Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-02-03
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest TO VOL
VERNE State Readers.
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That II viii Appeal
to All Glasses Of Readers.

to All Glasses OF Readers.
James j. Soules, aged Al, OF Battle
Creek, killed himself at his home by
drinking acid.
Grand Rapids newspaper men have
organized a press club.
A pipe bursting cost the life OF ii.
Jones at the Aetna explosive plant,
south of Winthrop.
Andrew McCalley. st. Joseph coun-
ty farmer, hung himself to a tree at
the asylum at Kalamazoo.
A. A. Leoni was killed in run
away accident. The body was found
In the highway near Grass Lake viii
lage.
Edward Fitzgerald, son Of w. Fitz-
gerald, near Stanwood, was instantly
killed at Worden's sawmill, northwest
OF Paris.
DR.. j. o. Reed, a member of tie lit
erary faculty of the University of
Michigan, died at the home of his
brother, DR.. A. w. Reed, In Cleveland.
Richard L. Cuddeby, of Syracuse,
n. Y, was taken TO lonia, charged
with breaking and entering an inter
state shipment OF silk consigned TO
Belding.
l.. l.. Calkins, 49, OF Rosebush, lisa
bella county, was killed while helping
TO adjust an electric transformer be-
longing to the Consolidated Light and
Power company.
Three Flint girls. school teach
er and two high school girls, were
caught in a police raid in house kept
by Bessie Van Alystine early in the
morning at Bay City
Twelve prisoners are in the jail at
the present time and two of these are
from Midland county. There have new.
er been so few arrests in this county
as during this winter.
Menominee officials are i'm a state
wide search for Bessie Hawk Schmidt
who has half a share in an estate val.
ued at $4,000 awaiting her when she
appears In Menominee.
H. ]. Davis, we'll known citizen and
a Pontiac church member. was held 70
the circuit court on a charge Of op
Grating his hotel, the Wayside Inn. for
purpose OF prostitution.
The Michigan Beet Sugar company
OF Saginaw has asked DR.. Percy L.
Prentis of the federal immigration
bureau at Chicago TO obtain 5000 men
10 work In the refinery.
Mrs. Robert Page. Grand Rapids, was
taken into custody on the belief she
is familiar with important facts rela.
tive to the murder last week OF her
stepfather, Frank S. Sprague
The Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION OF Bay City is putting
the finishing touches on its new SIS,
oCO home and has arranged program
for the opening next month.
w. p. McCurdy, twenty-five years OF
age, a member OF the faculty of the
Michigan Business and Normal col
lege. was found dead in bed at the
home OF his parents at Battle Creek
a
senger train at Michigan Central
railroad crossing, Mrs. Rose Mills
aged about sixty years, was instantly
killed. The body was terribly mutt
lated
The body of Mrs. Peter Beltinck OF
Mount Pleasant, who disappeared
the night OF January 10, was found
frozen in cake Of ice about a mile
below the city. The ice is being thaw
ed away.
A six year old Kalamazoo child
Margaret Pressler has just come into
the possession of $4,000 left her by
her grandfather because she was al
ways good to him and always had a
smile on her face
Vincent Jagge, held suspected as ar
accomplice with Lawrence Page in the
murder OF the latters grandfather
Frank S. Sprague. is alleged to have
made statement i'm which he puts
the whole job on Page.
f. r. Pos Of the Detroit American
league berrr~0 r'ifb. whose matri
monial dif figured prominently
in the ncEg ego. has been mar
ried for ~ 'ri time. the last wife
being Nre Flrlon Coplen Draper. q
divorcee
In his siAty-fourth year OF we'd
ded life ana in the eighty-eighth mile
stone of his life Peter Joseph Bar
douche. a former resident OF Groon
Bay, is dead at Menominee of genera
debility Ills widow, eighty-six years
old, is alive and in good health
Facing charge of assaulting her
preferred by Miss Lila Niber, an
eighteen-year-old neighbor girl, New.
ton White, well to do young farmer
living near Chesaning, leaped through
kit ben window in his home and c.
c1t0 eu the Saginaw sheriff, viii
hzzing about his ears.
ic Steele Farr, SS years OF
Gao home Of her son, C.. b
..4 fost auron business man. Nr-
- fcc- ed an honorable discharr
signed by Archibald p. Campbell. co
oDel Of the Second Michigan cava
for valuable services which she roi
dered at st. Louis, No., during tA
civil war.