Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-23
Morning Telegram.
aISoR aIcHIGAN MATHIS.

OoOd beech and maple WOOL - -riAiilS a
20 cents a cord al Otisylie.
The Gale Manufacturing Company viii re-
build On the old site az Albion
The Light Guard polo team Of Detroit was
defeated b. the Ann Arbor team Saturday
night.
The gas question in Ann Arbor is still un-
settled bat tie indications are favorable 10
electricity.
Fife Lake i 10 have broom factory and
wishes that some one would start grlst
mil there.
County Clerk Hunter, Of Adrian, has been
resented With a gOld-headed cane b the
Board OF Supervisors.
Articles Of association Of the Riverdale &
Lake Michigan Railroad company have been
filed with the Secretary Of State.
An Adrian woman pat some hot bricks in
her bed 90 warm It, and the fire department
was called out To put out the IRE.
4 Dc. Renolds has succeeded in inducing
nye hundred people to sign the red ribbon
pledge since he has been IN Muskegon.
An overflow from the water pipes in the
Masonic lodge at Saginaw City, the other
night, caused about SO worth of damage.
The packing houses Of McGrath & Co. and
SchOll 4 Co, Baltimore, Md, were destroyed
by IRE Sunday, causing loss OF SoO,OoO.
Miss Matilda Jack, living at Mt. Glenn
ems, chOked ~ death Friday trying To swal-
low piece of leaf lard. She was partially
deranged.
Al Gleason, of the Michigan Board of
Health, died at Lanaing yesterday OF typhoid
fever; be was wel-known writer on sanI-
tary topics.
Some of the fruit-growers in the vicinity
of Ann Arbor fear that the peach crop has
been injured. II l. rather early ia the season
TO begin that complaint.
Henry Ashoff, of st. Joseph, who has been
Supervisor of ROyalton township for many
years, died at his home yesterday of con-
sumption, aged IS years.
George b. Green, well-to- DO farmer,
whose home was two miles south of Albion,
committed suicide By cutting his throat
Sunday. Cause, III health.
brilliant meteor was seen through Jack
son, Calhoun and Branch counties Saturday
at I'D p. IN. Shocks of its explosion were
plainly felt in those counties.
Pres. Angel has been very fond of dogs,
and owned some very fine ones; but on ac-
Qfant OF their sheep killing propensities he
sas Obliged TO dispose of them.
ST. James Roman Catholic Church OF Bay
City was burned on Sunday night. The loss
Is placed at from 5000 TO $4,000, with par
tial insurance Origin unknown.
Considerable silver is now being taken
mines, and some silver has also been taken
out OF the Osceola copper mines.
freight train on the Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee railroad was wrecked
Friday night near Royal Oak. No lives were
lost, but considerable damage was done.
About fifty local Democrats of Greenville
presented Mr.. William T.. Hoyt, Chairman
of the Democratic County Committee, with
an elegant gold-headed cane on Friday even
ing
The hardware firm of Stoeckert & Tinzel,
of Monroe, which failed last Summer, has
settled with the creditors at twenty -five cents
ON the dollar, and Iinzel will resume busi-
ness
An old man was found frozen in the woods
few miles north of Cadillac on Saturday
afternoon. and the body was brought TO
Cadillac TO be identified. He is yet un-
known.
. The Phillips Mining Company of Ishpem-
Ing has purchased forty acres, sunk a shaft
vein. Twenty-Five thousand dollars was the
price paid.
SLerif Bidwell OF Adrian, arrived home
from Kansas Sunday evening, having In
charge James G.. Savage, charged with alb
sconding from Lenawee county with his
father-in-law's team.
The University closed on Friday for the
Christmas holidays, and will reopen January
4. 1856. Many of the students have gone
home, and the University consequently pre-
sents deserted appearance.
The indications for coal at Corunna are
still good. The drillers Friday night struck
vein OF slate at a depth of about 652
feet. If coal is not struck operations will
be suspended at depth of 700 feet.
James Butler and William Tilliman, the
colored men charged with the burglary of
the drug store of Lewis d Crofootat Pontiac
December 10, we're arraigned in the Oakland
Circnit on Saturday. They pleaded not
guilty.
Edwin Russell. of Royal Oak, who had one
of his legs severed from his body Saturday
by the bursting of fly wheel on horse
power cornstalk cutting machine, died yester-
day. HIS father II a prominent citizen and
ex-county official.
Burglars Sunday night entered the store
OF II. III. Brix, furrier, IN Saginaw City, and
carried OF nearly 81 200 worth of goods.
The articles taken were principally seal
skin and included dolman, coat, several
muffs aud about twenty caps.
The financial embarrassments of the Iron
River Furnace Company have been adjusted
satisfactory 90 the creditors and the con-
flruction of the works will be energetically
bushed ca completion. IL IL hoped to have
the furnace IN operation blythe first of next
June.
II Il proposed to build a railway from
Riversiale. Gratiot county. 90 Frankfort,
Benzie county-a distance Of ll6 miles. The
road IL TO be called the Riverdale & Lake
Michigan railroad. The same parties have
also organised a company 10 build road
from Coldwater 90 the Ohio line.
Col o. H. Moore. of the regular army.
who has recently been placed on the retired
hat after nearly thirty years service, whose
home II In Coldwafer. has a violin 30 years
oid IL was made by Rupert. the famous
violin-Fnaker of Erfttrth. Germany, and has
been IN Mr. Moore's family nearly eighty
years.
Saturday. while Edwin Russell OF Royal
Gas. aged about twenty five. was feeding
horse. power cutting box. the balance wheel
broke and a piece went through his left leg,
above the knee. SCATTERING the hone. The
leg was smpetated. and he died from the