Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-11-10
State NEWS NOTES


the past few days.
John McAllister. a married man, 80
years old, was shot and instantly kill
cd at Maple Ridge by his brother-in-
law, William Bridges, who had mis-
taken McAllister for a deer.
Lyman Russell and Chas. Stewart
Of Camden, got 30 and 10 days e.
spectively in Judge Woods's court Fri.
day for drunkenness. They attempted
breaking in farm houses.
Prof. Taft, OF the NJ. A. c., is ar
ranging for a normal institute for the
farmers institute lectures to be held
at the college during the week be-
ginning Monday, Nov. 20.
Anna A. Perry, aged IS, and Flo
renee Pearson, aged IA, OF Saginaw,
have been missing from their homes
for several days, and the police have
been unable to find any trace OF them.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ainsworth of Port
Huron, has begun suit in circuit court
against the City Electric Railway Co
for $4,000 damages, claiming she was
thrown from street car and seriously
injured last October.
Conservative estimates OF iron ore
shipped from the upper peninsula this
year place the seasons output at 3D.
100000 tons. Predictions on next
years business are that the output
will reach 40.000.00O.
II. f. Haefer, of Fruitport, has rails.
ed peck of large. sweet-tasting pea
ruts, on his farm this year. He is
inclined to believe his experiment
shows the possibility of a paying in
oustry for Michigan farmers.
c. B. Berry killed himself at the
Northern Michigan asylum Monday
morning by strangulation, by a piece
of sheet. He was at one time one OF
the leading farmers of Leelanau
county, living near Maple city.
l.. |. Wright, of Houghton, has been
elected treasurer of the state board
of education TO succeed J. G.. Thomn-
son, of Evart, who has been appointed
a member of the state tax commits
sion.
Burglars entered the jewelry store
OF Oscar Gustav, at Northport, ami
carried off three hundred gold rings.
two watches, and a quantity Of other
jewelry of value. There is no clue
to the robbers.
Sherman Boughton, aged about 35,
a well-known Calhoun county farmer.
was fatally injured. While jumping
around a hay baler to keep warm the
board broke and he fell on a cross
bar. injuring the pelvis internally.
Physicians say he can't live.
William Maurer of Prescott was .r
rested Thursday on the charge Of
criminal SANDER, preferred by Miss
Alma Hacht, a popular young lady Of
SIandish. He was fined $50 and costs
or 80 days at the Detroit house of cor
rection He will appeal to the circuit
court.
Possessor OF a collection OF rare
stamps, estimated to be worth $40.
600, Edgar Melton, of Battle Creek,
is easily in a class by himself in the
state of Michigan. His home is
veritable museum with its rare stamps
rare coins, rare autographs and rare
books.
Berrien county fruit growers are
simply rolling in wealth this fall as
the result of one of the best fruit crops
eevr known in the Michigan fruit belt.
Peaches, grapes, raspberries, black
berries, strawberries and other small
fruits were fine crop, and netted the
growers good returns.
Christian Noneman, aged 60, one "
the oldest and best-known furniture
woikers in Grand Rapids, dropped dead
at his work in the Berkey & Gay Fur.
niture Co.'S factory Friday. Heart
trouble caused by the shock OF the
death OF his daughter a week ago was
the cause. A widow and several
grown children survive.
& Judge Hopkins of Marshall, has en-
tered a decree of foreclosure in favor
OF Senator Alger of Detroit. for $27..
$40 against the Grape Sugar Cereal
Co., of Battle Greek and its stockhold-
ers, Congressman Gardner, ex-Secre
tary of State Roscoe ID. Dix and At
torney Walter s. Powers.
At the sale of bankrupt property
Of NJ. l.. Stewart & Co., at Owosso,
Monday, for the benefit OF creditors
by the Detroit Trust Co., trustee, the
Stewart bank. building was bid in by
Isaac II. Keller, president OF the Cit
liens Saving bank, for an investment,
at $15,500. Total of real estate sol |
amounted to s1S,4S9 so.
Elmer DeWitte. representing the
Lehigh railway, has spent one year
and eight months trying to locate a
car OF furniture shipped from New
York to Grand Rapids. He finally |
found the car between Port Huron and |
Saginaw on the Pere Marquette rail
way II had been shipped wrong and |
stayed on a side track for many
Mrs. w. II. Ellis, of 1907 Thrity-sec-