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26
Month
September
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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MICHIGAN. On Friday night, September 12, Angu Hniíth oL Harrisville and a Mr. Leonaid of Detroit, who had been looking over Bome land in Otsego county, pitched their tent in some woods near Otsego Lake, and being very tired, were ■oon wrapped in slumber. The night was very ehilly, and early Saturday murning Mr. Smith awoke, shivering with cold. He moved outide the tent without the knowledge of Mr. Ieonard and commenced ga'hering together chip f or the purpose of building a fire . Mr. lieonard awaking and thinking it a ber prowling around the tent, fired a revolver at it, inflioting a fatal wound of which Mr. Smith died the next morning. Dr. David Ward of Pontiao is the largest pine land owner in the State. He has 60,000 orea of the bestoork pine up the big Manistee river, which he has just commenced to cut. A horse and buggy were stolen from Kala maeoo a few days ago. The thief had a break down and left that buggy and atole another at ünion City. He then drove to Cambridge, bivouacking in a barnyard. The nezt morning, awakened by the farm hands, he Hed to the woods, leaving the property, which has ■tnce been handed over to Sheriff Gates of Kalamazoo. Dr. A. W. Chase of receipt book famc who has been engaged in business in Toledo for ■everal years, has returned to Ann Arbor with the intention of making it bis future home. The strike among mili men at Grand Haven has come to an end, the laborera generally returning to their situations without any conoession on the part of the omployers. There has been bat little exoitement over the matter in the oity. Friday afternoon John Chirgwin, a G rand Rápida teamster, was thrown upon the sidewaik from hts wagon by his horses starting while he was trying to adjust a sausage machine properly in the wagon. The machine feil apon him on the sidewalk, crushing his langs. He was taken to Dr. DeCamp's office, where he soon died from internal bleeding. He was an industrioua and températe man and leayes a wife and child. The strike in the Ludington milis is ended. The men got their hours reduoed from 11) tolt. Legal deer-shooting eommeocedon tbe loth, and the war of oxtermination has set in brinkly. Mra. C. A. Tracy, ot Mt. Pleasant, lsabella county.was thrown from a wagon on tbe 15th and so seriouBly injured that she died in half an hour. Bmith Bros. of Hillsdale have received from England two fine stallions, costing $5,600 for the pair. One of them, callea "Prince Imperial, is a Suffolk horse and weighs jast 2,000 poumis. Edward Lapham and Oliver Lafever were tewing a heavy belt around a shaft in motion in Cammer's Baw-mill, at Cadillac Friday wheu the shaft caught the belt, killing Lafeyer instantly, amashing his head and severing hisleg. Laphain was slightly injured. The deceaaed was 4:i yeara oíd, aud leaves a wife and thrce children. The Journal oflics at Ithaca, Gratiot connty, with all its contents was burned down Friday norning. Nothing was saved except the files, boon and the weeks issue of the paper. Bmtth, the proprietor, was in Detroit taking in the State fair. A man named John Mitchell of Ottawa, feil into the river at Aa Sable or Wednesday evening, while endeavoring to cast off a tug line, and was drowned befor assistance could be rendered hlm. A large frame hoase, nnoccapied, and known a Hill's infirmary, being a water cure for years at Coldwater, burned Friday night. Incendiarism. Loss $4,00U insured in the Watertown for $2,200. The boom men at Oscoda are on a strike for higher wacea. The company offer $24 to $26 per month. The first attemt at boring for salt bas begui mt Manistee. They are going down 2,000 feet if neeessary. A yonng man named he Jennings while raiding Wui. Raseley's pcach orchard at Marshall B'riday night was shot in the bowels, and may not live. Men for the lumber woods are not qnite as plenty in Baginaw as usual in the fall, whioh is evidence of an improved condition of the labor market. Wages offered rauge from $17 to $25 per month. The Hon. George H . Jeronie, who has bsen Superintendent oL the State Fisheries since its orgamzation, ended his official duties in that oapacity on the 15th. The Western Michigan Agncultural and Industrial Society's fair began at Grand Rapid's Monday. The entries in most of the department closed Tueaday af ternoon. The attendnce was good and weather pleasant. The house and barn of Mr. 8 R. Robbins, ■ear 8t. Clair, was burned Satnrday. He lost Overything, including one hundred bushels of wheat, fifty of oats and twenty tons of hay, nd had no insurance. His loss was probably $2,501. A man named Crout, whüe at wurk in the lumber pile of Stone Island mili near Bay Oity, slipped into the river n the 20th and waa drowned. Col. Lochhead of Flint denies that he ie a defaulter to the banktothe amount of $4,300, or any other sum, and claims that he will bfc able to prove his innocence. A eonvict named William D. Kenzie, aged 63, made his escupe from the State paison Saturdpy He is a Ufe convict, and has beenincarcerated 15 or 20yars. Hib crime was cntting a man down and killing him with an ax. He voltmtarily returned to the prison Monday. Got. Croswell has appointed Ex-Governor Bagley oL Detroit, tbe Hon. Townsend Nurth of Vassar and T. 8. Applegate of Adrián as the three commissioners to provide temporary accommodations for the blind, Be'ect a suitabie ite and erect buildings for the State Asylum for the Blind, as provided By the last Legislature. Tnesday afternoon, as Charles Haynor, a young marrried man, and David Putt were hunting wild turkeys in Arcadia. Lapeercounty, they became separated, and Putt discovered what he suppcsed to be the coveted game among the bushes, fired hastily, loiíging a bullet in Haynor's side. 'X'he wound was considered fatal. The receiver of the Flint and Pere Marqnette Railway bas been authorized by the court to purchase ten thousand tons of steel rails for use in keeping up the road in firstclass condition; also, to complete the branch already commenced to Harrison, Clare county ; alan to pay interest on bonds out of the surpluB earnings of the road and to pay up in full mortgages on certain oity lots in Èast Saginaw.

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