The times., 1889-05-31
short hut Newsv Items.

Bay City will have big match factory in
operation in few weeks
A fOur-year-old child of Edgar MILAN
| was killed near Jonesville recently by a
| land roller about which the child was play
ing. The horses started and the child was
thrown under the roller.
A. N. Moffat and company Of Detroit
capitalists have bought the Port Huron &
Sarnia ferry and will greatly improve the
service.
Agents of a Chicago firm who have been
selling goods in Ishpeming on the install
ment plan have been arrested by the city
authorities for not taking out a license. A
test case will be made.
The Sailors and Soldiers Association have
decided to hold their annual reunion on the
Jackson fair grounds, July 22-25 inclusive.
Remus Freyling, of Grand Rapids, aged
year and q half was drowned in a pail of
water in which he fell the other evening
Fires originating from lightning burned
several barns Mt Tekonsha recently, caus-
ing $4,000 loss.
The Loomis battery held its fourteenth
reunion a few days ago at Coldwater. Thir-
ty-five veterans were present.
At meeting in the Exposition building
at Detroit the other night the Dispatch
Parnell defense fund, amounting to $5,2S2,,
was turned over to Rev. Charles O'Reilly,
treasurer of the National League
Hog cholera is devastating whole herds Of
swine in parts of Oklahoma County.
The famous Loomis Battery held sue
cessful reunion at Coldwater recently and
elected officers for the ensuing year, with
Il. J. Harris, of Adrian, as president
The fifth annual meeting of the National
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August 2S to 30
James +. Joy, of Detroit with Mr.. Ashley,
representing ninety per cent of the bonds,
has bought the Wabash railway lines east of
the Mississippi river for sl5, ,550,0 600.
Forty-one liquor licenses have been
taken out in Muskegon, which gives
saloon to every 500 people
Bay CITY will have match factory in
operation in short time, and 1t is expected
one handred boxes of matches will be made
and boxed up every second it is in opera
ton.
Seymour ]. Mason lost his right hand in
a buzz-saw ut the Falcon mill in Big Rapids
the other day.
j. A. Burdens barn near Putnam was
burned the other night, and seven horses
and a large amount of farm machinery
were lost
There is a movement among some benev-
olent people of Detroit to give the girls en-
ployed in stores half-hollday each week.
The April output from the Ropes gold
mine, including gold and concentrates
amounted to ,725. The running expenses
were "a, 800.
Joseph +. Kelley gets 5000 damages
from Bay County tor injuries received by
the fall of the Twenty-third street bridge
at Bay City.
A falling guy-pole at the Bourle mill in
Petoskey recently struck William Buyser
on the head, killing him instantly. He
leaves a wife and one child
Near Detroit the other night Joseph
Bechard undertook to cross railroad
track in front of train and he and his
horse were killed.
The roof of II. p. Baldwin n Co IS shoe
factory in Detroit caved in the other morn
ing, and William Beruowsky was killed
and two others seriously injured.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the
State Medical Society was held recently at
Kalamazoo, two hundred members being
present.
John Bush and Michael Welihan, con-
ductor and engineer of tho Michigan
Central engine which wrecked stroet-car
at Kalamazoo recently, have been held for
granddaughter for causing the death of
Sarah H. Hadlock one OF the FIVE victims