Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-08-26
NEWS OF STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap
penings OF the Past Week.

NAV county, is dead1of paralysis.
The William Travers company, Of
Decatur. canning factory was destroy
ed by fire of unknown origin; loss
$11, 900.
While he dozed in q chair on
steamer coming from Chicago 10 Hol-
land, Frank Bradigan, well known
Chicago policeman, was robbed OF $45.
After a two days session at Flint,
the Michigan Hay Dealers associa-
lion adjourned, after selecting Lansing
for the place of meeting next year.
Mrs. Mary Warren, aged seventy,
one OF the pioneers of Caro-, was found
dead in bed in the morning Heart
disease was the cause of her death.
Fearing an epidemic of hydrophobia,
Mayor Spies of Menominee has issued
proclamation, ordering all dogs to
be either muzzled or chained for sixty
days
Mrs. II. T. Gignon, of Milwaukee.
| en- route TO her home from visit in
Detroit. died on Grand Trunk train
No. 10, at Royal Oak from sudden
attack OF heart disease.
The recent continued drought has
been disastrous TO the bean crop In
the vicinity of Howell The latest
report states that the crop VII be but
65 per cent of that of last year.
| Caught under a sawlog which fell
| from "A southbound train at Manton,
c. w. Brigham, about fifty years old,
a section hand on the Grand Rapids
g. Indiana railroad, was so terribly
crushed that he lived only an hour.
One OF the automobiles with the
Bradley campaigners was ditched near
Ionia, while running down hill at a
thirty-five mile clip The machine was
badly damaged, but no one was in
jured.
Ruth. eight-year-old daughter OF
C. f. Beamon of Jackson, played toe
close to a bonfire. and her clothing
caught fire. Mrs. Mark Larue in res
cuing her was slightly burned. The
child is in a critical condition.
Knocked down by a horse Will,
playing around stable, Bernardine
the six-year-old daughter of Georg,
Kelley OF Owosso, was trampled upor
and her skull fractured. She diet
fifteen minutes later.
Joseph Charron. aged forty-fve. 2
Delisle street, Detroit, accidental.
fell into the feeder OF threshini
| ..oh;oo ,,.h;Ia ,,orlyino IN form, a
Big Point Ont One of his legs wa
pulled from his body, and he died tw
hours later.
Believing that death was neal
Thomas Trairor. aged seventy, pic
neer resident and civil war vetera
of Brighton, ordered his tombstone
l few days ago. He has just been foun
e dead in his room in the Wester
j. hotel.
Is While giving an exhibition {
Il broncho busting at a wild west soy
}. Joe Hooker. Mexican cowboy, wa
It probably fatally crushed under tn
!, pony when it fell backward. He Wa
taken to a Toledo hospital.
James Lawrence, four years old,
Battle Creek. was killed by a trolle
l. car which struck him and rolled hi
along with the fender until his leg
- back and skull were fractured. II
# wheels did not pass over the chill
ia but death was almost instantaneou
Of Mrs. Frank Rowland, of att
~ Shore conductor, was sent TO an |
st Creek. whose husband, former l,aI
= diana prison for shooting anoth
man. made personal appeal TO Go
ernor Hanly for his release. TT
. governor may take favorable acti'
later.
Edwin ID. Wood. who until June
was station agent of the Pere Ma
10 quette railroad at Plymouth, is nc
nc charged with embezZling $1,000
" freight receipts He made no
he tense and was bound over to q
ne September term of the Wayne coun
t. circuit court for trial.
en- r. f. Olds. the auto manufacture
a Of Lansing. and Professor Pickerir
ne the Harvard astronomical observ,
Is, will make balloon ascension fro
n North Adams. Mass, some day Il
he week. Pickering hopes TO reach
va hight that will enable him 10 ma
-, important observations
a While hauling a merrygo rou
from Hudson to Devils Lake. Samt
Reed. aged fifty, was percipitated
ed the ground under the horses feet
,rt the breaking of the wagon seat T
~. team started forward and one of t
wheels of the heavily loaded wag
passed over Reeds head. crushing
" skull and killing him instantly.
ira A gang of section men on the Mic
- Igan Central railroad near Maren
had a narrow escape from dea
They were pumping their handle
along The track and failed to see
az hear a special train coming behi
10 them. one of them CHANGED TO 10
ed around and saw the engine but a 4
ne rods away The men all escaped
He jumping.
ge Miss Bina West of Port Huron.
're preme record keeper of the Ladies
rs. the Maccabees OF the World. acco
*. panied by her mother. Mrs. A. J. We
res will sail today from New York
-, Cbarhours From there Miss We