Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-01-21
NEWS OF STATE.
Cleaned From Daily Michigan Hap
penings of the Past Week.

Charles Brotherton of Ashtabula, o.,
bas purchased the Grand Rapids base
bau club Of the Central league.
George j. Phipany Is dead, aged
ainety-seven years Mr.. Phipany was
, pioneer of Albion, in which city he
settled in 1852.
John McManus, plumber, is dead
In Jackson, as the result of injuries
sustained when a heavy iron pipe fell
upon and crushed him.
Fire starting from a defective CHM
ney caused the destruction of the
Pine Lake hotel. twenty room sum-
mer resort at Pine lake. near Lansing.
Harry Winchell of Jackson nearly
lost his life while working at the
plant of the Commonwealth Power
company. Five hundred volts of cleo
trcity passed through his body.
The legislature will be asked to rat
lily the Carnegie pension fund in order
that the professors of the University
Of Michigan may become eligible to
receive its benefits.
One dress. and two pairs OF stock
ings In six years of welded life is all
the wardrobe Nicholas A. Wolfe Of
Ortonville provided his wife in her al
legation in bill for divorce.
Samuel McClintsky, an old man liv.
ing near Rose City, was found hang
ing to a beam in his barn. He had
been drinking heavily, and It is
thought he was respondent
George Shannon has asked lie city
of Pontiac to contribute $1,000 to him
tor a broken leg which he alleges he
sustained through the city's negli-
gence. He says he stepped OF an en-
bankment on Sanford street.
William Nagle, a steel worker of
Milwaukee. fell from the top Of the
party constructed St. Paul railway
bridge at Menominee, crashed through
the ice and was rescued from drown
Ing BY workmen.
y While the seven-year-old son Of Wal
Ter Gillet Of Jackson was playing with
: pair Of scissors one Of his playmates
struck the little boys elbow. The
shears were driven into his eye, de-
stroyins the sight
Harry West. aged thirty-hvs years,
- 0iler at the plant Of the Wallin
Leather company At Grand Rapids,
was caught In q belt and whirled
around the main shaft until torn to
pieces.
The Howard Furniture company of
Hort Huron will not prosecute Fred
erick Ross, q laborer, arrested for the
theft Of floor mating, which he con-
tossed to selling for $27. with which
10 purchased food and fuel to keep
biz family from starving and freezing.
The newly elected board Of trustees
q the Pontiac Hospital association
have decided to quit work as soon as
the floors Of the new building are
laid and await the receipt OF the re.
Quired amount of money to complete
The building.
John p. Hemmeter, the Detroit
cigar manufacturer, at q meeting of
the executive board Of the Knights
q the Grip, at Lansing, offered 10
Owe, In addition to $1,000 he has al.
ready given. 5000 moro for q relief
bnnd for the organization. provided II
~ called the Hemmeter charity fund.
After long and bitter contest, the
onti-saloon element Of Branch county
Won out, the board of supervisors vot-
lhg unanimously to submit the vote
q local option. Public sentiment be-
cnmo % strong that the "wets" on the
oocfd yielded and vote4 for 1t.
~ Universjty q Mlchignn deba&-
~ toon has bea deeooted b. the Chi
80 mIvorolty team n University
-. A Amor. ne 1ocision Of the
$3.50 NJ unon1moue. TIE question
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