The times., 1892-04-01
AFFAIRS OF THE STATE.


he'd been supplied by 'em with copicus
draughts Of thirst extinguisher. Now the
chap is in the tolls on a charge Of peri
ury.
Sam Griffin, the Otisville chap who was
stabbed with hat pin by the woman he
attempted to assault last summer, is said
to be dying from the effects Of the wound.
Many of the striking employees of the
Wheeler shipyards at West Bay City have
found employment at the Wyandotts
yards.
L NJ Teal, Jackson gentleman, was
hurt at Woodville nearly two years ago
and sues the Michigan Central Railway
company for $15,O 900 worth Of damages.
Cadillac has 5-year-old prodigy who
sermon he has heard without skipping .
word. He may be justly termed q human
phonograph.
G. ID. Brown, Lansing stair builder,
had his left eye cut sQuarely in two by .
piece Of flying steel.
The baking record of South Weston
woman included 379 pies In six months,
and other things to match. Stranger than
fiction 1t may seem, but not member
Of the family II acquainted with dyspep-
ria.
The explosion of q sawmill boiler at
East Jordan destroyed a $4,000 plant,
killed six people and fatally injured sew
sral others.
Saginaw IL the home Of q lad Of II who
| gets q, 700 pension money with monthly
allowance Of 81 He wasn't In the war,
but his father waS
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| An Otsego baby which weighed two
| pounds at birth died 1t the age Of
months, its weight having increased but
q few ounces during its sojourn on the
earth.
"Cash profits Of godliness" was the Sum
day theme of . Glare parson, which bore
immediate fruit, the collection ut the
service amounting to Slb0.64
Isaac Martindale, q Huron county citi-
zen of wealth and o5 summers, recently
married girl of sweet 49,
Cal Stafford, Montrose man, is mourn
ing the loss of several head of cattle which
some unprincipled party dosed with paris
green.
Twas but few years ago that T. e.
Ranney of Belding was q horse car driver.
Now he is at the head of the larges. re-
| frigerator works on earth which shipped
1900 Of the pressrvers in single day re-
Gently. There's always room at the top
for a hustler.
The counterfeiting of 81 bills is laid at
the door Of Hubbardston youth. Who
ever did the work is an artist.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever have closed
the schools at Dearborn.
Carse Clark, a Leslie genius, has de-
vised a machine which gathers stone from
the surface of the soil and deposits them
on a wagon.
The Delhi individual who allowed a
horse to die by starvation has been locked
up in the bastile
Only once in eighteen years has Harlow
Gilbert a Dimondale man of IS missed
earring the mail from the depot to the
postoffice and back daily.
Operating gaming room is the charge
which caused the arrest of q Nashville
woman.
The Flint and Pere Marquette railway
has made daily record of NOR than 1000
freight cars handled for the past two
months.
Henry Labbitt, agent of the American
Express company at Galesburg the past
twenty-six years is dead.
The Muskegon harbor can float the
heaviest lake craft, having twenty-five
feet Of water at the shallowest point.
For the fourth time has Wyandotte
benedict been arrested for threatening to
kill his wife, and for the fourth time has
he been liberated. The wife still lives
also.
e. j. Kirby, the Marshall bank forger
and embezzler to the tune of $4,000, goes
into exile at jackson prison for term of
ten years.
John H. Newcomb, who built the first
dwelling and sawmill at Spring Lake
more than half century ago, is dead at
the age of 81 years.
The state authorities are taking the nec-
essary steps to bring suit against Bay
county for $l15,0O0 worth of delinquent
taxes.
Farmers interested in the raising of SUI
gar beets can obtain valuable informa-
tion regarding their culture by addressing
the secretary of the state of agriculture,
Agricultural college, Mich.
The State Medical society holds its an
nual meeting at Flint, May s and 6.
Some Grand Haven hoodlum amused
himself by firing ancient eggs at church
door of the town. Some peoples sense
of propriety is about the size of a mustard
seed.
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State documents weighing 800 pounds
were taken from Lansing to Grand Rapids |
to attend an important lawsuit.
Joseph Galloway lost his Adrian home |
oy fire together with $40, 900 life insurance |
policy, two sets of false teeth, and other |
valuables.
Mrs. Henry Lards of Adrian, used gaso-
line for cleaning a carpet when the stuff |
took fire, fatally burning herself and |
one of her children. Another child Will |
also die.
A literary club with debating attach
ment IL about to go into commission at |
Negaunee.
Big Rapids people are making collec- |
tion of eatables to send to the destitute |
Russians.
Marx Bros. will build a 10000 addition |
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