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Day
27
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Brig -Gen. Lyon lias appointed James M. Morton to be kis assistant adjatant general. A new magnesia mineral spring has been struck at St. Louis and the people are jnbilant. The village council of PJymouth will pass au ordinance inflioting a license of from $5 to $10 a day on itinerant traders. A three years old child in Pineonniag got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid and drank the contents.dying three hours afterwards. The attendance at the state Stinday school oonvention at; Kalamazoo last week, was the largest in the history of the assooiation, nnmberiug 2,378. A free silver man in Bloomingdale is securing signatures indorsing him for the appointiuent nnder a silver president in 1900 should one be eleoted. A 9-year-old boy of Marshall trying to oatch on to a loaded wagon, feil under it and the wheels pasaed over his kuil, crnshing it and killing him inetantly. Ella Mae Van Schoten, of C.snovia, Jhas been waiting for John Seaman to inarry her since December, 1895, and . has now sued him for $5,000 damages for breach of promise. Leo O'Neal, of Saginaw, slipped nnder an electrio car on the Inter-Urban line Thursdav of last week, and had his leg so badly crnshed that it had to be ampntated elow the knee. A cigarmaker narned Ahl, of Detroit, ont of work and penniless, songhc to Jbury his dead child in the Arbeiter burial lot in Blmwood cemetery one day last week, but the heartless sexton wonld uot let him do so, even wheu Ahl offered to dig the grave, ualess he paid him his fee of $3. As far back as one can remeniber the Lake Shore road has painted its passenger service equipment yellow, and the statement that a new standard color for its passenger coach bs has been adopted - a dark green - will surprise railway men. The alteration in color is to be .made as fasfc as the coaches can be pnt throngb the shop. "'A tonching appeal was made to Judge Burlingame, at Grand Rapirts, recently, when he was hearing the case of Walter Lepper, who was charged witb bnrglary. Lepper's 14-year-old sister walked up to the jndge's bencb, and, sobbiDg aloud, begged the court to release her brother, as they were alone in the world. Sbe told the judge that Walter could not fiod %vork, and was compelled to sleep in barns and get his meals where be conld. The court was toncbed by this appeal, and pended seutence, but. before domg so, related the story to the jury, who oontributed money to buy a pair of shoes for the prisouet, who sadly needed them. Mrs. Sylva Duram, of Polkton townfihip, Ottawa county, celebrated her lOOtb. birthday Friday, at the home of her son Heoiy F. Duram, of Mnskegon. She has had afanrily of 17 cbildren, J2 sous aud five daughters, all of whom are dead escept the son at whose home she celebrated her great age and the sou with whom she resides iu Polkton. Mis. Duram is the only surviving member of hsr own family, ber sister haviug died at Los ADgeles, Cal., iu 1894. Mrs. Duram is a remarkable wonian, for her 100 ears fall lightly on her sboulders. She is as spry as many women of 50, and besides assisting in the bousework, knita, sews, and often attends to the stock on the farm, even cutting grass with a scythe during the euromer months.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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