Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-24
STATE GOSSIP.

Electric cars are now running be
tween L mouth and Worthwhile.
Traverse City viii have a new in
dustry in the shape of another iron
foundry.
The annual cncampmcnt Of the
Michigan q. a. Il. will bc held at Pc
tosltey, June II anu -.
One dead and several injured as the
result OF a sawmill roof falling is re-
ported from Ludington.
There is . movement on foot looking
toward the consolidation Of Oocoda and
MontmoreEcy counties.
The ST. Andrews Catholic school at
Grand Rapids has been destroyed by
fire. Loss. Si.ooJ: insured.
The capacity Of the SaCo.ooo sugar
beet factory 10 be erected at Benton
/ iIarOor WI be 400 tons per day
ehc Wabash railroad in its change
OF time. has sidetracl,cd Belleville.
There is now only one train a day
each way.
The right of way and franchises for
a new electric road from jackson 10
Adrian has been secured for almost the
entire line.
Albert IIeysler. of Bur1cttvillc, who
murdered his wife and stepdaughter
recently. has committed suicide by
taking Paris green.
The 1t. Johns Manufacturing Co.
has changed its name I. the -. Johns
Table CO.. and reduced It's capital from
100000 to 100000.
Large numbers Of wild ducks have
been gathered on the ice in Thunder
Bay which were frozen to death dur
ing the cold weather.
Thirty-three damage suits aggregat
ing claims for SEQ, 900. Is on the docket
for the March term of the circuit court
Of Washtcnaw county.
Andrew Carnegie has leased the
Michigan iron Mining company'S prop
crty on the Menominee range and will
work it on a large scale.
Stewart big Touring mills, located
northeast of lonia, have been destroyed
by fire. The loss will aggregate So
600. with partial insurance.
Saranac people are raising fund to
pay the expense of driving test shaft
TO see if there is coal in paying guam
titles underlying the village.
Geo. Dent, of Lapeer, lost 4 600 bush
els Of potatoes by the recent cold snap
He had been offered soc per bushel for
them before he opened the pit.
4 consolidation of the Bank OF Sagi-
nav and the American Commercial and
Savings bank has been effected The
former succeeds TO the business.
Menominee people are circulating
remonatrance against the passage of a
bill by the legislature 20 establish Il
state normal school at Marquette.
Iqnia county fruit growers have
formed Il horticultural society to swap
IDEAS and protect themselves against
INSCRIPTIONS commission merchants.
Ingham county people are keeping
their mental balance very well of late.
There has been but one of them sent
to an insane asylum for several months.
Contracts have been let for l. large
sandstone buildings in the vicinity of
the Red Jacket mine near Calumet. and
1000 hotel j. TO be built at Calu-
met.
Isaac Anderson. OF Saginaw. claims
ne has invented plan whereby elec-
tricitv can be generated with oxygen.
and the same will revolutioniZc the
cost.
EsseXvillc people are all worked up
over ,he move by the Bay county rep
resentat.ves to detach part of the
village and throw it into Hampton
township.
Congressman Geo. Spalding. of Mon
roe. whose term OF Office expires March
3, has secured the appointment of post
master at Monroe with salary Of So
200 per year.
One result of the recent cold weather
VIII be big demand for glass fruit
jars TO replace those broken by the
frost Judging from reports from all
parts of the state.
1t has been SO cold at Grand Rapids
that grave diggers had TO give MP their
jobs, as the ground was frozen SO
tightly that nothing short of dyna-
mite would bulge it.
Bogus quarters and half-dollars are
being circulated quite extensively at
Grand Rapids. Both bear the date of
1898, and are excellent specimens OF
the counterfeiters art.
A movement has been started at
Hastings looking towards the building
Of a fine new opera house. and the !
chances FOR the success OF the project I
are at present first class.
Marshal Frank Dolan. Of Mt Glenn I
ems. was badly slaShed by knife in |
the hands Of Phineas Phillip. an in |
sane person. Phillip imagined Dolan /
was couspiring against him.
VIM. Conklin. of Battle Creek, aged |
Go, committed suicide by shooting at
Charlotte. An hour later his father
died in the Kalamazoo asylum. where
he had bppn confined several vparS