Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-01
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. JAN. |. 1884,.
MINOR MfcHIoAx MATrEKs.

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The Detroit Light Guard will hold Ievee
soon
Adrian has d benevolent club OF forty -four
members.
The widow Of Hon. ii. II. Coolidge died at
Niles tuesday.
The Adrian bicycIers viii give dancing
matinee to-day.
Detroit has an invasion of sneak thieves
and p0rch-ellnbers.
The Muskepon Odd Fellows will dedicate
their new nall i0-day.
Kalamazoo wants a new building for its
library and museum.
The United Presbyterians of AIpena nave
dedicated nev church
One man IN Kalamazoo has four cases of
dlphtheKia IA has family.
The q. A. X. held a very pleasant reunion
at Ionia on Monday night.
There are twenty-slx saloons in Marshall
and twenty IN Battle Greek.
Eleven new cases of diphtheria were re-
ported on Tuesday in Detroit.
Rev. Mr.. Barnes has settled as pastor of
the Clinton CongregatI0nalists.
Nearly $1,000 apparent profit is made by
Cheboygan county out of the saloons
Wm. Fisher one of the oldest printers in
Michigan, died at Ann Arbor Tuesday.
IL cost james Tehan, of Adrian, $40 and
costs 10 keep his saloon open on Sunday.
The Kalamazoo Wagon Company shipped
l.255 cutters in five weeks, besides the other
business they did.
Two Gagetown women were baptized in
mill pond when the mercury stood twenty
degrees below zero.
Muskegon Is suggesting the expediency of
OF having sealer OF weights and measures
and wood Inspector.
Kalamazoo uses 10000 gallons of water
day. The paper-mill in that city psmps
100000 gallons daily.
The Ann Arbor St. James hotel will pass
into new hands to-day-new owners of the
property and new landlords.
The walls of the Wilson Carriage Factory,
which was being rebuilt, fell at noon yester-
day, badly injuring three men.
The pardon of William Witham, or rather
the communication of sentence, creates great
deal of adverse criticism IN Flint.
Hillsdale College will have lecture course
this winter. 1t will be opened to-day with
the Darlington Concert Company.
The University of Michigan will be ad-
mltted TO membership in the inter collegiate
athletic association after vacation.
Willard FL. Crosby, of Poughkeepsie, N
T., Is negotiating TO start new roller skat-
ing rink in Detroit. There are five there
now.
Carleton w. Robinson, leading grocery
merchant of Port Huron, died yesterday
morning of consumption mt the age of fifty
one.
A young woman by the name of Melian
Cooley was arrested and locked up in De-
troit on tuesday night on a charge of for
gerry.
VIM Fisher, the oldest printer in Ann
Arbor, died Tuesday at the age of III from
old age. he has ''stuck type" for over fifty
years
Tie Cleveland and Hendricks Guard of
Honor. of Detroit, will on Friday evening
give a reception to prominent Democrats of
Detroit.
h. f. Witwer, a grocer of Dowagiac, made
an assignment to Geo. ID. Jones Tuesday
night. The assets and liabilities are un-
known as yet
The owners of the Greenville Opera House
have been compelled by the building inspect
ors to take measures TO insure the safety of
their audiences.
Port Huron viii perform a good deed
when she holds the projected public meeting
10 take steps TO relieve the suffering of the
poor of that city.
Two men lost their lives yesterday morn
ing by the running aground of the Flint u
Pere Marquette passenger steamer off the
port of Ludington.
Robert +. Farnan, Flint jeweler, assigned
Tuesday morning to James Vanvleet, for the |
benefit of his creditors. Assets about 5000: |
liabilities the same.
TRo.Wayne County House has 600 inmates,
which II fifty more than at the correspond |
ing Ieriod last gear. There are 226 insane
perso,s IN the ssyium.
William Brewster, Is years old, who con
fessed. % sobbing the mails at Midland, was |
sentenced on Monday TO the Reform School |
at Lansng until he is Is.
Very encouraging reports come from the |
Agogeb, mineral range on Lake Superior. |
Wisconsl as we'll as Michigan capital is /
seeking ivestment there.
Kalam<0o had two small fires within an |
hour ear Monday morning. If the fire /
departmet had not been prompt much dam /
age mighhave been done.
Before e year 1880 there will be more
profitable Did. silver, iron and lead mines i
worked IN n'ntonagon county than there are
copper m1fs at present. ORfoaog0H Miner. /
Most plae in Michigan report lively /
holiday tra,. but Otisville, Genesee county, /
brings in aifferent story. Business is dull i
and they artificted with the mumps and
chicken-pox
J. ID. SuTser, of Kalamazoo, +. s. Hos
kins. of q lot. and Lewis NJ. Miller. of
Maeomb. allesire the position of Secretary
OF the Senate It is thought that Mr.. Miller
has the insidtrack.
J. L. Storhas given up the proprietor
ship of the James Hotel of Ann Arbor.
and viii alsne control IF the Franklin
House in thatity. The Sc. James has been
rented 10 Coo & Co.
Col McCres whose house lately burned
at Flint. says viii let the ruins stand as a
monument to imbeeility of the council.
and ne vii lid a hsuse where IL can be
protected IN ce Of fire.
The propriers OF the Excelsior rink at
kalamazoo AT negotiafing with arm i'm
New York for new patented machine. de-
signed for srinng and smoothing the skat-
ing surfaces Of ,ller rims.
Col Henry Rfmond. # Bay City. il an
auplicant for Imposition of Commissioner
Of Insurance. frost Gibson. OF the same
city i an applet for tle ofice Of Com
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