Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-09-05

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f Three men, named Underwood
1 Hastings and Bacon, were browne
|, by the upsetting of a boat in whic
$ they we're fishing in pond at Sout
: Orleans, Mass, Saturday week.
/ Hon. b. G. Cook, Member of Con
Cress from the Sixth District of Ill
has rendered his resignation, to tax
. effect October LIST. His successor vii
be elected at the November election.
The annual fair of the Kansas 6
Missouri Fair Association will be helC
at Fort Scott, commencing Septembe
25th and continuing five days. Pre-
miums to the amount of $4,000 are
open to competition from all quarters
1t is stated that when Grant leave;
Long Branch he will take a trip to
Ohio to visit his father. From thence
he will 90 to the oil regions of Penhs
ylvania. He expects to arrive at
Pottsville about the 18th of Septem-
Der.
John Nevil, charged with the muir
der of his mother-in-law, Mrs. VIM.
Perkins, in Metcalf county, Kentucky,
was taken from the Jail in that county
by mob Saturday night week, taken
to the place where the murder was
committed, and hanged
A freight train on the Louisville g.
Nashville Railroad was thrown from the
track, Tuesday, by defective rail-
Seven cars went off the track and
were badly damaged, Twenty-Five
head of horses and mules were killed.
Part of the machinery for the new
shipyard at Wyandotte has arrived
from the East
Willie b. Wheeler, aged 10 years,
son of j. Wheeler, of Walkertown, fell
into well Saturday week, and was
killed.
In the township of Paris, Kent
county, a boy six years of age acct
dentally hung himself, last week, in
his fathers grocery.
The amount of wheat bought in
Howell within ten days will reach 3d.
600 bushels, for which an average
price of S1.21 has been paid.
The wife of j. Pourtney, of Slaz-
burgh, who recently eloped with J. S.
Clevitt, has returned to her husband
and harmony has been restored.
Arthur NJ. Deitz, who was so badly |
crushed at Plymouth, on Sunday week,
by the cars, died on Wednesday. His
death was very generally regretted.
The mill of Everest & Wise, at
Pine Grove, near South Haven, has
been burned, causing, with the lumber
destroyed, loss of $4,000. There
vas no insurance.
On Sunday night week, an attempt
vas made by incendiaries to burn. the
Hotel at Muskegon, which
allied. The side of the building was
burned, but the fire was
,ut out before serious damage was
lone.
The report of births and deaths in
Lcnawee county, for 1870, shows $50
If the former and 1886 of the latter
against 76l and 2S7 the year before.
There were fourteen pairs of twins
md one set of triplets among the
births.
A short time since the store of T..
Rich, at Pentwater, was robbed of a
quantity of goods. A colored man
named John Brown was arrested, the
goods were recovered and Brown was
ined SO and sentenced to fifty days
The State of Michigan, in view of
the Importance Of the peach trade, has
fixed the capacity of a peach basket
by statutory enactment. The law of
this State says: "The quantity known
as a box or basket of peaches shall |
contain 761 "a cubic inches, or one
third of bushel strict measure"
Grand Haven will soon have one |
of the finest Union School houses in
the State. The body of the building
is sevcnty-ive feet square, with low
projections on the north and south,
each sixteen feet, making an extreme
length of 107 feet. The cost will be
about $4,000.
The city of Lansing has contracted
with the Wrought Iron Company, of
Canton, Ohio, for new bridge across
the river. 1t will be built entirely of
iron, will have a single span 113 feet
long, roadway twenty feet wide and
two sidewalks each six feet wide. 1t
is to be finished Nov. LIST, and will
cost $4,000.
A very sudden death occurred in
the township of Manchester on the
21st. Mr.. Alexander McCollum a