Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-01-07


A 500 900 fire at Grand Rapids.
25 State convention Of colored men at Battle
Creek.
% Justice Hunt holds Crouch and Holcomb
for murder. Big floods at East Saginaw, Clare
and Midland.
APRIL.
Three masked men rob Carl Shoultz, of
East Tawas, and murder his son.
Holcomb and Crouch admitted to bail in
the sum Of $4,000 each.
20 White, Reynolds and Waterman, the
Schoultz murderers, arrested upd confess.
"a The supreme court nullfies the action of
Gov, Begole in dissmissng Jas. G. Wilson.
trustee Of Michigan institution for deaf and
dumb
30 State Grecnback convention at Kalama-
ZOO.
MAY.
Van Buren, poor house at Paw Paw burned
and Is lives lost. Francis o. Wordell pardoned
by Gov. Begolc.
IS Striking mill men create trouble at Grand
Haven.
IA Union party convention at Battle Creek.
20. Mrs. Guenther found dead at East Sagin-
aw. Big fire at Caro-.
81 David Stone confesses himself guilty of
Lulu Dyck's murder at Hillsdale.
20 DIR. Isadore Jones pardoned by Gov. Be-
COLE.
JUNE.
% Thos. F. Searles Of Hastings, murdered.
IA Mrs. belong, of Muir, mysteriously muir
dercd. Head cut to pieces.
II Mill employees strike at Oscoda and Au
Sable.
IS Andrew Long murdered his wife at North
Plains township.
81 Troops sent to Oscoda and Au Sable.
Is Mob attempts to lynch Andrew Long at
Muir. State troops prevent 1t.
July.
Q Oscar Scott shoots himself at North Plains
when accused Of numbering William Wander
burg.
7. George Birncr, insane, of the township Of
Frankenmuth, murders his wife.
IL A $4,000 lumber fire at Muskegon.
10 Business portion Of Cedar Springs burned
down.
20 Charles Russell, a is year convict, escaped
from Jackson.
20 Mrs. Fritz and family, of Muskegon, poi
soned Price w. Mann, Morenci farmer sui
cides.
"a Northwestern amateur regatta at st. Clair.
2s Outrage at Lyons by two tramps who were
subsequently arrested.
AUGUST.
State military encampment opens at Island
Lake, near Brighton.
Charles f. Wright, of Detroit, shoots him
self at Pontiac.
10 Republican State Convention at Detroit.
Gen. Alger nominated for Governor.
20 Democratic State Convention at Grand
Rapids.
81 Soldiers and sailors reunion at Battle
Creek
% Fred Aitz, of Bunker Hill, Ingham county,
suicides.
% David Preston issued his manifesto stat
ing he will run for Governor on the prohibition
ticket.
% Joseph Pikerd dubbed to death at Adrian.
"a Preston nominated at Lansing.
SEPTEMBER.
Thomas G. Miller shoots Carrie White at
Muskegon.
4 Ida Parker assaulted by two ufliians at
Biga. Two hundred citizens turn out
IA Michigan M. Z. conference at Lansing.
II Mayor Robinson, OF Charlotte, shot by
tramp. Tramp sent up for long term.
10 Earthquake shock felt throughout the
southern part OF the State
% Bronson badly burned.
70 ~. N. McLain, VI COOpcrsNihc, OttaWd
county, murdered by tramp.
OCTOBER
Abah A. Armstrong, Of Newago, kills his
wife and her paramour and surrenders himself.
Subsequently acquitted.
Fire in the Calumet and Hecla mines.
% Michigan Baptist convention at Fenton.
NOVEMBER.
I Election; something dropped.
Crouch and Holcomb case opens at Jack
son.
% Armstrong. Of Newaygo, acquitted of the
charge Of murder.
20 william Reimers shoots himself and
man named Gregware at Saginaw. Jealousy.
DECEMBER.
Two Saginaw ladies killed by railway
train.
II Gov. Bcgolc makes general jail delivery.
He gives four absolute pardons, and four COM
mutations.
IS Big fire at Grecnville.
10 Defense opens In the Crouch and Hclcomb
trial. Lapccr county poorhouse burned.
20 Larson liberated ut Muskegon.
q Burglars gag Israel Smith at Grandville.
a. Gov. Begolc pardons another prisoner.
20 Pour more combinations Of sentences