Telegram-herald., 1891-03-28
MATTERS IN MICHIGAN.

The sparta saw mil starts Up Mon
day.
Ann Arbor Is to have fine new
hotel.
Cedar Springs has an improvement
society.
Grays shiagle mill. Muskegon. starts
up Monday
There viii be a gold medal contest 81
Hastings April s.
A business men's ASSOCIATION is to DC
/ formed al Ithaca.
Pentwater prides itself on beng s.
reading community.
Carson City will bore for salt, OIL, gas
or anything mineral.
| Nayland Is a. tat.ng the matter OF
/ local canning factory.
! The roller skating craze has again
broken out At Grand Ledge.
Lake City wants a grist mill, and the
/ miller can not come too soon.
/ Dlphtheria is epidemic IN the Jetfer-
son aud Bagley schools at Detroit.
I The Northern Michigan Schoolmsst-
| er's Club meets al Cadillac March 30
and 81.
The bottom has been knocked CON-
pletely out Of Mancelona's water works
project.
Harry Raymond, q l3-year-old boy OF
Flint, stepped between the cars al Flint
and lost u leg.
Parties from Binghampton. n. Y,
are 70 build a sanltarlum al Baldwin
the coming season.
ID. X. Van Ness, an old settler of
Mendon. dropped dead while sitting at
the table Thursday.
There are now no houses of prostitu-
ton in Whitehall. the last one having
moved TO Muskegon March %.
Four suspicious looking men have
been arrested at Charlotte. They
carried double deckload of knives.
There has been more sickness in
Clarion during the winter than in any
previous year IN the history of the viii
lage.
Mrs. Sophronia Monroe, of Clarion,
died of heart disease the first of the
week. The remains We're taken TO
Delta, Eaton county, for burial.
Greepville Congregationalists gave a
nautical supper and entertainment
fashioned somewhat after the manner
OF Pinafore recently and Melted 5000
cash.
The Spencer & Barnes Furniture
Company, of Buchanan, employing
forty men, will remove to Benton
Harbor. A bonus of $4,000 was the
attraction.
Not long ago an electric car at Mus
kegon ran over Freddie Gage, taking
Oft the little fellows leg. The boys
father has begun SUIT against the COM
pany for $4,000.
A poet sent us contribution EMIT
led, "Why do Liver" We answered,
because you sent your contribution
by mail instead of bringing it."-Ne-
waygo Democrat.
The steamer Mark p. Covell has been
purchased and will be put on the line
between Manistee and Milwaukee. The
first trip will be made April 5 with tri-
weekly trips hereafter.
Mary Douchen, respectable domes-
tic, was insulted and Knocked down by
stranger Thursday evening at Kala-
mazoo while on her way to prayer
meeting. The wretch escaped.
Minnie Snyder, the heartless girl who
| deserted her infant on a CT. Il. & l.
train at Big Rapids, laughs at the re-
| port that she has gone insane over the
| trouble. She treats the charge very
lightly and says she will come out all
| right.
Mrs. Benjamin Vickerman, Of Wheat
| field township, near WILLIAMSON, COM
mitted suicide Thursday by setting fire
| to her clothing. Death resulted from
the burns. She was mildly CD insane
and had been an inmate OF the Kalama-
zoo asylum.
Miss Myrtle Coats, a pretty 17-year-
old girl OF North Lansing, committed
suicide by taking poison Thursday
night. She was to have been married
| to young man named Conklln next
! Wednesday. She left long letter for
her parents, which they refuse to ex-
| hlbit.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barton, of Springport,
! II years of age, recently pleced and
quilted two quilts and made up a bolt
of cotton cloth into sheets IN two weeks,
the work being done entirely 10y han l..
Mrs. Barton has her second sight and
uses no glasses either TO sew with or
read. Her sewing IS OF the tine st.
Jackson Patriot.
Rev. W. S. Sey who has been pastor
of the Franklln-Strect Presbyterian
Church of Lansing for the past two
years will sever his connection with
| that church on Easter Sunday, HIS
time will he hereafter devoted TO the
Rocky Beach Benevolent ASSOCIATION
that Is about t. establish an orphan 5
home near Petoskey.
IL now appears that the man who
personated himself to the Detroit
| authorities as Craven, the father of
| Mrs Harry Gaa, and the child who was
with hIm as his murdered daughter s
! child, WAS an imposter. At least II
would seem so for rs Jessie Gaa. the
little girl il and has been for some time
| the adopted daughter of Scott Woodland
of the Leelanau Republican, who is
amply able TO care for her. The man
Craven hled the Detroit officials for
I quite a neat sum.
Michigan pensions; Original-Reu-
| ben y. Ormsby, Warren Loughton,
| Charles Miller, Delos NJ. Hanna, John
| Mango. Arthur L. Randall, Daniel w.
! Turner. Cornelius Masterbrook, War
rem Johnson, Isaac Sigler. Allen ODell.
/ Hermann Schmithgal, Frederick w.
/ Latham, John Stebler, Joseph Rankin.