Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-18
Morning Telegram.
MINoR MIcHIGAN MArTKns.


~as buried On Sunday.
The stage between Petoskey aud CharIe-
E0i4 Will be warmed b a stove.
At Clemens wants street cars. Many IN
Grand Rapids evidently do not.
A Dstroit street car driver says he drives
eighty -four miles day for Si.6z.
Since DIR. Reynolds arrival in Muskegon
over 20 have signed the red ribbon pledge
John Murphy, IS years old, residing IN
AfDeia, has huskod 40 bushels Of corn this
George "a. Clark was ordained as minister
of the Congregational Church or Ionia on
Tuesday.
Gas at Mnskegon has had fall The
price has been reduced ten per cent since
November.
Five hundred dollars worth of new books
has been ordered for the Battle Greek Pub
iic Library.
Anal dwelling house at Rochester was
burned 20 the ground on tuesday. Loss
covered by Insurance..
Tbs Smith Middlings Purifier is the only
jackson 1rIn reporting an exhibit at the
New Orleans exposition.
honghton has good watsrworks system
now and wants the Insurance. companies 70
come down with their rates.
toL tr',Aithn DfcltuLK Trying 10 get
*lU,ODO more for Marquette's public build
ing, which has already 100000.
A man IN Muskegon was arrested Satur-
day for shooting his revolver at a dog. At
his trial the jury acquitted him.
The annual meeting of the Washtenaw
Agricultural and horticultural Society was
held al Ann ArDor Tuesday afternoon.
The life-saving station at East Tawas
closed Tuesday night, and the storm signal
station closed yesterday The lake Is open.
Not content with showing white elephant
on skates, a proprietor OF Kalamazoo rink
exhibited ghosts and goblins on rollers last
evening.
Muskegon is dissatisfied with the salary
which Its postmaster receives as compared
With that OF the postmasters of Lansing and
Kalamazoo.
A force of 400 men, ali told, is employed
IA the NerTnIllon mines this winter, and
they are taking out ore at the rate of about
io,Ooo tons month
There Is To be considerable curtailment in
logging operations this winter. One firm in
Sagirsw will reduce their output from H.
uou,H00 To 100000.
Port Huron's test oil well near f. l.. Wells
eawmiu has been sunk to a depth of 600
feet, and no signs of oil has been seen. Next
spring the prOspectors will drill for salt
Fred Weber, an apprentice in the Kalama-
ZOO Publishing Company press room, was
presented 500 IN gold by the proprietor
the other day as "A reward for faithfulness.
The annual meeting of the 9th District
Press Association for the election of officers
viii be held at owosso on Dec. 30. l.. h.
kowley, OF the Lansing Journal, is presi-
dent
A Marriage girl bet thirty y-eight kisses on
the result on the election and lost. She de-
clares there shall be fair count, If she has
20 20 over them dozen times.-NdrShdU
.SfatesmGA.
Hon. John r. Cook died at his home in
hlllsdale late Monday evening, aged 73 years.
Mr. Cook was one of the pioneers of Hills
dale county, and one of the founders of the
city of Hsllsdale.
Reports to the Michigan Board of Health
show rheumatlsnI. neuralgia, bronchitis, and
intermittent fever, diseases in the order
named as causing the most sickness in Mich
lgan during the week ending Dec. l3.
Bs><ole might be allowed to visit the
NOTids fair at New Orleans If he will prom
tSe not To- attempt a speech while there,
as the Governor OF Michisgans The state isn't
expected TO stand everything.-O Union.
At the old Quinnesec mine the vein is
widening steadily as the miners follow it up.
An increased force has been put on, and the
prospect that the mine will be again in the
list of active producers next season Is most
encouraging.
Thomas Jones~an his son Frank, of
Marine City, started down the st. Clair river
Saturday night on raft. AS they had no
hight they were struck by the steamer Idle
wild and cast into the stream. They were
saved By the crew.
John Ormiston, farmer of Gaines town
ship, Genesee county, has been put IN Jail at
Flint. charged with outraging a nsighbor's
daughter, named Alice Walters, at her
fathers home Monday, while the rest of the
family were absent
A hardware and grocery store at Ionia
were burglarized on Saturday night. Two
men by the names of William Hess and
Anon Hubbell were arrested and confessed
. their guilt. A third party was arrested, but
has not confessed.
The Corunna Journal says: If the Corun-
na mines turn out as expected, when the vein
OF coal il reached. a large flow of miners to
tins section Il talked of. Real estate owners
are confident of boom shortly, If svery-
thing turns out right.
The Agricultural Society of Clinton county
met at the Court House IN St. Johns NedEes-
day afternoon. and elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: President,
Geo. G.. Whitcomb; Secretary. Merrott Frink:
Treasurer, Edwin Brown.
Tfts new opera house recently erected in
East Saginaw at cost Of $4,000, was for
mally dedicated Tuesday evening by Nine.
Janish in sLeonore.N who played to $9,0o0.
The event was the most brilliant in the his
tory of the Saginaw Valley
CassopoIis has all been torn up for several
days BY n scandal IN high life, which culmi-
mated Tuesday by the binding over 20 the
court OF the defendant, George Il. Blood
good W. n. Shelby, a druggist, charges
Blood0ood with adultery with his wife on the
evenings OF Dec. and 8.
AT the annual meeting Of the Grand Trav-
er>s County Agricultural Society at Traverse
<itg the following officers were elected:
President. III. X Brinkman: Vice President.
". + Hanuaford: Secretary. M. l. Leach:
Treasurer. v. T.. Roland: Directors, q. W.
Harvraves. W. III. Fife. III. +. Steward, ". ).
Chandler.
The post0flice Department hae discon
tinuef The following services: CIom. Gen
ez<pe cluuty. from East Thetford Cooley
Huron county. from Huron City. The f0t-
lowfng changes in routes have Just been