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

donated six acres on Rletz hill to Man
istee for public park.
Charles Tralkalke OF Crawling was
run over by train at Pinconning, and
both his legs were cut off. He will
die
William Vivian, former Saginaw
ian, has been accidentally killed at
St. John, Wash. by boy, who was
firing at mark.
Mrs. Mary A. Wenger OF Yale,
whose husband died during an opera
ton, has started suit against the sur
geon for $4,000 damages.
The North Michigan Carriers asso-
citation meets at Tawas City on Labor
day, Sept. Z, with the postmasters of
the district
An orthodox Greek church is to be
established in Grand Rapids, together
with a parochial school, In which the
Syrians will be taught In their own
language.
Frank La Forge decided his prop
erty to his son and the latters son
in return for his keep. Now they are
divorced, and he seeks the deed re-
cinded as he is homeless.
Absent from home for ten years.
Gerrit Brace, a cowboy, recognized
his parents in the audience when d
wild west show exhibited in Muske-
gon, and happy reunion followed.
Three thousand people attended the
Huron Shore Sunday School associa-
ton picnic at Alpena. Excursion
trains brought people from all points
between Cheboygan and Tawas.
Ernest Heinz, a farmer near Elsie,
fell from a scaffold eighteen feet to
the cement floor of the barn, striking
on his head andfshoulders. He is to-
tally blind, and it is feared he will
die.
The expense to Oakland county of
was more than 5000. James Smith
OF Rochester was not acquitted, but
the jury disagreed. b. V. Woodward
of Pontiac was acquitted.
Sneak thieves entered the home of
Chief of Police A. U. Mccall, at Flint.
while the family were absent and,
after ransacSing the place, departed
with about $3.50 worth of jewelry.
The chief is working on the case.
William Dwight Edwards, aged nifty
seven, formerly a we'll known Detroit
business man, is dead at the home of
his mother. Mrs. John NJ Edwards.
in Kalamazoo, OF valvular disease of
the heart. He was born in Ksla..s1'a
ZOO.
John Perkins, barr oe South
Boardman, broy-e. NJ, -. :,
gasoiil$"sn contact with burner.
~ building was saved, but all the
fixtures were ruined. Several per-
sons were slightly burned. Perkins
was quite painfully burned.
The Pontiac Buggy company has
been entertaining Crawford & Van
Give of x nsas City and eight OF
their travelling statesmen. The firm
is the MANAGER OF the Emerson New
ton COMPANY. one OF the largest whole
sale houses in the west.
John Phillip kirn Of Ann Arbor Is
dead, aged sixtysix wears. Two
weeks ago Mr. Kim suffered a sun.
stroke and ever since has laid in a
semi conscious condition. A widow
survives.
Damage suits for sums aggregatine
$4,000 have been started against rail
roads at Bay City the Bay City Trac
ton and Electric company being de
PENDANT in four cases. he Michigan
Central in two and the Pere Marquette
and Hecla Belt line in one each. AL
OF the suits are based on personal in
juries.
The Genesee County Telephone
company, which started out TO fur
nish free service TO all subscribers
within the county limits, has returned
the property it had acquired from the
Saginaw Valley Telephone company
and announced that the concern was
defunct Financial difficulties are
given as the cause.
Leland is TO have a Chautauqus
course beginning Monday, Aug. II
and closing Saturday, Aug. %. 8. E
Blackwood, who has had charge o.
the details, has secured exceptionally
high talent, and if this course meets
with success. II will be an annual fea
ture, these Chautauqua assemblies be
ing held in but few points in the
state.
w. B. Warren, fifty-eight years, 4
city employee of Battle Creek, was
probably fatally injured by beini
struck by a Grand Trunk passengei
train. Warren was walking on tn,
double track right-of-way and though
the train was approaching on another
track than the one he was watkins
on. His right arm and his hip wer,
broken. and he is believed to hav,
received internal injuries that ma,
cause death.
When William j. Hildebrand lee
Mrs. Nettie Chestnut Cleveland to tn,
altar OF a Hillsdale church. their pro
ceedings were Interrupted by tn,
former husband OF the woman. from
whom she had become divorced sew
eral years ago. The minister aske,
the usual questions and was about y
tie the knot when Cleveland. the frs
husband, arose and declared he knew
Of reasons why Hidlebrand should no
marry the woman. Ne said he waAte,
her Mrs. Cleveland was asked Il
choose between the two men, and Oh
picked the new one. When last sesG
fhe three were WALKING Away -