Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-25
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. DEC 25, 1884


MINOR M1CHl8AN stAAlEAAo-
Cadillac's fire alarm can be heard fifteen
miles.
Traverse City shipped twenty-five tons OF
nsh last week.
flymoath Is flooded with counterfeit sil-
YER dollars.
band Of desperate characters are pro~l-
lng about Kalamazoo.
ST Ixnace people wanted an ice rink, and
they built roof over the bay.
The new addition to the Detroit House Of
Correction II expected 10 be ready for Oc-
cupancy Jan l.
Burglars Monday night entered the Bay
City Beef Companys 0fice, blew open the
safe and secured STA cash.
o. A. Bowen, Of Manistique, Mich, and
Leroy Parker. Of Flint, are among the Mich
igan applicants for consular positions.
james Peets, OF l0uia, knocked down
member Of the Salvation Army IN their bar
FIeks, and i nov serving ten days in jail.
Prof George W. Knight. formerly prinei-
pa Of the Lansing High School, has taken
the chair OF history IA the Ann Arbor high
SenoOl.
Jack Mahony. OF Gscoda, was found guilty
or selling liquor without = license tuesday
aud sentenced % pay a fiie of SIS and go To
Jail for nifty days
The Detroit Post locates Maple Rapids IN
GTatiot county, and Clinton county people
object 20 having the stirring little village
cut OF from their territory.
Michael Beck, u years old, while walking
Tuesday. on the Detroit, Grand Haven &
Milwaukee track. Ia Detroit, was struck by
gassing train. lie died within few min
utes.
The State Militia Board met at Lansing
Tuesday and attached the three companies
o. hight artillery % the First battalion, thereby
creatlng the Fourth Regiment OF Michigan
State Troops.
The twenty seventh annual meeting and
dinner of the New England Society of Ann
Arbor occurred Monday evening in the par
Tors Of the Presbyterian Church, with a
moderate attendance.
The new postOfice at Ionia is progressing
rapidly. The brick-work of the vault Is
completed. The cement floor is laid and the
tile covering arrived Tuesday IL will prob
ably be ready for occupancy By January /.
A pOstoffice has been established at Sny-
ders, Jackson county, on the Air Line of the
Michigan Central railroad. Samuel ID. Hum
r<krey has been appointed postmaster. This
Will prove a great convenience to a large sec
2 ton of country.
State Farmers Institute will be held in
Plymouth on Monday and Tuesday, Janu-
airy II and l3. An interesting programme is
being prepared. Profs. Cook, Beal, Nc
Evan and +. 5. Kedzie, of the Agricultural
College, will be present.
Rev. A. y. Alcott, of Kalamazoo, with
draws from the Michigan Unitarian confer
ence for the reason, as he states 1t, that the
conference declines, by majority vote, 10
recognize either Jesus or Christianity, or
even theism, IN proposed new constitu-
ton.
A meeting Of the Wayne County Bar was
held ia one of the Circuit Court rooms in
Detroit Tuesday to take appropriate action
on the death of Prot Henry n. Potter, who
was formerly a practicing attorney. Many
Eulogies were made by his former associ-
ates. The funeral was held on Tuesday.
The house of Barney Matthews, township
of Orange, twelve miles southeast of iona,
caught fire from defective chimney, Mon
day afternoon about 2 O'Clock, and was
burned to the ground. The fire occurring IN
the day time, most of the contents above the
cellar were saved. The loss is about $1,000.
. Gibson Westeren's Interest and Deposit
Bank. of Jackson failed yesterday morning,
the firm making an assignment. The assets
and liabilities are not known. The bank
started In 1858. IL had savings depart
ment. Il is claimed deposltors will be paid
In full as soon as the assets can be realized.
TIE suit of Mrs. Francis Townsend against
the city of Port Huron TO recover damages
for injuries sustained by a defective side
walk, has been tried in the United States
Circuit Court at Detroit, and the plaintiff
has obtained judgment for $1,000. Steven
son Phillips were the plaintiffs attorneys.
Detroit is in trouble owing to the resigna-
ton of its controller, Mr.. l.. ;. Trowbridge.
After his resignation was accepted to take
effect upon the appointment of a successor
IL was discovered that according to the city
charter the office was vacant from the time
of resignation. Hence the city Is without
controller, and unable to transact any finans
cial business.
At 2.;D Tuesday afternoon train No. 4 on
the Flint 4 Pere Marquette. met with an ac-
cident just east of Mount Morris, caused by
the breaking Of casting connected with the
switch stand, "a the locomotive and tender
passed over Three coaches and the bag
gage car left the truck. No person was Sc
riOusly injured, and only four slightly.
The County Committee and leading Pro-
hibihOnists of Nashtenaw County met at
Ann Arbor Tuesday afternoon, formed COM
mittees and planned for an aggressive atti-
tude. The Executive Committee recon-
meuded that each township pat a ticket IN
the field at the spring election and that an
organization be effected in each township.