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The State At Large

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Day
14
Month
April
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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IVavigation has opened at Ludíngton and East Tawas. The strike of Grand Rapids brickmasons is still on. Big Rapids' $20,000 industrial :■ ] is to be built at once. Mrs. Beal, ag-ed 70, dropped dead ir ,ni heart disease at Adrián. The state firemen's convention vlil be held at Grand Haven in May. St. Louis has just jcompleted its new high school buildingVt a costöf 12.009. The chair privilege at the world'-a fair has been secured by a Qrañd Rapids man. Ileart disease was the cause of John Patterson dropping dead ncav Hastings recently. The grand eouncil of' Michigan líoval Arcanum will be held at iluskegon April 18 and 10. ' James Brownell, of St. Charles, was accidentally shot and killed while duckhunting recently. Congressman Burïows 'viU examine candidates for the naval cadetehip at Battle Creek, May B. Mason county's new courthouse, iqr the erection of which contracts ave oeen let, will cost 838,275. A painter named ThomasoJIacbeth, a resident of Detroit, droppod dead froja heart disease on Thursday. English sparrows are injufing the prospects of the pear erop in Berrien county by eating the buds. It is said that Dr. W. II. Miller will be deputy collector of tlie port oí Mnskegon under D. O. Watsori. In a runaway at Mt. Cleiaens Postmaster Jenney was sériöusly injured by being thrown from his buggy. Rev. Dr. Chapman. the evangelist, has been holding a series of very süccessful revival meeting-s ;it Haginavv. Farmers in Branch eOunty aré greaily' in neeü oí help for the seasün. The sup ply of farm hands has already "iver out. struck the residence of F. Walters, near Leesburg-. Mrs. Waltere had her foot split open by the electrk flnid. William Reece, wlio died in Muskegon, recently, was bnried in a eoffin made oi special design under his o wn supervisión orer a year ago. On Priday, April 31, the examination for candidates at his disposal for the West Point cadetship is aimounced by Congressmau Liatón, of Saginaw. Diseouraged by continued ill-heaith, S. Ii. Granger, a prominent resident of Grand Ledge, committed suicide by himself through the head. Charles Jlunn, of Detroit, jnmped out of the second-story window of his residence while crazed through religious exeitoment. He was not badly hurt. Daniel Kllick, a Grand Rapids somnambulist, walked out of the second story of a barn while asleep the other nig-ht. It is believed his injuries will prove fatal. At the world's congress of stenog-graphers, tó be held in Chicago in July, Charles H. MéGurriñ, of Kalamazoo, will read a paper on the general use of typewriting for all purposes. Anna Mero was shot and badly wounded at Big Rapids by jjer lover, George Jasrcrer, whom she refusefl t.o marry. George then shot himself. Ile will die, but Anna will recover. Fred Lindblom, reeently elected city clerk of Muskegon, cannot qualify bccause it lias been discovered that his father, a na ti ve of Sweden, had never received his final citizenship papers. Michigan farmers are expecting that a big increase in the price of poultry and eggs will follow the opening of the world's fair, which will créate an normous demand for these commodities. William Watson, an old resident of Tekonsha and a pioneer of Michigan, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was S'2 years of age, and was subject to fits of despondency. Near Francisco Edward Liszt, of Jackson, was found lying uneontünous beside the Michigan Central track Sunday morning. lioth leg-s were ent off. He lived three hours af ter beinff ii: ered. The next meeting of the Michigan State Plumbers'association '.vil! hr held in Grand Rapids in Bíarch, 1894. Ai the session in Jackson. jast ended. .James Meathe, of Detroit, was eled dent. Flora A. Poole, of Grand Rapids, was given a verdict of $-5,000 agkinst the Consolidated Street Railroad company by a bóuri jury. Sh"e alighted from a car and. falling, injured her hip. ♦ Col.Chester Hinsdell has been ea quartermaster ot the soldiers home at Grand Rapids. Jhij. Long will be retained as adjutant by Commandant Graves, vvho will assume the duties of his office May i. The Plint & Marquette Raihvay coinpany bas voluntarily given Thomas Tonkin, of Mount Pleasant, a check for 8:3,ñOO for injuries received whilr fche recipiënt was under the company's protection as a passenger. William H. Kitchen, of Rogers City, was a eandidate on the rcpnblican ticket for supervisor, but was defeated, This fact, together with domestie ti-oubles, eaused him to swallow a dose of earbolic acid, his life,

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