Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-04-01
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

! VINO was Dltten by mad dog In AID
, derhook last week. has been taken to
Ann Arbor for treatment.
The Wesleyan Methodsts of Hast
ings will build $4,000 church. They
intend, II is said, to make this place
the headquarters for their sect.
| Henry Rettke, employed by lum-
Der company at LOOMS, dropped dead
while working near circular saw.
Heart failure was the cause. He was
2S years old
George K. Northrup, a former min
lister and later printer and proof
reader on a Standish weekly paper,
is dead at the Bay county poorhouse,
aged so years.
Two prominent Menominee women
are Ill OF ptomaine poisoning, said to
have resulted from eating diseased
veal. The two peddlers who sold the
meat are under arrest.
James Leary, 70, deaf and partly
blind, was robbed of $15 while feeding
his sheep at his farm near Morrison
lake. He was attacked from behind,
| thrown down and beaten.
There is a movement by the stu
dents from the upper peninsula to en-
list u. of Nj. students in the move
| ment to teach the foreign element so
prevalent in northern Michigan the
English language.
DIR. Harry l.. Canright, of this city,
for the past Is years a missionary to
China, and who has built two schools
and hospitals in that country, will
return with his family In 1910 and re-
side in Battle Greek.
John Hays Hammond, the famous
mining engineer, in an address to a
large number of u. of NJ. students,
urged them to get into the political
game and do al In their power for
better civic government.
The largest fish said to have been
caught in Newaygo lakes is muska
longe captured by Bert Mercer, OF
Newaygo. The fish was As inches long
and weighed 241a pounds. II was
taken from Pickerel lake
An interurban transportation line
with automobiles instead of trolley
cars is assured for the cities of Mar
quette, Ishpeming and Negaunee as
the result of the organization of the
Marquette County Traction Co.
Mrs James ]. Loucks. of Manis-
tique, was acquitted of the charge OF
giving her husband poisoned liquor
but Edward Cruson. with whom the
woman is said to have eloped, was
held to the circuit court for trial.
According to figures compiled by
the Michigan Central railway, the
damages to bridges. rails, spikes and
other equipment. because of the drip
ping of brine from refrigerator cars,
amounted TO $4,000 in one year.
William Wurzburger a wealthy
blacksmith of Grand Traverse county,
chose Jail TO paying a $50 fine for
catching trout out of season He
made arrangements for the transac.
,tion of his business affairs before
going to Jail
Two steel splinters, which had been
driven into the eyeball of Edward
Hartman, of Kalamazoo, were removed
by the use of a large magnet, having
pulling power of 400 pounds to the
square inch, and the sight of the eye
will be saved.
The 6-year-old son of John Metzger
Ionia, accidentally fell into kettle OF
boiling sap, head foremost. The father
quickly pulled him out, but he was
immersed long enough so that his
face and body were terribly burned
and he soon died.
Covered with mire and mud from
having been rooted around by hogs,
the body of Jacob Cameron, 81, was
found In the pigsty of his farm near
Grand Rapids Tuesday afternoon.
Heart disease is supposed to have
been the cause of death
Mark S. Simonton, a wealthy farm
er of Leroy, Mich. who was reported
TO have committed suicide by drown
ing himself in the river at Leroy. was
picked up by the Kalamazoo police in
confused condition. unable 20 give
any account of his wanderings.
Judge Jesse Arthur. OF Battle Greek,
who was given verdict OF $3.50
against Mrs. Clara Salisbury, whom he
had sued for SANDER. says he will not
collect the money, as the fact that
! he was granted the verdict is balm
enough for his injured feelings
While working in the new Grand
Trunk locomotive shops in Battle
Greek. A. b. McCollum, coppersmith,
was killed, when runaway car hit
locomotive, causing it to move ahead,
and crush McColum's head between
the cowcatcher and cement wall
Ida Keith, the 12-year-old girl who
has been held at the Detention hos
pital several days, will probably be
sent to the Children's home. Officers
have been unable to locate her par
ents, who came to Grand Rapids from
Battle Creek last week and deserted
the child
Another death. alleged to have been
caused by the impure water which was
pumped from Dowagiac creek into
Niles city mains, was that of Fred.
Kitterer. who succumbed to typhoid
fever. The city is threatened with
many lawsuits. 1t is said, as a result
of the epidemic which has been going
on here.
Plunging through. a window in the
third story of her home, the 9-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. f.
Conover, Of Bay City. fell headlong to
the ground distance of 80 feet, then
I quickly picked herself up and report
ed in person, unframed save for
few bruises, to her parents, who had
rushed frantically out upon the porch
expecting to find their child dead
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