Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-11-21
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. nov. n. iss4-


j. c. Brown, pioneer citizen or 81
Johns j. dead OF heart disease.
The season for killing deer Ia the Lower
Peninsula expired last Saturday
Thlrty-ave paupers depend upon the La
peer county treasury for support.
A deer vas shot the other day within ten
miles Of Lansing, IN Eagle township.
The Cass City Eaterprise has been sold 70
Robert j. Toland, Of the Unionviile Snn.
twenty-five men have been discharged
from the Grand Trunk shops at Port Huron
Sixty thousand dollars worth OF new build
ings have been erected in Caro- this season.
The bee-keepers Of West Michigan viii
hold a meeting at Fremont on Tuesday, the
25th.
A south Haven peach grower raised s., 200
worth Of peaches from fourteea acre
orchard.
Joseph York, who has piece of land Just
north OF RoscommOn, has f. len heir TO 49,
60 cash
Levi Tibbitts, of Plymouth, has new ar
tesian well OF unusual value, flowing awayea
small river.
The Presbyterian Church of Petoskey
extended a call To the Rev. III. Il. Davis, of
Negaunee on last Monday.
John Garfield, of aenistee. struck salt
rock ON Wednesday at the depth of 2,OlO feet.
II LIlftJ-tWO lcct
Lizzie O'Grady was playing upon whirii-
gig at Saginaw city; she rolled OH and broke
both bones of the right leg.
The Moody meetings begin in Detroit
to-day. Mr.. Sankey Is expected TO be there,
but he viii not be able 10 sing.
David Simmons. farmer of Steamburg,
near Hilisdale, cut his throat Wednesday,
but was still alive at last reports.
A farmer named David Simmons, about 55
years old, living at Steamburg, Hillsdale
county, has cut his throat and will probably
die
A farmer unearthed human skeleton IN
the woods near Port Huron day or two ago
which apparently had been buried at least lO
years.
Farmers In some portions of the State are
feeding wheat % their stock. The price be-
ing SO low as not To pay for hauling 1t to
market.
Jerome Eddy, Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, has purchased the Flint
Daily NeirS, and will run 1t as an'independ-
ent paper.
B.H Buscoe 4 Company's box factory, at
Bay City, was totally destroyed by fre ON
Wednesday evening. Loss, $500; insur-
ance, $500.
Diphtheria prevails at Detroit, but not to
an alarming extent. The physicians of the
city are divided IN opinion as TO whether IT Is
a contagious disease.
Manistee's monthly product of'salt is 15,-
COO barrels The salt block of K. II. Peters
is to receive additions which will make 1t the
largest salt block IN the world.
Seth Pettys, an old farmer living near
Brighton, was run over by heavily LOADED
wagon Tuesday, and received injuries from
the effects of which he may die.
Charley Iva, son Of one of the Mer-
chants of Gaylord, was accidentally shot
through the left thigh while out sporting
near that town few days since.
The Clinton county Circuit Court has
awarded Mary Williams, of Lebanon, $40
damages for SANDER, Peter Ulrich being the
author of the offensive language.
T. j. Ingraham, while working in the
lumber woods west of Roscommon a few
DAYS since, received serious injury to his
right eye, which ne thinks he will have to
lose.
A man on jefferson avenue IN Detroit at
tempted TO commit suicide by jumping out
of a third story window. De was taken TO
the hospital, and the doctors say he will prob
ably die.
l. A. Haak, Chase, Lake county lumber
man. Is shipping maple logs IN the rough to
Glasgow, Scotland, via New York. They are
TO be used for rollers IN the extensive paper
mills of that place.
A barn on the farm of Robert Fox, SIX
miles west of Uuionville, was fired by an in
cendiary early Wednesday morning. Fifteen
head of cattle, horse. threshing machine
and five tons of hay were lost.
Rev ID. p. Breed for the past four years
pastor OF the Congregational church of
Eaton Rapids, has rendered his resignation,
and il has been accepted. He goes to Port
land IN December on an increased salary.
There are about fifteen miles of logs
jammed in the Au Ores river, Iosco county,
that were put there year ago. These are
estimated at about 100000 feet, and there
are said To be three times % much IN the
Au Sable and It's branches.
Ishpeminz has way of letting the other
fellows bet first and then going them one
better. Marquette and Negaunee are lighted
by gas. Nothing short of electric light will
now satisfy Ishpeming. The plant will be
in operation before Christmas.
This years output of iron ore from the
mines of the Upper Peninsula will be about
the same as that of last year. Until the lat
ter part of the season II bade fair 10 be con-
sidernbly larger, bat the falling off in ship
ments since August has been very great
The supply house of the Calumet a Hecla
mine was burned Saturday last involving a
loss Of about S25.000. Tho engine house of
the Atlantic mine, reported burned Wednes-
day was of stone. and the walls remain. IL
viii. therefore, be short job to repair the
loss.
The Adrian water works company and the
city council are not on speaking terms The
company built a water works system for the
city and 1aow wants its pay. The ill-feeline
grows our Of the fact that the council seems
disposed to leave the want eternally unsat-
isfed.
The salt wells at Oscoda and An Sable get
their supply Of brine from six wells near
Fact Tawas, a distance Of ten or twelve
miles. II = forced through wooden pipes
aud furnished AZ ten cents per barrel of the
salt produced. which IA about Loo barrels
per day.
Patrick Hoy. a resident Of Webster town
ahip. Na@htenaw county, applied - the sur
geons at the State University Hospital e
have cancer removed from his NECK, but
the doctors refused. saying Il was TOO deli
cate an operation % undertake. lie died
Wednesday night.
A d. stein, some time cook at The Levi.