Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-07-06
STATE EW S.

Spring Lake blast furnace is preparing
TO resume work.
A Homer lad fooled with loaded
gun and the doctors were shortly called
in To dress shattered hand.
The man who escaped from the small
pox tug Ella Smith at Alpena took the
train Monday bound for Saginaw.
Reports 10 the state board of health
show that smallpox existed at twelv'
places in the state during the past week
The Kalamazoo census. Just cOmp,et'
ed, shows a population in that city OF
over 81 900, IA gain OF over 5000 since
1890.
Vernon j. Wiley, principal # the
blind school at Lansing, was united IN
marriage Thursday to Miss Allie Chase.
of st Johns.
Ga account of the smallpox scare
Pontiac physicious have done "A land
Office business this week yacciuating
their fellow citizens.
Mike Conaton. wanted in Clsevile
for alleged criminal assault. has been
arrested bv Sheriff Buchanan. of Huron
county, after three weeks search.
Contractor Mills commenced paving
the principal business streets of Benton
Harbor on Thursday. He is using sawed
cedar blocks and sawed stone curving
Last week there were six steamboats,
lying at the docks in Monroe. The
same evening six fishermen were dong
the same thing at the hotel Adrian
Press.
Rev. j. A. Greene, pastor OF the
Tekonsha Presbl terrain church for five
years past, has received call to the
pastorate of the Dowagiac Presbyterian
church.
Fr. Innes. of -. Joseph's Catholic
church OF Adrian, while paying UaIl
with the boys of his church at a picnic,
displaced his knee-cap, and now is on
crutches.
The new county jail at jackson has
been formally accepted by the board of
supervisors from Contractor Conway
The new building is pronounced as fine
as any of the kind in the State.
The Hubbard opera house at Jackson,
having been purchased by Edward +.
Lowery from the Hihbard estate, will
be thoroughly overhauled aud fitted up
by the new proprietor before the season
opens.
Clara Hogan, Of Saginaw, was ar
rested and fined in the police court for
horse-whipping her brother-in-law.
Anthony Heindel, whom she claimed
used insulting language to her. The
case has been appealed.
A gentleman in Battle Greek is pre-
pairing some interesting statistics. He
proposes to ascertain how many people
there are in the city who were resident,
prior TO 1850. The count shows seventy
five, with few more to enumerate.
The Board of Trade of Saginaw j.
collecting information from all of those
owning deep wells in the county, by
issuing blanks To be filled out with
answers TO q number of practical ques
tons bearing upon the quality of the
water
A Holloway horse that was tied up
TO a tree. while his owner took swim
in the Raisin River, thought that he
would like to join in the frolic. He
broke loose from his fastenngs and had
a good time, but 4 new buggy will have
TO be purchased.
The Industrial Home board rejects
all bids put in for furnishing meats
because they were too high. No Adrain
butcher cares to take the bid. The en-
ployes are too critically eXacting, and
are always wanting just what one
happens not to have.
A swell wedding took place at the
Zion Episcopal church at Pontiac
Wednesday evening, the parties being
Miss Elizabeth Hogan. eldest daughter
of George Hogan, Esq, and VIM
Henry George, of Detroit. They will
make their home in Detroit.
At an early hour Wednesday morn
ing burglars entered the house of Smith
Rowley. of Ionia and stole valuable
watch and chain. They went through
two pair of trousers in one room obtain
ing nothing-some other pairs, how
ever, contained $l65 in cash.
Chris Burley, Tom Willis, V. Frazer,
and A. Grant. Port Huron saloonists,
were arrested Wednesday for violating
the liquor laws. Burley pleaded guilty
and will be sentenced in the Circuit
Court, while the other three will have
an examination next Tuesday.
A hoopmaker named Curtis Fall, of
Mt. Forest, mentally unbalanced owing
TO i'll health, while in the presence OF
his wife and little children tried to cut
his throat with an old case knife. The
blade was so dull that he did not sue
coed, but it is thought that he will die.
A story is going the rounds of the
State press saying that mosquitoes may
be kept out of the house by painting
the window stills with kerosene. An
exchange says that the only reliable
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