Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-02-01

county will locate near LaGrange, lnd.,
and raise celery.
James Glynn's house near Coopers-
willie was struck 10y lightning one night
last week, and burned To The ground.
Battle Greek complains Of ,uricit of
tramps. The fraternity % seem To- re-
gard that city a. It's Michigan head
quarters.
Albert Heling, professional sword
SwaliOwer and tire-eater. while practic-
ing in The Muskegon opera house, swal-
lowed an lS.lnch sword. He was in the
habit of placing three swords down his
neck at once. He had placed one there
and was in the act of putting the second
one when it hit the first and pushed it
below the tonsils. Physicians were at
once summoned and made an incision
i'm the stomach, but the sword had pen
etrated ii and sunk 10 the lower part of
the abdomen. where il was found and
removed. Heling died the next day.
Fire broke out in BARRIERS general
store in Fenuville the other morning.
With no apparatus for lighting fire, the
citizens were practically helpless. and
the fire was not under control until
$40, 900 worth of property had been des-
troyed, on which there was but SIS, 600
insurance. During the progress of the
fire Mrs. Newton Arnold was found dead
in neighboring house. Her death re-
suited from heart disease. aggravated
by the excitement caused by the fire.
A rich vein of camel coal has been
found on Zill brothers farm near Bay
City.
An attempt was made the other night
to destroy the Rescue Home of Kings
Sons and Daughters in Sault Ste Marie,
by dynamite.
A. b. Turner of Kalamazoo has sued
+. y. Dingley, his late partner on the
Grand Rapids Eagle, for $4,000 and
interest. Dingley gave his note for this
amount of stock on the Eagle.
Owosso will soon have paper box
and pail factory.
Shelby will have water works COM
pleted May |.
Schools are closed and public meet
ings prohibited in Traverse City. Too
much dlphtheria.
The union depot in Clare burned the
other night. A few pieces of baggage
are all that was saved.
An electric railway between Saginaw
and Bay City will be commenced soon
"a weather permits.
Michigan has $40 Masonic lodges with
a membership of 30,47O. The next ses-
sion of the grand lodge will be held in
Saginaw
Isabella county pedagogues will meet
in Mt. Pleasant February 1916.
Morris Jackson, since 1886 a resident
of Shiawassee county, died in Corunna
last week.
The thirty-frst meeting of the general
conference of the Seventh Day Advent
lists of the world will be held IL Battle
Creek from February Is to March 10. q
Miners in the Black Diamond coal
mines near Jackson are on a strike be-
cause the owners refuse to adopt regula-
ton cars, or to increase the price per
car.
The Oakland county grange and the
county teachers association held a Joint
meeting in Pontiac last week.
Rev. Josiah Phelps, for twenty-five
years rector Of ST. James Episcopal
church in Tecumseh, is dead
An Ontonagon numismatician has a
collection Of coins valued at $4,000.
In one of the intermediate depart
ments of the Bay City schools all but
three of the boys are cigaret tends.
Ann Arbors reform league will abol-
ish all club rooms wherein men look
upon the "wine when 1t is red
Ii Bowerson, an Ionia merchant, has
been fined six cents for keeping his store
open on Sunday.
Grand Rapids has put in bid for the
next state fair.
Judge Daboll of St. Johns stands a
good chance to be elected state COM
mander of the G.. A. Il. at the next en-
campment.
Three Rivers wants a city charter.
1t cost eX-Warden Parsell S2O5 per
convict more than the earnings To run
lonia prison one year. SO says Warden
Fuller.
A business meeting of the Michigan
Press association will be held in Detroit
February 1920.
The constitutionality of the law en-
| powering the governor TO transfer pris-
oners from one prison to another will
be settled in the supreme court.
Hon. Richmond Kingman, for more
than 80 years a resident of Battle Creek,
is dead. He was one of the wealthiest
men in Michigan.
Boyne City had $4,000 fire last
Sunday.
Walter j. Haase, who was discharged
from the Audtor-General's office last
| December has sued that officer and also
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