Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-06-24
MICHIGAN 3REVITIES.

The horse show at the Michigan
State fair will this year surpass all
previous exhibits.
One day of the Rochester home-com-
ing will be set apart for the celebra-
ton of the local fire department,
which was organized 10 years ago.
The grand lodge of Masons of
Michigan laid the cornerstone Of the
new federal building in Niles Friday.
II was for this building that Congress
man Hamilton obtained an appropri-
alton of $50 900.
The jury in the case of Corporal
John Gibson, charged with killing
Sergt John McManus, at Fort Brady,
at the 500, after being out 2S hours,
announced that they were unable to
agree, and there will be new trial.
Because Marshal Adams, of Read
ing, locked him up without a warrant
on suspicion of knowing something OF
the disappearance of Miss Carrie Hug
gett, Cleveland r. Slausen, minor,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the officer.
Mrs Mae Butler Deaman, the wo-
man charged with attempting 10 poi
son her young son by sending hin;
strychnine through the mail, was ac-
quilted by a jury in Hersey Friday.
The woman had been in Jail since
March 2. The jury was out just 10
minutes.
Four persons who had been released
on probation by Judge Mayne. of
Traverse City, after being convicted
of different offenses, presented such
good reports that the Judge announced
that at least % per cent of the peo-
pie now in prison should be at liberty
under that system.
A tombstone bearing a portrait of
his winning horse. Earl W.. will
be erected over the grave of DR.. A. e
McBeth, late president of the Battle
Creek council and a prominent horse
man. McBeth died Of brain trouble
following an exciting experience at
the Lansing circuit races a few days
ago
The jury in the case of Mrs. Obra
Hart, of Clinton county. against Ira
Butterfeld, a wealthy Shiawassee
county farmer, returned a verdict Of
no cause Of action. The woman sued
for $4,000 damages, claiming that the
defendant attempted TO assault her in
her home in 1907. The case has been
In the courts ever since.
The Cooper tragedy, in which Mrs
Emma Cooper was thought TO have
killed her husband and three children
and then herself, was recalled In Cad
lilac when Ira Cooper. administrators of
the estate. petitioned the probate court
for permission TO sell the property
The estate will probably be divided
equally among the heirs.
Mrs Hannah Tunnsmore, CO. who
conducted a rooming house in Grand
Rapids. killed herself while despond-
ent because of a recent separation
from her husband by turning on the
gas in the bathroom. She had re-
moved the top OF the Jet to insure a
large flow of the gas. Mrs. Turns
more had her household goods packed
and intended leaving for Libertyville,
Ind, to live with her son.
Crooks and hoboes are becoming
numerous in Big Rapids, and officers
attribute the fact TO Mecosta county
being an oasis among the dry coun-
ties. Sheriff Henderson has put
bunch of them to work on the court
house grounds They were sentenced
10 serve periods varying from to
% days In an effort to break up the
gang. who are troublesome and are
supposed to have been implicated in
an attempted hold-up.
Though Rep. Verdier quotes from
the house and senate journals to show
that the MacKay free lunch bill was
given immediate effect. Speaker Camp
bell has enrolled copies OF the bill
which show the immediate effect
clause missing, and Gov. Warner SAYS
II was not on the bill he signed. With
this doubt in mind the attorney gen.
eral SAYS the bill will not take effect
until the s0-day limit has expired.
Because competent workmen could
not be secured, the pure food factory
ut Oxford 10 closed down for an in
dennite period. However, II Is hoped
suficient workmen will be secured
soon.