Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-03
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. DEC. 8, 1874
MINOR MIcHIGAN MATHIS.

medicine while drunk.
I4umber freights between Muskegon and
chicago have lately been Si.ol5z.
The latest news from the Lake Superior
gold mines indicates stability OF the enter
prises.
family ia Jackson came very near being
sunoeated b. coal gas. They are recovering
slowly.
NJ. IL. Clark il nov sole proprietor Of the
Alanlstee DsmOcraf, Chas- ,. Brown having
Withdrawn.
The heating boilers Of the Manistee San
iiarium consume from three TO fiye tons of
coal week.
Manistique people can now reach the De
trOlt, Marquette q Mackinac Railroad IN one
day az Reedsboro.
The Wayne County Teachers's Association
h t0 be held ia Plymouth on Friday and Sat
nrday, Dec. and ..
The revenue cutter Andy Johnson, famil-
lar - every Michigan port, Is TO be rebuilt
This winter al Milwaukee.
Port Huron has paid sos 900 this year for
taxes. Thirteen miles OF cIty water mains
have been laid during the season.
The Jackson Electric Light Company is TO
be reorganized. Ii Is intended TO put IN new
machinery and increase the capacity.
The I've prisoners who broke jail at Kala-
mazOo last Saturday have all been recaptured
none having got further than NOttawa.
The annual meeting and supper of the
Branch County Bar Association was held at
the Southern Michigan hotel in Coldwater,
Monday night.
It is said that more apples have been ship
ped from Allegan county this fall than for
years previous. Hopkins station alone has
shipped 1900 barrels.
The Salvation Army is having a hard
t1fr for in rrrfftal Their
meetings are being broken up and the Saliva
tiOnIsts are being stoned.
While switching Monday morning in the
Michigan & Ohio yard at Marshall, young
man named Tom Russell had one leg run
over aud badly crushed by the cars
VIM. +. Grves died at the Hospital and
Home IN Port Huron Sunday, from paralysis
ctused BY "A bullet wound received IN the
fIrehead at the battle of Drury's Bluff, Va.
Edward f. Platter, of Norvel, was found
dead IN his bed last Thursday morning by
Anthony Holmes, negro. An inquest de
cided that he came TO his death from natural
causes.
Isaac BuscO, an old and respected citizen,
was instantly killed at the Eagle tannery
works, Whitehall, on Saturday morning, by
being caught IN the cog wheels of the tan
bark grinder.
A vein of soft water with sufficient head
to give flowing well has been struck at the
Ionia artesian we'll at depth of 80 feet.
The water Is flowing at the rate of three bar
Fels minute.
Mrs. Frederica Peterman, of Kalamazoo,
has received a judgment of $500 against that
city for injuries received by falling a de-
fective sidewalk. The accident occurred on
Sunday, Sept. 30, 1888.
Two human skulls and miscellaneous
bones were found by workmen at North
Muskegon on Monday. The skulls had bullet
holes through them. 1t Is thought they were
buried forty years ago.
The Michigan Buggy company of Kala
mazoo are advertising for painters and
blacksmiths. This wideaw8ke company are |
Loo cutters behind their orders, and are |
working their men nights to catch mp.
Burglars raided the general store of Frank |
h. Watkins, at Monterey, Monday night, and |
carried of between six hundred and one |
thOustand dollars worth of underwear, dress |
goods, etc. They took the best in the house. |
No clue.
At the faith-cure at Manistee on Monday |
afternoon sixteen persons claimed to be |
healed of various diseases, twenty were |
cleansed and four converted. Hearing was |
restored 10 one person after a deafness of /
twenty years
On Sunday evening a house in Montague |
belonging TO Mrs. Nelson, n widow, was |
UuILCO 10 TIC kfOullu QullIk TIC doocuCc VI 4
the owner. When she reached the place she |
was informed that her only child, five years |
old, had perished in the flames.
The pupils in n school in the Saginaw Val |
ley may think themselves fortunate in hav- |
ing very generous teacher. She gave them |
a Thanksgiving dinner. Eighty ravenous |
apetites must have cleared that table IN short |
order.
Citizens of Pinconning are indignant at |
-.
conductor who, upon being told by pas |
senger that he (the passenger was 'going |
to hell" charged the individual % cents and |
told him to get of at Pinconning.
During the Christmas vacation an oppor- |
tunity will be afforded students and pro |
fessors of the University TO see the South and |
attend the Worlds Fair at New Orleans. |
They will leave Ann Arbor in a special car on |
Dee. -. The round trip fare will not exceed |
$500.
VIM. G.. Graves, one of the employees of |
the Upton Manufacturing Company, died at
the hospital and home in Detroit Sunday. his |
death having been caused by paralysis, re- |
sulting from a bullet wound in the forehead
which he received in the battle of Drury's |
Bluff, Va.
An arrangement for selling the $4,000
worth Of city bonds issued for water works |
and fire department improvements in Jack |
son. have finally been perfected. All that IL
now required Is the signatures Of the mayor
and recorder. The two gentlemen will be |
required to sign their respective names 4,100
times.
The Detroit Association OF Stationary En-
Rineers No. 1 of Michigan wishes to found
a alibrary and reading room. IL has issued an
appeal for assistance 20 manufacturers, mer-
chants and other business men. The reason
given IL that the public library does not con
tain one standard work ON engineering pub
lisbed within the last ten years.
The Rev George ID. Baker. II. D.. pastor
Of the First Presbyterian church of Detroit,
haa resigne | and accepted a call 20 Philadel-
piia. He vivee "A his reason that his con-
rreuation now was mostly christian. there
were very few more 10 be converted, that he
was ovprxorked and had no tame for study,
and that the health OF his wife demanded a
change.
Margaret Mather plays The Honeymoon"
# Kalamazoo thia week. We now entertain