Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-09-02
STATE NEWS NOTES,
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Happen.
ings OF the Past Week.

Using a pair OF scissors a weapon,
Ida Waskunkosh, travelling from
Massachusetts to Mass City, Mich.
while temporarily deranged, cut her
wind pipe. Her condition is critical.
She is at Marquette.
Sheriff Davidson OF Port Huron has
received notice that reward Of s25
will be paid for the apprehension of
Charles Seeley. a former Port Huron
publisher, who is wanted in Ionia
county on a charge OF wife desertion.
N. X. Potter. for many years a prom
inent farmer of Bancroft, is dead. Mr..
Potter is well known over the north
ern part of the state as a lecturer.
representing Michigan Agricultural
college in holding farmers institutes.
Orders have been issued by the
adjutant general placing Captain G. II.
Brown OF Port Huron on the retired
list, with the rank OF brigadier gen
eral, and directing organization COM
manders TO refrain from wearing
dress uniforms at drill.
Liman s. Russell, the man who has
compiled the labor statistics for the
state labor bureau for the last ten
years, Is dead at Lansing of stomach
trouble. He was sixty-eight years Of
age and served with brav cry In the
civil war as a member OF the Third
cavalry.
"You will break into my house, will
YOU" was the cry which attracted
neighbors to the house of Fred Sieg
of Port Huron, at night. They ar
rived in time to see Mr.. Sieg eject
two intruders. but In the fray he was
given swollen eye as a reminder
of the burglars visit.
Byron ]. Carter Of Detroit, vice
president and general superintendent
of the Motor Car company, and prom
inent in the automobile world as an
auto builder and inventor OF the fric
ton drive for cars, is dead, after a
weeks illness with pneumonia He
was forty-five years.
The national encampment OF the
Uniform rank, Woodmen of the World,
will be held on RussePs island, oppo-
site Algonac, during the week Of
Aug. IS. OF the $4,000 members, is IS
believed more than half will attend.
The national convention of the Wood
men Of the World will be held in De
troit this summer.
Fighting consumption for eight
years, and having life prolonged at
least one year. Mrs. Catherine Sean
Ian, aged forty-two years, Of Battle
Creek. finally succumbed. Her case
has been watched with great. interest
by physicians. Mrs. Scanlan was
given q bed on a veranda at Nichols
hospital and lived outdoors all winter,
physicians believing she might be
saved.
w. Irving Babcock, state senator in
1887 and 1889, is dead at his home in
Niles of old age He was born in New
York state in 1888 and came to Michi-
gan when a young man. He first en-
gagged in the farming business AMI
later conducted lumber yard in Niles
for twenty-five years. In 1890 the de-
ceased was elected grand master Of
the Masons OF Michigan, the highest
office in the state.
Although Chief of Police Murphy Of
Owosso fired three bullets into the
body of a fleeing mad dog, no vital
spot was touched until Ira Curry, son
Of the city treasurer, came up and
sent charge Of buckshot into the ami.
NAL. The chief OF police and a small
mob chased the dog nearly a mile.
Several times he turned and held the
crowd at bay.
An old tintype Of Mrs. Angelina
North of Port Huron, when she was
about eight years old, is the basis OF
her hopes of receiving the fortune sup
posed to have been left by Lawrence
Stuttler, who died recently in Spo-
kane, Wash, and left an estate val
ued at $45, ZOO. Mrs. North says that
Stuttler paid for having two of the
photographs made and took one away
with him from OIL City. II the dupli-
cate lluJypt 10 uOW dnlouS OtuIlleI ,
effects, it will be of great Importance
In proving the identity of Mrs. North.
Bernard MacFadden. the physical
culture editor of New York and Bat
tie Creek, sprang an odd petition on
Mayor Green of Battle Creek. He
asks IL IL will be all right for his
so to 100 girl students to wear bloom
ers instead of skirts all the time.
"They did it at Physical Culture City,
N. j." said MacFadden, "but Battle
Creek is different, and we want to
produce no shocks" Mayor Green
says he is not mayor OF public senti.
ment. and, unless there's a protest,
he girls may go skirtless on the
streets.
A new president has been named
for the DR.. Perkins Sanitary Refrig.
orator company of Battle Creek, TO
succeed w. l.. Wilson, defaulting sec
rotary OF the United Home Protectors
fraternity. The new man Is Martin
Hauser OF Chicago. who also is presi.
dent OF the Great Lakes Dock &
Dredge company and was formerly
one Of the directors OF the Battle
Creek concern. Wilson's trouble will
affect the Sanitary Refrigerator com
pany in no way beyond the necessity
OF his resigning for the good OF the