The times., 1889-12-27
NEWS OF THE STATE

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more than sixty years and isn't dead yet.
Tho few hundred dollars worth of property
not yet invested in drink was the Sreeial OBJ
| ject of the sons solicitude.
More'n 1000, 900 tons of iron ore is the
record of Lake Superior iron mines for 1859,
an output that exceeds that of the previous
year by more than 2,000,0O0 tons.l
A Grand Rapids chap was hauled up for
larceny who had been given ninety days
job at the calaboose only few days before.
That fellow seems to be somewhat in the
condition of the settin' hen that wouldn't
sit.
Baked eggs nay not be favorite dish with
Q. A. Bennett, Mason man, but he had
1900 dozen of 'em cooked to a crisp in one
batch, a few days since. The burning of his
house accounts for the numerousness of the
lot.
The mumps are not sighting the folks at
Sights Station to any great extent, as the
twenty-five painfully swollen jaws amply
testify
An Azalia maiden doesn't propose to have
her affections trifed with by Damn, and
that's why Frank Damn has been lugged Off
to the Monroe bastile.
There must be heaps O. trouble in store for
He's the owner of 1S0 tenement houses in that
city.
The stubbornness with which railway cor
porations contest their law cases may be in
ferred from the 1000 pages of type written
copy of the testimony introduced in the
crossing contest at Bay City between
the Michigan Central and T., s. and M. cor
porations.
The masons engaged in the erection Of
Lansing's new $4,000 Methodist church,
have quit work because they were unable to
obtain their pay.
Martins roller process Touring mill at
Reed City was cremated on the 9th. Loss,
S25, 1000; insurance, 900.
Lansing's common council is coming down
on the gift and lottery concerns of that city
with heavy hand. 'Tis thought however,
to be only spasmodic outburst of virtue
which will have sailed by before the next
Michigan legislature shall have gathered at
the capital city.
Richard Clark, Caseville citizen residing
with his daughter and her husband, fatally
shot his son-in-law on the 9th, and then put
bullet in his own brain, expiring almost in
stantly.
The village of Oxford has had $1,000
Judgment slapped in its face, all because Of
treacherous sidewalk that was the subject
of misplaced confidence on the part Of a
Mr.. Miles,
Gladwin has one lawyer to each 800 inhab-
itants, while the ratio of saloons to popula-
tion is more than four times as great, though
we by no means intimate that there's
mutual connection between the two facts.
Mrs Viola Newkirk, Dexter lady, gets o
S400 annuity the balance of her life from
the estate of the late Millard p. Fillmore, Of
Buffalo, N. Y. Ex-President Fillmore, the
father of the gentlemnn who made the be-
quest, was an uncle of Mrs. Newkirk.
Miss Florence Conger, an accomplished
lady and only daughter of ex-senator Con-
ger, will win her own bread and butter
by tacllling government clerkship at WASH
ington.
A military blow has been struck at the
deadly cigarette, an Orchard Lake cadet
having been fired because he insisted on
smoking the little "straws."
Seven Monroe countyStowns are worrying
along without the customary drinking place.
But then, 'tisn't very far to Detroit, and De-
troit never goes dry.
The sawmills at Menominee cut nearly
350,000,0O0 feet of lumber and square timber
during the past season.
Michigan breeders of merino sheep will
congregate at Lansing Dec. IL for mutual
fine wool conference.
Judge Cooley is so much improved
in health that his physicians are of the opin-
ion that he will be able to resume his duties
on the interstate commerce commission soon
after New Years.
A West Branch doctor has devised horse
shoe that requires no nails to hold it in posi-
ton, even in the case of fiery mustang,
though it can be removed, when desired as
easily as kicking off an old slipper, but it
looks like "kick" at the blacksmith indus
try.
Harry II. Smith, a Kalamazoo boy, has Sc
cured the appointment of journal clerk of
the national house of representatives. He
held the position in a previous congress.
Martin Burns, the chap who attempted to
murder his wife in Genesee county and then
fed under cover of darkness was overhauled
at st. Thomas, Ont, and returned to Flint
for an interview by the circuit judge.
Alexander Tower, an Eaton county rural
ist, has caused the arrest of couple of his
farm hands whom he alleges to have system
atically robbed him of wheat during the past
two years.
A. F. Starr, ST. Ignace citizen, is pre-
pairing to engage in evangelist industry
under the instruction of Dwight l.. Moody.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fostor, newly mar
ried Lenawee county couple, thought 'twould
be jolly to indulge in December fishing
trip, but the capsizing of their boat gave the
bride watery grave at the bottom of Posey
lake.
A member of Stanton's city council has
been bounced for the alleged reason that he
neglected his official duties Great Scottl
has it really come to this, that public Office
is public trust.
There wasn't much joy in attending
Battle Creek theatre for Mrs. j. NJ Joy, as
she was taken suddenly i'll and died before
she could be removed to her home.
People living on the shores of the straits
Mackinaw, where so many wrecks have re-
Gently occurred, are so abundantly well sup
piled with flour, in many cases, that they
offer to sell the staff of life at the nominal
sum of 25 cents per barrel.
James Mcdonald, Kent county farmer
returned from a hunting expedition to find
that his wife and the hired man were both
dead. IT'S thought that the latter tried to