Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-04-17
State News.
Duraud wants another graveyard.

the county road system.
Owosso Baptists will dedicate a new
church Sunday, May ).
Twenty-four towns in Michigan baS
fourshing bicy cle clubs.
There are 600 inmates in the Indus
trial home for boys IN Lansing
There were S3,067 barrels of salt H.
spected in this state in March.
A third German church was dcdica
ted in Ann Arbor last Sunday.
Ex-Gov d, IL, jerome is lying criti-
cally i'll, at Watkins Glen, y. Y.
There are l75 more patients in the
Pontiac asylum than there Is room for
A new Baptist church has been or
gained in jackson with 1902 members.
Ottawa county delegates to the dem
ocratic state convention are for free
silver
Prospects are good for a big crop of
apples and small fruits IN the Saginaw
valley
Hough,on county republicans have
declared in favor of Mckinley and
protection.
Nearly every building on the main
street in Rockford was burned the
other night.
Republicans elected seven and the
democrats five OF the city officers IN
Mt. Pleasant
Tuberculosis has been found in seven
Thoroughbred cows on the Agricultural
College farm.
Mrs. A. A Loveland. of Mt. Pleasant
mourns the loss, by death, of carnary
bird IS years.
Hon. Ct. j. Diekema, of Holland, de-
mands recount of the ballots east AZ
the election April Z.
Benton Harbor can get factory for
the manufacture of potato planter by
giving a site and factory room.
Henry Legge, prominent G. A. r.
man aud well-known pioneer of Belle
vue, is dead. He was an old prisoner.
Two children near Linwood village
were poisoned the other day by eating
wild parsnips The children lived but
few hours.
The question of a new school house
was decided in the negative by one
vote, at a special election held Thurs
day of last week.
While Albert Hendry and wife OF
Greenvlle were away from home their
house was set ire and, together with
It's contents, destroyed.
The wife of DR.. G. c. Young. Of
Maple Rapids has fallen heir 10 500
900. bequeathed 10 her by foster
father in Stratford. Ont.
A l0-year-old son Of Charles Hall, Of
Fairgrove, Tuscola county, was thrown
down from a horse, entangled in the
lines and dragged to death.
The Michigan men who were waiting
in Seattle, Wash, for transportation TO
Alaska, refused to sail in the vessel
that left a few days ago, because il was
overloaded.
Frank Rice, recently captured near
M. Pleasant, charged with forgery in
connection with Frank Thompson. has
been held for trial in the circuit court
OF Shiawassee county.
The repubicsn city ticket in Sagi-
nav met its Waterloo on election day
Not a man escaped. a bolt of the re-
publicans helped the democrats. The
new council is democratic.
Rev. John heritage, pastor of a Bap-
fist church in Grand Rapids. married
again soon after the suicide of his wife,
and the other Baptist clergymen in that
city demand an investigation.
Iron Mountain is over-run by thieves
and toughs. The other night the
parish priest was called TO the door.
upon opening which he was confronted
by two mashed men who forced their
way in and ransacked the house. The
same afternoon sneak thief snatched
purse from a lady and succeeded in
making his escape
The Good Friday celebration at Iren
Mouneain, has precipitated an agitation
of the question of an eight-hour work
day, and may result in a strike of all
union miners in Wisconsin. Michigan
aod Minnesota. The question of an
eight-hour work day was voted on at
the spring election, but the result will
not be known for some time.
Mrs AddIe NJ. Brown. who lived in
n little house on South Division street,
Grand Rapids, was burned to death the
other day. She was found by Ter hus-
band. She was partly paralyzed.
When he left home in the morning he
left her sitting by the fire. 1t is sup
posed she attempted to replensh The
fire, and in doing so her dress caught
fire.
The fraudulent attempt of Wyman
=. Ogden, of Harrietta, made some