Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

from the disabled yacht Wizard OF
kenosha, off White Lake harbor.
The mad dog scare is growing
worse In Benton Harbor and many
dogs are killed daily by the police.
A falling meteor is believed to have
caused the burning of five barns on
the Mills stock farm near Dowaglac.
The enrollments at the Normal sum
mer school is now 1,420, or about 4Oo
more than any other session In the
history of the institution.
A farmers jubilee will be held at
Marion Aug. Is and 10. Races, ball
games, roast OK and balloon ascen-
sions are among the attractions
scheduled.
Sheriff Bean has returned to Jack
son from Provo, Utah, bringing with
him William G. Bahr, who, 1t is al
legged, deserted his wife and seven
small children in 1907.
At the conclusion of the examina-
ton. Claude Thayer, charged with
the Staying of his wife, was bound
over to the September term OF the
Ingham county circuit court without
bail.
While seated with his wife and
daughter in Lansing theater Satur-
day night, John Pratt, a we'll known
carpenter, was stricken ON heart
failure and died within few min
utes.
Mary Bowers, the Jackson woman
implicated by Molly Mcguire, the
noted jail-breaker was sentenced to
IS days in the Detroit house OF cor
rection for being a disorderly char
acter
Urgent university business is ad-
vanced by President j b. Angel of
the U. Of NJ. as reason for recalling
his consent to act as an arbitrator In
the Nj. IT, r. electric railway wage
fight.
The 15-acre swamp jon the west side
OF the river, on both sides of Genesee
avenue, at Saginaw, will be filed up
from the river bottom at a cost of
$4,000, by the owners, w. r. Burt and
w. f. Eddy
The big new plant of the General
Motors Co, at Flint. 360x600 feet, is
being rushed to completion, and will
be ready for occupancy October l.
About 5000 men will be employed in
the factory.
Sheriff Hurley, of Kent county, has
declared war on the automobile speed
ers and deputies with stop watches
will be stationed in all the townships
surrounding the city. He promises to
make many arrests.
Marshall Business Mems associa-
tion are making big plans for the
third annual homecoming and har-
vest festival and farmers picnic 10
be held there on State street and the
fair grounds, Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Mrs Deliah Ann Yaple, mother of
Circuit Judge George l.. Yaple, of St.
Joseph and Branch counties, and
prominent pioneer resident of Men
don. is dead at her home here. Judge
Yaple and one daughter survive.
Charles Wightman, manslaughter
convict from Altoona, whose sentence
was committed by Gov Warner, has
begun suit for freedom. declaring he
has already served the time covered
by the committed sentence, 25 years.
Damas Schontel, a travelling sales
man from London, Ont, found in
Celia Clifton, dining room girl at
Saginaw hotel, his old school chum
in Canada. The renewing of old ties
led to their marriage by convenient
justice.
Steve Devoe, a river driver for
Menominee lumber company, brought
a lump of crude copper weighing 80
pounds when he came to this city
Saturday. He will not tell where he
found the copper but says he has dis
covered a new mine.
Seized with cramps while swim
ming in the river at Menominee, John
Winter, who had told that he and sew
eral companions had run away from
their homes In Chicago. was drowned
before bystanders who noticed his
distress could reach him.
A broken flange resulted in the
ditching Of five Pere Marquette cars,
loaded with crushed stone, and the
tearing up of the track in Alden in
such a manner that 1t required "a
hours TO repair. The loss to the rail-
road will amount to $4,000.
An auto street sprinkler is one of
the latest. The Ishpeming city council
has ordered one, capacity 600 gallons.
1t will be equipped with 30 horse
power engine, guaranteed to cover II
to IA miles an hour, and to do the
work OF three wagon sprinklers.
It now looks as II the university
regents may not elect a successor to
President Angel, until next year. At
the last meeting of the regents
board DR.. Angel and Regent Sawyer
were appointed to nominate an act
ing president. They have named
Dean Hutchins. Of the law depart
ment.
Because Saginaw is not located on
the great streams Of traffic as are
Detroit and Toledo, shippers of that
city are now allowed lower freight
rate, according to the recent action
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, taken on the receipt Of pro-
test from the boards of trade OF Flint
and Saginaw.
The anger in which Ernest F. Bow
ers, farmer living a few miles from
Caro- INDUCED when his horses be-
came frightened at an automobile
owned by George Gunsell, rural mail
carrier, proved costly luxury, 1t hav-
ing cost him just 1888 to settle with