Telegram-herald., 1890-02-27

The Traverse City IRE department.
wants a new engine house.
A stone yard * to be located at the
Len4Eee county al At Adrlan.
Oakland county Democrats are 10
establish newspaper organ at Pontiac.
state savings Bank has been organ
zed aL Hancock, with sl00. .0Oo capital.
The citizens Of Kalamazoo are rising
N wrath At the prospect Of hack line
trust.
There are only eight miles Of track
yet % be lad or the {. & ". NJ. exten-
SION 70 Traverse CITY.
The spE.ng term Of the Agricultural
College began Monday, with the largest
attendance ever kn0Nn-
Wood choppers at Burton found half
hushel OF grasshOppers playing leap
frog beneath the dead leaves.
The pleasure steamer, City Of Grand
Rapids, vii run on It's same route next
season from Traverse City 10 Mackinaw.
The Muir Iribzas says that Iona
county now has SIS associations OF the
Patrons Of Industry and a membership
OF over 5000.
James O'Brien and Jennie smith, OF
Kalamazoo, have been arrested and
fined . for fighting. 1t was no lover 5
quarrel either.
City Physician Erickson and Secretary
DWyer, OF Detroit, have been granted a
two months leave of absence and viii
Visit California.
The Governor has received the resig-
nation OF William III. Carpenter, agent
OF the state Board OF Corrections and
Charities for Clare county.
A big rooster flew against SO plate
glass window at Battle Greek, the other
day. aud broke u into fragments.
That's the kind of a rooster he IS
The teachers and pupils of the Che
bOygan High school gave an entertain
NETT the other night, the proceeds OF
which Will be used TO purchase flag.
The Jackson lee Company, Monday
morning, started fourteen labOrers for
~. Helens, RoscOmmOn county, To- cut
ice and place II IN the ice houses there.
One OF the quartet of babies born to
Mrs. Lamirande, at stephenson,
MenOminee county, has died, but the
three survivors are healthy and likely
10 survive.
Michigan postmasters appointed: A.
Wayne, vice W. Mcneil, deceased, at
Bradford. Midland county; III. Coleman,
vice John III. Freery, resigned, at Wise,
Isabella county.
Maggie WoodlOck, a young Detroit
grl, suffered all the agonies OF lock
jaw for twelve days as the result of la
grippe. Strange TO say she is now on
the road TO recovery.
Detroit lawyers and doctors are dis
cuSslng the subject of expert testimony.
lt seems To be as difficult of solution as
the time worn problem of the hen and
a-half and the egg and a-half.
A substantial Buchanan farmer says
he will pledge himself 10 donate 500
tons OF straw to any company who will
establish a paper null at Buchanan
with capacity of twenty-five tons per
day.
When Thomas l.. Peers, of Muske-
gOn, went home to dinner Monday, he
found his wife on the kitchen floor.
She was subject To heart disease, and
had expired while preparing the mid
day meal.
Bert Brown an S-year-old boy who
hiss been working for n farmer near
Greenville, stole a silver watch and a
pair OF mlttens, then fled. The big
farmer followed the little thief and
recovered his valuables.
Mrs. Martha Davenport, prominent
East Saginaw lady, died Monday after
noon. She was the mother of Hon.
Geo. Davenport and the widow of the
late Judge Z. y. Davenport, and had
hyed IN Michigan since 1881.
A lame tramp applied tor lodging at
the Battle Creek police station the
other night. investigation disclosed a
81 callber bullet in n new wound in the
calf of this leg. He SAYS he was shot by
brakeman while trying TO steal ride.
Miss Frances Morrison and Fred Nay,
OF Ann ArbOr, were married Monday
They are the couple who were the prin-
cipals IN the hotel bill-skipping sensa-
ton of last week, and who were regis
tered as +. {. Green and wife, of
Tecumseh
Miss Minnie Held, pretty domestic,
gave birth TO baby vt the charitable
home IN Battle Greek last week and
now Fred j. RundIe. of that village is
IN Jail and will have % answer to a
charge OF illegitimate parentage. When
out OF work the girl was accustomed to
make her home with Fred's parents
and she alleges that Fred took adyan-
tage of her IN his OWL home.
Secretary Storrs, Of the State Board
OF Corrections and Charities, reports
that there We're 737 cOnvicts IN State
prison at the close of 1889. n decrease
of q from the preceding year. There
were $50 IN the Ionia ReformatOry, a
decrease Of 50, and 406 in the Detroit
House of Correction, and increase of
49, THIS makes i net decrease of 90 IN
the number Of prisoners in the three
institutions at the close of 1880, as COM
pared with 1888.
Pensions have been granted Michigan
applicants a. follows. Original invalid
james Mckeuua, Kalamazoo: John
&. Rollman, Burr Oak. Watson T..
ConShn. Allen; William H. Sheridan.
Detroit, Al0nson F. Hopkins, Wexford !:
Joss ph Fox. An Sable; Isaac Ploss.
Grand Island. Harris Mocherman. East
Jordan. George Hibbard, Eureka:
Thomas A. NcCraney. Chase: Curtis
Wheeler. Jackson. William Crag. De-
tro.t. Charles ". Croft, Lapoer. Restor-
alton and Increase Lewis w. Pearl.
BENTON Harbor. lncrcase-Albert W.
Rock. Forest Hill; Levi Niles. Inter
mediatc William Griffith. White Cloud
Charles W Lane, Jerome; Eugene
Richardson. Hartford George ". Ady.
H0lton. Charles n. Cowlcs, Lansing.
Wilarl A. McCombs. sherman
CITY. Thomas Hayden. Motanlora: Wi
fiain H Wilson. Nestamora: Silas "