Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-18
CLARION TOOK Him GER
Jack Rogers Bushes Headlong into
Portage Lake.
ALL FOR LOVE OF MINNIE HARRIS
she CsaId Not RsslprseAts Ms Love aud
as " Zoe Poor . MsrssaAa 90 HIT
Her win . Bsflst-A q ale OF
The Upper Peninsula.
He was dwarfed in BODY but his soul

tie Was dsarfed in body but his soul
a. manifested by the affections, grew
20 a prod gious SIZE his name Is or
was Jack Rogers and MS occupation
was that of coaehman for Z. A. stringeT,
of Marquette. tie fell in love with
Mas Minnie Harris. daughter OF Capt.
Nicholas Harris. vi the PeSabic mine,
bur that young lady not having had
the advantages of boarding school
education failed 10 reclDrocate. In an
hour OF despair be caused her 20 be IN
yelgled into hls stables where he fired
three shots At her. being himself safely
screened in the stalls. Beng . poor
msrksman the young lady escaped
with a severe fright aud three holes IN
her gown. Desperate ~ bis failure.
poor Jack Rogers rushed 10 the steam
boat landing and plunged into the
muddy depths OF Portage Lake, where
gharOu found him and courteously
IOwed him across. The funeral WAS
held from the undertaker's establish
ment-
The berry crate industry IS thriving.
Judge Arnold, of Allegan, is Ill from
over work.
Christ church. Kalkaska. will have a
new edlfice.
No tidings as yet from the lost vessel
Thos. Hume.
Isabella county crops are sadly in
need of rain.
Tier City is putting in . new water
works system.
Manistee ladies will form . class IN
China decoration.
Mason has decided by special election
10 bond the city for water works.
The Stanwood band will play at Big
Rapids during the races, which pre-
cede and usher IN the Fourth.
The mercury surprised the early crop
of resorters by marking 81 degrees IN
the shade at Harbor Springs the other
day.
Airs. Diantha Jones, aged 90 years,
died at her home in Coldwater Mon
day, where she had lived for % years.
She retained her faculties to the last.
The body of Claud Kirby, drowned
out of bum boat At Marine City, May
IA, was found Monday afternoon at 4
O'Clock floating two miles below that
place.
Two boys, Charlie Greenlow and Free
Gently, each about Q years old, were
drowned while bathing in Rogue river
near Plymouth, Monday. Neither lad
could swim.
Judge G.. Genung, of Decatur, has
just paid $50 and costs for running a
ssloon contrary to the provisions of the
local option act. This is the first con-
viction out OF twenty arrests.
Dolly Newman, an ex-dining room
girl of the hotel Dexter, Ionla. at
tempted suicide by taking laudenum
Sunday. The doctor frustrated her
efforts. Shewas despondant.
In some parts of Wayland township,
Allegan county, worms are producing
great havoc in cornfields. Some farm
ers have planted for the third time and
yet stand" OF corn IS no certainty.
Burglars entered A. q. Berney'eresi-
dence at Cass City Saturday or Sunday
night and secured 1928 cash and q gold
watch and chain. DR.. Deming's house
was also entered and valuable time
piece taken.
Mira. b. Howe. Of Waterloo, found a
nest of eggs the other day and was
about 10 appropriate them when big
Iattlesnake appeared and contested
ownership. Her son killed the reptile,
which was full grown specimen.
Last Wednesday the body of quad
room male babe was found IN barrel
of garbage at Detroit. Monday the
police found the mother IN the person
of Mrs. Bertha Cramp. an unprepos-
sessing young woman . years old. She
Is under arrest.