Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-03-04
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

STATE NEWS BRIEFS.
Owing to the large quantity of salt
on hand, the Port huron Salt Go. has
been forced 10 temporarily decrease
its forces.
Judge knappen, regent of the u. OF
NJ refuses to mention the names OF
any candidates for the presidency OF
the college.
James Mcclure, 90, a lumber jack
was crushed by rolling logs. near Penn
bine. He died twenty minutes after
the accident.
Seven Traverse City saloonkeepers
have now appeared in court as the re-
suit OF the activity of the Law and
Order league.
Emma Carpenter, the Port Austin
girl VINO mysteriously disappeared
from her home some weeks ago. has
been located in Detroit
| Cliord Goodhall, IL, of Pentoga,
died while under the influence OF gas
in the office of a dentist Weak heart
action is assigned as the cause of
death.
Mancelona is excited over the dis
covery of an apparently deep oil well
where farmers had been digging
There is talk Of forming q $4,000
company.
The Traverse City basket factory
will start March is, giving employ
ment to 300 men. Because OF rush
of orders. the factory will have to run
10 months this year.
Charles Emlong. Lake township
farmer, was killed by Pere Mar
quette passenger train near Stevens.
vile. His wife and daughter found the
body beside the track.
Alleging local option as the cause.
the Capital Brewing Co. has filed no
tice of dissolution with the secretary
of state. The company had planned to
build in Lansing in the spring.
Dick Comstock, a 17-year-old Jack
son boy, has been sentenced to pay
$40 fine or spend FIVE days in jail for
contempt of court. He refused to tell
where he obtained some liquor recent
ly.
Mrs. Anna Sanberg, Of Port Huron,
whose husband disappeared seven
years ago. and who sued the Macca-
bees for his 81, 900 insurance, has been
given a verdict of $1,060.b8 against the
order
A wet" and dry" war IL being
waged at the Ann Arbor university.
About 40 students are preparing to
stump the county In the interests Of
local option, and hard struggle Is
looked for.
Harold Beal Williams, aged Fl, q
nephew Of Regent Beal, Of the u. OF
M, has been removed to his home In
Ann Arbor, suffering from An attack
of mental arrangement brought about
by overstudy.
The mangled form Of Irving MoGerr,
laborer from Oakley, was found by
w A. Taggart, station agent Of the
Michigan Central road, on a south
bound passenger trains trucks at
Owosso Monday night
Because the new Saginaw and Flint
electric line has raised the fare from
Bridgeport to Saginaw one cent over
that charged by the old D., =. &
S. road. citizens threaten to fight the
new company in the courts.
Allen Jacklin, lad befriended by
Mrs Edna Pollard, of Flint, after his
parents, it is alleged, had left him and
moved to Detroit, was in court Tues
day, charged with stealing $3.50 from
his benefactres. He will be tried soon.
"Buckshot Dan" McPhail, the 104-
year-old Muskegon river hermit, who
had been unheard of all winter, came
out of his hut on Muskegon river bot
tom with the incoming of March, all
doubts as to his whereabouts thus be-
ing removed.
The board of supervisors of Oscoda
county has granted a franchise to the
Eastern Michigan Power Co. to build
dams on the Au Sable river in the
county. The franchise was more fay
orable TO the county than the one orig
inally asked.
The will of Miss Emily V. Mason,
sister of the first governor of Michi-
gan, has been filed for probate in
Baltimore The will disposes of an
estate valued at $4,000, which Is d.
vided among relatives and close
friends of Miss Mason.
Miss Jessie McIlwaine, who left
Kalamazoo recently to accept a posi-
ton as stenographer In Seattle, Wash,
has written friends that she had
changed her mind after arriving there,
and was married to Edward Cramer,
a former Kalamazoo man.
Isabelle Moorehead, the pretty vau.
dette singer charged with board bill
jumping at Petoskey, sought the sher-
iff in Cadillac and gave herself up,
while the police were watching trains
and securing the city TO find her, I'M
der instructions from the local police.
Little Tommy Doyle and his sister
Frances, of Grand Rapids, found what
they supposed was coal dust In
leather flask in the basement OF their
home They poured 1t into a stove
and il exploded as 1t was gunpowder.
Little Tommy was so badly injured he
will die.
Isaac Bowerman, aged rs. of Shelby,
church member of long standing,
was sentenced at Hart TO so days in
the Oceana county jail for attacking
10-year-old girl. The court took
into consideration the fact that Bow
erman had lived a lifetime without
committing a single offense and show
ed him leniency
Some OF Ann Arbor's residents are
stirred up over the Stevens bill pro
hibiting fortune-telling and scothsay
ing. believing that possibly II MAKES
| the practicing of astronomy a felony
Prof. Hussey, instructor in star-gas-
ing at the U. of NJ, says he has no
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