Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-10-07
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

cruelty in beating 13year-old boy
with plank
The state tax commission will, in
: all probability have 10 reassess Bay
City property. According to Chair
man Hoyt the assessment was unfair
Conductor Frank Cady, of a Grand
! Trunk freight train, was run down
and killed in the Port Huron yards.
He lived at Battle Creek, was married
and AZ.
After being tenantless since Aug.
"a, the Charlevoix jail is now enter.
tanning Otto Christman and John Hall,
charged with stealing fish nets from
Lake Michigan.
Thomas Rathbun, the Oldest Odd
fellow in Michigan, celebrated his
ninety-ffth birthday at Quincy Sun
/ day, which was the occasion of
family reunion.
The Eastern Michigan Edison Co.
! of Detroit has completed the purchase
of practically all water power rights
on the Huron river between Lake Erie
and turkey lake.
Bay City health officers say they
have traced the epidemic of scarlet
/ fever which caused GS cases and two
/ deaths last week to the home of
! Charles Friebe, milk dealer.
Allan McFadden, a Flint fireman,
! pulled the fire alarms on his off duty
days to see the other firemen hustle.
He was arrested, confessed, released,
and fired from his job as fireman.
James S. Macard 81, decided he
had few years left to live and that
he wanted to die in his old home in
Battle Greek. He caught cold NOV
ing back and died a few days later.
Edward Payne %, burglar, was SEN
tcnced from two and half to five
Yeas in the lonia reformatOry in Sag
NAV. No burglaries have been re-
ported since Payne has been put away.
Jackson officials have notified bill
/ lard hall and cigar store owners that
the law concerning students will be
strictly enforced They can't play
pool. buy cigarettes or smoke in pub
lie.
Herbert Cross, IS. of Wayne, has
been missing from his home for two
weeks. The boys father is a team
| ster. His mother died some time ago
Cross, Sr., is anxious to locate his
son.
Paris township farmers patrolled a
swamp while Fred Thompson, an es
capped inmate of the asylum for the
criminally insane at Ionia, shivered
in it all day. He was finally cap
tured
Roy Cole and James Munson of Bay
City, returned to their room after
spree, blew out the gas and went
to bed. Both are in the hospital and
Muuson may die from asphyxiation.
Cole revived.
Three large barns owned by Andrew
Spring, of Jeddo, were destroyed by
fire last week. One of the barns
contained quantity of wheat that
had just been threshed The total
loss is $4,000
John Freemyer sent from Benton
Harbor to serve time in Jackson for
shooting a man, will probably be
freed by the confession of his former
pal, James Notter, that the latter is
the guilty party.
Dean Harry Hutchins was con-
firmed as acting president of the Uni
versity of Michigan by the regents at
a salary Of $1,000 a year, an increase
of $4,000 a year over his income as
the dean of the law department.
Mystery still surrounds the disap-
pearance of Anna Stropagel, aged 10,
who left her home in Sturgis more
than a month ago, and from whom a
postal card written in Chicago and
mailed to her sister bore threat Of
suicide
Mrs. Adeline Sutherland. late of
Saginaw dead at the age of 81 was
a grandniece of the boy governor"
Stevens T. Mason, first executive Of
this state, and the daughter of one Of
the organizers of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad
Lee J. Rivett, ex-convict Jailed for
assisting James Cushway to escape
from Jackson prison, has been re-
leased. the law providing no way of
furnishing him for the assistance he
rendered Cushway after the latter had
left the institution.
While on a visit to Saginaw Rev.
II. A. Drake, a student at Alma col
lege, visited the court house and
found two couples with marriage IL
censes looking for minister. He
was on the 1OD and TWO knots and
fattened purse resulted.
Joseph Gobie, a young st. Joseph
farmer, was struck by Pere Mar
quette train late Sunday and lay be-
side the track all night unconscious.
When he was discovered the next
morning he was rushed to the hospi-
tai, but he died en- route.
H. c. Ridgeway, night telegraph
operator, and c. G. Neff, night bag
gageman, are being held on suspicion
Of being implicated in the robbing of
a money drawer at the G.. r. & |.
railway depot in Kalamazoo. over
800 was taken from the till.
The National Croatian society is go
ing to build a college for their peo-
pie only, and has decided to raise
100000 for that purpose The Gro
atians decided this i'm convention at
Calumet and have reelected Paul
Hadiic, of Chicago, as their president.
Raymond Remington, %, of Battle
Creek, is dead of suffocation, caused
by smoking cigarettes. The case is
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