Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-10
Morning Telegram.


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The waters of the Kalamazoo at Aliegan
have not subsided any yet
The largest store In ShaytONn burned 10
the ground Thursday morning.
One man cleared 500 ia seven weeks hsh-
ing OF the harbor At MnskegOn.
Kalamazoo claims - have had $575.O0O
expended Ia building the past year.
The Kalamazoo Supervisors have voted
<z,Uo ID nnish the new court house.
Kalamazoo has three new cases of dipbth-
era aud several eases Of scarlet fever.
Detroit man says the money affairs of
Wayne county are very loosely handled.
Tie wife Of Representative Robinson
died at their home ia Albion on Monday.
The merchants Of Rayenna report that
business has been good there All winter
The salary CT the postmaster Of Muskegon
l. $2,5l5; Whitehall, Sl,i25; Montague, 81
A free public reading room has been
opened at Whitehall by the seyen-day Ad-
Fentlsts.
Musksgon, was closed on an execution on
Thursday.
There are two feet of snow along the
Michigan Central Railroad between Forest
aud Mackinaw.
And still they come Kalamazoo reports
more robbins which have evidently been liv-
ing on the fat of the land.
The Allegan Congregational Sunday school
has had an average OF ninety nine IN attend
ance for the last three years.
South BOardman has the small -pox, and
trains on the G.. K. & /. road have been or
dered 10 pass without stopping.
The Bell Telephone Company has Just
completed the work of running q copper
wire between Lansing and Detroit.
Two men tried % break into a house at
Bay Clty on Wednesday and dog warned
the master of the house by barking.
The Bohemian oat SANDER case against
Editor smith, OF Milan. Is still causing a
great deal of excitement IN that place.
The ice is said to be badly drifted in the
Straits OF Mackinaw. rendering trausporta-
uon very difficult and somewhat dangerous.
Two erominent business houses in Battle
Greek are reported as being very much EN-
barrased, but it Is hoped they will weather
the storm.
A Manistee paper says that salt making
pays better than numbering. Manistee salt
slls for fifteen cents barrel more than
aginaw salt.
III soon be sunk at Hamilton & CcClure's
rs, on the Saginaw river ten miles from
lth Bay City.
ne farm house of Geo. Fonger in the
nship of Tyrone. Genessee county, was
aed Thursday morning. Loss $1,000,
italy insured.
large party of ladies from Detroit,
ia, Jackson, Saginaw and other Michigan
,es were present az Lansing TO listen 10 the
vernOrs message.
Nm. Quigley, who shot Jerry Mahoney. in
.andish, Arenac county, last May, was ac-
Quilted on Wednesday of this week. The
plea was self defense
Eggs of the famous Loeb Laven trout
ghich arrived at New York Thursday from
Scotland. viii be shipped TO the United
5tates hatchery at Worthwhile in this State
John Mcleod was instantly killed at
lancherd Thursday morning. He was help
ng 20 fiise the rafters to a shingle-shed and
ne of them fell striking him on the head.
The December output of copper from the
ialnmet x Hecla mine was 1855 tons: Quin-
n. 25O tons; Franklin, 227; Atant ic, 36};
farOn, l2); Hancock, IL; AllOuez. $50; Pc
unsula, 20.
A grocer and saloon keeper in Ypsianti
lille Intoxicated poured kerosene oil on the
.Oor and set fire 70 It. The fire was ex-
inguished and little damage done. The
men were arrested.
doctor in Detroit says he has noticed for
seven years that there IL a marked increase
n diphtheria during the holidays He at
tributes 10 % the children being out more
md exposing themselves.
Paxton & Parsons. at Gibralter Station,
ave recently opened up an extensive stone
quarry at that place and the Michigan Cen
ral Railroad Company Is putting IN side
racks 60 accommodate this new enterprise.
Harrison 3 Pierce, confectOners of Flint,
ssigned yesterday TO Geo. W. Hubbard for
NJ benefit OF their creditors. Assets stock
bout 81 900. on which IL a chattel mortgage
4 about 5000. The unsecured liabilities
re unknown.
The patrons Of the telephone at Coldwater
ave carried out their threat not 20 use that
strument If the company did not reduce
. rent from IS to 80 year. Probably
ly forty out Of the one hundred instru-
ents formerly IN use will be retained.
meeting Of the stockholders and direc-
r. Of the COldwater National Bank Thurs
3. Geo. Starr was elected president IN
nee OF II. G.. Lewis. deceased This il the
st change of presidents IN twenty years.
/. B. Dennis was chosen vice-president.
Chas.fA. Warren. of the Union Ticket OF
&c In Detroit. was given a surprise by
arge number OF railroad men, many of
hon came from long distances. on Thurs
ay night. Mr. and Mrs. Warren were pre-
snted each with a handsome chair and "A
did silver tsa-service.
1t Joseph has been having IN old fashion
a revival. Over one hundred have united
itk the N. r. Church. twenty with the Ger
IAN EvanQehcal. and twenty or thirty with
- N. ~ Church at Benton Harbor. Others
III unite with the varioas churches. making
veral persons ut eech church
Joseph I. Jacks. Of Edwardsburrh in Cass
ounty. aged eightv-two years. was buried
,stertiay with masOuic honors He was the
"a clerk OF this county. being appointed by
su. Cass. then governor Of the territory IN
m. and was afterward an officer in the
,ek Hawk war. Mr.. Jacks was highly re-
ected BY The mass Of people. 10 whom he
- well known.
The chicken show af Battle Greek continues
be vel psfronized. The annual election
the association occurred Thursday night
tn fhe following result, President. n r.
riszroid Battle Greek. Vice President G.
Pierce. Grand Rapids. Secretary. " !.
tilier, Battle Greek. Treasurer. a.. W
farsS Battle Greek. The next annual meet
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