Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-09-02
NEWS OF STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap
penines Of the Past Week.

The Standard Maliesble Iron works
OF Muskegon has notified its TOO en-
ployes that II will again run ten hours
4 day and six days a week.
After locking her doors and attiring
herself In her best clothes, Mrs. JEFF
frey Nichols. bearing house keeper,
OF Kalamazoo, took morphine and
died
Grand Rapids. who fell from the roof
of a two-story house. died from the
effects of his injuries. He loayes a
widow and three daughters.
wenzell Cukierski, city superintend-
ent OF parks of Grand Rapids. his wife
and two children are seriously iii from
the effects of eating toadstools which
they mistook for mushrooms.
A spark from a locomitive set fire
to and destroyed 2,5O0.oo0 feet OF lum-
Der at Sault Ste. Marie In the yards
of the Lake Superior corporation re-
Gently bought by the Saginaw Lumber
company; loss $4,000.
Utah Boutwell,, one OF the Oldest
residents OF Genesee county, has pass
ed away at his home in Flint at the
age OF ninety.three years. He had
made his home in that vicinity for
the past seventy-iye years.
Miss Clara Shop-ne-ganse, dsught T
OF David Shopne game. the famous
Chippewa Indian chief, who recently
died at Grayling. is dead OF consump-
ton. She was an expert In the use
Of the rife and canoe.
While playing about the lawn in
front of his parents summer home at
Sons Souci, Robert, the eighteen
mouths old son OF r. T. Fitzpatrick.
OF Detroit, fell from tho dock which
projects into the river nearby and
was drowned in six inches OF water.
Mrs. Charles Shaw, aged thirty-nve,
of Holland, on account Of domestic
trouble, drank the contents of a bot
tie OF turpentine. A doctor with a
stomach pump got nearly all the tur-
pentine out OF her system. She has
five children. She says that if she
RECEIVERS she will try 1t again.
Collapsing in an attack of heart
trouble. from which he never rallied,
half an hour after he had sold the
grocery he operated for twenty-five
years, Gerritt Wagner, seventy years
old, and a resident of Muskegon for
ffty-four years, is dead
Mrs. George Jeudedine received a
broken colarbone and hip and in
ternal injuries, and Mrs. Edward
Weitke a fractured skull, broken arm
( and leg, when their horse ran away
on country road near Fenton and
threw them cut. They may not re-
cover
Emerging from forty years myster-
ious absence, Emanuel Cardy sur
prised his sister, Mrs Julia Barton,
of Ecorse a suburb Of Detroit. Cardy
was raised in the township, but at the
beginning OF the civil war he enlisted
in the army and that was the last
heard from him.
Fred l.. Wcodworth, Of Bad Axe,
Republican candidate for the legisla-
ture, began suit for $4,000 against
Robert w. McElmurrsy, secretary of
the Huron County Liquor Dealers
association. alleging statements in
newspapers credited to the league
were slanderous. The Anti-Saloon
league Endorsed Woodwork.
William Deweerd. an employee OF the
National Biscuit company, OF Grand
Rapids, drowned in Reeds lake while
on his way TO a picnic of the com
pany's employees at Manhattan beach
He and Marinus Van Sterien we're in
the boat which tipped over Deweerd
was 30 years old and leaves young
widow.
William u. Primeau, formerly a
singer of ballads in a Lansing thea
ter, has been arrested in Chicago on
a charge OF having attempted to sell
a girl as white slave Dispatches
say the girls name is Ida Palz. Prim-
eau left Lansing a week ago with a st
Johns girl He is married. his wife
now residing In Grand Rapids.
Mathew Waner, forty-hve years old,
was killed at the farm of p Upper,
In Lamott township, near Marquette.
He was working on clover huller
when a belt clogged. He stepped be-
tween the machine and stack when
he was struck over the head with the
belt. He was found on the ground
dead.
Mrs. Anna Wager, housekeeper for
A. o. Hunt, a druggist in ST. Johns.
was probably fatally burned b. kero-
sene oil. Mrs. Wager built a fire In
wood stove and put on boiler of
water, preparing for the family wash
ing. Into this boiler Of water she in
tended to put some kerosene Oil She
put the oil into cup, but instead OF
pouring 1t into the boiler poured II
over the stove, when II burst into
flames and set fire to her clothing