Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-10-21
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

lives while swimming.
Enrolment at the summer session
OF the state normal school, Ypsilanti
broke all previous records, reaching
l.425.
Hugh Hart, OF St. Clair, has beer
Endorsed by Congressman McMorrar
for supervisor of the census in the
Seventh district.
]. S. Murphy, OF Buffalo, chased
his wife as far as Bay City and event
broke" He has wired home for more
coin to continue the chase.
Rev. A. B. Leonard, dry leader, is
out with a card denouncing the Sagi
nav council for extending saloon
hours from IL till midnight.
Two sneak thieves, one II and the
other still younger are sought by the
Flint police for stealing ST from the
wife of Police Sergeant Duff
The ginseng growers In the vicinity
or Eaton Rapids are jubilant over the
bumper crop this season, which, II Is
expected, will be double that OF 1908
Celebrating his silver wedding an.
niversary with large party OF
suddenly fell dead in his wife's arms.
Heart failure.
Thousands are now engaged In the
BURBERRY harvest in upper Michigan,
and hundreds of crates are being ship
ped daily. The force Of pickers is
still insufficient.
What is said to be the largest pep
permint farm in the world is now a
part of the big diked prairie farm OF
10000 acres in Saginaw county, own
ed by the Owosso Sugar Co.
The Pere Marquette shops at Ionia
are being divided, the engine build
ing machinery being moved to Grand
Rapids and the coach assembling and
building department enlarged
Wholesale smuggling of automobile
parts into Canada at Port Huron re-
ceived a blow when customs officers
found nearly 200 worth of alleged
Struggled goods in a garage in Sar'
MIA
Raymond Smeed, a Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern brakeman, went TO
sleep on the track near his train with
his right arm across the rail. The
arm was severed just below the ell
bow.
Hundreds of Jackson citizens at
tended a reception 10 Thomas j.
OBrien, of Grand Rapids, United
States ambassador to Japan. Mr..
O'Brien lived in this city in his boy
hood days.
Enough orders have been received
by the Detroit branches of the Am
erican Car & Foundry Co. 20 keep
COCO men busy for seven months.
These orders are for about COCO
freight cars.
Mrs. George Allison, of Cincinnati,
formerly Miss Florence Depew, of De-
troit, has been sued by Willard Ct.
Turner, Jr., in Muskegon for $4,000
for injuries received when he was hit
by her automobile.
All the Sunday schools of Gratiot
county had an excursion TO Ann Ar
Dor Wednesday. but the d. u. r.
officials put on II special cars and
carried most of the 1000 visitors to
Detroit for the day.
Capt. L. w. Oliver, of 'Escanaba.
who has been an instructor in West
Point academy since his graduation
two years ago, has been sent by the
government to study at a famous
French cavalry school. 90
Nurses, maids, cooks, kitchen girls
and other attaches of the Grand Rap
ids tuberculosis sanitarium went out
on strike because of the deposition
of Supt. Almey Murray. A new force
was Immediately hired.
T. c. Thompson, the wealthy east
ern man who disappeared from Ben
ton Harbor, leaving his wife. Is be-
ing sought in Central America. A
mental lapse is believed to be the
explanation of his abrupt departure.
Charles Weaver, aged so, was at
work in the saw mill of the Antrim
Iron Co. Friday when it was de-
stroyed by fire. He was at work on
the second floor and, escape cut off
by the flames, was burned to death.
Byron Beard. widower, aged "a,
living near Morrice, has exploded the
Osler theory within the past two
weeks. he having harvested 40 tons
of hay alone, besides attending to the
house and other work about the farm.
Because he attacked an 11-yearoid
girl in 1898, William Bowman, of Fort
Smith, Ark, was Friday sentenced to
death. He was convicted once be-
fore, but on technical grounds got a
new trial. The girl, now % years old.
appeared in the case both times as
prosecuting witness.
After living amicably as husband
and wife for nearly so years, Henry
Kiel and Minnie Kiel, prominent resi-
dents Of Montague, were separated by
a court decree. They fell out over a
question Of religion, each trying to
force the other to give up one church
for another. Mrs. Kiel who is 6S,
sued for divorce. The husband is 70
years old.
Judge Wisner of Flint, has an
nounced that he will hear the petition
of Mrs. Timothy f. Tarsney, widow
of the we'll known Detroit attorney,
that she be substituted for her late
husband in the litigation against the