Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-24
Morning Telegram.


Adrlans roller rink pay 81 TAX Tor eaeh
exhibition given.
The Upper Peninsula Is in favor of the
Portage lake ship eanal
The First National Bank Of Ailegsn has
deposited ia Il $1,000 of State money.
The sparta high school received S4o from
nonresident pupils during the fall term
There was a good deal more sickness At
Hiilseiale during 1874 than The year previous.
p. Poyneer. OF Kalamazoo, formerly Of
Aiiegan, expects 20 make 300 tanning mills
this year.
Muskegon says the fine snow falling there
now is frozen mist and fog from OF LAKE
Michigan.
Sunday night Farwell had a S20,O ,O0o fire,
which destroyed nearly all Of the business
part OF the town.
There j. probability Of Mai. Whittle and
81. .ssicCranahan, the well-known revlyelists,
soon going 10 Kalamazoo.
Ann AFbOr now wants free postal delly-
cry; claims 10 have done the required amount
of business, 10000 per annum.
The President and Secretary of the Detroit
Ministerial Union wish the authorities TO
forbid the posting Of demoraiIzIng show bills.
The three burglars, Clark, Brennan and
Ianney, were this morning escorted 10
Jackson, which will be their home for twenty
years.
Bishop Gillespie visited the Jail at Allegan
on Sunday last and held a service for the six
prisoners three Of whom are serving sen
tence.
The Reform school az Lansing on Sept. 80.
1884, had 304 white boys, 40 cOlOred and
two Indians. The employees are thirty seven
IA number.
The prOpellers are still ice-bOund at Grand
Haven. The Oneids early Thursday morn
ing was seen drifting southwark at the rate
OF two miles an hour.
The farmers around Whitehall and MOnta-
que demand a market. shipping point. IL
they cannot have this they Will take their
produce somewhere else.
The Kalamazoo telegraph gives a minute
description Oi the improved IKE escape ana
safety truck which have been patented by
Levi Harris of Kalamazoo.
Mr.. Chas ). Brown. formerly foreman IN
the Democrat Office IN Hastings, l. now one
of the publishers of the Manistee Times, the
firm n lne beng Hilton q Brown
tsDma OF the Allegan elergymen must be-
lieye Ia practical christianity. Credit Is
given them of being IN the front rank III
claring the snow Oft their sidewalks.
The trustees of the School for the Blind,
az Lansing, request Sb2,OUO Tor current ex-
pense5 for the years 1856 and So, ~ for
The trustees of the Institution for the Deaf
aud Dumb. at Flint request $4,000 for
current expenses for the years lee5-o6 and
SO, SO for repairs and special purposes
w III. Carter of Muskegon, would like to
correspond with some of the expert Usher
men of Whitehall. with the purpose or buy
ing fish. The spearng excites his curiosity.
The annual Farmers institute of the Hus
bandman's ClnD OF Kalamazoo county will
be held at Augusta Feb 10. Judge Mills
will read a paper on Cattle astray IN the
highways
The HOrLigqmdn's Journal at Muskegon
accuses a -four and feed firm there OF having
a very valuable cat, which steals on 10 the
scales and remains there ullti the gram has
been weighed.
Lansing has a committee of ladies and
gentlemen appointed 10 visit the schools and
this committee makes a written report to
cfe Board of Education upon the character
of the work d9ne-
The venerable William Barclay died Thurs
day, OF q Cengesiive chill. at Detroit, at the
age of sexenty-seven years lie was native
OF Scotland bat emigrated To tdis country
when quite young
A house IT lshpemiug in hich were three
children iil with dIphtberla. WIS burned lo-t
Friday. The children We're removed - q
nei,hD1cs. bat it IS feared Che exposure viii
efftc- them seriously.
A fr.eport woman found n live snake in a
paii OF CIsteru water which she nd lusl
drawn. sac threw it sutO = now-bank, Ous
proDahly creem.i loud enOuyh 10 bring the
Whole family ta- shsr efore she dared 90 H.
"Jaksr knight fae man who killed Lou
Hall. WAS iauruay morning at bay City
convicted of un usllu- -hter and recommended
to tine mercy 0t the court. IL Is not under
stood hOy the jury could give such d verdict
Alonzo Z. Campbell. who has resided at
Pouuac for nineteen years, died suddenly NJ
his resi-. elce "Wednesday evening. lie died
quietly in bed and as he was subject to
apop.exy, It Is supposed he died OF that us
ease.
Gottlieb Iaweke. who fell of load OF
straw on the Paw Paw road few weeks ago
and was som what hurt, claims il was be
cause Of a defective road, and has sued the
town OF Aliagan for damages IN the sum OF
5000.
The City Council at Hinsdale is consider
ing the Qul sfiou of the ACCESSIBILITY OF having
the present city charter amended IN several
RESPECTS. also whether It would not be advis-
able % reineorp0rats under the general Law
OF the State.
= Albion College Will have $4,000 some
time in the futlre IL Ezra BostwIck, veal
thy farmer living near Union City, carries
out his inten ions. lie proposes TO bequeatt
that amount TO the college aud Is ready tC
execute the papers.
Every club ia the State and all persons in
terested ia the subject Of conserving the pub
lic property IN he form OF wita animals ar
invited 60 attend the tenth annual session o
the Michigan Sportsmen's Association. which
Will be held m Lansing, Feb. 3
A salooukesper st saginaw City shot him
self through Che head yesterday morning
the ball entering 54cs Of lhe riIut ear, ans
takinr aR upward course, probably faiai
Hs hai been n member OF the police farc
until year or So ago. he says he was ois
Couragei
some people Of Hastings are accused q
selling the pillows ot tne ned, selling TIE las
summers dress aud borrowing money O.
the nsizhbors on the pretext of needing ar
tcles ln che house. ad to furnish none,
with which % - to .hs roller rink. 80 com
uienf Is ece-strY-