Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-09-24
A Fifty Year-old Maiden Sues
For Breach Of Promise.
MAS II her VERY FIRST PROPOSAL?
a 6swdy and Dsspicahls Siiiiaa Ar
rested ~ ovid For Ineest--saaary ia-
eiasnts and Happenings Through.
cut Ny Glorious Michigan.


what indefinite one but she was coufi-
dent he understood that they were to
be married. Nichols denies that he
was at all serious with her and that
when be squeezed her half q century
hand and kissed her faded brow he did
so purely out of brotherly feeling, re-
garding her merely as sister.
Durand will have new bank with
capital stock OF $4,000.
Northport is going to have long felt
want--a newspaper.
A $4,000 electric light plant is now
Illuminating Hastings.
Mt. Pleasant i'll going to spend $1,000
in street improvements.
The State Y. NJ. Z. A. meeting will be
held in 0wosso, October s TO IL.
Col. A. I. Bliss will build q street
railway from Saginaw to Carroltown.
The Michigan brewers and masters
are holding their annual meeting IN
Bay City.
1t is feared that the schools IN
Owosso will have TO be closed on ac-
| count of the fair.
The Flint w. c. T. U. IS quarreling.
Two sets of officers elected for one
| union is the cause Of the trouble.
Fred Williams, q young peanut mer-
chant of Howell, was seriously If not
fatally burned while playing with gaso-
line.
William Grunjean, farmer living in
Blumfield, twelve miles from Saginaw.
has struck rich vein OF coal on his
| farm.
The villages of CASTOR, Harrietta and
Sprlngdale are rejoicing over the report
that the q. X. & /. Railroad will extend
its lines to those places.
Rev. w. S. Taylor, of Monroe, died at
the age of "a years. He had been active
in the Presbyterian ministry III this
State for forty-tive years.
| st. Joseph citizens are badly fright
ened over the discovery Of one case of
smallpox. Every precaution will be
taken TO prevent q spread OF the dis
ease.
Oscar, the Agar old son of Robert
Zahn, of Saginaw, was accidently shot
by another boy who Was trying to hit
target. the wound is considered dan
gerous.
Chief of Police Cobb of Kalamazoo
had the entire police force on the car
pet Monday evening and raked the
members over the Goals for derellction
of duty.
Four tramps who have been robbing
houses and insulting ladies at ST. Joseph
have been arrested. One offered re-
sistance and had his head laid open
with a billy.
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Newton Rodgers, living near Eaton
! Rapids, was kicked into an insensibie
condition by colt Tuesday evening,
and 1t will be some time before he will
be out again.
Avery Chapman, who is in jail at
Gaylord for felonious assault upon his
daughter, made his escape Tuesday by
! cutting his way through board parti-
ton with a razor.
Rev. G. Mott Williams, formerly of
Detroit, has secured call to st. Paurs
| Church, Marquette. 1t is said this
means his promotion to the arch dea-
conate IN the spring.
Walter Wemple, a baggageman at the
| Grand Trunk station at Lansing, had
his foot SO badly crushed while attempt
ing to mount the pilot of moving
train, that amputation will be neces-
sary.
Jack Butler and Loe Kopf, of Ann
Arbor, became involved in {. quarrel
while intoxicated on Tuesday. The
latter stabbed his companion and it is
feared he will bleed to death. Butler
was arrested.
While playing near his home in
Saginaw Monday afternoon. Oscar
Zahn, four years of age, was shot in
the side by another lad who was prac-
ticing with rifle in an adjoining yard.
He was quite badly wounded but will
recover.
Frank Throop, of Paw Paw, was SEN
fenced yesterday by Judge Buck to pay
a tine of $50 or spend sixty days in jail
for violating the local option law. APP
pearances would indicate that at last
the whisky interest III that county IL
becoming somewhat unsettled.
John II. Bailey is q most despicable
brute if the accusations against him are
true. He was arrested at Ovid charged
with incest preferred by his daughter
aged Is years She charges that he has
been intimate with her from time to
time since she was 10 years of age.
Governor winans has appointed
Joseph Patterson of Grayhng prose.
cutting attorney of Crawford county, to
succeed o. J. Bell, resigned. He has
also appointed Willis Baldwin of Mon.
roe circuit court commissioner for
Monroe, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation OF j. $. Lamson.
Contracts were awarded by the Sagi-
nav improvement Company yesterday
for the erection of works TO be occu-
pied by the Lufkin Rule Company, OF
Cleveland, one of the new enterprises
secured for that city. The main build
ing will be los feet in length, Al IN
width with On l. 30x50 feet. The build
ings will embrace 10000 square feet oil
floor space.
Sanford Keller, ex-suoerintendent Of
the Flint Il Pere Marquette Road, let
Saginaw yesterday for Huron Bay II
! the Upper Peninsula TO assume charg'
of the Huron Bay & Iron Range Rail
road, winch will have its terminus a.
Huron Bay, and extend ia southeast
esiy direction through Barsgs and Mar
| Quote counties seventy miles, and
cross the Duluth, South shore n Attain
!. TIC Road at Champion. ore ana tim
| Der will be brought out by the nev
: road, at the back of which are Michigan
| capltaiists-