Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-04-29
STATE NEWS NOTES,
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Happen
Ings Of the Past Week.

Thomas Kearney of Ann Arbor have
been appointed by Judge Kline as APP
praisers of the assets of the Chelsea
Savings bank.
George 4. DANES. the newly elected
president OF Birmingham, has pro.
claimed Thursday, April 80. as "clean.
up day. and all ash heaps, tin cans
and general rubbish must go on that
date.
Seized with a ft Of apoplexy, John
Tschnermann. aged sixty-three, OF
Bay City, plunged head foremost
down a stairs to the basement, crush
his skull. He died within ten min
utes. He was one Of the German pho
neers of the city.
Once worth about $50, 900, John Coch.
rane, formerly a Michigan Central
conductor, who made his fortune by
judicious investments, is dead at Hon.
OF, town charge He lost his wealth
In dissipation. A subscription to bury
him was raised
At the semi-annual meeting OF the
Lansing Presbytery, held at Mason,
Rev. j. r. Mitchell, ID. D., pastor OF
the First Presbyterian church of Mar
shall. was elected representative to
the general assembly to be held at
Kansas City in May.
Leon Grady of Cassopolis, aged six
teen years, is alleged TO have shot
Ernest Conner, aged twenty-one, with
rifle, after quarrel over a game
OF marbles. The bullet struck one of
Corners ribs and did not penetrate
the lungs. Grady is under arrest.
Judge Byron r. Erskine of Mt.
Clemens fined his predecessor on the
bench, ex-Judge Tucker, $25, with an
alternative OF five days in Jail. The
former judge minated that there
was partiallity in the ruling Of the
judge on the bench, who promptly
fined his critic for contempt OF court
Ryerson Richie, secretary. Of the
Detroit Board of Commerce, has an
offer of similar position In Boston,
and board members expect that he
will accept. II is understood that the
Boston offer carries with II the annual
salary of $4,000. The Detroit salary
Is $500.
Losing his balance at the top OF a
power pole, John Smith, a street car
company lineman at St. Joseph,
plunged downward, but landed on top
of the high tension wire. He was IN
stantly eectrocuted. and the body
hung in the air, while smoke curled
from the burning flesh. Workmen,
shortly afterward, removed the body.
Bound hand and foo, and gagged
with small sponge, Edward Colvin.
aged eighteen, clerk in the Martin
undertaking establishment at Menom-
inee, staggered TO the home OF his
employer and said that he had been
assaulted by some unknown men
while In the undertaking rooms. The
robbers secured 1925. There Is no
clue
A complete surprise to all was the
marriage of Miss Inez c. Estes OF
Piainwell TO Clarence Leo White OF
Cressey Both graduated from the
Plainwel high school in the '06 class
Miss Estes has written stories and
poems that have been accepted by
some OF the leading magazines OF the
country and is also a talented must
clan.
A fast limited car, rounding a curve
near Marshall, ran into a herd o.
steers at the w. r. Schrider farm
killing four and breaking two legs
of a fifth. When the motorman saw
the herd II was impossible to stop the
car. so he threw the lever wide open
and sent the car down through the
herd at full speed II is believed thai
this action was the only thing that
prevented a disastrous wreck.
Postoffice Inspector Eugene Parsell
of Flint has discovered twenty viola,
tons Of the postal laws In his vicinity
by persons who sent first class matter
at third class rates. Under the post
Office rules he is empowered to fine
each violator $40. The department
has had an extra force OF clerks al
work throughout the country, examin.
ing unsealed packages, and wholesale
prosecutions are expected to follow.
When the case of Ernest Lamb,
charged with embezzlement, was
called for trial In the recorders court
at Saginaw, after having been delayed
nearly a year, the attorney for the
defendant announced his client was
dead. Lamb was arrested last July
on complaint of the traction company
He was out on $500 bail. He died
FIVE days before the date set for the
trial
In a saloon fight between Poles and
lumberjacks, in Alton, seven men
were stabbed. Walter Dumbrowski's
jaw was broken in three places and
his head crushed. He died. Jack
Ludbrook. one OF the lumberjacks,
was stabbed ifs five places, and the
other six men were badly cut up. Four
of the men are In the county Jail at
Cheboygan.
Mrs. Mary ]. Kalls OF Detroit has
been awarded a verdict OF $1,000
against the Detroit United railway by
jury in Judge Brooke's court for
the death OF her son, Walter, aged
fifteen years, who was swept of the
running board OF street car by a
car on the opposite track. II wac
shown in the trial that the car con-
tanned 1875 passengers and that the
boy was forced to stand on the run
ming hoard