Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-11-23
STATE NEWS.

AlANf ~ I'LL ~ hNduAAs
Rev. \. w. tombstone of Farwell.
has accepted the call OF the Presbyter-
ian church of Cadillac.
one If the Indians AT Harbor Springs
was recently sent for some pork lcav-
ings aud he brought back a lot of corn
cob pipes.
The annual meeting Of the Michigan
Christian Missionary Association. Dis
trict No. ?, will be held at Bangor De-
cember to 10.
The newsboys OF Jackson organized
a union Tuesday evening and elected
officers They will lit up gymnasium
and reading room,
William McGlinchey, one of the
weathieSt and best known men of Cen
esee county, died at his home in Flint
Moudav night, aged 20 years.
Saginaw river was comgletely frozen
over Tuesday morning, the earliest IN
ten wears No boats are moving about
aud navigation may be said to be
closed
Hundreds of acres OF potatoes on the
low lands around Mcdonald, Van Bur
en- CO.. which had not been dog have
been ruined by the recent freezing
weather.
The Randall Buggy Co., Of Bay City,
has filed five chattel mortgages TO
secure creditors in that city, Ovid and
elsewhere The amount of the five
mortgages is only $1,000
John Paschi. a Manistee barber who
was tried on a charge of criminally as
saulting Alice Boregson, a l6-year-old
girl, was found guilty Tuesday Of as
sault and battery.
Patrick Stafford. a highly-respected
citizen of Flint. died at his home Tues
day morning from the effects of pa
ralysis. He was a resident OF Flint for
nearly forty.fve years. and was So
years old.
Paul &. Suskey, the Washtenaw
county treasurer. who is short in his
cash, has fallen heir to $1,000 worth of
property in Germany. He will make |
his bondsmen good for the amount they
have paid the county.
The Wolverine Cooperative AssOcia- |
ton has been organized AT Battle Creek |
with capital stock of 100000. Land |
will be purchased, COLONY founded |
and a new Utopia will bloom in the |
vicinity of Goguac lake
The Port Huron council has decided |
to pay City Clerk Wagenseil 800 as a
compromise for salary due the city |
clerk while ID. j. Stephenson held the |
office upon a certificate of election from |
the board of canyassers.
Luke Sharia, farmer living near
Niles, had no faith in banks and buried
$500 in gold in hole under the wood
she'd He is now looking for the un- |
godly mononetallist who discovered /
his secret and stole the coin,
Mrs. Lucy A. Canfeld former well
known resident of the south end OF Bay |
City, died at her home on north Jack
son street Monday night, of blood |
poisoning, aged Sc years. Her re-
mains will be taken to Flint.
Mai. y. S. Boynton. who was elected |
mayor of Port Huron at the recent |
election took his seat Monday night, |
presiding over the council in the same |
room where he presided twenty years |
ago when he was mayor before.
John Kerwin. one of the alleged |
smuglers arrested at Port Huron sever
al days ago on charge of being con-
nected with the wholesale smuggling |
of celluloid, has been released on 81 900 |
bail TO appear for examination NoY. %.
James c. Cook, aged So, a F. Il p.
NJ. brakeman. who resided in Saginaw,
was killed at Chippewa, 50 miles north,
while jumping from train. He was
lame, having broke his leg recently, |
and this was his first trip since the ac-
cident. He was nearly cut in two.
DR.. r. G. Andrews of Leroy, has
been appointed special agent of the
treasury to ill the vacancy caused by |
the resignation of Henry f. Mccormick
of Grand Rapids. The doctor is a
member of the democratic state central
committee.
The Indians at Harbor Springs are
very indignant because the white peo-
pie called the few fine days short time
ago, Indian summer. They said God
made good weather for all, and that
the other summer is just as much for
them as il is for the whites.
A couple of crooks were recently run
in by the marshal for beating the VIC.
L. u. out of dinner. They said they
wanted to be cooped for they could live
off the county. The justice fooled
them, however, by sending them to
Jail for twenty days each, TO subsist on
bread and water.
J. II. Roberts of Grand Rapids, will
spend 100000 in putting an electric
railway around Mackinac Island, and
$50, 200 in an electric light plant. He
has just secured franchises. The rail