Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-07-07
STATE NEWS.

George Warren, Of Fiat, is among
the my stsrI0usly missing.
The hotel TO &c erected at Saginaw .
TO cost lot less than So, 900.
Niles IS filed with beggars who have
been driven out OF Chicago.
Sheep killing dogs are proving . ter
ror 10 the farmers N the neg aoornood
or sodus.
small cyclone damaged fruit and
shade trees and gram ~ Three Rivers,
THURSDAY.
A. L. FaTnum, prominent man of
Hllisdsie, died suddenly sunday OF
heart disease.
Aazle Goodale, q 2-year old child OF
Chas. Goodale, fell into an open elstern
and was drowned.
John Williams, the inventor Of the
Williams fruit evaporation, died yesler-
day at South Haven.
The friends of Harcourt, the man
shot and killed by Dan Dunn, 81 seney,
threaten 10 DO reyenged.
Among the new industries added To
Benton Hsrbor will be . pump factory
which will employ 100 men.
The life partner of Josiah Aliens
wife," has just opened saloou At.
Nicksburg, Kalamazoo county.
The Southwestern Michigan Poultry
and Pet Stock Association Is preparing
fer an exhibition at Kalamazoo.
Arthur Powers, clerk In q real
estate Office in Bay City, has dIsap-
peared. His accounts are all right.
During June. Port Huron's city clerk
issued thirty building permits. The
buildings TO be erected will cost sec, 900.
Tie Niles Star man is willing to buy
q few pools that his town will gain
5000 population during the next two
years.
The residents of Muskegon Heights.
suburb of Muskegon. will ask the
authorities ut Washington for post
office.
No less than five of "the worlds
greatest" circuses are gathering in the
dollars of our State cousins just at
present.
Bay City people are of the opinion
that the Bay City & Port Huron rail-
road project is dead. 1t has died sew
eral tlmes.
Bishop Vertin was IN the copper
country last week. He confirmed about
seyenty-five children liz ST. Joseph's
Church. Hancock.
A company has been organized at
Kalamazoo with q capital OF $4,000 to
manufacture the Kalamazoo parcel
carrier for bicycles.
Louis Nix, q salt packer, fell off the
dock at Manlstee on the night of the
Fourth and was drowned. He leaves o
wife and two children.
A cottage to accommodate thirty-five
or forty students 10 wanted by the
Mount Holyoke Seminary at Kalama-
zoo. 1t will cost about $4,000.
On July 25 Houghton will be the town
of the Upper Peninsula. The Sons OF
st. George of Michigan will gather
there to hold their third annual grand
lodge.
James Massie, of Lakeview. sold .
load of wool to Walker, Walker & Co.,
at Inlay City Thursday, for which ne
received SS56.26. The load weighed
3,3lapounds.
! Tents of the X. o. T. NJ. have recent
| ly been organized at Goodland Abbotts
| Corners and Danvllle in Lapeer county.
/ That county is coming to the front "a q
| Maccabee county.
The prize list and program for the
| annual Chrysanthemum show to he
given in Bay City November to IL,
have been issued. The highest prize is
| 500 and the lowest 81.
The Flint Amateur Opera Company
gives such = fine presentation of "The
Pirates of Penzance" that other towns
| in the vicinity are extending invitations
for visit from the company.
At Eaton Rapids on July 4, Harry
Miller picked up a cannon fire cracker,
| supposing it had "gone off," but it
| hadn't. A portion, and probably all, of
his hand will have to be amputxted.
The Meccsta Sun came out for the
Fourth in red, white and blue stripes.
The Muskegon Chronicle also celebrat-
ed with stripes and spangles. The St.
doe County News had one red page and
one blue page. Hooray!
Fire in the Pontiac Knitting Works
caused loss of SIS, 900, on July 4.
The loss is so estimated by G. +. Wake
man, the proprietor, and is sad 70 be
| fully insured. The disaster will throw
no one out of employment.
The following newly elected officers
of Inlay Lodge, No. ll6. |. o. o. F.,
were installed Friday evening: y. G.,
! Chas. +. Gee; V. e., w. A. Quacken.
bush: sec retary, J. NJ. Sheppard; treas
urer, Frank Abeel; P.S.. M. J. Haskin;
trustee, j. NJ. Sheppard.
Tho following accidents happened nj
Saginaw on July 4: A lad named Me-
CoIlum was shot through the arm and
had one rib broken. Thomas Ryan
had his right arm mutllated by q
| rocket. Thomas Johnson WAS stabbed
in the arm in q quarrel. Martin II.
Secord was shot in the side of the head
accidentally.
Glen Lake. in Leelanaw county, 10 q
beautiful body of water, lying among
the bluffs bordering Lake Michigan.
into which it flows. At q certain season
of the year-''at its blossomiug season.
IA II il locally expressed-its waters be-
come poisonous. During this time no
one drinks swallow of the water. The
| people say 1t feels as II they were swal-
| loving needles, II gives such pricking
+, sensation, and anyone bathing in IL suf-
fers as if they had been stung wiz b
! bees.
The weekly bulletin of the Michigan
weather service, reported at Lansing,
gives the average temperature for the
past week at 90. The average total
/ rainfall has been 27-l0o inches, or 64-1O0
below the average. The amount OF
sunshine has been above the average
and favorable to wheat and hay. Hay
ing has progressed steadily; the crop
1 has been gathered in good condition.
but is light. The wheat harvest has
/ commenced in southern section, and