Show IN THE FIELD ilns jell Alexander Alcer of Michigan Scekinc Presidential Nomination Mr Alger of Michigan announces himself him-self to be a candidate for the presidential 1 nomination He is a Republican a Grand I Army man and a millionaire Lafayette Ohio was his birth place in the year 1S36 Ho was admitted to the bar in 1S59 In 1SG1 he entered the Union army beginning t tA iJJJJU iJJJ J J < i I ¼ l i 1 1 tl J j t 1 I 1 I 44d r l k i kI J 1tllr i W 1 r 7 RUSsELl ALEXANDEU ALGER an honorable service which terminated in his being brevet mnjor general captain of a Michigan cavalry regiment After the war ho became a lumber merchant in De roll Michigan He wcs elected governor of that stat in 1SS4 and served in the of ice two years In ISfO ho was commander inchief of the I Grand Army of the Republic |