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Day
29
Month
December
Year
1893
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Public Domain
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The annual meeting of the State Millors' association will be held in Lansing Jan. 9, The Forestare at Pontiac have voted to send $25 to suffering niiners in tbe upper península. The animal convention of the Michigan Engineering society will be held at Jakson on Jan. 3-4. William Moule's sash and door and blind factory and f oundry at Oxford was totally consuined by fire. No insurance, Mrs. C, S. Waller of Glenn cornmitted suicide by hanging herself with a towel. Cause, despondency froin ill-health. Erick Jsaacson of Hancock has commenced soit against tlie Quincy Mining eompany for $30,000 daroages. Ieaacson was injured by a falling bucket, which hit him on the head and left him almost a total idiot. Saturdny, Dec. 83. Frank Dennison, the ex-night policeman. of Flint, who is in jail on a charge of burglarizing the store of W. H. Dodge, bas been bound over to the circuit court for trial. Daniel D. Baraey of Flint died Thursday night after a lingering illness. Aböut a month ago he received a stroke of paralysis, from which he never recovered. He was T5 years old. The Ladies' A ijl Society of the Baptist chnrch at Paw Paw. sbipped to the relief oommittee at Ironwood on Friday, nine large bares of clothing, shoes, etc., 1..S20 pounds oí flour, and 54 in moiiey. Monday, Dec. 25. Johu Hanley of Tecumseh was arrested last weck on a charge of attempting to cause the death of his whoie J'amily by aspbyxiatiou by removing a lengtü of stovepipe in his house. Napoleon Tardy, aged 15 years, of Muskegon. starteö to clean a revolver Fridav, when it was discharged, the bullet passing through the knee and inflicting a wound which will cripple him for lite. It was another case of "didn't know it was loaded.'; r A Tekonsha man tried to get ahead of the state and escape paying the tax on a mortgage by temporarily releasing the niortgagor, proposing to the latter to renew the mortgage after the assessor had been around. Lp to this point the scheme worked finely, but when the time carne to renew the document, the debtor refused to do so, and the man is out the wholeamount instead of the tax on the mortgage. Tuesday, Dec. 26. Burglars broke into the store of Frohlich & Knapp at Three Rivers and carried away clothing valued at over $300. The body oí an unknown boy, about 1(5 years oíd, has been found in "the woods near Otia, Newaygo county. The boy had been shot, but when and by whom ís not known. Andrew Smith. au Ann Arbor eolored boy, 16 years oíd, dropped dead on the street Sunday. His death yas the resalí of a sunstroke which he received last Slimmer. Hillman, Montmorency county. will ask the board of supervisors for authority to dam Thunder Bay river at that point in order that they may acquire power for manuacturing purposes. Childreu under 16 years of age at .Marquette now have to be at home before 9 o'olock in the evening or have the pólice attend to them. This is in accoi-dance with an ordinance recently passed by the council. Wednesday, Dec. 27. Wümot Elivier, keeper of a general store at Mantón, has madean assignmentforthe benefit of his creditors. His liabilities are $7,000. Rev. D. H. Reiter of Vicksburg will beliver the address at the Fulton (Kalamazoo county) Masonic banquet on Saturday evenintc, Dec. 30. During a drunken quarrel at Baglev, a little village in Alenoniinee county, Jim McKinney shot and killed a man by the name of Jim Patterson. McKinney has been arrested. Henry Dukesherer of Colonia sustained a $1,200 loss by the burning of his barn and all its coutents, which included eigbt tons of hay, several hundred bushels of wheat and a number of faruiing implements. The prosecuting attorney of St. Clair county has collected about $15.000 more from liquor dealers this year than ever before. conseqaently the county taxes are considerably lighter than in former years ïhursday, Dec. 28. Benjamin Bai-tlett, a bachelor, and welltodo farmer, living near Capac, died from the effect. la grippe. Reportsto the state board of health show that la grippe prevails throughout the state and tiie sume information is given out by the state presa generally. The ttal of mortgages filed on the Powers' cldlhing stock thus far Is $18,185.85; Burnham, Stoepel & Company of Detroit have 0'.ö. and H. A. Xewland& Comoanv S3;il. William Youngs. whose home was a few miles southwcst of Imluy City, died after a short illness. He was a pioneer of Lapeer couiity, and highlv respected. He leit an invalid widow and a family. Fred Stinebriuk, while breaking up iron at the foundi-v at ("apac. received a heavy blow in the groin from the sledgehammer he was using, It is not known how seriously he is injured. He carne from Mt. Clemt-ns, and took out an accidental inurance polícy a short time ago.

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