Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-02-23

After wounding bear, George
Harris, of Churchill. was attacked by
the animal and SO badly injured that
II is thought he will die.
After spending nine hours in the
Ice of the Straits of Mackinac, the
car ferry Sainte Marie reached st.
Ignace in safety Tuesday night.
The city of Marshall will levy
/ special tax to raise 81 600 of a $751;
600 fund for the erection OF public
library. The rest of the amount has
been subscribed by citizens.
The life-saving crews on Thunder
Bay island and Middle island have re-
ceived no mail for 16 days, the water
between the shores and the stations
being filled with broken ice.
George Bradshaw, well-to-do farm.
er, aged AZ, living southwest of Hills
dale, hanged himself in his barn. He
had been respondent for the past
three years. lie leaves widow
Traverse City began a systematic
boosting campaign of the region. An
attempt will be made TO induce farm
ers, fruit growers and resorters TO
come TO the Grand Traverse region.
Christopher Wheeler. rs, pioneer
stock and horse buyer and owner OF
the misunderstanding stage line when
il operated between the two cities
in 1854, died in Marshall of paralysis.
An liberated tooth has resulted in
the jaws OF c. d. Phillips, OF Cadillac,
becoming as firmly locked as by te-
tatnus Fluids form his diet His
case puzzles physicians, who say he
will recover.
Mrs. Christine Rickson leaves Cad
lilac for Gutenberg, Sweden. to claim
a fortune of $4,000 bequeathed her p
years ago when her father died. With
compound interest the bequest
amounts to $4,000.
John Vogel Go. while fishing on the
ice of the Coldwater river, at Cold
water, fell in and would have drown
ed but for the assistance Of Law
renee Funk, who swan from shore
TO save the aged man.
A boiler at the Fiborn stone quar-
~, Fiborn. MacknaC county, eXplod-
ed with the result that one man was
killed and seven were seriously in
jury, one of them fatally. The vic
Tins are all Finnish.
Fred Buethin and William A,
Brown, poor superintendent, accused
of mismanagement Of the Saginaw
county, farm, were completely exon
Grated at special session of the
board of supervisors.
The story beat the reaper by LII
during the month Of January, accord
ing to the mortality report given out
by the secretary of state Last
month 3,4lS deaths were reported to
the department and 1929 births
John s. Haggerty, OF Detroit. mem
Der of the prison board Of control,
said in Jackson that Gov. Osborn
would run counter TO the wishes OF
the people If he vetoes the bills call
ing for appropriations for a new cell
block In Jackson prison.
Mayor Sawby, Of Marshall, sum-
moned City Marshal Sawby TO his Of
fee and told the latter that II he was
afraid to sign the complaints against
the gambling games which were oper-
ating In the town 10 bring them TO
him and he would sign them"
The Standard Oil Co. has secured
an option from the American Ship
building Co. on the site of the aban-
doned shipyards at Bay City, compris-
ing 50 acres, with river frontage OF
over 800 feet, and will ask permits
sion to transform the yards into an
oil storage plant.
The d. e. NJ railroad Wednesday
resumed normal service after the
worst experience of the winter, due
to storm. Twelve-foot drifts were
hot
boygan and telegraph wires were out
of commission from o'clock Tues
day until Wednesday evening.
John Peterson, 80, of Muskegon,
celebrated his birthday by saving a
cord of hardwood and then, for fur
Their exercise. walked a mile to a
friends home where he visited dur
ing the afternoon His wife is sc
years of age and in good health Both
have been residents OF Muskegon for
over 40 years
Postmaster Dewey has received or
ders to close the Owosso postofIice
Sunday. A petition had been circu-
lated in favor of doing so. but had
not been sent in as yet Transients
will be served with mail and doctors
are demanding the same privilege. de-
claring their profession is of life and
death and mail is likely to be import
ant
Given his choice between return
ing to his home in Italy or spending
several hours in prison in this state.
following his conviction of shooting
julius Benigni, his erstwhile partner.
Paolo DavanZati, a Laketon township
farmer near Muskegon, decided 10
take the prison term Judge Session
ordered his return TO jail until a fur.
Their investigation of the case.
Frank j. Phillips. professor OF for
estry in the Nebraska state univer.
sity who ended his life by inhaling
gas, in his home in Lincoln. Neb.,
was former student of the Michigan
Agricultural college. Lansing. His
home was in Grandville. Kent county.
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