Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-27
STATE NEWS NOTES.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Happen
ings Ct the Past Week.

Owing TO the failure of the George
Stapley company, Cincinnati brokers,
the Grand Rapids Office OF Connor II.
Smith, broker. is closed.
Mrs. j. III. Mitchell OF Ionia has been
electel supreme receiver of the Royal
Nighbors of America at the conven-
tion In Chicago.
The body of Albert Henderson. the
Detroit students at Alma academy.
who was drowned from his canoe, was
recovered by the use OF dynamite. The
body foated to the surface.
Sparks from her pipe set fire to the
clothing OF Mrs. Alvira Brown, a ne
gress, aged forty-eight years, in her
home on Benton street In Detroit, and
she was burned to death.
Lizzie Maxwell OF Jackson was sent
to the Detroit house of correction
for from one to Ave years for rob-
bling John Whalen of Union City OF
$2l in a resort here.
While Kicking at rat in an alley.
n "OAtNJs Oil OhSlhttl GluplOytu ny
the Detroit United Railway, in De
troit, fell and broke his right leg near
the hip.
The residence of ex-Mayor ii. c.
Guillot at Pontiac was entered by
burglars while the family were out
automobiling, and in the loot taken
was a Masonic ring, valued at 800.
Other things Of value were also taken.
Roy ID. Wagner OF Eaton Rapids,
leader of the I.unkard band, one OF
the most prominent musicians in the
state. is dead of pneumonia. He had
directed bands in Lansing, Charlotte,
Alma and other points in Michigan.
For stealing eight live chickens,
William and Albert Hart and II. l..
Hines, Detroit youths, were fined $25
each at Pontiac. They paid They
said they had stolen the fowl "just as
lark"
Teutonia at Marine City reports that
during a storm on Lake Erie, Fred
Tebo, a seaman, fell overheard and
was drowned. Tebo's home was in Ma
rine City. He was about forty years
old and unmarried.
August Hertz OF the firm OF Hertz
& Hosbach, window sash manufactur-
ers of Detroit, alleging that Louis Van
Dali, cafe proprietor, has alienated the
affections of Mrs. Bertha Hertz, has
started suit, asking $4,000 damages
of Van Dali
The home OF j. B. Branch, one of
the finest residences in Coldwater,
was completely Quilted at night by fire.
The family, awakened by the smoke,
escaped in their night clothes. The
damage is estimated at $4,000, COW
cred by insurance.
Mrs John Huntington, aged seventy
eight yeaxs, a resident of Owosso for
ffty-six years. is dead Seventeen
years ago her husband left for Eng.
land 10 look up an estate OF which he
had heard he was an heir. He bought
a ticket 10 New York and has never
been heard from since
1t is believed that the Chelsea bank
will finally pay about 20 per cent on
deposits The bank has already paid
one dividend of 80 per cent, and IL Is
understood that Received Wedemeyer
will pay another OF 20 per cent as
soon as possible, probably in the fall
The final payment may be several
a Norman w. Green, for more than
"a dozen years the living skeleton
with Barnum & Bailey's circus, is dead
at the Lincoln hotel in Grand Rapids
OF pneumonia Green,t was six feet
two inches in height and weighed but
ninety pounds He was thirty-two
years old and leaves a widow and one
daughter.
Daring the chilly water in order &c
have an early swim, Martin Visco. II
years old of Detroit, was drowned
in the canal at Water Works park
while swimming with his companions
Edward and Joseph Oss. of 3S4 East
/ Alexandrine avenue. Coroner Parker
and the police were notified soor
after the drowning and the body was
recovered.
The First Presbyterian church d
Howell will celebrate its seventeen
anniversary with a Homecoming juno
! l6. The church was founded on thai
date in 1888. and but one Of the orr
ginal members, Mrs. II. Fl. Smith. Of
! Mortified. Is living. This was the
first church in Livingston county
and has lived and prospered until It's
present membership is S07
Mr.. and Mrs. F. S. Gutterson, well
known musical people, who came &c
Charlotte Immediately after the Sar
Francisco earthquake, where they
lived for several years previous tC
the catastrophe. are planning to re
turn to California next month ant
will open studio in Los Angeles
! ROLAND T.. Baker. a well-known Ian
ling musician, will accompany the
tuttersons
Many residents OF Howell are ex
orcised over the possibility OF an cpl
demic OF sickness resulting from un
sanitary surface sewers. One espe
cially dangerous surface drain Is saiC
TO be located a short distance from
the water works. A party which ad
vocated sanitary sewer system al
the last election was defeated be
cause OF the expense that such a sys
tenn would cost, and the present cit,
I A.. 80.