Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-09-24
NEWS NEWS OF STATE.
cIeAHed From Daily Michigan Hap
penlngs of the Past Week.


Detroit Sept. 81, when Eugene ".
Debs, the Socialistic presidential can
didate, will come to that city on his
'red special"
Lucas ID. Cole, aged seventy
OF Ypsilanti, was found hanging dead
In his barn Cole had been dement,
cd since severe illness last winter.
Thomas Becker, a woodsman from
Rockford. H., and employed by the
]. W. Wells Lumber company of Me-
nominee, was killed near Randville
by falling limb
Orrin Simmons, an old and well
known resident Of Calhoun county,
was found dead in his barnyard near
Tekonsha. He was kicked over the
heart by a horse several days ago,
and it is thought that his heart was
weakened by the blow.
The Michigan national guard wishes
to enlist eleven bakers. In making
their camp arrangements 1t has been
found that the militia is shy of bread.
makers, and an order has been sent
out to company commanders to en-
list men.
AS the T. a. w. limited car was
entering Adrian, man stepped out
on the rear platform. His hat blew
F, of, and 1t is supposed he attempted
to save 1t. He fell off the rear steps
and was picked up dead by the train
crew. The man was identified as Ed
ward Larkins. an Adrian carpenter.
William Smith Lamborn is dead at
the U. of NJ. hospital. Mr.. Lamborn,
who is a man of eighty years and
feeble, was taking a walk, and while
crossing culvert he stopped to tie
his shoe and lost his balance. falling a
distance Of fifteen feet His head
struck stones beneath.
Coroner BENEFITS Jury in Wayne
county has completely exonerated Dep
uty Sheriff Charles Tolland of Spring
wells. who shot and killed Herbert
Green a few days ago. Tolland said
he shot Green in self defense after
Green, who was a cocaine fend, re-
sisted arrest.
The body Of the middle-aged wo-
man found floating near the Detroit
Boat club, in Detroit, has been idenu-
ned as that of Mrs. Rosa Slack, forty
one years old, Of 1143 Bellevue ave
nue. of that city. Dependency over
the death OF her husband was the |
cause Of the woman having drowned
herself.
Horace B. Durant of Miami, Okla. |
special Indian agent of the depart |
ment of the interior at Washington, Is
working in Northport and other towns
in Leelanau county. making lists of
the names OF the Ottawa and Chippe-
wa Indians who are entitled to shares
in the $4,000 recently awarded in
the court of claims to these tribes.
Olga Sundberg, seventeen-year-old
girl living on a farm west of Cadil-
lac, is in Jail, being under suspicion of
killing a babe to which she gave
birth recently, and which was found
buried behind the barn Of her parents
home. A warrant probably charging
her with murder will be issued.
The fve-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs John o. Butler of Charlotte.
playfully tied a cord around the neck
Of her six-weeks' old sister. who was
lying on bed. and then either pushed
or attempted to lift the baby off the
bed. Baby naughty" said the little
girl to her mother, who went into the
room TO find the infant strangled to
death.
While DR. Otto Scherer, 212 Freder
lex street, Detroit, was taking his two
boys, Henry and Otto, Jr, to school
in his automobile, the machine ran
over and fatally injured little two
year-old Joe DombrowsH, son of Al
bert Dombrowsh, 755 Riopelie street.
ward. No blame is attached to the
doctor
Unsuccessful in two previous at.
tempts at suicide, Gustav Farhnow.
laborer, forty-eight years Of age, &C.
complished his purpose finally. His
body was found hanging by a long
rope from the branch of q tree on
the Allandale farm. nine miles south
OF Grand Rapids. II had evidently
been there two week. Farhnow had
a quarrel with his wife.
Mrs. Homer Apsey, who is visiting
friends in Lansing, has asked the DO
lice of several cities to try to locate :
her husband. Apsey visited the state
fair in Detroit, where he had a horse
entered in the races. He left there
with the expressed intention of going
10 Grand Rapids, where the horse was
also entered, but both he and his
PAGER have disappeared q
Lyle Rolf, aged eleven years, found
two pieces of copper wire attached
10 some metallic substance which he
lid not understand Lyle has a great
liking for electrical experiments and
he connected the copper wires with 4
a battery. The next instant there was s
IN explosion, and when the doctors ;
got through with the boy they had
picked many pieces Of dynamite caps q
nut OF his body. Nobody knows what
he internal machine was constructed j.
or or how II came to be left on the 4