The times., 1891-10-02

nsws Notes and Gossip Concerning Our
own People.

Certain Calhoun county gossips be-
came so exercised over the details of a
recent divorce case that they sent COM
mittee of three--all women--to Marshall
to obtain the full particulars.
Several Monroe people are doing a
thriving business catching frogs and
shipping them to the city markets. No
croak about this
The sawmill at Menominee, of which
r.. g. Peter, the Manistee lumberman
was part owner, and which had not been
run since Peters failure, burned recently
st a loss of $40, 900.
The little town OF Dwight. Ills, is the
location of a sanitarium for the cure of
drunkards, and Blissfield iucorrigible
has just returned home and declares him.
self cured. Michigan has other towns
that can furnish patients to the advantage
Of both Individuals and the community
The Port Huron tunnel was formally
opened on the 10th, under the direction
OF the Grand Trunk officials. The struct-
ure cost about 20 100000
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Eight high life weddings were cels-
brated at Kalamazoo in single day, the
past week. Cupid seems to be skir-
mishing around the borders of the eel
cry city to some purpose
Nellie Hilton is Grand Rapids woman
who has been bastiled for throwing her
husband out of doors into the street, and
otherwise misusing the effeminate fellow.
DIR. H. X. Brown has taken Miss May
White, the Munith sleeper. to his home at
6tockbridge. that he may give the strange
case special attention. The girl has now
slept nearly 100 days, but the doctor has
succeeded in awakening her at irregular
intervals.
The Detroit garbage works have been
declared a nuisance because of the Of
fensive ordors emanating therefrom, and
ordered abated by Judge Gartner of that
city. The case goes to the supreme court
Bay City and p. La France have been
made defendants in $25, 900 damage suit
because Annie M Hayesran into build
ing. La France was moving and left
without warning light in the street.
Grand Rapids residents mistrust that
the milk they use isn't always of the best.
and are desirous that some competent
man be given the position of milk in
spector
j, II. Shrigley, Manistee millionaire,
adds to his income and pleasure by shoot
ing English sparrows for the bounty OF
cents each. He recently drew Sl3.S6
bounty money for a months shooting.
DR.. L. w. Bliss, the Saginaw physician
who WAS charged with malpractice at the
Saginaw meeting of the state medical
society, has been acquitted by the
judicial council" of that body.
An Ovid man of mature years has been
charged with incest by daughter of Is
Septembers.
The first mogul engine built by the
Michigan Central for it's own use has been
turned out of the company's shops at
Jackson.
Josiah Marm Morenci miser died re-
Gently, leaving S25, 900 worth of good clean
collateral behind.
The telephone girls at Muskegon are
busy these warm September days, having
answered 6,45S calls in less than one
third Of the month.
While on his way to visit friends in
Germany, John Fritschler,, Port Huron
gentleman, jumped from railway train
near London and was seriously, if not ia
tally, injured.
William Grandjeau struck an eight
foot vein of coal on his farm at Blumfleld
while sinking we'll. The quality is said
to be very good.
Some weeks ago Saginaw peddler was
bitten by mad dog and afterward began
to manifest symptoms of hydrophobia.
Now he claims to be cured by mad
stone.
Grand Rapids capitalists are figuring on
the expediency of establishing a sewing
machine factory in that city.
William Fisher of the Saginaw fire de-
partment won q 100 yard foot race and
300 in 1915 seconds.
Henry Abbott gets IS years at Jackson
for killing George Bryant at Dowagiac.
Mitigating circumstances alone saved him
from a longer sentence.
A Jackson woman has been fined the
sum of SO for peeiing mans nose with a
corn stalk, the court holding her guilty of
an assault.
Cherry Hughes no longer lives at Ap-
plemanburg, having taken dose of
strychnine for quinine.
A labratory of hygiene, for the investi-
cation of disease has been established at
the Battle Greek sanitarium.
Adrian's society for the suppression of
slang continues to increase in numbers,
but the city treasury is short of cash.
The Western Union telegraph company
has been made defendant in a $4,000
damage suit for the alleged non delivery
of an important commercial message sent
to Niles from Chicago.
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The bondholders of the Niles water
works system have been authorized by the
federal court at Grand Rapids to close out
the plant.
st. Joseph county has already become
famous for the culture of peppermint,
and now wormwood is to be added to the
list of her productions
Paper matches are to be manufactured
ut Grand Rapids, company having been
organized for that purpose.
In the trial of Jack Kehoe, the Manis-
tee man charged with numbering his
1856 talesmen were examin-
ID before jury was secured.
G. +. Cone raised tomato at Hudson
which weighed two pounds and ten
ounces. But for the August drouth 1t
might have reached three pounds, in
which event Cone would have won $l,-
BOO premium.
black Snanish radish two feet in rir-