Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-07-29
STATE NEWS NOTES,

Miss Agnes Kellogg. one of The
adopted children o DR. John I'll Kel-
log OF Battle Creek, married h. IS mar.
ried DR.. Benton Colyer OF Cleveland
q graduate of DR.. Kellogg's American
Missionary Medical college.
The state board of auditors awards
for the fiscal year ending June 80
were s47s. 791.16, about $4,000 more
than in 1907, but nearly $4,000 less
than In 1906. The constitutional con
vention cost more than $4,000.
Grieving over his crime, Thilo
Keuhn, former Port Huron farmer,
who murdered James Mcdonald in
1892, is dead in Arkansas. He was
f! twice convicted and paroled five
! years ago. A relative left him a small
fortune. but he was not happy.
Deputy game wardens around the
state have notified Warden Pierce thai
the fish are dying in many lakes and
streams OF this state Superintendent
Lydell OF the fish hatchery at Grand
Rapids attributes this to lack of food
as no other cause can be found.
Hamilton A. Gilbert, eleven years
old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Gil.
bert OF Sumpter township, Wayne
county, is dead from lockjaw, result.
ing from an injury to his hand by the
explosion of a blank cartridge July
4th.
Mrs. Eva M. Ormiston Of Flint has
begun suit In the circuit court against
Mrs. Elisabeth Haddon for $4,000
damages for alleged alienation of the
affections OF her husband, George Y
Ormiston, by the defendant. Mrs.
Ormiston has four children. Mrs. Had
don Is a widow and lives near Holly.
The Grand Rapids Electric company
must build an electric line from Kali.
amazoo to Grand Rapids, by way OF
Plainwell, within eighteen months, nc
cording TO the terms Of the franchise
giving II right OF way through the
village. A spur may be built from
Plainwell to otsego and Allsgan.
The United States Telephone com.
pany OF Cleveland, which does . large
business in Ohio, has filed articles Of
incorporation In Michigan This may
mean more telephone competition In
Michigan, as the company already has
line from Toledo to Detroit and Sag.
inaw.
Lumbermen OF the Saginaw valley
will perfect an organization within the
next two weeks for the purpose of
lighting the proposed increase OF
freight rates by the railroads on Oct
1. They declare that the valley lum-
Der business will dwindle to local pro
portions and the growing wood work
Ing industry will be entirely ruined.
Fred w. Stevens of Port Huron, for
merly general organizer Of the knights
OF the Modern Maccabees, has in
structed his attorney to begin suit
against the order for nearly $1,000
back salary Mr. Stevens alleges that
he was removed by the executive com
mittee OF the order contrary to the
provisions OF his contract.
Earle Lampson OF Grand Rapids,
while employed at the Allendale dairy
farm, near Grandville, met with q
serious accident as the result of play
Ing with a cannon made from a sec
ton OF gas pipe. The lads face was
badly burned by the explosion OF the
cannon, and pieces OF iron were Inn
bedded in the left leg, making two
serious wounds.
While her mother looked on In ALSO
lutte helplessness, Baby Rosie Batter
of So Division street, In Detroit. was
crushed to death by an Ice wagon. The
child, who was only fifteen months
old, was playing with a big rubber
ball, which rolled into the street. and
the baby toddled after 1t just ~ the
wagon rumbled along.
In unloading a car Of machinery for
the German Gelatine company, at Hol-
land, workmen were surprised to find
a box containing ave Angora cats,
nearly starved from their long impris-
cnment. The cats were distributed
among various homes In the city. II
is thought that they must have been
placed in the car by mistake.
Just after Miss Edna May Davis
aged eighteen, was freed from the St.
Joseph (Mo) insane asylum she mar
ried DR.. Frank Carpenter, a travel
ing Snowman OF Kalamazoo, who OBJ
tanned her release. The girls parents
objected to the match and had her
sent to hospital. Carpenter proved
she was sane.
Attacking two robbers who entered
the Furniture City Brewing oompanys
warehouse at Grand Rapids, Night
Waterman Gustave Ames was brutal
ly beaten over the head with billy"
AS he sank to his knees he fired two
shots at the fleeing men, but both
missed. Ames was found unconscious
IN the morning.
The secretary of states report
shows that there was an unusually
large number OF violent deaths In
Michigan during the month Of June.
There were fifty-six deaths from
drownfng five from sunstroka and