Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-31
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. DEC. 81. 1884
MINOR MIcHIGAs stATTERs-

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The dry wells in Berrien county ought 70
De niilng up nov.
An ice bridge has already formed al the
foot of Lake Huron.
Detroit people are considering the project
Of having charity ball
Horticulturists At Ailegan have now de
clded that the peach buds are all right.
The Muskegon Valley furniture factory
which closed for the holidays viii reopen
this week
Heyeran, who escaped from the Lapeer
lail some months ago, Is safely housed again
&C lapeer.
The Jackson Y. NJ. G. A. are fitting their
rooms up dnely and will soon open them To
the public.
The clothing house of j. II. Green, of
Charlotte, was closed on chattel mortgage
"a Saturday night
saloon in Port Huron was broken into
on sunday morning and $40 worth OF liquor
and tabacco stolen
Fourteen new cases of diphtheria were
ported in Detroit between noon of Saturday
and noon of Monday.
The Temple curtain roller factory will re-
main az MuskegOn provided the citizens
raise bonus OF 5000.
Charles Baker, OF Jackson, stole 500 Ofrom
David Morris at Frankfort on Sunday night
and left for parts unknown.
Muskegon claims a wonderful crow. lt
can talk very distinctly and possesses in
stinct TO a remarkable degree
The Big Rapids Industrial School, which
closed Dec. 10 with an attendance OF forty
one students, will reopen Jan. 8.
Amember of the Odd Fellows order at
MuskegOn was killed at Harrison, Glaze
county. It Is believed that his friends are IN
Canada.
Devillo Hubbard, of Marshall, died on
Monday afternoon. He was taken sick last
Friday. The cause of his death was structure
OF the lntestines.
The tugs at Ludington fell short $500 in
their earnings the past season as compared
with the season OF 1883. Ii was much the
same IN Muskegon.
The change in the location of the post
Office at Ionia il considered nuisance by
those who 20 to the old Office before they
notice that il is gone.
William Hemingway, ex-member of the
Legislature and a prominent man IN the
3 VicIty of Lapeer, died IN Lapeer on Sunday
morning of brain fever.
The Kalamazoo Law and Order League
have sent a petition TO Gov. Begole asking
him to revoke the commutation of Dan
Van Wagener's sentence.
John Mack, of Bay City, will sue the city
for 5000 damages. He fell through the
sidewalk when the city was paving the streets
last summer and injured himself.
merchant of Otsego who has been in
failing health for year past was, on Friday
night relieved of a needle which worked out
OF his side. de Is now able to be out.
Ishpeming ladies' are going to make an in
novation on New Years day. Instead of
receiving the time-honored calls they will
give grand progressive euchre party.
William Rusbo, of Pontiac, has been
sentenced 10 three years and nine months at
the State Prison at Jackson. He Is suspected
of attempting to break Jail on Saturday.
About noon Monday George Riley, while
putting ice on Black River, at Port Huron,
fell and broke his neck, dying instantly. He
was aged thirty five and leaves a wife.
One of the finest collections of United
States money in the country Is in the pos
session of Warren Gee, of Spring Lake. He
has also a large lot of miscellaneous foreign
coins.
The wife of Alfred Freese, who was killed
at the Worlds Exposition building a few
days ago, is living in Bay City. He was a
carpenter by trade and formerly lived in
that city.
The Hart Brothers, of Green Bay, have
bought the steam-barge, G.. w. Moore, of
Saugatuck for $1,000. She will be used to
carry passengers between Green Bay and
Manistique.
NJ T. Ryan, publisher of the Allegan Dem
0crat, pronounces false the statement that
Will J. Sproat, former editor of the late
Grand Rapids Radical, Is to assume charge
OF the Democrat.
Bandits entered the Catholic church and
house of the priest at Cortelos, Galicia, for
the purpose of pillage. Failing to ret mon
ey. they tied the priest in heap of straw
and burned him to death.
Edward Edgerton. alias William Bateman
and Arthur Boyd, the forger operator at
Saginaw City, Bay City and Ann Arbor IN
November was sentenced to five years at
Jackson Monday evening.
The meeting of county examiners of
schools was held at Lansing Monday after
noon, J. e.. Plowman presiding. The report
of the committee to draft n plan for the
organization of the society was adopted.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the
Michigan State Teachers Association open
ed ia Representative Hall at Lansing on
Monday night. The teachers were to be
gwen reception by Gov. Begole last night.
Many will be surprised to learn that there
il a good deal of pine left standing in Ale
gan county. Dewing 4 Sons, the extensive
Kalamazoo lumbermen, estimate that they
have enough standing timber to run their
mill for the next four years.
The store of J. II. Green, a Charlotte
clothier. was closed Saturday by John Lew
on chattel mortgage amounting TO Sll ,l3l.
The liabilities are estimated at $25,ooO, and
the stock will probably invoice $1,000.
Eastern creditors will be the heaviest losers.
George Kelley. one of the ice cutters work
inu on Black River. accidently fell into the
water, but was rescued and went home and
made a change of clothing. returning 70
work. About noon he fell on the ice in such
a manner "a to break his neck and died inn
mediately.
George Richardson. Wallace Kennedy,
Daniel Angel aud Thresher. known to police
circles "a the Leuonde gang, have been
hunted down and were jailed at Grand
Haven on Monday for suspected burVlaries
recently perpetrated in the northern portion
Of the county.
II would seem that the cry of duh times
among the manufacturers this year has not
haan without foundation. The annual re-