Telegram-herald., 1889-10-13
MATTERS IN MICHIGAN.

Jackson has al evening school.
Tie Sunday Blue laws are in force at
Cadillac.
Hoizhay is III Of a fever IN the Besse-
mer lall.
There are fifteen grain elevators in
Eaton county.
Luding on 'sneW grist mill VIII soon be
ready for operations.
The Borgess. Hospital, at Kalamazoo,
is 10 be dedicated today.
Muskegon cops are after boys who
throw stones IN the streets.
There Is a total enrolment Of 400
pupils in the Ithaca schools.
The Women's club house at Lansing
is rapidly nearing completion.
Detroit florists will give chryssn-
themum show November ll-l6.
Negaunee has begun excavations for
the foundation OF new city hall.
Luther begins to show signs of re-
ccvcry from its s,rifs of misfortunes.
The potato rot i proving a serious
matter for Cheboygan county farmers.
Fifteen hundred barrels of apples
per day are what Saranac buyers pay
for.
There are 3l5 male and 50 female
prisoners in the House of Correction at
Detroit.
The NewaygO county court house is
SAID TO be anything but thing of
beauty.
Montague hunters have competitive
parties, the vanquished ones paying for
tie spread.
Allegan citizens voted down Il propO-
sition TO buy a steam pump for the
water-wOrkS.
A Benton Harbor school is provided
a cistern which holds 600 barrels OF
water. Fire protection.
The Grand Traverse County Sunday
school convention VIII be held at Ira
verse City October 1927.
Oregon Hamilton is being tried at
Big Rapids for the monstrous crime OF
whipping his own child TO death.
Over ten thousand dollars worth of
stock has already been taken in the
gravel road project at MuskegOn.
A Hart plum tree is playing fast and
| loose with the seasons, and its branches
show both ripe fruit and blossoms.
The office of the Grand Traverse Her
| aid, one of the best newspapers IN the
State, is to be lighted with electricity.
The Sunfeld Sun, though but two
weeks old, has been enlarged from four
to eight pages, and shows other signs
of substantial success.
Rev. Rgbert BOeLe, of Drenthe, OF
tawa county, has been called to the
Christian Reformed Church, at Graafs-
chap, Allegan county.
John Courier, an old Frenchman
whose home is in Detroit, has been
taken to Jackson 70 reside for fifteen
years for criminal assault.
A large bear carried off a sheep from
| the farm OF John Riggs, of Nirvana,
| one day last week. Her two cubs
| helped boost it over the fence.
Bay City has ghost, but as it dresses
| in female clothing and is seen meeting
another ghost which wears trousers,
people outside the ring need fear moth
| ing.
The annual congress of the National
! Prison Association VIII meet at Nash
vile, Tenn, November Is. Warden
Hatch is on the program to read a paper
on discipline"
A 2-months-Old boy baby was left on
| the dOOrsteps of William Bender S
| house, I'm Detroit, Thursday evening,
and was subsequently taken TO the
Foundhngs' Home.
In Big Rapids planning mill the
| other day silver few from n buzz saw
and struck Ira Thrall, a workman, on
| the cheek. then glanced off and passed
| directly through his ear.
Victor Erickson broke his leg above
the knee while engaged al his work IN
| a lumber camp near Lake City. and mas
been taken to the Mercy Hospital at
| Big Rapids.
The Mcmillan family, Of Jackson,
| have buried sI of their eight children
within the last three weeks. Diphthe-
ia and poverty, the family Of ten hav-
ing lived on $50 per week all summer.
Mrs. Caroline SCHNEIDER. under arrest
at By City for making fraudulent
J claim for a pension. IL so confused over
/ her many husbands that she e unable
~ tell which one was killed i'm tho war.
/ The grand jury VIII endeavor TO tel
her.
| The speculative horse thief, John
Wenhart. confined BIN Benz0na Ja
d.e cd Thursday noon IN an cpicptc IT.
lie @as reading a paper apparently
| well and ten minutes later was dead.
| He was ABOUT 80 wears old and has a
family m Bracken, Ind.
| Grocnlaun. q promising stallion
valued 90 5000 was beng eVcrr sd or
! tire Eaton Rapids track Thurs1av,u
ho was run into hv frartous CO'
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