The times., 1890-09-12
NEWSOFTHESTATE

head with one and died almost Instantly
from ~ big hole through one lung
A Centerville doctor and parson took a
hunting tour together in the northland
about year ago. After their return the
doctor intimated that the parson dead
beated his way wherever possible and the
parson got back at him from the pulpit.
Then the doctor issued some handbills
with affidavits to substantiate his asser-
tions, and the dominic now retaliates with
slander suit. How good and how pleas
ant it is for brethren TO dwell together in
unity.
Something like 400 varieties of apples,
80 of pears and 40 Of grapes are being test
ed at the State Agricultural college. The
"testingn capacity of the average college
student is very great when in good condi-
ton.
! Mrs. John Shelley, Waterloo lady of
| 60 summers, is not easily defeated. She
made SIS this summer picking huckleber-
ries.
A Pittsfeld boy of IA sumhters shot and
fatally wounded t-year old girl while
carelessly handling an "unloaded" gun.
Tis noticed that the doctors business
has frightened up amazingly since the
advent of the melon season. IT'S an Ill
| wind, etc.
Smith Benham, an old time Battle
! Creek citizen, is dead. In an early day he
drove stage between that town and
| Kalamazoo, when all travel was done on
the old slow-poke plan.
Constantine lad attended clay pigeon
shoot, but got himself in range and then
had a mighty ticklish job of picking shot
out of his anatomy.
| Lightning may not strike the same OBJ
| ject second time, and certainly it won't
| hit Fred Robnson's barn, at Salina,
again, as the building was knocked out
of existence at the first fire. Loss, s., 500;
insured for 1000.
Mrs. Howes, Hudson lady, feared she
was going crazy and took corrosive subli
mate as a preventative. She will never
inhabit an asylum-not in this world.
Congress is considering a measure
which, If it becomes law, will add S40,-
600 to the exchequer of the state agricult-
ural college.
A Leslie lady has sued local saloonist
$1,000 worth, alleging that bad whisky
injured her husband to that amount.
Judge c. g. Grant, of the state supreme
court, has removed from Marquette to
Detroit, and will make metropolis his per-
manent home.
Grand Rapids has an Improvement COM
pany with $780, 200 capital, organized for
the purpose of booming real estate at that
place.
M. Pasteur, the eminent French physi-
clan whose discovery for the prevention of
hydrophobia made him famous, will de-
liver course of lectures before the De-
troit medical college the coming winter.
A rich bed of mineral paint has been dis
covered near Rogers City, and company
formed to put the stuff in shape to ex-
change for shekels.
James Maher, Houghton youth of II
sum mers, was convicted in 1886 of assault
with intent to do great bodily harm, and
given a siX-year sentence at Ionia. Gov
ernor Luce has just granted Maher an I'M
conditional pardon, as the evicence upon
which he was convicted was wholly cir
cumstantial.
A Detroit dispatch of recent date says
the law students of that city have organ
lied. Let the property owners of the me-
tropolis take due and timely and flee to
the woods before it is everlastingly too
late.
A Hudson girl stopped drumming on
the piano long enough TO run sewing
machine a few moments and injured a
knee cap. Both the young lady and the
neighbors are taking a rest.
An old-fashioned barbecue to be one of
the special attractions of Alpena's fair for
1890
An investigation of the Waldron fire
convinces the authorities that t was of
incendiary origin, and tits thought they
have evidence that locates the party who
applied the torch.
lmlAy City plum growers marketed over
700 bushels of that fruit the past week, at
an average price of about 81. 80 per bushel.
Trains on the L. & z. NJ railway will
soon be run into Detroit over its own
tracks.
DR.. Galbraith. a Pontiac Physician ties.
titled in the Webb Cook case, that Cooks
death was caused by paralysis resulting
from the whipping administered by Miss
Webb
Mrs. Ellen Kingsworth has sued the
Grand Rapids Veneer company $40, 600
worth for the death of her husband who
was scalded in vat of hot water last
January. The complainant alleges gross
carelessness on the part of the company.
A Battle Creek pet bear became vexed
at repeated annoyances from citizen of
that place and chewed the tormentor's
leg in frightful manner.
Mrs. William Reed, an Attica lady, was
severely cut about the hands and face
by bursting catsup battle She may
not recover.
The railway accidents in the state for
the past year number 572, about four
ffths of which were due to carelessness.
Total number of fatalities 17s
Ernie Welton aud Mrs. Emma Phelps
are the recipients of whole swad of pre-
sents, because they were publicly married
at the Greenville fair, the past week.
Port Huron has citizen who's spent
more'n one-half of his earthly pilgrimage
in the bastile. He's been arrested fully
80 times and seems to enjoy the fun of
keeping the police force busy.
A washing machine factory to employ
$50 hands, and turn out 1900 machines,
$4,000 pals and 10, 900 tubs the first year,
has been added to Muskegon's industries.
Hon. VIM. Ball, of Hamburg, has been
nominated by the Republicans to repre-
sent the sixth district in congress. en
Mrs Julia Barrows. part owner of The