Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-12
NEWS OF STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap
peninas of the Past Week.

Grand Rapids elected Horatio Earle
president.
Miss Ann McCollum is dead at Ann
bered the city when the university
campus was wheat field.
II is reported that Richard Fletcher
& Bay City will succeed Malcolm j.
Mcleod az state labor commissioner
when the latter becomes collector OF
internal revenue In Detroit Aug. l.
Henry L. Wilson, who grew up in
Saginaw, is under sentence of death
ct Duluth for murder1As his wife. His
cid mother has gone there to plead
with the authorities for his life.
Several hundred Knights of Colum-
bus will meet in Saginaw next Wed
nesday from Detroit. Grand Rapids,
Flint, Bay City, Lansing, Owosso, Mt.
Pleasant and several other towns TO
tnitiate a large class.
The unknown man who rolled into
the mill race in Battle Creek while
asleep. and drowned, has been identi-
Aed as John White a farmer and
nneman who lived near Three Rivers.
While pitching. in a ball game, Rus
sell Webster of Rochester, aged TWEEN
ty-seven, farmer and amateur pitch
or of some note, twisted his arm In
such a manner as to break It at the
wrist
Jacob Rothfuss of Bridgewater was
hauling grain, when his wagon gave
way, and he was pitched TO the
ground His head struck a stone, and
he was found a short time later in
. dying condition.
While working in the field, Peter
Roll, living a mile south of Fenton.
fell dead just as his wife reached his
side in response 10 his call for help
He was sixty-three years old, civil
war veteran.
While driving through the woods on
his route, Rural Mail Carrier Charles
Hoffman of Boyne City narrowly es-
capped being killed by falling tree
which crushed out the life OF his
horse.
Bids received for the construction
OF a training school building at the
Western Michigan Normal school at
Kalamazoo have been rejected by the
state board of education and more
bids asked for.
President Glasgow of the state rail
road commission. reports that bust
ness in Michigan is picking up, and
while not very strong. distinct finan-
aoT ind L.
Michigan has been apparent the past
few weeks
Elmer c. Grant of the Fairview
stock farm two miles south of
Rochester. claims the banner wheat
crop so far this season. Fourteen
acres yielded $40 bushels, one field
averaging forty-seven bushels to the
acre
Victor Johnson, liquor dealer OF Es-
canada, has started suit for $4,000
damages against Rev. c. A Lund, pas
tor OF the Swedish Lutheran church,
alleging malicious arrest. Johnson
was accused OF violating the liquor
law and acquitted.
Governor Warner has so far made
40 speeches In his campaign for NOM
nation for a third term. This week
h IL making an auto trip through
Livingston and Jackson counties,
touching two or three points In Wash
tAnaw and Hillsdale counties.
An automobile in Saginaw collided
With the carriage in which DR.. ]. H.
Riopells and his wife were riding. DR..
Riopslls was thrown out, but alightsd
On his feet and performed the re-
narkable feat OF catching his wife as
she was pitched out after him.
Fred Langdon, q brick mason at
Traverse City, has discovered his sis
ter. Mrs. Kate Mccoy, for whom he
had been searching for some time. at
the request OF an eastern relative, in
the northern asylum in Traverse City.
She had been committed year ago
from Lake City after an injury.
Fremont Ward, superintendent OF
construction of the new federal build
ing being erected In Ann Arbor. has
received letter from the supervising
architect at Washington, saying that
eeAS liVhh viii dutC vi buC Lew QOSI-
ONCE is to have the imposing front
originally designed for it and also
other entrances not on the original
plans. but gained through the efforts
q Postmaster Prsttyman.
A Marquette foreigner, declaring
that President Roosevelt was king"
Of the United States. his application
for citizenship papers has been turned
down. Like that Of second foreign
a, who insisted Mckinley was still
head OF the nation. his petition has
been continued In order to give him
opportunity to post up. A third man,
when asked IL he had read the Consti-
tuition OF the United States, professed
ignorance OF the existence Of such q
document.