The times., 1893-03-17
FULL OF INTEREST.
Paragraphs Bristiing with Information
from Many Localities.

from many Locahttes.
The severe winter has killed all the
quail in Oceana county.
An unknown man fatally stabbed
Frank Rosengard in a fight at Bay
City.
Owners of the Comet mine have re-
duced the time of their employees from
ten to eight hours day.
A falling tree crushed the skull of 13-
year-old John Larsen, at Thompson.
He died within an hour.
Charles r. Hawley, of Bay City, has
been elected colonel of the Third in
fantry, Michigan state troops.
The question of removing the county
seat of Montmorency county from
Hillman to Atlanta will be voted on
April 3.
While in Seattle, Wash, on busi-
ness, L. +. Langsdorf, of Bay City,
dropped dead. His remains were
shipped home.
1t is said that Mayor Pingree, Of De-
troit, would not decline TO be tie can
didate of the republicans for United
States senator.
At the age of 50 years Mrs. II. Nj.
Ellsworth, who had been resident of
Bay City for over thirty years, died
there on Monday
Selah Winfield, aged 101 years, a vet
eran of the war of 1912, is confined to
what will proba bly, prove his death bed,
at his home near Wayne.
Rumor says that new company,
| -. 80 ~,
control of and enlarge the Eureka iron
works at Wyandotte, turning them into
steel plant.
The vesselmen at st. Joseph expect
that navigation will open about April
on Lake Michigan, but the straits
will not be open till about April Is or
! 20, at the earliest.
The women of Detroit are taking an
active interest in the coming school
election, and an earnest effort Is being
made to induce all to register and to
60 to the polls and vote on election day.
Republicans elected their municipal
tickets in the villages of Decatur and
East Tawas on Tuesday Carl w. Will
son is the new president of the board
of the former village and William E.
Lacke of that of the latter.
A former resident of Grand Rapids,
y. s. Keyes, while in a drunken fit al
Chicago Sunday night shot his wife and
a neighbor lady, seriously injurinG both,
and then put bullet through enc OF
his lungs. He will die.
Warden Malmborg, of the branch
penitentiary at Marquette, refuses to
surrender his Office TO John K. Vane-
vera, the new appointee, on the ground
that the latter's commission is defec'
tive The board of commissioners is
in quandary.
Two years ago VIII Egan, of Grand
Rapids, murdered Patrick OCOnnor,
and was sentenced to q long term i'll
prison. Brooding over the disgrace
brought upon his family by his broth
er's crime has made Michael Egan in
sane, and he has been placed in tho
asylum at Kalamazoo.
After an illness of ten days at Grand
Rapids Hon. c. w. Leavitt, a member
of the legislature from Oceana county,
died Saturday night. lie was taken i'll
with progressive paralysis in Lansing
and started for home, but could get nc
farther than Grand Rapids.
Voters in Musllegon will be asked in
April to indorse the purchase by the
city of n. McGraft for 100000 of an
eighty-acre tract to be laid out rs Z
park Mr.. McGraft will place the mon
ey in the hands of a trustee, and use il
in inducing manufacturers to locate at
Muskegon.
The glee and banjo clubs Of the uni
versity of Michigan will start on a
2,5OO-rnile trip on the morning Of Apri
H. They will visit anl give concert:
in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Chicago
| Des Moines, Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas
City. st. Louis, Springfield, Toledo ant
Detroit, ending'the season with con
cert on reaching homo at, Ann Arbor