Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-19
NEWS OF STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap.
penines of the Past Week.


The Jerome ID Rice Seed company
OF New York has closed a deal for a
big warehouse in Buckley village, and
arrangements have been made with
local farmers for the raising OF large
quantities OF peas. beans and other
seeds.
John Versluis, for twenty-five years
q leading celery grower in kalama-
zoo, has purchased tract OF land at
Aston, about sixty mnes from Jackson
vile, Fla where he will start big eel
cry fields. lie says that the Florida
land is just as good as that about
Kalamazoo.
Commercial fishermen operating In
Lake Superior and Michigan are com
planning of exceptionally poor catches
this season. They say that few of
their number are finding the business
profitable Last season was a poor
one also, except in the late fall.
The vigilance committee" OF Grand
Ledge has made demand by letter
on the sheriff that he put stop TO
Sunday ball games and other sports
that have become a sunday pastime
in the city. The vigilants threaten
to do the job themselves If the sher-
in does not get busy.
For bravery displayed in venturing
into Keweenaw bay with a heavy sea
running and rescuing four Baraga
men. whose sailboat nad capsized, a
movement has been started at Hough-
ton to secure for Captain Micht ell
Shanahan of the schooner Armstrong
a Carnegie medal.
Detroit has a representative aboard
the United States flagship Minnesota
in nineteen-year-old Edgar Johnson,
who enlisted a year ago last April,
and is now enjoying a trip around
the world. Johnson, in a recent let
ter 10 his mother, Mrs William Degen
of 42l La Sale street expressed great
enthusiasm for the service.
Hope college, at Holland, will be
visited next month by one of its three
japanese graduates, Rev. Motoirtero
Ohgimi, who has been engaged In
evangelistic work in the Orient for
twenty-six years. Rev. Ohgimi will be
accompanied by Marquis Yamaniot,
son of Prince Ikeda, who will be
entered as a student In Hope college.
The ID. & c. Bay City-Detroit line
steamer State of New York was
struck by lightning in a storm during
an excursion on Saginaw bay. The
flagstaff was torn down and part of
the railing carried away. The cur
rent followed the electric wires into
the boat. and the illumination created
CONSERVATION and almost a panic
among the passengers.
While sleeping on a sidetrack In
the BAY City Pere Marquette yards,
Wesley Williams, former railroad
employe, was run over by freight
car shunted by a switch engine and
instantly killed. Williams had lost
one arm and had a paper which
showed that he had been soliciting
from railroad men for funds with
which 10 obtain an artificial hand
While clearing the ground on the
schoolhouse lot. Herman Hella of
Chatham, forgetting the number of
stumps which he had loaded with
dynamite. started TO reload one. The
charge exploded and broke several of
his ribs, besides filling his chest with
splinters and gravel and tearing out
one eve He died before reaching the
Marquette hospital.
Frank Hagen, a well known and
wealthy farmer. near Ann Arbor, was
held up by a man at lonely spot on
the Trayers road while on his way
home from the city Hagen accuses
Charles Bachtle, a former employe,
and Bachtle Is In Jail. Hagen 81 $
Bachtle threatened his life with bic
stone unless he gave up his money
Instead of delivering Hagen jumped
from his wagon and notified the pc
lice. who arrested Bachtle.
Mrs. Mary Erard of Pontiac, whose
husband is in Jackson. serving a ter
year sentence, has started suit against
George Gildner and John Shorkev
former saloonkeepers in Pontiac, anc
their bondsmen for $4,000 damages
While intoxicated, Erard fired a sho
at William Vanderworp. the bulle
striking the heel of his shoe. Mrs
Erard claims That he obtained tn,
liquor at Gidner & Shorkey's saloor
and that she had previously forbidden
them 10 sell him anything.
Three small boys. coasting down {
hill at Grand Haven in cart, collid
ed with moving Grand Rapids
Grand Haven e Muskegon interurbai
car at the foot of the hill. Abraham
Wildhon. six years old. was instant
killed and fearIuny mangled Hi
body was wound around the truck an,
motor in such manner that a wreck
ing car had TO be brought there from
Fruitport before the car could b.
moved and his body extricated.
While digging on his lot. a summe
cottager at Hess lake, a resort thre
miles southeast of Newaygo. experi
enced some establishment when hi
spade struck against the bones O
what seems 20 have been whole fan
ilv of Indians. The circle OF head
was complete. even TO suppose
pair OF twins. A comparison of Il
Indian skulls with that of the ave.
ace American leaves no doubt in tn
mind of the finder and his friend
that the discovered skeletons wer
once an Indian household.