Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-10
Morning Telegram.
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building.
David A. Carey Is now city editor Of the
Detroit Posi-.
The Coranna Isdspeaieat issued It's frst
number Dee 8.
A man ia Detroit has been arrested for
stealing printers pay.
The wlnd blew thirty seven miles an hour
az Port Huron Saturday.
The diphfheria al tho state school for the
blind has beoa stamped out
q. v. Cook 4 Co., gFocers, Of Lansing,
closed their doors yesterday.
The Dowagiac Baptist church Is now in
c0rp0rated under the new law.
The two principal saw-mills IN Port Huron
have closed down for Ihe season.
The latest Developments in coal at Cor
unna Indicate a vein SIX feet deep.
Judge Cooley declines to lecture at the
l<oston university ~ per invitation
Chegboygan. nov considerably paved with
sawdust, wants to improve the streets with
cedar blocks.
There are two assemblies of the knights OF
Labor AZ iOnia, aggregating about nse hund-
red members.
The iron ore shipments from Marquette,
LAnse, Escanaba and st. lgnace for the
season aggregated 3, ,f4z,Oiz tons
Jackson pulp mill has contracted for
1900 cords OF poplar wood from a Dundee
man who Is a very poplar fellow.
Gov. Beg0le has received an invitation To
attend the formal opening Of the Worlds
Exposition at New Orleans Dec. 10.
The grocery firm of G. W. Cook & Son, at
Lansing, closed their doors on Monday. The
condition of affairs l. not known outside.
James j. Christy, Of Morton township, has
been convicted Of defacing graYestone. he
broke jail a few weeks ago and was recap
tured.
Moses Tenure a Muskegon fisherman,
went out into the big lake Sunday when his
boat capsized and he had a hard struggle to
reach the shore.
The Otisviile FIRE department has been
reOrganlzed- IL disbanded last summer, but
the recent heavy tire IN the village called 1t
together again.
company of the Salvation Army are at
ST. Johns, from lonia, by invitation of the
pastor of the Baptist Church To assist him IN
special religious services.
- The ladies of ST. Pauls Church, Muske-
gon, have an annual sale of dressed dolls
this evening. Old bachelors, II is claimed,
are the bulls of the market
Two Mormon elders have been trying to
make converts at Brighton, but found the
held very unpromlsing for conversions and
bidding fair to pan out we'll IN tar and
feather. Therefore they left
Charles and Lewis Gillett, of Allegan,
we're convicted on Saturday OF stealing clover
seed. The theft was committed last winter
and was large enough to amount 70 grand
larceny.
A grocery store in West Bay City was de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning 1t was
owned by Fred Newman and the loss was
fully covered by an insurance in the Etna
of $1,000.
John Johnson, Sr., the oldest resident of
Berrien county, died suddenly at his resi-
dence IN Berrien township, aged So years.
Mr.. Johnson was one of the Republican
Presidential electors this year.
lady at a Muskegon fancy ball wore
costume made entirely of Muskegon Daily
Chronicles. She could have made the dress
with less trouble had she purchased a copy
of the Grand Rapids Delaocrdf.
Joseph Williams "A cOlored man formerly
an active private IN the Salvation Army at
Muskegon, has been found guilty of murder
ing Minnie Brooks, and Chicago court has
sentenced him to Imprisonment for life.
horse and buggy were stolen from Mos
COW the same night last week that the bur
glars escaped from jail at Hillsdale, and it
il supposed TO have been done by the same
individuals. The rig has been recaptured at
Jackson.
II i. reported that the wife of Frank
Abrams has attempted suicide. She would
rather de than see her husband convicted
Abrams evedes every one who would ap-
proach him IN regard 10 his late thrilling ad-
ventures.
1t il rumored that Talbot & Co., ,proprietors
OF the Commercial, will bring out new
afternoon daily 10 Port Huron Just before
New Years. They have Just put IN new
press and are making other arrangements
which point that way.
VIM Festherly, editor of the Lakeside
Monitor. at East Saginaw, was arrested on
Saturday evening on a criminal warrant for
hbel He was taken before Justice ID. b.
Dixon 40 Tawas City, and gave bail for his
appearance on Saturday next.
JEFF Doyle, who stabbed Willie Potney at
the ere in FrenchtOwn Sunday evening, is
now in jail to await the result of Potney' 5
injuries. The doctors have no fear of serious
results unless pus cavity should form. The
wound is about three inches deep.
A couple of Mormon elders have been in
Brighton trying 10 make some followers
there. They stood not upon the order of
their going but went at once when they
found that the citizens were preparing 70.
them a warm winter suit Of tar and feathers
J. Pruden, one OF the oldest residents of
Howell. died very suddenly about o'clock
sunday afternoon ai his home. He had been
feeling first-rate up to that hour when he
suddenly exclaimed. Il feel queer" and sit
ting down died instantly and without strug-
gle.
At a meeting Of the West Michigan Horti-
cultural Society at Fenville, Alegan county,
il was decided go bring up at the next meet
iuQ the project of including IN the society
the entire western half Of the state, instead
of the four western tiers Of counties. The
next meeting viii be held NJ Benton harbor,
the second Wednesday in March next.
n has been reported that IN Windsor Allen
Mcke8 he'd attempted 10 fire the tug Bob
Hacketf which belonged 70 him (Nckea)
and has been attached on claim Of several
parties. The report originated with the
watchman. But Mckea claims that he can
prove IS his parents that he was at home
early ou the night ON which the fire took
place and did not leave home until the next
morning
Only twenty libels were hled in the United
States Court against che tag A. q. Hunter.
81 Afuskegun. A decree va entered in