Telegram-herald., 1891-02-21
MATTERS IN MICHIGAN.

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a Ksbeees Lsage las been organised
la kFesport.
Kayai oaS nsnss al eleetrse railway
tr0m lle!roll.
bsla'ag : 70 have a 9.s tAres-ssoss
F ozskel factory.
4 nae nes church has been cem-
pie.sa st fruitpors.
Ailegau county streams are 70 be
( stocked VITA trout fTy.
Nj. Waiter, OF Joliet. VII start a
VigsT factory at Al.egaa.
CiOthes-iine shelves are Worrying
housekeepeFs al Kalamazoo.
Chefrg trees we're IN blossom in Cal
honn eoanty early Ia the week
Pansies were picked IN an outdoor
garden at Traverse City, February IS.
owosso viii have new furniture fac
tory Zooxsp Ieet, and three stores nigh
All the streams IA the vicinity Of
Howard City are being stocked with
bTOok trout.
Grand Haven, Spring Lake and Fruit
port expect boOms with the opening oi
The spring season.
A Baptist State sunday y-sehool con.
Vention Viii be held at GreenYllle
thursday and Friday, March . aud e.
Many acres OF new fruit trees have
been set N the NclBlty OF Moniague.
Ihe young trees are IN tine condition.
The Eaton County Agricultural So
ciety las paid mortgage OF twenty
years standng, and is now ont OF deit.
Mrs. c. IL. Ilackley, OF Muskegon,
has been called TO Mecosts by the III.
ness OF her mother, who is sad 10 be
dying.
+. +. Chase, who has run bakery at
Lowell for a number of years, has sold
his business 10 Chas. .. Lawrence, of
Canada.
A turkey snatcher left his watch un-
der turkeyEoost at FAIR Plain the
other night. He is wanted 10 prove
property.
Sinclair & Outerson, of Marquette,
have secured the contract and will
build Ishpeming's city hall. Their bid
is $751;
Mrs. AImira +. Face, of Ionia. has
brought suit against the city IN the
sum OF $1,000 tor damages alleged 10
have been received from falling down
an alley stairway.
John Monks, employed in a Belle
vile saw mill, was taking slab away
from the saw, when, in some manner
his arm WAS drawn down upon the
teeth and served from his body.
The Thomson-Houston Electric Com
pany has secured the contract for plant
and equipment for the new Marquette
and Presque Isle street railway. The
line is 10 be completed by May /.
Ten carloads OF iron dropped into
shaft No. D, at the Aurora NINE Thurs
day morning, without warning. Joseph
Bercance was killed and John Johnson
and Jerry O'Donnell, seriously injured.
Smith Cooklngham, of Howard City,
has been making love to Mrs. George
Unger with common success. Affairs
soon reached state which excited
Unger's anger, and he is now hunting
for his rival with gun.
Every man, woman and child in
Baldwin Is IN fayor OF capital punish
ment, and the Legislature will receive
of the woods. The people up there are
bA''tAH'S Va ptl.
Patrick Mcdonnell, whose legs were
frighttully mangled by a train, at Ups
liant, Wednesday night, died at
Detroit hospital, Thursday. A jury
will determine the extent Of the alleged
neglect of medical attendance at Ups
iiantI.
The county superintendent Of the
poor adopted resolutions Thursday, in
dorsing the idea advanced by DR.. III. c.
Wyman, of Detroit, who, in his paper
ON insane asylums, favored the county
system of caring for chronic insane
under rigid State inspection, and pro-
tested against the abolition of the State
Board of Corrections aud Charities.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President. Alex
ander Mcmillan, Of Ingham; Vice.
President, A. G. Dutton, of Eaton;
Treasurer, superintendent Trim, OF
Montcalm.
"Old Spot" the celebrated old war
house owned by Capt. T. V. Quacken-
bush. OF Portland, captain OF Company
q, Third Michigan Cavalry, died
Wednesday, aged 80 years. He was
captured from a confederate soldier
near Oxford, Miss, December 8. 1862,
and was ridden 10y Capt. Quackinbush
all through the remainder of the war,
and brought home and used upon hls
farm until the past two years, when old
age secured him n discharge from
further service. lie passed through the
war uninJured. lie has participated
in all the Decoration Day exercises held
in Portland since their Inauguration 10y
the old soldiers, marching in the pro-
cesslon with great dignity, and, always
gsrlanded with flowers. lie was fine
bred animal. was buried with military
hoDors Wednesday afternoon at sun
down, his funeral being largely at
tended. The stars and stripes will
float over his grave every pleasant day.
Michigan pensions: onginsI--John
Pagan, Anderson Wude, John y. Stew
art, Charles VI. Tuttle, Erastus X Ste
pbens, Myron G. Tee, Peter VIII. VIII
liam Rittenburg, Henry shoen, William
Segar, Alex Roach. Washington J Bull
son, William n. Mckay, Hiram Searlcs.
stephen Winterbalter, Edgar Sdsttock,
Edgar A. Thompson, Frederick Lantz,
Robert McCielland, Frederick r. VIII
llams. John Daily. James y. B.sckDer.
Isaac Welliver. Benjamin P,atts. Ad.
dltioDal-Charies 4. Foote, wilber r.
Dickerson, George kopp. seth Bolles,
John X. DuesleT, John j. Bloom. In
crease--Jacob l.. Ring, William !.
Barker, George W. Hufd. Frederick J.
Buck. Adam Dehsven, James Phillips.
samuel J. Robinson, Peter Fisher. Re-
lssue-Isaac c. stanton. Lew Cossel-
man, William III. Simpson, Daniel h.
Kent. OfiCi0al-Ruth A.. widow of
john j.. Pattie. Harriet L.. widow Of