Telegram-herald., 1891-09-10
DID SHI MEAN POISON I
strychnins Sought For Ducks In
tended FOR 3 Psramour.
4 sIeRY WHICH AROusEs HOLLI
Other JessssGs 81 Interests Ahsstthe Tee
Great fsstasaias - Asotasstss Ais
haps Ass hest 80 All Coed Ne.
pesss Hsom Farm ptssrtcts.

What promises to be very ssnsation-
al case h. bsen developing in Holly
for the past two weeks and has re-
celved an impetus through tho i'm
prlsonment Of two women in the county
jail.
Sally Covert . widow aged about 90
years. kept honse for Daniel Wade. .
widower. for about . year. and until
trouble and Mrs. Covert was turned
out. Since that time there has been
trouble Wade 10 . popcorn vender.
and when he came home late Saturday
evening, August 80, he went to his we'll
for = pail of water. lie pumped up
bottle of white substance, which had
been dropped into the pump, which
proved to be strychnine. He was IN
formed by Dunlap n Hovey. the drug
gists At Fenton, that woman had pur-
chased it, saying that she wanted il to
use in stutfing . duck, aud that they
informed her that il was arsenic that
she wanted, but she insisted on getting
strychnlne, and they sold her twenty
tive cents worth. She wae seen In COM
pany with Ella Armstrong, alias Wilson
alias Coon, going IN the direction OF
the house in question that Saturday
evening. Warrants were issued for
the two, and when Deputy Sheriff Jos-
lin undertook to take the parties, the
Armstrong woman, who IS only %
years old, skipped out the back door
and fed. She was arrested at the
Pacific Hotel, Detroit, yesterday, and
both parties are now in Pontiac Jail
awaiting examination. The prosecution
claim to have q very complete chain
of evidence.
Ishpeming will h ave mail carrier
after October /.
An abundant potato crop 10 reported
from Eaton county.
South Haven's.burned district is fast
being covered With substantial brick
blocks
Morrell & Crawford, grocers of Kali
kaska, have failed with liabilities $500;
assets $1,000.
A notorious crook named Tom Casey
has been captured and jailed IN CAL
houn county.
1t is said that st. Clair fats fairly
SW6Iulo Win UuCkb 8uU bu8S buO1O o40
two hunters for every duck.
The Marine Bank, OF Marine City.
has been reorganized, and will here
| after be known - the Marine Savings
Bank.
John Keebough was so severely
crushed in . jam of logs in the river 1t
Thompsonville that his recovery is
doubtful.
Railroad detectives report that At
| tempts to wreck trains are more fire.
quent in Michigan than the general
public are aware Of.
Richard White, aged IA years, was
drawn into q belt in Wards saw mill ut
Ludington, and 20 badly crushed that
he expired in twenty minutes.
P. N. Lamoreaux. editor of the
Ingham county Republican at Leslie
and Miss Clara B. Wickham of Battle
Creek were married Tuesday.
The North Wesleyan Conference in
session at Blanchard, want the general
conference to make the use of tobacco
test question for membership.
Drunken toughs ran down and abused
Mrs. Martha Johnson, aged u years, at
Marquette, Tuesday, infiictlng injuries
from which she cannot recover.
The dry goods firm of Spring, Hodge.
man & Company, at Kalkaska, has
been dissolved, Mr.. Spring retiring and
B. w. Hodgeman & Company contin-
uing the business.
Sid Clark, of Shepherd, claims to
have seen q sea serpent while fishing in
Lake La Strange, 3 few days ago. No
mention Was made of the brand of bait
which Clark used.
Half the voters in the recent school
election at Eaton Rapids we're women
and the election was hot one. +. r.
Lafever and G. l.. Fairfield were the
successful candidates.
Francis Gould, the York Township
farmer, who was arrested for rape on
his own daughter some time ago hat
been held for trial at the next term ol
circuit court at Ann Arbor. Bail wa!
fixed 1T $500.
A brute named Jonn Jones was con
yicted of criminal assault upon the 20
months-old child IN the Ludlngton Cir
cult court and sentenced to five years
IN the Jackson PRISON. Pity they could
not hang him.
Professor A. F. Lange, Of the Uni
versity Of California and Miss Carrie
| Penny, of Ann Arbor, we're married
Tuesday at tie residence of the bride'l
parents. They Immediately took the
train for the West.
A report was sent out from Cheney
gan that Capt. Webb, of the barge Gaff
had disappeared. Capt. Fish, o.
Port Huron, VINO owned the vessel, say
that Webp has fed TO the South will
$500 freight money.
Mrs. Mary Burgess, of Port Huron
has gone insane through the morphin'
habit, and will be sent 70 the asylum
One of her peculiar freaks was to ut
tend the Methodist Church and make
faces at the minister.
Hon. Peter White, Of Marc uette, ha
resigned his posstion ~ = member O
the Board Of Control Of the Michigan
Mining School, At Houghton, III orde
that the board may have three Of IT
members in the copper country.
B. Jones Petoskey, . relative Of Oh,
famous old Chief Petoskey, and VII,
recently received $500 from the estat.
of the old chief, Was arrested at kaia
nsszoo for numerous email forgerics il
Marshall. Allegan and other neighbor
ing places.
Neilora, daughter of DIR. and Mrs
J. L.. Clough, of Kalamazoo, Was mar
RED Tuesday 20 Professor Lewis Edwin
Martin, of Ongola College, Ind "a
Guests were present from Chicago anS
many cites in Michigan, the wsddlnI
being \ brilliant affair.