Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-06
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. FEB. 8. 1885.


Broekway Center il to have village
charter.
Clare had 5000 fire on Tuesday. No
Insurance.
The peach crop at South Haven is reported
To be ali right
Steamers have no tF0ubls ia catering the
Maalstee harbor.
post0ffce has been established at Won.
81. Clair County.
Adrian is 10 have an art loan which will
open Ca Saturday.
Dr. Kedzie finds traces of morphine Ia the
stomach Of AIRS. Fisher.
A boy al Bay City had foot cut OF by
railroad tram On tuesday.
A workman at Mllington vas run over by
TIE cars aud Instantly killed.
Al East Saginaw taxidermist has mounted
20 deer heads the past winter
There Is a possibility OF the name of Bad
ffxs being changed u Cordeiia.
The Augusta burglars were arrested at Ka-
lamazOo "Wednesday afternoon.
The 1. o. o. +. grand lodge will meet at
Kalamazoo February IL and Is.
A one year-Old child was found dead in
bed at Morley, ON tuesday morning.
Warden Watkins took actual control of the
State House Of Correction Wednesday.
eight converts IA two months AT Pontiac.
Cass City il excited over gold find near
her borders that assayed over $1,000 To the
ton.
A Jackson alderman is not in favor of
soup-hOuses. tie thinks II makes mendi-
cants.
Ihe committee of the Legislative Soions
are inspecting the Industrial School for Girls
at Adrian
The Adrian Gas Light Company has do
mated LOO bushels or coke 10 the worthy
poor OF the city.
Alba Armstrong, the double murderer of
NewaygO, has been escorted out OF the coun-
~ BY tho sheriff.
The examination OF Mrs. Sessions, at Al
Logan, has been adjourned till Friday TO give
the defense chance.
Fire destroyed nearly an entire block of
business buildings at Meredith Loss 5000
Insurance, about Sl,5OO
A charity entert linmsnt was given at the
rink IN Ipsilanu Monday evening, and
about $50 were realized.
. There il some prospect of the Hillsdale
County Sabbath School Convention taking
place at Ldtchheld IN June.
W. A. Hammond & Co., straw paper man.
ufacturers of Jackson, with branch house
in Detroit, assigned Wednesday.
The Big Rapids Industrial School has
moved into Its new quarters. The number
OF pupils IS constantly increasing.
The Masonic hall at Frankfort caught fire
recently while the G.. A. k. was in session,
and was damaged $1,000; insured for 800.
The Gas Company at Adrian has reduced
the price of gas from S2.15 To $3.50 per loo
feet, II the clty will give them three years
contract.
Litchheld was to hold a charity social last
night. lt was To be in charge of ladies rep
resenting the churches, Grange and Good
Templdr'.
The Senate Committee has been visiting
the Kalamazoo Asylum. They think 1t ~
crowded. Kalamazoo asks for S25,OOO ap
preparation.
The business men of Traverse City were to
hold their nrst .sOnthly meeting yesterday
bhelr purpose IA 10 protect themselves
against dead beats.
The Adrian Council Monday night refused
10 ME q communication from the Water
= Works Company asking permission To use
the streets for display.
A man while loading lumber about four
miles from Vassar, was terribly crushed and
his left leg broken IN several places by pile
of.lumber falling upon him.
John Nee, a prominent lumberman on the
Manistee River and resident of Manistee
for eighteen years. died suddenly on Monday
of heart disease or appOplexy.
Sheriff 5 tellwagen, OF Detroit, Wednesday
morning made ht- first official trip to Jack
son, where. with the aid of the turnkey and
deputy sheriff he escorted three prisoners To
the prison.
The following Michigan postmasters have
been commissioned: Marion l.. Earl.
BfidgetOn, Joel l.. Gray, Littlefield; Asa A.
Parker. OntOnag0n; Josiah ID. Andrus,
Pleasant View; William III. Wilson, Won.
Preparations are IN progress for a grand
ball to- be given al Kalamazoo Feb. % for
the benefit of the Children's Home. large
and fine building i being erected for the
home, and 10 II for funds to aid this that the
ball is given.
The annual meeting of the Commercial
Telegraph Company was held at Tecumseh
Monday. The operators are mostly farmers,
and enjoy very much having communication
with towns aud their brother farmers They
also connect IA town.
Jimmie Giles, thirteen years old, for the
larceny of some mink skins at Linden was
sentenced % the State Reform School until
ho attains his majority. a the boy IA home
less and friendless the school II thought to
be a good place for him.
The house of farmer living near Vicks-
burg was robbed OF 500 IN money Wednes-
= day. The thief was captured at Portage
Centre aud lodged IN jail at Kalamazoo
"Wednesday night. One hundred and forty
nfr NAtttt- w. AtAAa u III ittrRh.
Mrs. Moses Seabolt. the wife OF one Of the
most prominent business men of Ann ArbOr,
died suddenly "Wednesday morning at her
residence OF congestion Of the brain. Her
death - attributed % eudden exposure dur
ing the extreme cold weather while in
heated condition.
Biz Rapids clothing merchant, Mr.. VIM.
A. Ayi-worth. has purchased half interest
in the Bear and Pine Lake Lumber Com
pany. consisting OF a saw-mill on Bear Lake.
abous seven miles southwest from Petoskey,
ample docxage on Pine Lake, and about
1. .lt0 acres of hardwood timber.
An adjourned meeting of the directors Of
the Hiil=daie County Agricultural Society
vas held in Hillsdlie Monday The society
will expeud 500 m improvements on the
zrounds this year. and will also hire n keep
er for the grounds at a salary Of not more
than 500 the keeper to give has entire time
70 the society.
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