Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-08


course st tie same institution for sp-
proprlatsng . Hudson farmers BEST
nag.
John schmidt, . farmer, who lived
near Manchester, possessed OF numerous
children, debts and domestic woes,
hung himself with halter early Mon
day morning because his wife wanted
him 10 gstr up and help her with the
weekly washing.
Dead: John p. Bradley, Green
vile pioneer, aged 9s; William Perry,
an early settler OF oakheld, aged 10;
Lewis o. Medbury of Atlas township,
aged SIS. one of the wealthiest and best
known farmers in Genesee county.
Ben Peacock. son OF prominent
mill man al Reed CITY, jumped from
freight platform to escape the wrath
OF Arthur Rupert. telegraph operator
to whom he had applied high
sounding name, and broke his leg.
A Benton Harbor man who has q
weakness for the liquid amber went 20
. justice and asked u be ordained as a
special constable so that he could run
himself IN when ne Was too full TO go
home.
Jacob Kimble, farmer living near
Charlotte, took chloroform with the
intention of putting full stop TO his
existence, but q doctor pumped him
out and he'll be hoeing corn in few
days.
Adolph Bodo. brakeman on the D.,
S. S. 4 A. railroad, while coupling cars
at 500 Junction, was knocked down
and had his leg SO terribly mangled
that 1t was necessary to cut it OF.
The Hos. Arthur H. Crane, Of Pitts
ford. Hiiledale county, Is dead, aged
SO years. He had been prominent IN
Official life IN Hillsdsle and Lenawee
counties for the past nifty years.
The school election was lively at
Kalamazoo this year. The women all
voted, 1852 ballots being cast. Twelve
months ago only 100 votes found their
way to the box.
Henry Irving, from Calhoun county
and George Mitchell, from st. Joseph
have been transferred from Jackson
prison to the asylum for insane GRIM
inals al Iona.
In a runaway at Otsego, Mrs. A.
Knickerbocker had three ribs broken
! and was seriously injured about the
face. Her aged mother was also serl.
ously injured.
Congressman O'Donnell has pre-.
sented tho petition Of citizens of Hud'
son in favor of the law prohibiting the
! manufacture, sale and importation OF
| cigarettes.
William Benson, . practical crook
has been arrested at Lansing for rob-
har - I>r,d nd fo oh r
| at North Lansing.
Mrs. Betsey Gregory-two table
spoonfuls Of paris green-mustard and
warm water-slck woman, but alive
Grass Lake.
Earnest Whitney of Bentley had hi
| hand smashed between the draw heads
of two log cars. Blood poisoning Get In
and he died.
The Lake Superior Iron company hat
added forty acres to Ishpeming. The
land will be plated and sold only fol
residences.
There were several cases of nervous
prostration at Marquette last week.
Amateurs produced "Damian and
Pythias."
The saloonkeepers Lansing have
agreed to refrain from selling tremens-
producing mixtures on Sundays here
after.
Ohio capitalists are about to establish
| q suspender factory at Saginaw, which
will give employment to 80 girls.
The Rev. FIR. Becker has been trans
ferred to st. Augustine's church, Re-
| public, from Houghton.
The Calumet's owners will attempt tc
| operate the mine with the aid of armed
men.
| The union printing Offices of Jackson
| will hereafter use the /. T. u. label.
The Knights of the Grip will erect q
handsome club house at Jackson.
Six veterans of 1872 rest in the GENE
| terry at Marcellus.