Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-05-29
State News.

Saginaw had a $4,000 fire the othel
day.
Cyrus Meade, an early settler il
Ypsianti, Is dead.
A small red bug is destroying all the
cherries in Wexford county.
The Acme opera house in Grand
Ledge was destroyed by tire few day
ago.
One of the Methodist Episcopal resi-
deuces will hereafter be located IN De
Jroil.
The Hessian fly and canker worm
are doing great damage AL over the
state.
j. Cressy OF Grand Rapids has been
appointed deputy warden OF Iona
prison.
Alstine NJ. Sabin, an old soldier re.
siding in Flint, was smothered to death
few days ago.
FIX Sheriff John Ct. Mason of Lena
wee county, died At his home in Adraiu
few days ago.
SaEinaw's board of education has de.
cided on a shorter school year, IN order
10 reduce expenses.
a ladies' course is TO be added to the
curriculem of studies in the Michigan
Agricultural college.
William Walworth of Bancroft took
10 grains of morphine and died. he
was temporarily insane.
Bay City's board of education has de
eldcd to dismiss ali the special teach
crs for the ensuing year
DR.. u. c. O'Brien Of Lexington ha,
sued the village for 10000 tor injuries
sustained on bad side walk.
4 copper knife, relic of the mound
builders. was found in Watson town
ship, Allegan county, the other day.
New Hamshire democrats are in fav-
on of sound money and vigorous
maintainance OF the Monroe doctrine.
Coldwater business men have giveL
up the idea of raising S25 900 tor the
new rIiroad-the Central Michigan.
Harry Dale of Detroit has been
SENTENCED to Imprisonment for life III
Jackson prison for assaulting young
grrl.
Judge Maxwell of Bay City will cal,
grand jury to investigate the laxnes,
If police authorities in enforcing the
liquor laws.
Kalamazoo insane asylum is SO
crowded, that probate judges have been
appealed to send none but the very
worst cases there.
June IL is the fourteenth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Knights OF
the Maccabees, and Michigan lodges
are preparing TO celebrate.
The four-y ear-6ld daughter of Mrs
John 5. Breiter of Saginaw ed the
other afternoon, having been in an I'm.
CONSCIOUS condition for Is days.
Alice NJ Holman of Saginaw has
been given verdict of -, 500 again>l
the Union Street railway company tor
injuries sustained in an accident Oh
their line.
Seven new Congregational churches
have been organized in this state dur.
ing the past year. Prof. j. l. Daniel,
of Ohvet is the newly electcd presiden'
u lie state society.
north of Grand Rapids Il is a rainbow
trout and measures 26 inches in length.
Is inches around and weighs pound,
and ounces 1t will be mounted and
sent to the smithsonian institution.
DR.. Preston S. Kellogg and family o.
Battle Creek with two trained nurses.
have gone 20 Honolulu, Hawaii, wherr
a branch adventist sanitarium is to be
opened with the doctor IN ch arge.
The citizens bank of Edwardsbure
closed its doors few days ago !. L.
klechner, cashier, was short $4,000
The shortage has been made good by
the boudsmen and the bank reopened
A proclamation prohibiting the
importation, until November |, of 'reyas
cattle has been issued by Gov. Rich
The purpose is To guard against the IN
lection of domestic cattle with Texa,
fever.
Duncan Mcclellan. a prominent con
tractor, and W. L. Price. carpenter
fell twenty feet to a stone walk with o
collapsed scaffolding in Benton Harboi
the other day. McKeller's legs are
broken IN two places and otherwise in
iured. He cannot live. Price was in
ternally hurt and died the same even
ing.
Hiiisdale college and city are in
mourning over the sudden death OF
Mrs DR.. Dunn. She died of asthma.
within forty.livc minutes from the time
she was taken i'll For about forty
years she had been inscparablv con
nectcd with the interests aud hopes oil
Hlllsdale college, of which, besides be
iug one of the founders, DR.. Dunn ha.
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