Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-11-10
state News.

Samuel Reisig while out hunt
ing at Monroe, on the Srd, acct
dentally shot and killed himself.
\ rich vein of salt has been
struck at Manistee, at depth of
800 feet.
There are yet 100000 feet of
logs in the An Ores river, which
will doubtless be RATED yet this
fall.
The Episcopal society of Caro-
will build a chuch edifice next
summer.
At Armada on the I'd an aged
citizen named John Adams dropped
dead in the W. +. Preston's store.
He came to Michigan from New
York six years ago.
The boys of the First ward Of
Flint have resolved that no boys
from other wards shall see First
ward girls home, and there has been
cruel war inaugurated.
The diptheria, which last year
ravaged Caro-, has broken out
again, and the primary schools
have been suspended. The utmost
precaution is being used to pre-
vent its spread.
At Leslie on the sd three years
old son of Mr.. Randall was fatal
ly burned. 1t is thought he had
been playing with the fire. The
house narrowly escaped destruc-
ton and the furniture was ruined.
Seaman Edgerton, of Orion, a
brakeman on the Detroit and Bay
City railroad, was killed at Lapeer
Wednesday night. A switch was
left open and the. train Of freight
cars upon which he was working
was ditched and wrecked. En-
gineer Trip Lee and fireman Lew.
Agnew were also hurt, but escaped
by q miracle, as it were, after their
engine had capsized.
Ithaca, Gratiot county, can now
be reached by telegraph.
The new sheriff Of Livingston
county was formerly an editor and
founded the Brighton Citizen.
4 stone road is to be built be-
tween Port Huron and Marysville.
Port Huron has evidently resolved
to have less mud blockades in the
future.
Charles Richie, brakeman on
the D., 6. II. d NJ. r. r., fell from
train at Grand Rapids on the
Sd. and was hurt so that he died on
the 18th.
The census OF Roscommon coun-
ty footed up at ,417-men, women
and children-but they managed to
poll ,O26 votes. The elasticity of
that population is something re-
markable.
Herman Ziem, brother of Charles
Ziem, arrived in this city Monday
from Dallas, Texas, travelling from
that place to this city, over 1000
miles, with a team and wagon,
passing over mountain ranges, ETC.,
the entire journey lasting nine
weeks and one day. Up to within
three weeks ago his wife and fami-
ly roughed it through with him,
but when they had reached Quin-
cy, H." he sent them on by rail-
Saginaw Courier.
The Grand Rapids Times relates
a horrible story of religious insani-
ty in that city, in which a girl
named Bertha Snyder, disciple OF
one Elder Patterson, has been made
to believe that she killed a child
and threw it into a canal. She tells
the story in the most circumstantial
manner, but when she has been ad-
vised by her spiritual adviser Pat
terson she can as readily deny the
entire statement. There is ample
proof that she did not kill the
child, as it is now living, but she
will freely assert that she did, and
thinks that by freely confessing
she insures her chance of becom-
ing a member of the angelic host
some day.
John King, burglar who had
been operating at Kalamazoo, was
bagged at Niles a few days ago.
The fellow had pal who is yet at
liberty, but may be caught soon.
General News.
Horse flesh still forms one of the
staple provisions Of France. Last