The Lake County star., 1877-05-10
MICHIGAN NEWS.

MtCHiGAN NEWS.
Latest Michigan patents:
Steam Road Wagon u. w. Wade,
Clam Lake.
Knife and Fork Cleaver-A. Z. Van
Horn, Sebewaing.
Pumps-M. Cook, West LIE Roy.
Machines for Making Broom Heads
d. Squires, Battle Creek.
Sack Scales-C. Flanders, Bronson
Pencils-O. NJ. Allen, Kalamazoo.
Elevator w. w. Blakeslee, Spring
Lake.
n. X. Freeman, Detroit.
The ice was an impediment TO naviga-
ton on the first Of May, In Lake Huron.
A freight train on the Central Railroad
was "ditched at Spring Arbor Monday.
Twenty cars loaded with cattle went
down the embankment, killing eighteen
head.
Mr.. George Morehouse, or Centreville,
was killed Monday by his horse running
Van wagenor confesses to the murder
OF Hewitt, near Kalamazoo. His object
was to get Hewitt's money.
Since the Reform movement took effect
at Ann Arbor, there has been but one ar
rest for disturbance OF the 2eace--which
Is very remarkable for 80 long time.
A farmer was robbed Of go by foot
pads, tho other night, near Ida.
Geo. III. Moss, a farmer 60 years Of age,
living north of Marshall. committed su :
eide Monday by shooting himself
The Kalamazoo Village Board has ap-
pointed a committee to DRAFT an ordinance
prohibiting cigar stores, barber snops
and restaurants from keeping open sun
m
strictly enforce the ordinance closing the
saloons Sundays and at twelve o'clock at
night during the week, instructing him
specially during the horse fair TO l Q held
in June.
IL ia announced that the unexDended
halIance of upwards OF million dollars,
Appropriated by the River and Harbor
appropria.ion bill, will be applied to its
purpose during. the coming summer.
Among the proposed items ten are the t'n ioliow- ovc
Marquette, $1,000; Charlevoix, 10000;
Frankfort, g, 600; Manistee, ia 900; Lud-
ington. $l0, 900 Pentwater, 4l0. 600; White
River. $1,000; Muskegon, $4,000; Black
Lake. 5000; Saugatuck, 81 500; st. Jo-
seph. $4,000; st.. Mary's River and Falls
Canal, $i3O, 900 Cheboygan, $1,000; Thun-
der Bay, a, 500; Monroe, 5000.
Samuel Tuttle, of Battle Creek, pleaded
guilty to an assault upon his wife, and
was fined S45 and costs. He was also put
under bondso of 500 for his good oehayior'
Gen. Sooy Smith is In New York ne
money with which to build railroad
tunnel under the Detroit river.
The Vanderbilts have been looking at
their Michigan railroads.
Hon. VIM. b. Williams has been ap,,
4A
Commissioner.
Harry Saunders, charged with burglary
from the office Of the Police Court clerk,
at Detroit, was sentenced by necoroer
Swift to six years In the State Prison.
A sheep-shearing festival will be held
at the National Park, Kalamazoo county,
May q.
The spring meeting of the Hillsdale
Trotting Association will be held ON the
fair grounds, May "A and %.
The whitefish deposited IN Grand River
are thriving, and occasionally one Is
caught that shows satisfactory growth.
Fred Morley has been sentenced at Mt.
Clemens to eight years in State Prison,
for assault and attempt to commit rape
upon girl ten years old.
The main Tittabawasee is filed with
logs for twenty miles below the North
branch. The prospect Is that all Will be
fioated down to the mills without diff
Guilty.
At Benton Harbor DR.. Reynolds had
an audience Of about 500, and 300 signed
the pledge.
Saloon licenses must be paid up In May,
and this red ribbon mania makes 1t come
like pulling teeth. Reports from all parts
of the State indicate that hundreds OF
small drinking places are being closed
on account of the tax and want OF pat
r0nage.
Will F. Goldie, cashier Of the First Ma
tiOnal Bank of Saginaw, has disappeared,
and the bank is $1,000 snort.
The eighth annual reunion Of the
Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Associa-
tion will take place in the city OF Adrian
on Wednesday, the 23d day OF May, 1877.
The officially declared vote at the re-
cent election is:
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