Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-05-27
STATE BRIEFS.

pHcHSOn was utbtIOytu ny uIt rTludy
morning. Tickets, valued at $500,
were burned.
Louis Harris, aged 3, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Harris, of Chaplin.
drank bottle of carbolic acid he
found and will die.
ity are Jubilant over the bright pros
poets for a bountiful harvest. The
trees are laden with buds.
The first colored patrolman in Bat
tie Creek began his duties Sunday on
the main downtown corner. The
trouble which was threatened by white
citizens failed to materialize.
John Mawrovitz, the 10-year-old
Port Huron boy who was charged
with burning a barn in addition to
committing several other crimes sew
eral months ago, has disappeared
from home.
Ex-Rep. j. II. McCallum, of Manis-
tique, has been appointed to position
In the auditor generals department at
Lansing. He goes on the pay roll Of
the commonwealth as examiner Of
state lands.
Since Carl Decker, 16 years old, left
his mothers home In Kalamazoo on
May 4 and went up town TO look for
work, not a trace of his whereabouts
has been found. and his mother Is
nearly frantic with anxiety.
Thomas Wilson, Port Huron, while
on his way home with an armful OF
groceries, was shot in the right arm
by an unknown man, who escaped
from Wilson after a long chase. The
wound will not prove serious.
Mrs. Otto Ottersky, aged 26, of Sag
NAV, was found dead in bed, she hav-
ing evidently gotten a carbolic acid
bottle by mistake when looking for
headache medicine, during the night
She is survived by husband and two
children.
Penned in by flames that made the
only ordinary means Of exit tunnel
Of roaring fire, Paula, the 7-year-old
daughter of Martin Nowicki, of De-
troit, was burned to death in a blaze
that started from the explosion of
gasoline stove.
Ole Olson, employed on the Sum-
mer Diggins railroad, was run over
by a car at Cadillac and his right leg
cut off at the knee Olson was max
ing repairs under the car and the
crew, not knowing where he was, sig.
nailed the engineer to back up.
Mrs. William Shakespeare, of Kala-
mazoo, was awakened Monday night
by a burglar flashing a light in her
face. He told her if she made a sound
he would blow her head off. The bur-
glar took two children's banks, con-
tanning $40, a woman's gold watch and
revolver.
Suit has been started in circuit court
by Mrs. Edward A. Stewart against
the Detroit United Railway for $20,-
900 damages because of the death OF
Edward A. Stewart June "a, 1908.
Stewart was the victim of a collision
between a limited and a local car east
of Jackson.
The Flint postoffice officials are won
dering what to do with a letter which
arrived there recently, addressed to
The Leading Saloon" as since the
advent of the local option law, on May
l. both the leaders and followers in
the sale of intoxicating liquors have
been out of commission.
Three men. convicted of crimes
against young girls, were sentenced
in the circuit court at Port Huron,
Saturday Edward Lafferty. of st.
Clair goes to prison for one to ten
years; Elmer pullman, of Capac. for
two to fifteen years. and Otto Schroe-
der, OF China township. for six months
to one year.
William and Mark Hubbard, broth
ers who have police records. were ar
rested in Ionia after exchanging sew
eral shots with Gene Blackmore and
Earl Alexander, Pere Marquette watch
men. They were proving around the
depot, and when the officers attempted
to arrest them opened fire. No one was
hurt in the battle.
Rep. John o. Maxey. of Ontonagon
county, leader in the movement for the
adoption of the reforestation bill,
which recently passed both houses of
the legislature, says that he is pleased
with the result of his labors He says
the new law will increase the price of
waste lands in Michigan from 81 to
SIS and $40 per acre.
An exhibition of GOODNESS was given
by Basil Cleveland. 15-year-old high
school lad. of Muskegon. when three
of his fingers were severed by buzz
saw at the Hackley Manual Training
school. The boy did not utter a cry,
but calmly pulled lever TO stop the
saw and brushed the severed fingers
off the saw table onto the floor
A stabbing ARRAY among some
tramps occurred at Ann Arbor Satur-
day morning. with the result that
John Kelly, one of their number, lies
in the Homeopathic hospital. seri-
ously wounded. A knife cut under his
left arm, on level with his heart,
is the most serious of the three cuts
he received. This incision extended
into the pleural cavity. William Mil
Ter, the hobo identified by Kelly as
his assailant, is held at the county
jail for the crime.
Failing to find the cooperation
which IL has expected. the Ann Arbor
Railway company has about decided
not to straighten its road through the
city, and that means that the hope OF
the citizens regarding certain grade
separations will fail of fulfillment. The
company had expected TO ex-
pend about $4,000 in new bridges and
the crooked course OF its