Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-30
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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under a falling timber and crushed to
death
The petitions for new option
election have been signed by more
than half the voters of the county,
apparently ready TO vote Oakland
wet" again.
Walter Cochrane, aged 5, of Harbor
Beach, was terribly bitten in the face
by a dog owned by the lads uncle.
The animal is not thought to be mad,
but will be killed.
Ira Beebe, a farmer of Mundy
township took a prize on his team
of horses at the county fair, and then
one of the animals was stolen from
him on the way home.
n. b. Harrison, the first settler of
| Ravenna township, Is dead as result
Of a wound received in the civil war
Mr.. Harrison cleared the homestead
on which he died in 1S49
Sam Frisbie the Cleveland man
held for completely in the murder OF
Louis Rosenberg at st. Clair Flats,
is Ill in Jail with fever. His condition
is not considered serious.
The same jury which convicted Will
ldIu d. OpiCtIb Il Dig hdpIho la i'Ni'
of manslaughter for killing a neigh
Dor in a fight, raised purse for his
sick wife and four children.
Francis ]. Birney. for many years
railroad agent at Lawton and now
landlord OF the Hotel Giddings. has
been held for trial on a charge of EN-
bezzlement from the railroad.
John Steinback, aged 40, tried to
end his life at Swartz creek. by hang
ing himself in the hotel He was
brought to a hospital and will recover.
Steinback is said to be from Detroit.
Entering a Lansing clothing store,
George West, an inmate of the Indus
trial school who had just escaped, put
on a new suit Of clothes he picked
out, slipped out the back door and
escaped.
To test the local option law, Joseph
Miller, aged "a. of Flint, waiter,
gave a drink of whisky to a friend
Saturday night, then called up the
police and invited them to arrest him.
They did.
Patrick OLeary, Flint harness.
maker, came TO Durand, picked up a
couple Of strange friends, drank with
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return they beat, bound, gagged and
robbed him in the railroad yards.
Ben Poster the Chicago man
, thought to have been murdered in a
park in the metropolis some time ago,
is in South Haven under another
name and with a thrilling story of
!, being stabbed, robbed and carried to
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The first public wedding ever cele-
brated in the Holland Methodist
church, which has been built more
than so years, was celebrated Tues
day when Miss Rose jenkins. of that
place, became the wife of Rev Frank
w. Field, of Flint.
Lulu Payne, a Traverse City farm
ers daughter while shooting at a
target with a 3S-caliber revolver. put
a bullet through her own neck. She
will recover James Case. Is, shot
himself in the hand with a revolver
he thought was empty.
Charles Lee Sears, formerly of
Saginaw, died in Jersey City. Sears
was a well known railroad construc-
ton engineer and assisted in the con-
struction of the Ludington division of
the Pere Marquette, the old Holly,
Wayne and Monroe road
While riding in his disabled auto
mobile which was being towed by
another, the rope broke and the fray
ed end struck the glasses worn by
Attorney Bracket. of Norway. The
. broken glass penetrated the right eye
ball, destroying the sight.
Fred x. George of Detroit, has been
in Traverse City with big red apple
which he travelled 300 miles to match.
Vice-President Perkins, of the j. Pier
pont Morgan. New York bank, asked
Mr.. George to secure three barrels
i Of apples exactly like the sample, and
the matter was so important that the
q Detroit man attended TO II himself.
, Arrested on a charge of stealing a
SIS bill from the till of Thomas r
Donohue, a saloonist, Charles Brown
a Saginaw character stood for" a
j.. search in the police station Saturday
L night and came off almost victorious
Z as no money was found on him. Just
as he was about to leave the station
a free man IS bin was found on
the floor under the chair on which he
r had been sitting, and he is now in a
r cell awaiting arraignment.
Because he was unable to hold two
q Jobs in different states, Clyde II
Martin. for two months city engineer
y of Traverse City, last night presented
II his resignation to the council. Since
coming from Laporte, Ind, 1t has been
learned that Martin was also sur
=" veyor of his home county and that he
;, left an assistant in charge of that
y Office He announced that the assist
ant had given up the position and he
was forced to choose between the two
lie Jobs.
t. Steffano Passafiume, a young 1tal
5 ian who came TO Ann Arbor recently
. was arrested and held for New York
officers. He is charged with stealing
valuable jewelry from a residence II
a. that city and with pawning them at {
a Bowery pawnshop. Then, 1t Is al
legged, he sent the pawn tickets to In
y spector McCaffery, Of the police, will
pr a note. telling the latter that he coulC
recover the goods, but that he woult
never be able to apprehend the rob
OF her His whereabouts were discOy