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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1889
Page
2
The report mixes a dramatic court scene in a guardianship case involving Luce Lawrences and an adoption struggle with varied local notices. It covers the death of Representative Smith, pharmacy exam results, county seat disputes, tax abatements, burglaries, and multiple incidental regional happenings across Michigan, including Ann Arbor hospital planning, university expansions, and industry updates.
A drunken mob gathered near Get Mahone's Peteraturss home on election night around 10:80 pm. They fired rockets and shouted insults, threatening violence as General Mahone appeared at his door with a shotgun to defend his house. He was arrested for assault with intent to kill but released on bail. testimony said no shots were fired by him during the confrontation.
In Lexington two Col. William Cassius Goodloe and Col. Brimstead M. Swope exchanged blows over mail boxes at a local post office. Swope fired wounding Goodloe, who then attacked with a knife. Swope fell dead near the money order department shortly after, amid political tensions from the prohibition movement. Miss Frances E. Willard resigns advisory post in the Prohibition Party.
Justice of the peace Benoal Lachance in Mackina county won a mandamus against the Auditor General to pay burial expenses for an unknown deceased found ashore. The court held the stranger must be given a decent burial with ceremony, ruling the statutes require proper interment, not a dog’s burial. The Pilot is to Blame reports Coroner Hendige’s verdict on the Mt Auburn inclined plane accident in Cincinnati where six died, finding pilot error and gear failures as causes.
Miss Kate Drexel, heiress to five million, married in a private Pittsburgh ceremony on November 7 at the Sisters of Mercy convent. Archbishop Hyon officiated with Bishop Phelan, the bride becoming Sister Catherine, amid a celebrated breakfast for close friends and relatives.
Thomas F Bayard weds, with ex President Cleveland and ex Secretary Chamberlain among guests. The bride, a great granddaughter of George Clymer, shares ties to the Declaration era. After a reception the couple depart for a northern tour amid political and regional notes.
Terrible weather last week froze three cows on the Wizard sweep over eastern Veloredo and northern New Mexico. Jeremiah and Mary Dennis, aged three and five, of Haverhill, were found buried near their home. The children were near a sand and were swept away. the search and rescue persisted until the bodies were recovered.
A petition signed by about a third of London barristers asks the Queen to grant a pardon to Mra Maybrick. Reports note France could field 1.4 million troops for a prolonged campaign. The Cheseborough wreck off Japan claims nineteen lives. Stanley reports limited hostilities on his Central Africa route home. A commission evaluates converting Home into a seaport via an 11 mile canal with a proposed cost of 600000 francs. an American firm backs the project.
The Twenty-eighth Michigan infantry held its Lansing reunion with fifty absentees noted. Officers for the coming year include President J Blosser of Lansing, Vice President William Duryea Smyrna, Secretary and Treasurer Thomas Court Duckeon. Next meeting set for Kalamazoo October 21. YMCA state officers elected include State Secretary H M Clark Detroit, Executive Committee Chair HG Van Tughe Detroit, Treasurer J Dutton Minuette, and Secretary of the Executive Committee.
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