Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-03-18
STATE NEWS NOTES.
cIeaneo From Daily Michigan Happen.
Ings Of the Past Week.


the result OF eating the heads of par
Tor matches.
At present there are nearly twenty
FIVE cases OF smallpox In the upper
part OF St Clair county. The sheriffs
force is keeping watch. so that those
affected will not remain at home.
Fifty young women of Muskegon.
with State Secretary Strong of the
Foung women's Christian association.
have laid plans for the organization
OF Y. w. c. A. home in Muskegon.
J. j. Franklin, aged seventy-five
years, of Caro-, is dead. He was
prominent resident of the village for
over thirty years, retiring from bust
ness five years ago.
The shotgun of Wesley s. Smith, OF
Pontiac, exploded while he was hunt
ing ducks on Cass lake and piece
six inches long went through his
hand.
Hiram Sebolt. of Battle Creek, was
given thirty days In jail for neglecting
his children. The mother is serving
a term in the Detroit house of correc-
tion for an offense committed in Lam
sing.
Edward Wirts, aged 81, a farmer
near Hudson, was found dead In his
barn by a neighbor. He had killed
himself with his shotgun, discharging
the trigger with a corn stalk. He was
said to be slightly demented
While listening to her hostess play
five years old, member of a card
party which met at the home of Mrs.
Bahan OF Jackson suddenly expired
OF heart failure.
While on her way to school, Miss
Woodhead, a teacher In Dublin, Man
istee county, discovered the body OF
William G. Fraser, a railroad target
man. The man was subject to heart
failure and II is supposed that he
was attacked while setting signal.
John Stapleton. aged eighty-four
years, the oldest stage driver in
Michigan, is dead at Howell He be
gan driving the stage between Lansing
and Detroit in 1855 and continued
until the Pere Marquette went
through there, fourteen years later.
John Blessed of the firm of john
Blessed & Son, grocers of Detroit, is
dead. after an illness of only two
days. Mr. Blessed had been in bust
ness in Detroit since 1872. He was
born in Whittlesea, near Cambridge,
England, Sept 20, 1884.
Looking out on Lake Michigan with
a field glass Charles Snyder of White
hall discovered the form of a dog on
a floating ice cake. He called Edward
Spriggs and Robert Turns, neighbors,
and the three rowed into the lake,
risking the lives in the ice foes, and
brought the dog safely in.
( Chief of Police William H. Earring
ton of Battle Creek received a BLACK
Hand" letter, threatening death with
in three days. Although the chief
has been active in making local for
eigners obey the laws lately, he treats
the epistle as a joke. II is headed by
a skull and crossbones, with two black
hands and spatterings of blood.
The Law and Order league of St.
Clair county viii take steps TO see
that saloons and places where liquor
is sold close at o'clock at night and
remain closed until a. m. A resolu-
ton to this effect was passed at the
last meeting. The league also WI
furnish aid to all who wish to prose
cute saloonkeepers.
Russell Morton. aged fifteen, OF
Ypsilanu. while stealing" ride on &
freight train, was crushed between
two cars as the train rounded a
curve. The engine was cut loose and
the boy was held In his painful posi-.
ton several minutes before discov-
cred by trainmen He is seriously In
jured internally.
Homer c. Hughes. pioneer settler
OF Prairieville, is dead at the age OF
seventy-nine. Until recently Mr.
Hughes lived on the old farm that he
had cleared in his younger days. and
his last request was that the funeral
procession halt for a few minutes al
the old homestead while on the way
10 the cemetery. This was done.
The warm weather of the past few
DAYS has caused a number of logging
camps In the Menominee river district
to suspend operations. Local lumber
men estimate this seasons log cut In
, the Menominee river district at 223,
600 900 feet OF mixed timber. This Ii
about one-third OF the timber cut IL
1900 and about the same as that o.
1907.
Several more Memekaunne fisher
men, who have been desregarding tho
game laws, have had their possession
practically -iped out. Fish and Game
Warden A. B. Bedell, with a corp!
OF assistants. seized eighty-sevel 200
foot gill nets that were set In thirty
FIVE fathoms of water The value o
the confscated nets is almost 5000
and in addition the warden seized 60'
pounds OF immature trout, which
brings the value Of the haul to owe
Al 600