Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-03
MINoR mIcHIeAs mArTERs.


Satnrdag night
Thieves are making havoc Of the woodpiies
Al south Bay City.
farmers institute is % be held at berrlen
springs Feb. 3 and 4.
Eagle, Clinton county, expects 70 have a
cheese factory next summer.
The Vassar Times chattei mortgage troubles
have been satisfactorily arranged.
lt is Fum0red that another Democratic
paper will be Published ia Bay City
II i said that Bailey, this county, Is TO
have telephone connection Ia the spring.
young man Vas killed ia a drunken
braWl on Sunday Ia a saloon at Detroit.
A brick and lumber yard are two things
much needed at Munith, Jackson county.
One hundred and twelve students are
registered at the business college at kalama-
zoo.
The seventh annual Old Settlers party will
be held at Big Rapids on Friday evening,
Feb. Il.
5. K. Richsy. of the signal Office at Grand
Haven, has been ordered To IT. Bennett,
Dakota
The charity ball TO be given at West Bay
City will be under the auspices OF the Royal
Arcannm.
Springport sneak thieves steal wood from
poor families helped By the town 10 the
same wood.
man in Eckford, Calhoun County. Is
feeding, this winter, flock of 1872 lambs for
the eastern markets.
Windows and door frames for the new
creamery at Nashville are now being manu-
factured al that place.
The township board at Allegan has decided
to contest g. Lewekes claim Tor damages
caused by defective roadway.
The Adyentists' College at Battle Greek Is
pr0spering. II claims three hundred stu
dsnts and more I'd follow"
Five Of the gang OF river thieves al West
Bay City are now Ia custody. large amount
OF alunder has been recovered
Last Wednesday a teamster by the name
of Van L0ovan, living at Lansing. was
crushed 20 death by log rolling ON him.
minister at Grand Haven breaches by
en- nple as well as precept. he runs snow
plow through the streets after heavy storm.
A number OF Muskegon merchants are
talkints OF a local association, making a
mutuZ agreement 10 sell goods for cash
only,
The new Lansing and Ingham county di-
rect0ry for 1886, will be published about the
middle of March, and will contain 365
pages.
The First National Bank building at Mar
quette. which was burned, is "A total loss with
al its contents The loss ia estimated at
$4,000.
The citizens OF Saginaw City have held a
meeting and voted almost unanimously
against the proposed consolidation of that
city and East Saginaw.
The first soup dinner given by the ladies
Of the w. 9. L. L. at Jackson was partaken
hot hax Far,
two more free dinners.
Jackson means TO have a free library. 1t
Is proposed 20 combine the two school libra
ries with that of the Y. NJ. G. A, which will
make in all $500 volumes.
o. II. Jewett, of Hillsdale, died of apoplexy
Sunday morning, he had been a resident
OF that city for twenty years and until recent
ly one OF ia leading merchants.
Il il estimated that if the oysters eaten in
Ann ArbOr during the year loo4, could be
piled Ip IN one heap, cans and all, II would
maksfs bank 100 feet long, 20 feet wide and
l50 feet high.
John Nee, a pioneer settler Of twenty
years and prominent hardware and lumber
merchant. of Manistee, died suddenly Sun
day afternoon of appOplexy. The deceased
was "a years old.
A course of nine lectures upon physiology,
anatomy and the effects of narcotics upon
the system will be given by six different
physicians at Nashville every Friday evening
until completed.
Postmaster Chapple, of Wayland, has placs
81 In the pOst0fiice a remonstrance against
his removal from the Office, wh-ch received
over l2O signatures of she patrons of the
Office IN two days.
The ice blasted with dynamite at the
Grand Haven harbOr entrance Sunday IL
again a solid mass. and the prospects of get
ting % open water are as bad - they were
three days ago
Last Saturday L. B. Phillips, of Grand
Haven. pleaded guilty TO charge Of assault
and battery upon Prof. Garvin and was SEN
tenced to pay $22 and be imprisoned IN the
county jail five days.
The party given by the cold Bachelors
Club OF Owosso, last Thursday evening,
vas said 10 be one OF the most elegant and
recherche ever given at Owosso. President
elect Cleveland WIS invited TO attend
John McMullen, stranger about twenty
str years old, was arrested late Saturday
night. ia East Saginaw, charged with forg-
cry. He succeeded In passing forged checks
to the amount Of SO on the Excelsior Cloth
ing House.
Major whittle disappoints Kalamazoo peo-
pie bY not going there on Saturday. tie IL
wantea another week at Jackson. But word
vas DE sent to him if he could not go 10
kslamazoo now he could postpone the ser
vices indefinitely.
G. M. +. Davis, ex-County Treasurer of
Crawford county. has been found behind IN
his books more than $50 and has been
given a short time to straighten matters up.
He has been Treasurer of Crawford for the
past four years
Sunday morning about O'Clock the Port
Huron NorpiaQ Telegraph office was dam
aged by ire to the amount of $1,000 or
more. The FIRE caught from the boiler.
Part of the Sunday mornings edition was
destroyed and also the entire weekly edition.
Jackson man. who doesn't read the
newspapers. poured kerosene on the fire %
make Il burn. The resuH wac an explosion
which took Oft the top Of the stove and blew
the oil-can into fragments. the bottom Of
which struck the man in the left leg below
the ksee. cutting away the muscles and
making a very bad aesh wound.
The steamer Flint 4 Pere Marquette No.
1. wrecked at LudInxton. has been raised