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Day
24
Month
March
Year
1876
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Public Domain
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Two of the tour priaoners confinad in the Sanilac county jail, at Lexiugton, 1 escaped at 3 o'elock a. m., ou the 18th. The other-two prisoners confined with ' tbeui were provented trom escaping by the opportune awakening of the sheriff, i TwentY-nine new merubers were ' itiated at the last meeting of the Albiou División of Sons of Teuiperence and ' ruany more, it is reporter], are iutending f to join at the next meeting. The lodge now numbers 260 members and is the ' largest ia the State. The oontest orer the will of the late ' Captain E. B. Ward, of Detroit, j ing $ó,0OO,U()(), the second trial of wbinh ' began last week, has been withdrawn j trom the courts, the oontestants und ' proponents haviug airanged a settiement. C.B. Ford, proseeuting attoiney of Emmett county, was arrested at Little ! Traverse recently, charged with I ! teinpting to commit rape on an Tndian j girl last October. Hia trial was nat for ' Marcb '-Hst. H was placed under $2f0 I bail. The Quincy Times has changed hands, baring been sold bjr the oíd Timé (Jotnpany tu Mr. A. C. Culver, nu old resident of that placo. Mr. Culver has a son who i a practical printer, and it ; was probably on his account that the purchase was made. A reuent issue of Zion'y Herald oontains a long letter froiu Bishop Gilbort Haven strongly advocating the reuioval of Albion College to Detroit, loaviug a preparatory school at Albion. The lol tor is a significant one and lie hassounded a note which will be prolougud by man'y others in the State. The printing office of the Genesee Drunu-rnt, of Klint, editod by the late Royal W. Jenney for the past thirty yeais, has been conveyed to T. J. Hud8ou, of Detroit. Mr. Hudson will tak( possession of tle ofHoe some tiuie in April following. The paper will continue to adhere to its true Democratie principies. J. N. Ingersoll, of Coruna, has been arrested by the U. S. CoinmisHioner on a charge of dealing in crooked cigars. He claims that the cigars were givcn him by Williams, the defaulted deput.y postmaster, as ]art rcimbursement for the amount paid the postmaster to mtike tliings square with the Department ; and that the party who instigated the oomplaiiit was his rival for the postoflice. John Larkin, for uineteen years Treasurer of Midland County, who had resignéd in February, was arrested charged with embezzlement of county funds, a shortago of 22,774 having beeu discovered in 187(i. Liirkin was admitted to bail in the sum of $15,0011, and a committee of the Board of Supeiv visors commenced the work of overhauling his records. The committee havp finished their work, and the total amount of Larkin's indebtedness to the county is $.")4,096.39. John Henry Wilhelm, y-for twenty years a resident of Suginaw City, resorted to a novel iaethod to rid himself of human existunce. He was found in his barn on Friday, lying on his back dead. Appearances iudicated that he had loaded the right barrel of a double-barreled shot-gun detachcd trom the stock with powder and shot, placed a cap on the nipple, and, pluciug the muzzle againgt his heart, dischaiged in with a haminer. Death raust have ensvied instantly. Deceased leaves property valued at $10,000. He had been depressed some time. The Lansing Light Gnards, dosignated as the First Independent Company of Michigan State Troops, and attached to the First Regiment, were mustered into the State service on the 17th inst. by Gen. L. S. Trowbridge, of Detroit. 57 soldiers responded as thiir mimes were called, and raised thoir right hands while they took upou tb. -mselves the oath of allegiance to their country and State, and prouiised obudiance to military rules and usages. These soldiers are eomposed of LitnBing's best youngmen, and in physique will compare favorably with any company in the State.

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