Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1873-11-18
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ron Railroad Company VIII be held
at Port Huron on Wednesday,
December 3, at IL o'clock a. IN.
Joseph Cook was the name of the
man who was killed in the affray at
Croton a short time since. At the
post mortem examination wound
two and three-quarter inches long
was found in his left side which
caused his death.
A company has been organized
in Jackson to construct and oper-
ate street railway on Main street,
from the east to the west line of the
city. The capitol stock is $4,000,
of which there has been subscribed
$4,000. They propose to COM
mence laying the track early in the
spring.
LAUNDERING this winter at Man
istee will be light. The mills there
have already commenced shutting
down.
The railroad bridge across Rycr-
sons creek in Musllegon, suddenly
fell on Monday at least four feet.
The railroad Company had been
filling in with sand on top of the
sawdust and mire until it became
to heavy. A force of fifty men
soon brought the bridge to level.
Muskegon has just purchased its
second steam fire engine at a cost
of $4,000.
A man named George Church,
former resident of Hudson, at
tempted suicide at Toledo on Satur-
day last. He attributed poverty
as an excuse for the rash act.
A meeting is to be held in Vas
sar. Tuscola county, Thursday,
December 4, to organize a pioneer
society for that county.
The Portage Lake Mining Gaz-
cite says that the late John G.. Hee-
mans wife was born at Copper Har-
Dor, in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan. o
A military company has been
organized in Saginaw called the
Saginaw Valley Guards" A. A.
Day has been chosen Captain, II.
w. Johnson First Lieutenant, and
]. w. Day Second Lieutenant.
The trial of Dewitt Guilford,
charged with abducting the daugh-
ter Of w. B. Stenard, sometime
ago, is now in progress in the Sagi-
nav Circuit Court.
On Wednesday morning man
employed at the mill of Rysdorp &
Co., Manistee, had his left arm
caught in the cogs and dreadfully
mangled, and an amputation was
found necessary above the elbow.
i AT Pulaski, the terminus of the
Grand Rapids d Indiana Railroad,
on Tuesday woman named Mrs.
McCloud while intoxicated, fell in
to fire and was burned to death.
Quincy has purchased fire en-
CINE and organized fire company.
Mr. Whitman Ripley, of Rome,
LeDawee county, has entered com
plant against DR.. Sherman of Adri-
an, for blasphemy. The offence
is alleged to have been committed
in the town of Rome on the 18th
of last August. The occasion was
at Spiritualist's mass meeting, and
Ripley charges that Sherman called
God liar and rascal. On Nor
day Of last week the doctor was
arrested and taken before a justice
} OF the peace, when he pleaded not
guilty, and said he had not the
slightest recollection of indulgina
in the language attributed to him
The complaining witness state.
: that those of the doctors peculiar
belief think he had perfect righ'
7 to say what he did. The hearing
Of the case was adjourned until
the 18th inst. '-.
The hard wood steam saw-mill a
Quimby Station, on the Grand Riv
. er Valley Railroad, thirty-eigh
r miles east of Grand Rapids, wa
. burned Wednesday morning, ais,
. $1,000 worth of material. Tn,
J loss Is about $4,000, with 5000
insurance.