Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-09-23
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

IN her room in an epileptic fit. and
was burned to death.
Congressman Joseph w. Fordney
underwent an operation Saturday
and growth on the back OF his neck
was successfully removed.
Stricken with heart failure while
hshing from a small bridge, Mrs. Geo.
Van Orman, of Tekonsha, fell into
the mill race and drowned.
Mrs. o. j. Bedell, 81, dropped dead
from heart disease Sunday She was
pioneer of Kawkawlln township.
She leaves seven children.
After an unexplained absence OF a
year from his home and family,
Henry Dykman, Holland farmer, has
returned as mysteriously as he went
away.
Bert Yorker, "a, Of Lapeer, who
was soon to be married 10 Miss Ethel
Neeley, daughter of Joseph Medley,
died Sunday afternoon after short
illness. a.- ~ M s..,. ...sI.-
Thomas Hattery, a machinist, was
drowned at Wolf lake Sunday after
noon by the overturning of the boat
from which he was fishing The body
was recovered.
Farmers and market gardeners Of
Bay county shipped in $4,000 musk.
melons in one day, and the regular
daily receipts at Bay City are from
$4,000 to 10000,
Pleasant lake residents again are
terrified by the appearance of mon
ster snake in the lake near Cold
water, and plan an organized hunt
for the serpent.
Mrs. Amelia Powers, 73, the second
white child born in Grand Rapids,
died Saturday She was born in log
house in the heart of the city's pres
ent business district.
Mary Nowakowski, sister of the AL
pena Polish priest, charged with as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm less than murder was acquitted
in circuit court Friday.
Jacob Wilhelmy, former Jackson
saloonist, pleaded guilty to selling
liquor contrary 10 the local option
law, and was sentenced to pay fine
OF $50 and 30 days in Jail.
Officers throughout Ionia county
are on the watch for Lista Shackle-
ton, 20. and Walter Kaufman, "a, who
escaped Wednesday evening from the
asylum for criminal insane
The Washtenaw Light & Power Co.
has finished its line between Ypsi-
lanti and Trenton, and is now taking
contracts for lighting from farmers
and VILLAGES along the line
Two Bessemer miners were killed,
third fatally injured and two shut
off from immediate rescue In the Eu.
reka mine 500 feet below the surface,
by the explosion of a quantity of dyna-
mite.
Because the new Wisconsin game
law permits a hunter to kill but one
deer, hundreds of Wisconsin men will
take out Michigan licenses In spite Of
the high charges to pon-residents.
The Michigan law allows two deer per
man.
John E. Gibson, the regular army
soldier on trial for the murder of
fellow soldier at Marquette, has been
found guilty by jury. which coupled
with Its verdict recommendation
that Gibeon be given life imprison-
ment.
H. n. Wilder, grand ecretary Of
the |. o. o. r., lost bonds and mining
certificates aggregating $4,000 be-
fore Labor day at Lansing. The
bundle Of valuable paper has been
found intact in the lavatory Of local
saloon. = ..'-".~ ~,.s
Richard ]. Bawdin, former postma.-
ter of Bessemer, who pleaded guilty
to embezzling government funds, and
who made up the shortage, has been
sentenced in the federal court to nine
months in the Detroit house of cor
rection.
Charles A. Wiles, 65, a Civil war
veteran, and Mrs. Marguerite Pierce,
62, a veterans widow, both inmates
of the state soldiers home in Grand
Rapids, have been married. He is
from Reed City and the bride from
Traverse City.
Rep. Mclaughlin announces that he
has saved the Pentwater and White
Lake harbors, which had been cut out
by the report of the army engineering
officer in charge of the district. The
appropriation for their Improvement
will be restored.
#. w. Atwood announces that the
Lansing-Saginaw interurban road
planned some time ago by Detroit
capitalists and promoted by the late
j. A. Thick, of Detroit, is to be built
at once. The project was abandoned
when Thick died
Major Charles T. Newkirk, NJ. D.,
of Bay City, former head of the hos
pital corps of the NJ. y. G.. and sur
geon of the Thirty-third Michigan in
the Spanish-American war, was found
dead in his bed early Thursday morn
ing from heart disease.
Charles White, farmer was bur-
led alive at the bottom of a 30.foot
well he was digging on his place, by
the caving in of the sides His hired
man raced ~ miles to Roscommon
for help, and White was rescued un-
conscious three hours later. He died
a few minutes afterward
The sister of Rev. Nowakowski Is
on trial in Alpena for shooting into a
n,oh of rphellious Darishioners who