Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-07-04
A AURDEROUS CONVICT
some Of the Little Amenities OF
Prison Life.
BEDsTElD LEGS AND BROKEN HEADS
One Csasiet Aims.t Killed and the Other
Held 10 Aasw or tor Marderoas As
s~ait-Naay Hsps and Mis-
hap. m Michigan

Frank Fuller, of the Iona House Of
Correction has Just had such an expert
ence. lie asked Alfred Jackson, =
convicted burglar, TO help in moving
some bedstead pieces. jackson re-
fused, and Fuller said that If be per-
sisted he would be Obliged to report
him to the keeper. Tnis apparently
angered jackson. who picked up bed
stead leg and threw il at Fuller, strlk-
ing him in the face, cutting cash over
the eve, down across the nose, and en-
tirely through both lips. Jackson then
leaped toward Fuller and knocked him
down with his fist; then seized another
table leg, and would doubtless have
killed him had il not been Tor the inter
ference of another inmate. Mr.. tuii-
ers wounds were dressed BY the prison
physician. and the patient IS dong
nicely. Unless Inflammation sets IN he
will recover rapidly, hut not IN time to
cut a pretty figure July 4. The prs
oner IS IN the solitary, where he Is
likely 10 remain until he il brought
before the court on the charge OF as
sauit with intent TO kill.
Charlotte will celebrate today at Ea-
ton Rapids
The Greenvllle opera house is being
painted red.
A Whitehall lady has gwen birth to
triplets-three boy babies.
Mlchigsn's fruit crop this year will
be the largest ever known.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Chick OF White
hall have been stricken with paralysis.
White Clouds new Touring mill is
completed and is doing u fair business.
A Shelby woman picked eighteen
strawberries from single stem Thurs
day.
station will be built at ST. Joseph this
fall.
Gypsies are encsmped near ST. Louis
and are making fortunes telling for
tunes.
The first election of officers for the
new city of Benton Harbor will be held
July 20.
The Eaton Rapids Herald's corre-
spondents will have picnic Saturday,
August 10.
Seven new priests were ordained at
st. Peters Cathedral, Marquette,
Thursday.
The State Teachers Institute for
Montcalm county will be held ut STAN
ton. August "A.
The body of Frank Terrio, who was
drowned in Saginaw Bay some time ago,
has been recovered.
La Grand L. Slussar has been APP
pointed postmaster at Mancelona, vice
Z. K. Savage, removed.
Two prisoners escaped from the Man.
istee Jail at the dinner hour Thursday.
They were captured few hours later.
William Cavanaugh, the villain who
deserted his young wife and Child at
Lansing several months ago, has been
seen at Oshkosh, Wis
Geno Tanaka, q Japanese student at
the University. owes his landlady for
rent and borrowed money. She has
attached all his goods.
Cass Whitehead was killed ut Alpena,
Wednesday, by the breaking of q guy
rope. He leaves q widow and large
family IN destitute circumstances.
Cadillac has q winter sp. m. and a
summer 9 p. IN. ordinance, requiring
kids under Is years old TO be home after
that time, and the marshal is enforcing
the law.
A Battle Greek clergyman was called
out of his bed at dead of night to per-
form a marriage ceremony Wednesday.
Who the interested parties were the
minister declines to state.
All soldiers who enlisted in Michigan
under the call of February /, 1861, un-
less drafted or credited TO any other
township than that in which they re-
sided at date of enlistment, are en-
titled To a bounty of 300.
VIII Lynch, of Milford, is supposed
20 have been drowned in Commerce
lake while bathing, Thursday. His
clothes were found in a boat. He had
inst returned from the Ypsllanti Nor
NAL school. where he was student.
About two weeks ago a daughter Of
F. Delano, of Green township, near
Cadillac, had quarrel with . COM
panion and was struck on the head
with dinner pail. Though the wound
was slight eryspeias set in and the girl
died.
Frank Suppuf, of Detroit. tried TO
drive under low roof between st.
Aubiu-ave. and the railway tracks,
Thursday night. He was caught by the
rafters and bent double, his spine being
dlslocsted and several ribs broken. He
nav recover.
The Fourth of July celebration at
the prison this year will be OF some
what mild nature. There Will be no
brilliant speeches for two reasons, viz:
Tom Navin has been pardoned, and
Warden Davis doesn't believe in It..
The conyicts, however. will De allowed
20 know that it II holiday. and will
be allowed the freedom Of the yard
during the forenoon. The dinner will
tend somewhat toward the luxurious,
but not as much a. has been the custom
for several years on such occasions.
After dinner they will be marched to
their cells ana locked no for the re-
nssinder of the day. as the warden
wishes % give the Keepers and guards a
chance TO have a slight rest.--Jackson
Courier.
In testimony of the fact that Nichi-
gan farmers stuff their wool with a
generous hand a Republican represent
ssive this morning was called 20 wit
ness The opening OF eghty-nine heeces
OF delsine wool. purchased By A. H..
whltehesd yesterday. The wool wac
stored at The Lake shore freight depot
and had cost Mr.. Whitehead 2t4 cents =
pound. Fleece after fleece vas opened
and every one Of them contained from
enc 10 three pounds OF dead wool or
tags, which should have made q diff
ference OF at least t35 IN the purchase
rrlce. Not enc fleece vas exempt from
the stuffing Tbs q only one OF the
numerous instances met with by Mr..
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