was tried on the charge of assault with
intent to do great bodily harm. and
Just as the case was drawing to close
one of the jurors went insane. The
other jurors recommended To the Judge
that he dismiss the case on tho orronnd