Alma record., 1909-03-18
LATE STATE NEWS.

At a recent test of a fire escape, in
veated by Saginaw parties, the super
visors of the county made trial trips
in the shoot-the-chutes-lik apparatus
from an upper window of the court
house, and pronounced the experience
delightful, many of the solons making
several trips
George Eek, OF Daggett, slipped and
fell in front of the passenger train
which was bearing his aged mother
70 Menomlnee, and was ground to
pieces 100 yards from Daggett station.
The mother, who was standing on the
platform at the time of the accident,
collapsed and may die from the shock.
When Henry Larvier, a 14-year-old
boy, was arrested in Menominee re-
Gently for burglary he told the officers
that he would escape from the Jail.
and true to his word he is now miss
ing. He had confessed to the burglary
and also stated that he made a busi-
ness of picking the pockets OF drunk
On lumberjacks.
Rep. NJ. l.. Agens, of Ludington, Is
seriously i'll with pneumonia at his
apartments in Lansing. Agens was
taken sick after the adjournment Fri
day. He is now serving his third
term in the house and because of his
prominence and remarkable likeness
to Abraham Lincoln has become well
known in the state.
Heavy voting marked the elections
held in Wayne county Monday, espe-
cially in River Rouge, Highland Park,
st. Clair Heights, Ecorse, Wayne and
Plymouth where there were vigorous
contests to obtain control of the local
administrations. In the latter two
villages the fight was on the prohibi-
tion line, with the vets winning out.
Harlow II. Howe, a wealthy real es-
tate dealer of Stanton, and formerly
land agent for the Pere Marquette
Railway Co., pleaded guilty in the fed
eral court to sending obscene letters
through the United States mails. Sen
tence was deferred by Judge Knappen.
Friends of Howe think he is insane
and this had much to do with the
court deferring sentence.
Ex-Rep. johnny Gordon threatens
10 break into the millionaire class.
Gordon has a suit pending In the u.
g. supreme court over the ownership
OF some property in the iron country.
A big mining corporation sank shafts
in the land. Gordon watched them do
Al. then stepped in and flashed papers
showing he had bought tax titles to
the land. Gordon paid $315 for his
titles and the land is now valued at
$10,000,000.
Mrs. Rebecca Pierce, of Traverse
City, acted as her own lawyer in de-
Tending herself from the suit of Clin-
ton |. Arnold, and, although she was
pitted against an experienced lawyer,
practically won her case. Arnold sued
for $236.75, the value of goods he al
legged she took in excess of her
schedule, when she foreclosed the
mortgage she held on his restaurant
The jury was out only 10 minutes, re-
turning a verdict of $S.9S for the plain
tiff-simply because she acknowledged
being indebted to him TO that amount,
but he has to pay the costs.
Karl solosth, OF Spokane, Wash.
who brought action against Gunder
Lieu, OF Grand Rapids, for the recov.
cry of his 7-year-old daughter, who
has been in the custody Of the latter
for the last six years, lost his case by
the decision of Judge Perkins. who
says that the child is now in a better
home than her father could provide
for her.
The coal miners in convention in
Saginaw went on record as opposed
to the sentencing of Gompers Mitchell
and Morrison for contempt. and copv
of the resolution to that effect will be
sent to the president and principal
legislators OF the country.