Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-21
TOWN TALK.

A home II wanted for a tw0-year old lad
now at St. Marks Home.
A boy baby At the u. b. A. Home would
like 10 become somebody's child
Democrats County Convention ia the
Superior Court room to-day AZ 10 a. IA.
1.-The Wages OF Sin" was favored with
another goOd-sized audience last evening.
The City Street Car Company carried lO6,-
COO passengers during the month of January
last.
Mayor Belknap went 10 Flint yesterday on
an 0fiicial visit 10 the Asylum for the deaf.
dumb and blind.
The National Greenback Convention
meets to-day az II O'Clock d. M, IN the Kent
Circuit Court room.
The iurymen who have been attending the
discharged yesterday.
Truant Officer Croft served four notices
and investigated eight more cases relative 70
the State school juvenile law yesterday.
The match game of billiards, in which
Billy Burleigh Is TO take hand, comes of
az the Schulenburg Billiard Hail. this even
ing.
The law business must be looking up. So
far ia this month thirty-elght law cases
have been commenced in the Kent Circuit
Court
over sixty men have been given employ
ment by the Labor Bureau and forty-three
OF the number have secured permanent sit
uatlOus.
De. Louis Mass, the celebrated Boston
pianist, IS expected 10 give piano recital at
the lonia Street Armory, Thursday evening,
March 3.
The case of Theodore Desmond, charged
with larceny from tho person, will come mp
before Judge Holmes Ia Police Court this
morning
Patrolman Doherty, who has been visiting
friends in Wisconsin for some time,
returned To the city yesterday much i'm
proved IN health.
The uniformed rank of Knights of Pythias
of Eureka Lodge, No. 2, of this city, will
soon begin drilling, preparatory TO taking
part ia tue summer encampment at kalama-
zoo.
Ida Kelly, aged five years, 126 Grandville
avenue and Pearl Tobias, aged five years,
A. West Bridge street, were reported to the
Board of Health yesterday, a III with scarlet
fever.
Assistant District Attorney Hyde was at
IOnia. yesterday. conducting the exarnina-
ton Of some parties who are accused of sell
ling liquor without paying the internal
revenue tax.
The people generally are very much
pleased with the result OF the trial of Sigh,
Madden and Jennings, and they would be
more pleased If the authorities could ind
the murderer of Vanderlinde.
samuel L. Fuller. William f. Cox and
John q. Northrup, OF the city; aud Edward
HI Jones and Nathan III. Gould, of Oaktield
township, took commissions a. Notaries
from the County Clerks office yesterday.
Tomorrow afternoon A. Spies, of Chi
cagO, will deliver an address on Labor az
Arbeiter Hall. in the German language. In
the evening he will speak IN English at
Metropolitan Hall, and upon the same SUBJ
ject
T. J. Andrews, fireman on the Michigan
Central Railroad. had three fingers badly
smashed last night at the Union depot. he
was uncoupling the engine from the train
when IL backed up aud caught his fingers be-
tween the draw bars.
The members of the Dewitt Clinton Con.
sist0ry, Scottish Rite Afasons, who leave
from this section for Cincinnati Monday
are. y +. Watson. w. L. Tyler and L. a.
Rogers OF this city; VIM. Steele, of lonia,
and Stearns of Big Rapids.
Not in several years has navigation be-
tween Graud Haven and Milwaukee been &C
iinpeded by the ice The Grand Trunk
Company has n sufficient quantity of freight
stored IN the Milwaukee freight houses to
keep the boats of this line busy two months.
Herbert Wander Perl and John De BoeI
were arrested on South Division street last
evening. They engaged in quarrel over a
valentine and pitched in and fought like
tigers Officer Cogswell arrested them for
breach OF the peace. They will appear before
Judge Holnes this morning at O'Clock