Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-02
Morning Telegram.


hay CITY wants hrst-ciass band and cltl-
zens are raising nlOney 10 squip one.
The Detroit. lansing q Northern railroad
VII be extended 10 Frankfort, via Chase.
The Southern Michigan medical society
Will meet IN Coidwater on Tuesday, Dee. 8.
Rev. l.. q. Bryant. Presbyterian, will leave
MS charge az Brighton and accept Of one at
Charlevoix.
Dell RoWiey, % Ionia, has gone TO Battle
Creek 10 get 5000 left him by his grand
fathers will.
Clare would like the Common Council of
that place 10 take steps toward procuring
water Tor fire protection.
Farmers OF Mason county IN the vicinity
q budington are said 10 be holding over
hoo bushels Of potatoes.
Five Swedes, OF Bay City, have purchased
tickets for their fatherland. They claim
NAT times are better IN Sweden than here.
Ben Fletcher, travelling agent of the d.,
u. III. a NJ. X. K, has fallen heir To a legacy
in Holland. No one more worthy OF IL than
Ben.
A kindergarten has been established in the
state public school at Coldwater, open TO
children between the ages OF three and five
years.
A temperance rally of the district lodge of
Good Iemplars, comprising Ingham and
ton. Dec. ..
Two bold young thieves entered Holly
lewelry store Friday last and in the daylight
secured seven gold and three silver watches,
valued at soc.
The steam barge Keystone arrived at Port
Huron on Saturday night leaking, having
been on the rocks with the Chandler j. Wells
az Whisky Island.
The prOprietors OF the Willard house, Bat
tie Greek, Nestein 4 Garfield, were arraigned
Saturday morning for selling liquor on
Thanksgiving Gay.
Brighton ha botanical curiosity. Miss
May Van Week of that place owns a cactus
which l. of common size and has 226 we'll
formed buds upon it.
The residents ON Woodward avenue, De
troit, want fen-hOrse cars put on that route.
The cars now furnished are nearly always
oNsrcrOwded down town.
THE IOnia light guards have completed ar
rangements for an excursion to New Orleans,
and the excursiOnists will start Jan. I3.
Fare for the round trip $50.
The young grocery merchant George
Adams, of Battle Greek, who was recently
married to Miss Lucy Burnham, died Friday
night of Bright's disease of the kidneys.
There were forty-fve cases of diphtheria
reported IN Detroit last week, and there are
case of scarlet fever reported last week.
l. 5. Cowles, State Agent for Michigan for
Emerson, Tallcott IL Co., of Rockford, ILL.,,
Harvester Manufacturers, was stricken with
paralysis last.night and lies in a critical con-
dition.
IL is claimed that Jackson citizens have
gained $4,000 worth Of knowledge concern
ing bucket chop. The shop has disappear
ed, 80 has the money. The experience alone
remains.
The Detroit Iron Furnace Company have
started up their charcoal kilns at Gaylord,
giving employment to about thirty men, and
expect to convert 10000 cords of hard wood
into coal.
Gunner Lumber Company has set tele-
RsDne poles along the line of the Cadillac
RNOrth Eastern railroad, preparatory to put
ting up wires, which will be done early in
the spring.
Fully one hundred and fifty million feet
of lumber Is on the Muskegon mill docks
and yards at the close of navigation. This
Is the largest amount of lumber ever carried
over ON this lake
At Bulkley's faith cure meeting Satur-
day night at Manistee, eight persons were
healed OF drOpsy, rheumatism, heart disease,
lost use of limbs, hearing and sight by the
laying on Of hands.
The residence of s. p Rapp burned in
Dowagiac Sunday morning. No one was in
the house at the time. II il supposed that
che Ere was incendiary. The loss Is about
$1,000; insurance, 500.
The aggregate shipments of Lumber from
the Saginaw river during the year 1884 were
ga, 50. .46O feet of lumber and l5i, 600
shingles. These figures are below those of
the four preceding years.
A fight in a Rotten Row" saloon in Jack
son, Saturday night, between the proprietor,
Billy Moran. and an unknown party, resulted
in the former being stabbed by the latter.
The wounds will not prove fatal.
William Reimer. who shot Judd Gregware
on Friday and then shot himself in the head,
died on Sunday from the effect of the wound.
tie was 81 years old and hved in East Sag
NAV twenty years. Gregware is also
very low. /.
A feature of the masquerade ball given by
a Bay City hose company on Thanksgiving
night, was q fire brigade composed of six
ladies, who ran a hose cart through the hall
and laid a tine of hose IN prompt and grace
ful manner.
!. Thomas Ryan. employed in Palmer,
Nichols II Co. : camp. near Paris. Mecosta
county. was shot dead Thanksgiving day by
James Winns a step-son of Ryan's. A fam
ily quarrel and drunkenness was the cause.
Ninn Is In custody.
Mrs. otto Kirchner died very suddenly on
Saturday at her home in Detroit. Mr..
kirchner left her at his accustomed hour
after breakfast feeling unusually well. but
Ne had hardly reached his office when a mes
sage came that Mrs. kirchner was dead.
Early Friday morning fire broke out in
TIE rear of the p0stOffice at Altoona village
aud destroyed the building and its contents,
also frame building adjoining and its con-
tents. The loss Il $1,000: insured for s, 200.
The property was owned by DIR. J. +. Cru
Der.
Auditor General Stevens has designated
The follo9jng papers to publish the delin-
Queut taxsales Frankfort Eepress Benzie:
Northern Tribune. Cheboyvan: Record.
Gladwin. 1fsaiag Gozefte. Houghton; Clti-
sea. Jackson: Pontiac Gasetts, Oakland.
tpes. RoscOmm0n.
Ria expected that about 10 Delegates viii
be present at the meeting Of the local horti-
cultural society Of Ann Arbor. The meeting
viii continue from Monday till Wednesday
'nixht It Is expected that the University
WI not be very extensively represented st
NeV flrIo.trs ~, as,ssounf OF the rvoafpry,acs