Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-03-02
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of interest to VOL
VERNE State Readers.

Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That II Will Appeal
to All Glasses of Readers.
S. Newkirk, SO, Ann Arbor, died at
home OF his daughter, Mrs. McLaren
In Chelsea.
DR.. IA. A. Barber, aged 70. and a vet
eran of the civil war, is dead at
Hastings. DIR. c. b. Barber OF Hastings
Is son.
Mrs. Ella Diamond, aged 81, who
had been in the hotel business in
Michigan for forty-fve years. died at
/ Thcmpsonville
Claude Way, Ann Arbor. was hit by
an automobile driven by DR.. G. f..
Buehling. He was thrown forty feet,
but not seriously hurt.
Because OF i'll health H. Barkman,
Jqpesfield farmer, committed suicide
by hanging. His body was found sew
eral hours after he ended his life.
n. Belk, near Muskegon mistook a
can of gasoline for kerosene when at
tempting TO revive a fire which he had
started Little hope is held out for his
recovery
While running from the police
after he was seen robbing a grocery
! store at Grand Rapids. an unidentified
man was struck and killed by Mich
igan Central train.
That he thought wise the action OF
University of Michigan in providing
a non-compulsory course OF military
training was the opinion expressed by
Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris.
While engaged at work on
the batteries on his automobile at his
home northeast of Ionia. Ralph Com
stock was overcome by the exhaust
from the engine and is in a serious
condition.
Caught by a machine to convey
huge blocks of ice on Muskegon lake,
Charles Pomeroy was pulled into the
waters. His left ear was u Off, his
right arm broken and his left leg
fractured.
Two new buildings at St Joseph,
costing $4,000. viii be erected
on the property OF the Catholic parish
They will be a new rectory and res.
idence for the instructors of the paro-
chial school
Bert Ashley Devendorf 80, for
mer newspaper man. member OF sew
eral Masonic orders. died at the home
of his parents in Grand Rapids he
vas stricken With typhoid fever IN
Oshkosh, Wis.
John Anderson. thirty-four years OF
age. was instantly killed by a Chi
cago & North Western freight train
near Iron Mountain when he attempt
ed to board the train and was thrown
under the wheels.
John McMullen. 1914 Is dead at his
home p Lake Odessa sir. McNullen
celebrated his last anniversary in
July and the entire village turned out
to help him observe. He was a boy
hood friend OF President Mckinley.
A. Sos4irlu Who went away from
Crane Rapids more than a year ago
fer scranton. Pa, who was glyen az
10y mis- friends as dead is a prisoner
IN a detention camp in Cochrano Ont.
according % word received by Grand
Rapids relatives.
The arrest Of John Kakkala. woods
man. cleared up the mystery sur
rounding the attack on Miss Marion
Mcneil. a twenty year old school
teacher. at Fortune Lake Pakkala
confessed to Sheriff Sensiba and four
winesse, and was sentenced to 30 TO
30 years in the penitentiary
Facts op fishing at st. Joseph pre-
scented to the Chamber of Commerce
by Deputy State Game Warden Rich
ard Condor. show that there is am
investment Of $4,000 in boats. tugs
md doc,age More than $4,000 pounds |
of fish are caught annually.
More chan 500 blossoms on one
plant OF Holland is a record for /
Christmas cactus owned by Mrs.
Archie Cummins. of Allegan county. |
The cactus started to bloom on
Thanksgiving day and az fast as the !
blossoms faded she plucked them
Two old residents have passed away |
at Berrien Springs village Joseph |
Herbert Perkins. aged seventy-nine. |
was an old newspaperman. having
gained his first experience under Hor-
ace Greeley. w E. Pencil. sixty-sev-
en-. another county pioneer. is dead.
Lawrence Holmes and Square Sher-
man are being held and a third is be-
ing sought in connection with the
murder OF Jacob Bowersox. severity /
years old. a Homer civil war veteran,
who was found dying at the home OF I
Holmes. in Homer. Calhoun county
Three Wexford county pioneers died
lob Hoxie. resident OF Hoxieville |
township for forty-three years; Mrs.
Mary A. Pollok. for forty-two years
a resident Of Cherry Grove township.
and Mrs Stenalina Peterson. eighty
two years old. Clam Lake township.
Discovery OF human bones in the
cellar of the old Rector farm home.
six miles south of Benton Harbor. and
the signed confessions OF Toefell
Zdrowski and Alex Mitelsky that
Tony Grinewitsh aged Pole, whose
body was unearthcd had been muir
dered there last October. have con.
vinced Berrien county authorities
that the Rector place will prove TO be
q second Guinness murder farm"
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