Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-12-27
State News.

10 purchase sn electric light plant
The Raisjn river has risen SO high as 10
cause regular spring freshe, AT Monroe
Gouac lake, near Battle Creek has
risen eight inches ana is overlooking into
creeks
An attempt 10 wreck Michigan Cen
trail passenger train was made at Niles last
Friday.
The panic in New York stock has
reached Detroit and things financially
are looking squally.
Feb is the date fixed for the first ship
ment of pig iron from Gladstone's mon
ster new charcoal furnace.
The Mauistee opera house has been sold
under chattel mortgage of s., %? 90 held
by II Moler, of New York.
Petoskey is infested with fire bugs
The latest fire is the Bay View conserva
tory of music The total loss is S. 900.
Clinton county will vote on local option
Feb. 3. The campaign Will he opened
Dec. %, with mass meetin5 10 st. Johns
1t is proposed to consolidate the four
English-speakiug Maccahee tents in Port
Huron. giving total membership of
1900.
Mrs. Col. W. Davis, OF Port Huron, has
celebrated the sixty nntn anniversary Of
her marriage. She has lived in one house
As years
Gov Rich has refused the pardon Of
William Conn. who was sent from IOnia
for five years for shooting Godfrey
Wetzel
Burr Oak, with 500 people, is trying to
support four different churches The
average attendance is 30 OF 40 and one
minister is happy on $500 a year
Isaac Terwilliger at Stanton was con
victed of criminal assault on the persons
of his three daughters. and sentenced TO
20 years imprisonment at Jackson
An ice gorge in the Black river threat
ened the Grand Trunk bridge al Port
Huron. but broke before it did any dam
age. The current runs five miles an
hour.
Leon A. Addey, of Grand Rapids smokes
pretty high priced cigars. Four of them
cost him just $2l. 10 the other day. That
was the amount of his fine for stealing
them.
An innocent couple near Adrian. who
had been divorced, continued To live to-
ge,her because, drought lack of funds,
they had been unable TO obtain copy of
the decree.
Burglars looted the general stor Of w.
: Culver and the railroad station at
Brooklyn, and tried 10 enter the store of
A ID G. ittla
their trouble
A serious fire occurred at OwossO
Monday night, in the car shops of The
Ann Arbor road, three employees losing
their lives The fire is SUI posed to have
caught from stove.
The Bell company has reduced the price
of commercial telephones at Kalamazoo
from s, 80 TO Sc a quarter-all because a
new company has invaded the town. The
price was formerly 81.
Frank Lee. Bangor veteran. weighs
exactly 400 pounds He claims To be the
heaviest man in the G. A. X When he
was discharged from the service in $50
his weight was only 1888
The remains of Sidney Preston who dis.
appeared from Caro- last June have been
found near That place on the Fourier
farm The cOroners jury returned YER
diet OF SUICIDE in the case.
Trouble which has been brewing at
Lansing for several years eliminated
Tuesday in The election Of FIR. Sattery Of
ST Mays church together with SIX
visiting priests, from the parsonage.
There is considerable agitation o. The
question Of Michigan Central bridge
over the Detroit river. The Michigan
Central people want bridge for their ex-
clusiye use II is probable, however, that
the bill in congress introduced for that
purpose, will grant equal privileges TO all
roads.
Oliver Brow. of Grand Rapids attemp
ted suicide on Friday last il is thought
because Of financial trouble He took a
carload of potatoes to Toledo. and received
only enough To pay the freight and buy a
ticket home In "A fit OF dependency he
attempted to shoot himself He was dia.
armed and made no esstance
The board of regents Friday made sew
eral changes in the plan and management
OF the summer school NJ AUn ArbOr. IN
imports Mt change is in the mode of com
pensation Of instructors, which has
heretofore been based ON the number In
the classes Of the instructors The school
will begin at the close of the L. of VI.
year June 20, 1896.
The life of Minnie Sparks was at
tempted by mailman at Benton Harhor
recently. lIor assailant was Harry Sweet
mar, who struck her terrific bio on the
head just as she was stepping from the
house. She was still unconscious at last
reports. lie was an employe and had been
discharged by her father lie made an at.
tempt on her life before that with pistol
but failed.
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