Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-10-02
AROUND THE STATE.

ANO ~ IN - III - a 4 L.
Charles Fredoriclscn, aged 80, was
killed by cavern in the Cadillac
gravel pit
South MICHIGAN was visited by n
severe frost and late corn and vege-
tables ruined in some sections.
Nine tramps who refused to obey
trainmen's orders to leave a freight
train We're met az Vassar by officers
and seven arrested
Mrs Jason Pierce. for forty-hve
years a resident OF Hart. died there
A son, Franklin Pierce, travelling
salesman for The Standard ON Co., OF
Grand Rapids. is The only survivor.
Gov. Fred Warner WIN ride IN car
riaee No. - when ne goes 10 st.
Louis 10 meet iha executives of other
states and President Roosevelt, ac-
cordlng e. the drawing made in that
city
Walter S. Mann. q former resident
OF Saginaw. SOC of Dr. Mann has end
ed his life by shooting himself at Del
ray, Fla. No further particulars have
been learned. Mann had not been in
good health.
Convict Davis, who escaped from
the Grand Naiais iail on a Duluth
steamer and held up one passenger
and assaulted another. was captured
at silver Mountain. near Port Arthur,
by posse.
Plans for the new poaicfhce TO be
erected in Flint have been revised in
accordance with the wishes of Post
master James Button The original
plans were such as not TO give sum
Client working room.
Ada Curtis. ased about 27, Of Dow
ariac was found unconscious in her
room in a Battle Creek hotel. and
died 10 Nichols hospital q few hours
later. Physicians say death was due to
morphine poisoning.
Charles wilkinson. the Chicago
jeweler arrested I'm Grand Haven sew
eral. weeks ago for obtaining money
under false pretenses. was sentenced
to pay a nne Of $50 or 90 to the
works for three months.
Although Peter Olson. Of Escanaba,
slashed his throat from car TO ear
Sunday, severing his windpipe, the
! physicians who were called say they
believe they can save his life. He
was Respondent from III health.
A clever Chicago woman swindled a
| Waterford woman ont Of $3.50 by the
worthless check method. Pretending to
want TO purchase the Waterford wo-
mans home, the stranger succeeded
In getting identified" at the bank
Despondent because his wife secured
a divorce, b. " Weir, IS, a painter
and varnisher. committed suicide at
his boarding house in Grand Rapids
by swallowing an ounce OF ladanum.
The coroner decided no inquest was
necessary.
Two fatalities have been recorded
since the opening OF the hunting sea-
son. Hugo Cotini, Of Quincy, was shot
when he looked into his fathers gun,
and John Lauri shot himself in the
thigh while pushing his boat off with
the butt of his gun.
Birmingham seems TO have been
spotted by burglars as an easy mark.
OF late hardly night has passed but
an attempt Is made on some store.
Sunday night was no exception. but
the marshal spoiled the plans of some
one trying to break into O'Neil's meat
I market.
From eating an over-rlpe water.
melon, Rynald Weltman, aged S, ol
Muskegon, died of ptomaine poison.
ing.
Joe Kewaskagun. n Bay Shore In
dian, was found dead with his head
mutilated on a lonely road, and VIII
lam Horton and Otto GETAWAY, who
are alleged to have quarreled with
him, are held on murder charges.
In two addresses. one before the
young men and one before the yorue
, women OF Olivet college, President
Lancaster denounced the college mat
| rimonial agency" and declared that hi
, is going to put stop to college en-
gagements at his institution.
Complaints have been made tha
4 many railroad telegraph operators, VIII,
are members of the telegraphers
: union and consequently In sympathy
, with the strike OF the commercial Cd
= orators, have been delaying Western
( Union messages, which they have beer
a given to handle In the hope of aidinl
+ the strikers. Supt. w. +. Bradley o
the Ann Arbor railroad, has sent
circular to all the operators on tn,
: road directing that they receive an,
a transmit Western Union message
4 without parley or delay.
o Twelve paroles we're granted by tn
e state board of pardons at the meet
ing held In Jackson last week.