Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-07-22
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


The 15-months-od child of Peter
Wiesies, OF Kalamazoo, drank from a
saucer OF fly poison and died
Three stolen horses and buggles
have been recovered and a man named
Smith arrested as the thief by Allegan
county officers.
The new postoffice building at Flint
was opened Wednesday II was a
simple opening, no program having
been arranged
Acting Warden Wenger may put
about 20 convicts on a leased farm TO
Use milk and vegetables for the
Jackson prison.
Recent mad dog scares at Kalama-
700 have led TO a general order by
which all unmuzzled dogs are Gath
cred in by policemen.
Fearing she was a burden to her
family, Mrs. David McMartin. of Plain
well, a farmers wife and church mem
Der, ate rat poison.
First Lieut. Payson ID. Foster, OF
Lansing, has been placed in command
of the first detachment signal corps,
Michigan National Guard.
Two little girls playing along the
beach near Bay City Thursday found
a gold watch which had been lost by
Adna G.. Lewis about year ago.
Levi Snyder, Holland cripple, has
arranged to have his body given 10
an indianapolis medical college in the
interest of science after his death.
F. W. Gray, %, from Peoria, H.,
but employed in a Flint factory, Was
drowned when the canoe in which he
was riding was overturned by
launch.
The explosion OF an overload y
shotgun while hunting near Ypsilar
ii so mangled Noah Hayes's left
hand that it had TO be amputated at
the wrist
Il haven't 5000 to my name" de-
clared Mrs Carrie Nation, in Owosso,
when asked concerning the report
that her Ratchet raids against liquor
and tobacco had netted her quarter
million.
The safety valve. placed in the
Grand Rapids reservoir after the
food of 1900. saved the city Ike ex-
perience early Wednesday morning.
The water was two feet above the
high mark, but the valve carried off
the surplus.
Harrison F. Strong, aged so,
Michigan Central conductor, is in the
county jail in Jackson and will be. ex-
amined TO decide as TO his sanity The
man became violent at his home, it
is alleged, and threatened members
of his family.
d. F. Schrodt, a farmer from Mt.
Carmel, H., who was a patient al
Battle Creek sanitarium, took his own
life Saturday night by drinking car
bolic acid Dependency because of
his illness is believed TO have been
the cause of the act
Mother Mary Anthony, formerly SUI
perioress OF St Francis orphan home
in Detroit, was elected reverend moth
er general OF the sisters of st. Joseph,
of the Detroit diocese, at the general
chapter recently held at Nazareth
academy, near Kalamazoo.
Peter Brinker, the man who broke
from the line OF prisoners at the Kent
county jail, and escaped after scaling
the wall in he full view of the guards,
July g. has been captured in a hobo
camp near Holland. He says that he
has been working near Benton Harbor
since the escape.
Mrs. Ella Mccoy, now of Minneapolis,
has appealed from the probate of the
will of her sister, Mrs. Sara Wilder,
of Battle Creek. The instrument
leaves Mrs. Mccoy $50 out of a $780,
900 estate, and the Minneapolis wo-
man declares she advanced $4,000 to
the dead woman in the last few years
of her life.
Two people were killed and nins
others injured in a head-on collision
between a Chicago, Kalamazoo &
Saginaw passenger train and a south
bound freight train a mile and half
north of Schultz station shortly after
o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
wreck is believed to have been the
result OF misunderstanding of or
ders