Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-16
Morning Telegram.
GRAND RAPIDS. yEB. ls. 1885.
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTE Rs.


anee IA Traverse City.
Flint citizens desire b help their poor by
means II a charity ball
A pearl button factory viii probably be er-
tabilshed in saginaw City.
On account Of having 40 IRE appliances
Fassar has had 10 suffer $1,000 IRE.
The fonia County Sheep-breeders' Assoc
alton viii meet at lOnia Tuesday, Feb. H.
The proposed organization OF detective
association az Bay City has been abandoned
A society for the prevention OF cruelty 70
animals j. under consideration az Port
Huron.
The nett encampment Of the Grand army
OF the Republic will be held in Jackson next
February.
Albert Durham hss been appointed deputy
oil Inspector for Jackson and Nashtenaw
codnties.
|rsri Wilcox. an oid pioneer of Jackson
County. died ~ ursday. He was over seventy
years OF age
The odd Fellows finished their session At
Allsgan on Friday. The hext meeting will
be Al Biz Rapids.
The prisoners At Jackson fiud that Warden
Hatch i not 10 be trihed with. He will have
no insubOrdinatlOn.
DR.. McFarlane. a dentist, ia Blissfield. died
suddenly Tuesday, having sustained par
alytie shock Sunday.
The Bull law library, Detroit, containing
900 volumes, has been presented 10 the uni
versity of Michigan.
A little boy at Allegan had his feet 40 badly
frozen during this last cold wave as TO render
amputatlOn necessary.
Mrs. W. III. Gaines, wife OF the late pro-
prietor OF the Phoenix House, st Charlotte.
expired Friday afternoon
Ga Thursday David Reaume and Jos.
Murphy. the Newport burglars, were sen
fenced and sent 70 Jackson.
Thursday the Board of Prison Inspectors
decided 90 make no change IN any OF the
clerks or other officials at present.
young woman named Mollie Kavanaugh
fell 10 the roller skating rink at Grand Haven
Thursday night and broke her leg.
The sawmills have been running all winter
AZ Manton, and the prospects for good
spring business are considered good.
Henry W Montrose. a well-known Detroit
lawyer, disappeared last Thursday and his
fg<ends are very anxious concerning him.
fCanfeld's salt block at East Lake com
menced yielding up its saline treasure
Thursday. IL has q capacity of $50 barrels
per day.
Samuel Mulligan. OF Flint, aged Is, was
committed 10 the Reform School AT Lam
sing, Saturday morning, for stealing a
quantity OF stamps.
The township treasurer of South Board
man was found guilty of embeZzling $4OO OF
township funds. and given two months to
make good the loss.
The Nashville school board voted down
proposition TO increase the amount of the
appropriation for a new school house. they
viii build with 5000.
a ~ tam IN
Miss Lille Scars, OF North Lansing, the ap-
pOintment % a free scholarship at the State
Normal School. YpsIlanti
A new pOstOfIce has been established at
Mossback, kalkaska county. and special
service has been discontinued 10 Thorp, Wer-
ford county. from Cadillac.
The great depth of snow in the woods
around Alpena Will hinder numbering opera
tiOns very much, as 1t II difficult getting at
the trees through the deep snow
ysmory r. Briggs, of Paw Paw, was found
elad at the foot of the stairs III his barn Sat
urday morning, 1t Is supposed from heart
disease. Tie was sixty five years old.
Two of the lumber camps ut Alpena, Stat
ford's and McPhee q Leayitt's, have finished
their winters work and broken up. The
two camps put IN some 100000 feet OF logs.
Auditor Micbie predicts holocaust at the
Wayne county pooFhe use aud inst ns asylum
If the superinlendeuts of the poor do not
take some measures to provide fire ertin-
gushing apparatus and ire escapes.
Erastus Churchill at Assyria Center com
mitted suicide Friday. tie cut his throat
from ear to ear with razor. The cause Is
supposed TO be hard times and the cold
weather He leaves a wife and child.
VIM. Robinson. of Detroit, will take Gov.
Alger and stat, with the Light Infantry, to
Washington on the Great Western division
of the Grand Trunk. Gov. Alger will use
General Manager Spicer's private car.
The Baptist society of Plymouth has Sc
cured Rev. Mr.. ShmsOn, of Toronto, Can
ada. TO succeed Rev +. b. Cressey, Of De
troit, "a pastor of the Baptist Church of
that place He was 20 commence his laoors
yesterday.
Friday afternoon al old colOred man
named Henry Hunter was found in shanty
At Detroit, nearly dead from the cold. his
hands and legs were frozen. and the feet at
the ankle may have to be amputated. The
Detroit medical college ambulance took him
to st. Mary's hospital
Examinations for the semestes's work at
the University are about over, and most OF
the results will be announced early this
week DR. Frieze announces that he will re-
ceive no new comers into his Art class. All
fhs can be accommodated hled their names
atearly "a last September.
At the coming Genesee County kCircuii
Court the suit Of Rowland v. Decker Will be
tried. It Is a suit for S.iOo0 f1r slander, and
IL it comes to trial viii doubtless create G n
siderable interest. Both ir'rties are Old re
dents OF Otisville and eli-knovn through
ont that part OF the Si,ts ana COGatY.
The fourteenth au nal and NTH Maggie
Amber prize contes of the Ladies Literary
Union society OF Iii sdlale College was held
Friday evening. SIX younx ladies contend
ell for the prize ia weli-vritten essays. The
prize was given % Miss kstella Berry, for
the essay on "Human Life Modified BY Art.
Mrs. Esther Thcmaa. Of Detroit, was
roasted IN her bed ea,rly Saturday morning
She hss been in the habit of smoking in bed
and wrs drunk the iast two weeks. 40 Il Is
thought the bed may have been act on hrs
by her pipe. The building was IN danes
when the dremen arrived. bat they were soon
suhflna.f