Telegram-herald., 1889-07-17
MATTERS IN MICHIGAN.


ground tsE - les frelsas dePes eE2ess
a. g4exso1-
Hrs. Zaeharl&A CaAadIer . building
one cf tle llesE residences "a a-si--
Gngtca-
Crops N Northern Michigan COM
pare f4sorzbiy ~lth those "a lie >Ss@tla-
sfn e.1ntles-
Thomas Matthias : digging deep
hole u ths ground al fpsllantl. hoping
"a start a sssEl tA,ria1in-
Ne. hfe-saFiig stations have been
located by the government a. dar4UetIe
and a. BoIs Blanc Island.
Hoxis, tie nsan WHO sas slsshed -
the negro 81 AlAs4es0n, - rApldiy re-
covering. Hs assall4nt Is still al large
Lady bicyciisGs az Flint are having 4
haEd time. pedestrians complain tnat
they take up too much OF the side walk
Lansing's board ut trade = making
arrangements 20 sleep aud eat II, 80
people dgrlng the progress or the state
faIr-
one day last week the mercury reg
lstered i08 IN The shade at kaIkazka OF
else the mzn who sAld It did MAS a
lar.
Bay Clty's scare over SCARLET fever
has nearly 4bated, there having been
NO new CASES reported there fcr over =
week.
The arrest OF "Blinkey" Morgan at
Alpenl, Is the subject of 4 large paint
iHg on exhibition At Detroit museum
this week.
Mss Matte Glasgow who resides near
lonia has ), ,tt0 silk worms busily spun
ning ia their valuable product. 1t Il
an Interesting sight
A Plymouth Rock hen owned by a
Jackson man laid ali egg the other
day, which weighed half pound and
measured 5ix7t inches. Good hen.
Mak0lfski's magnificent painting
'.IAe Eussian Wedding Feast Will be
the star picture OF the great art gallery
Ot the Detroit exposition IN September.
A sixty pound baby only amonth old,
j. en- route from Castle Garden to
Northern Michigan, with It's parents,
The mother does not carry it around
much.
The cat that lived at the Crouch
homestead at the time of the murder
l. now owned by Henry Draper, OF
Kives What tale pussy might un-
fold had she the gilt OF speech.
A little year-old son OF Albert Mas,
of Lansing, spilled large cup of boil
ing water over ms ttce, neck, breast
and stomach scalding himself fearfully
Monday morning. lis recovery Is not
expected.
A hig black bear appeared suddenly
on the farm of Chas. sllcox, who live:
near Jackson, Monday, ard scared Mr.
Sllcox, his wife ard his herd OF COW:
half INTO tits before retiring to the may
marsh whence he came.
All of Big Rapids residents who ar,
not away AZ the resorts are watching
the workmen lay the paving blocks OF
Michlgan-ave. The contractor and hi
gang must feel like the elephant and
monkeys ut the circus
Harrison Mitchell, the newly ap
pointed postmaster at East JOrdon, d
putting up new building for the olhe
and Will take charge OF Uncle sam
business IA i short time. Mr.. Mltchcl
Is an old soldier.
The Michigan wool clip IS practically
al IA and rchable estimates place TN,
total At ii ,500, 900 pounds ut an average
OF 50 cents per pound. Thus th'
farmers have received about -, 40 .0O'
for the old coats worn by the flock
last winter.
Rev. W. III. Stiier, pastor of the
Elghteenth-strce Baptist church II
Detroit, has an insurance policy oI
5000 on his life. His flock will keep II
paid up 80 long as he ministers to then
spiritual necessities.
Jerome b. Allen and wife, of Charlie.
yOix, have Just returned from Alabama
where they have been for seyera
months. They Will go back IN Septem
Der. Allen is superintendent of exam
lneTs for positions IN the public schools
J. Russell Fisher, of the Detroit Ere
Press, has rvgaIned ms eyesight, and l.
again on Gufy. 10 Will be remembered
that hs asfempted to show ms little
ctuld now ~ shOota big fire-cracker las
Fourth. and a premature explosion IN
Jured ms eyes.
&. F. Dixon. editor and publisher o
the East Jordan Enterprise. has beer
making some very extensive improve
ments IN his Office. He has also en-
largcd his paper from an eight-columI
folio to a six-COlumn quaTto. Dixon /
a hustler and deserves his success.
uf ttiihtSA bAOtArts tsa I4ttSt JOItftU
has agsm changed hands. W. H. Riley
formerly of the Boyne Falls House, ha:
leased It and newly furnished 1t, and
has large sample rooms for CONNER
cIsl men. The Central is the best con.
Quoted. and sets the best table of any
house n the village.
Volunteer labor completed the Re
formed Church mission chapel IN three
days from the time it was started n
Kalamazoo last week. all OF which goei
to prove that the residents OF ths
Celery CITY realizs how imperative Il L
that they should De saved.
-Four cows owned by n farmer Ev
ing near Big Rapids mistook Pafi
green for salt the other day, and nov
they are sleeping under the daisies
Perha II the stuff had been properly
l8belsd the mistake would not hav,
occurred.
Horace Sehring. Of Three Oaks, IA
been arrested. charged with having pa
arsenic IN the tea, by which four mem
bers of the family we're poisoned IT.
wanted the farm because his best glr
had refused a. marry hlm on sCcoun
Of his poverty It's examination haI
been postponed until July ,. with bal
at $1,000.
A hig batch of newlv-anpointed post
masters ". McNaught0n. Atlanta
Montgomery county. wee r. ". Hume
ston Major Mcintyre. East CriIpad
Branch county. vice e. ". Hoouen.
GARNER; -. II. Alger. Fairfield. Lena
wee county. vice Frances GRADY. Chas