Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-08
Morning Telegram.
MINoa MIenIeAN stAFrERs.

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A farmers institute Is 70 be held al Dowa-
aaes Jan II and -.
The Marquette city schools are closed On
account Of diphthesia.
Lansing expects 10 INTRODUCES water works
Ia that city next season
The public library at Kalamazoo is being
removed 70 another building.
MAJOR Whittle begun a series Of meetings
al jackson on Tuesday evening
The T. 81. q. A. 0f Jackson formally
opened their new rooms On Monday evening.
+. Miriek. dealer IN hats and caps at
Adrian, assigned Oh Tuesday. His liabilities
are unknown.
John Quincy Adams, IF Marquette, Is said
10 be the latest candidate for Commissioned
OF Insurance.
The bonds Of the city Of Jackson IN the
spm of 5000 have been issued for water
y Jrks Improvements.
The Port Huron 1ste1Daph has been re
duced IA size and the price dropped from
three 70 two cents a copy.
Mrs. John Sands, OF Adrian, was terribly
burned on Tuesday by pouring kerosene on
the nre- Her recovery is doubtful.
Detroit wants portions OF Greenfield,
Hamtramck and Springwells annexed 10 that
eity at the coming session OF the Legislature.
AAcIC Wd5 q game Dl lDiO DI ibcotoJ
evening at Kalamazoo between the Young
Alerts Of Kalamazoo and the Paw Paw club.
DIR. Reynolds, the red ribbon man, will
shake the dust OF his feet from Lansing and
SEQ II he can md better timber az Traverse
City.
some OF Detroit's citizens are complain
ing about their gas-bilis. The bills presented
arc IN increase ratio To the amount OF gas
consumed.
NJ. Brown, OF Quincy, Mich, and Walter
r. kingsbury, OF Edmore, Mich, have been
nominated for pOstInasters OF their respect
i've towns.
The judgment of $1,000 recently obtained
BY Frances Townsend against the city OF
Fort Huron, for a broken leg, was set aside
Monday b. Judge Brown.
A number of men OF OscOda have bought
OF a hrm ia Au Saubie q One-sixteenth inter
est IN eighty acres of Minnesota gold land.
They paid $500 each for the land.
man living alone two miles north of
Buchanan was found dead Tuesday, lying on
the floor face dOwnWards. Ii il thought he
snust have died two OF three days ago.
One OF the wheels under a passenger coach
on the new Air line burst when Just out of
Hamburg village. The train barely escaped
being thrown down a high embankment.
The Bohemian oats slander suit against
the Milan LeQder IS being attended by large
numbers of farmers from the surrounding
country, and feeling runs at high heat.
Jerome L. Cobb. of Schoolcraft, for many
years the efficient Secretary of the Michigan
State Grange and editor OF the Grange ItSl-
tor, celebrated his sd birthday on Jan. 4.
The annual meeting of the Central Michi-
gan Agricultural Society viii be held IN
Lansing on the 18th inst, and 1t Is expected
that three hundred members will be pres
ent
City Clerk Saenger, of Detroit, proposes to
purchase for the Council chamber large oil
portraits of all Detroit's living Mayors, and
as many of the departed ones IA can be OBJ
tanned.
T.. A. Hanson, of Lansing, has recently re-
Gently received a patent tor an improved
saw for making stair ratings. Nothing like
lt has ever before been seen in the United
States.
The Detroit Light Guard are making ar
. rangements To make the reception to Gov.
Alger a very brilliant event. The Governor
has suggested Feb. l., a the time for hold
ing the levee.
The Board of Supervisors of Washtenaw
county Is sharply criticised by officers of the
law ia and about Ann Arbor. They think
that the Board used its supreme power as
auditors unfairly.
The CorOner's jury IN the Lou Hall muir
der case at Bay Clty rendered a verdict on
tuesday night that she came 10 her death
from blows inflicted by person or persons
unknown To the jury.
II has not been decided yet where to hold
the charity ball soon to be gwen IN Detroit.
As President-elect Cleveland l. 10 attend
such a ball IN Buffalo soon, ne viii be inyit-
ed 10 attend the one in Detroit
Charles W. Irving has bought of ". Ii.
Brearley the Detroit weekly paper known as
EcgrH Saturday. Mr.. Irving has been EN-
pi0yed ON the paper about SIX months, and
will 20 INTO possession next week.
runaway team at Holly dashed into
tOp-carriage IN which Mrs. William Hicks.
of Rose, was dsiving, throwing her violently
10 the ground and inhicting painful injuries.
Mrs. Hicks was, however, able to ride home.
George Crysler. a stone mason. was stopped
half a mile north OF Maysyille by three high
vaymeu. One of them succeeded ia getting
<lOc from him after a hard tussie. No trace
OF the aighwaymen could afterward be
found
DR.. w. J. Herdman, demonstrator OF an
atOmy at the University. was arrested last
Saturday for assault and battery on man
named Tower, at Saline and was taken To
that village and fined 81 The doctor has
appealed.
The petition circulated by the business
men of Iouia declaring shat they would not
for the next four years or until the govern
ment moves it 60 more central office, has
sixty sixners.
The Detroit Board OF Public Works has
decided to give hungry mortals a chance to
earn meal of victnals. AZ the western hay
market there il a big pile OF ho0lders. and
these are to be broken up and used % hll
holes ia pavsments.
woman In Jackson was badly burned
while cleaning pair of gloves with benzine.
it was another case of drying the gloves on
the hands over the stove. IL IL strange that
people viii be- 80 careless with comhustibes
when she papers are fall of warnings.
Tuesday night the postoftice az Orion was
broken into and 500 IN money and postage
stamps stolen. ALSO. the store of Joshua g.
Rrednore. from which seventy five yards #
silk and silk hsndkercbiefs were taken. The
lcha were s0ilfuliy done by experienced safe +
crackers.
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