Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hapce"
lnes Of the Past Week.

erected In Bay City at cost or $780,
900. The building will seat 1000
people.
Former Judge Robert f. Frazer,
sixty-eight years old, one of the best
known members OF the Detroit Bar
association, is dead as the result OF
an operation for mastorditis.
William Eller, variety actor, who
claims Detroit as his home, was con
victed OF larceny OF wig, at Port
Huron. which he rented from a cos
tuner. Eller was sent to jail for
forty-five days In default of $25 fine.
Death has summoned Captain Isaac
Colby of Algonac. He was one of the
Oldest civil war veterans in Michigan.
Captain Colby was in his eighty-sixth
year He was a member of the Loyal
Legion.
William Taylor, thirty-six years old,
OF Dearborn, is in serious condition
at Emergency hospital, Detroit, as the
result of injuries received near the
village. Taylor was riding home on
an interurban car and was thrown of
at curve.
John A. Tener, grand exalted ruler
of the Elks. while the guest of the
BAY City lodge, announced his APP
pointment of Charles f. Sweet OF
Dowagiac TO succeed the late j. A
Leckie as grand esteemed royal
knight.
Eugene Croft, thirty-three years old.
was struck by a freight train while
driving across the Michigan Central
tracks at Bay City. His right arm
was severed Just below the shoulder,
and he received other injuries that
may prove fatal.
Many changes are noticeable In
Lake City since local option has taken
effect, among them the better enforce
ment Of previously existing laws, the
local officials being much more care
full about plain DRINKS and other
minor offenses than before.
AS result of his search for a small
piece of brass coupling, stolen from
the Grand Trunk railroad shops, Pc
lice Captain Kerwin OF Port Huron
unearthed wagon load OF brass and
iron finishings, which bear the Grand
Trunk stamp, and which has been
identified as property stolen during
the last six months.
Orders have been received to i'm
mediately close, for an indefinite
period, all the Escanaba shops Of the
Northwestern road The order affects
all machinists, blacksmiths, carpen-
ters and car repairers and throws 200
men out of work. For the past three
months the shops have been operated
only three days each week.
While hunting on Murray's lake,
near Ann Arbor, Cylde Brown shot at
mud hen. The rifle bullet glanced
from the water and struck Willard
Gaplin, fifteen years old, who was
walking in his fathers orchard. The
bullet entered the boys right arm and
passed through it into his body. II
is said that the lad will live.
AS a finale to about two years of
controversy in the courts, Lawson r.
Becker receiver, has sold at auction
the Fenton (Mich.) plant of the Aetna
Portland Cement company. The plant
was bid in for $4,000 by John A.
Myers, representing majority bond
/ holders to the extent of about three
fourth of a 100000 issue.
While trimming a toenail, his knife
slipped, and Eugene Clark of Green
toe. Blood poisoning ensued, and the
toe had to be amputated. Later ii
became necessary to cut off the foot
at the ankle, and again he had the
| leg taken off above the knee. Chances
, for his recovery are against him, &C
cording to attending physicians.
The commercial fishermen of the
state who have reasoned IL out that
an Illegal fish caught In net of legal
mesh becomes a legal fish are des-
tined to be rudely disabused of this
opinion. A campaign of enlightment
has been instituted by the game and
fish wardens department. and where
IL is necessary prosecutions are TO
be brought and the mission of the
officials made clear through court pro
ceedings and the imposition of fine.
Fishing for brook trout from a raft
in Morgan lake, west OF Marquette,
Carl Mattson of Negaunee was the
victim of peculiar accident. as a re-
suit OF which he will probably become
totally blind. He had booked a fish,
and, while he was endeavoring to land
II, he stumbled and fell AS he struck
the timbers of which the craft was
composed, an outstanding spike en-
tered his remaining good eve, he hav-
ing lost the sight of the other in a
mining accident some five years be-
fore.
William Herman, an old Owosso
offender, was sentenced to sixty-five
ldays in the Detroit house of correc-
tion and went shoeless to serve his
sentence Hermans confessed to steal.
ing chickens. three OF which he Sc
cured at the home OF Ira Thompson.
When ready to be taken to the work.
house, Thompson excitedly appeared.
you scoundrel," he shouted. those
are my shoes you are wearing. Take
'em off!", To avoid physical punish
ment, Herman removed them, and
Thompson took. the shoes away. He
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