Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-24
General Ssate News.

and his market IS one pig short. tn
two daughters OF Hotelkeepsr Strant
entered stFoms' shop the other nigh
TO buy sone meat. While there the,
made some remarks laudat0ry OF Ia
pound hog. In response SiToms said
Chris, | viii give that pig 20 the on
that will carry 1t home. The girls wer'
not disposed 10 accept the challenge
but stfoms perslstently importunto
them TO do so, whereupon Belle
shonidered the pig and walk q hon'
With u. stroms wanted tie pig back
but Belle. backed by the boagders, hol,l,
nc Tort. ]. e., the pig.
The following are the commence
ment orators OF the Agricultural col
legc class OF '92, in order of rank: "
ID. GroyesbPek, Agricultural College
q. ". Peei, Chessnlng; L. W. Watkins.
Manchester; q. W. DAYS. Tekonsha
A. y. Baleman. Diamondale; g. A.
Hewley. Gsnges; G. X. Vinegar. Low
ell; A. IL. Gillette, Owosso. The ora
tors are the eight students of the cla'
with the highest class standing for th'
course, and who have completed all Of
their work up 10 the end OF the fall
term OF the senior year.
John Graham, an Ovid youth II
years old, went TO ST.. Johns, and after
painting the town took horse and
buggy from in front Of store and
drove home, being broke. Not want.
ing 10 board the horse until the owner
found It, he tied the poor beast 10 o
tree In the woods. where II stood FROM
Friday 10 Monday. being nearly dead
when found. Graham will face =
charge OF horse stealing.
DIR. Paul Paguin. director of the
Battle Greek laboratory OF hygiene
has been summoned by telegraph by
the governor of Montana TO investl
gate strange and fatal epidemic
which has recently broken ont among
domestic animals in That part OF the
state Human beings are also suffer.
ing somewhat from the malady.
Willie Childs of Moscow, while visit
ing his grandisxher, j. III. Todd, al
Rollin Monday, fell from straw stack
and struck on the top OF post, break
ing his Jaw on both sides. lie is IN ]
critical condition. His age 10 II year,.
Ed Morse, travelling man, repre-
| senting Budd & Company OF Cleveland
died very suddenly of heart failure a.
the Arlington hotel, Coldwater, Tues
day evening. HIS home is in Toledo.
The six sons of Mrs. Root, who died
at Benton Harbor of the grip and in
jurics sustained by falling off a street
car 1t Kalamazoo, ofticiated as pail
bearers at their mothers funeral
which was held at Bangor Monday.
One of tie coming freaks is little
| Frank Northrup of Manton. who
| though but SIX years old and without
knowledge of arithmetic, can perform
various problems in figures with the
/ swiftness OF thought.
/, Mrs. Ole Harris. a Swedish woman
who was married two years ago at Cal
umet, gave birth to two boys and tive
girls Monday night. All were fully de
veloped, bnt one Of the boys died &
few hours later.
Thirteen viclaters of the fish anc
| game laws were convicted at Saginaw
| Tuesday. They were fined SIS eacl
! and Sl4 costs. State Game Wardel
Hampton prosecuted the cases.
The Metropolitan Lumber compan,
| Is operating three saw mills III Dickin
son county. and with 10000. 600 feet o
! logs IN sight, Is cutting 220, 900 feet o
lumber every twenty-four hours.
| Tuesday night footpads attacked Z
Duff of Ada and felled him to tn
! ground, bu, being spry as cricket b.
jumped up and made ME escape, none,
snd all.
The common council has voted to re
| new its contract with the kalamazo
! Electric Light company for anoihr
4 tI al sc
per night.
A vicious cow punctured Mrs. y
| McDonal of Cooks one day last week
| One horn entered the lady's breast an,
the other gouged an eye nearly out.
DR.. II. Il. Osborne of Kalamazoo
dangerously i'll from blood poison con
traced through a hangnaIl while oper
atng for abcess OF the liver.
Fred Cross of Charlotte, plead
! guilty to the theft of large quantit
OF cIoverseed from his employer ex
Mavor Pocksrd.
A persistent female book agent fol
lowed Ishpeming miners down to tn
seventh level and secured thirty-sevel
subscriptions.
John Koch, brewer, died at hi
home in Manchester. Tuesday. He wa
cousin Of Ur. Koch of consumptiol
lymph fame.
For the fourth time George Kaucl
| OF Wyandotte has been tried and &C
| Quilted On charge OF threatening 3
| Sill his wife.
| Twenty-Five feet of water cover tn
bar ut the entrance TO Muskegon har
hor and there is nothing to imped
! navigation.
Evars people will vote on tho promo
/ sition 10 RAISE a bonus of $1,000 for
Touring mill. The mill. like Bsrkis, j
| wllin'."
George Sullivan. tramp, stole rid
| and fell between the care st Spur an,
lost leg At the hip. Tuesday. Tie ma.
| die.
Leopold Decompi, who fen dow,
tn. Mansfield shaft at CRYSTAL Falls las
Saturday, succumbed 70 his injuries.
Tn m Gocebic county they have
railroad that they cali the Dlatory
Short Stream and Antiqusted route.
sandbsggers knocked down and rob
red Bert Ssnithson. a frui, dealer, o
so Monday night, At Oscods.
The fret annual banquet Of tn
Hillsdsle Travelling Mems club ws
held Monday night.
| Mrs. Alphsus Pratt, An early settle
Of LenSvee county, died at her hon
n Hudson Tuesday.
| Bessemer Odd Fellows will have
| Jubilee April g. They expect to enter
tain 1000 guests.
| VEGETARIAN eranks viii establish
restaurant Of their Own particular KIN
AZ Jackson.
Fishermen a. Alp.ns are esstin
their nets bat the catch as yet . sinai
Iron Mouatsin Catholics will build
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