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3
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February
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1881
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A case of tricbiuopie is reportad from (raliam's Station, Saginaw county, the victiin. a man iiained Dovucote, dying after terrible Biüleriu. Simón Han has beeu arrested in UUnois and ailed ai Ionia ou a charge of ínurderine a Mr. Batwr near Saranac last September. An award of $300 liad been made for liis arrest. Webner, the Lausing sculptor, lias made a clay bust of Zach Chandler, which he has plaeed ou exliibiüon at the state library at tansiag. He would ]iko to have tli state autliorize him to reproduw it iu marble - at a cost of $1,200. Judge Lovell ís sick at Ionia, and 1 mitre Hart, of Midland, has been empowercd to bold court forhini. Neafly !{-l,:J0O have been subscribed to Becure the new wagon works in Kalamazoo. The npnrtsmen's association at its recent session instructed its legislativeconimitteeto prepare bilis forbidding the tliugiii}; of pits for deer, for the bettor protectiou of pigeons, for the appointment of a state gpine and fish warden to see to the enforcement of the game lilWS. Tlie masonic grand lodge of Michigan eleel cd Uie followine officere: (i. o. l,. Spauldiog, st. Johns. li. (i. M.- Alanson Partridce, Birmingham. d: S W.-C. F. R. Uellows, Ypsilanti. (i. J. W. - Jas. H. Farnuin, Cassopolis. (1. Ticas.- Rufus W. Landon, Siles. (i. Sec- Wm. P. lunes. Lirand Rapids. (,. I,. Anluir M Clark, fexington. i .. Chaplain- The Rev. F. A. Blades, letroit. (i. S. li.- A. 1. Bldred, Tekonsha. (,. J, !.- Hunry Welser, I(ini;u ;. Marshal- John A (iilisc.n, Saginaw. c. l'ylei Alex. Ucxiegor, Detroit. hetroit was fixed njion as the place of th' next ineoting of the grand lodge. The tloating ice, drifted by westerly winds, has blocfeaded Grand Haven andother portsou il ast coast of Lake Michigan. The steamer City ir Lridington, is lying ico bonnd two xnUesont. TheDepere and Menominee, heailed for Mílwunkee, are lying brtween tlie piers. Fmir lmndred fishing shanties arp now ont on Sasdnaw bav and 20() more are ready to be moved out. The catch is, so far, below average. A conscience-stricken person has sent f 10 to the treasurer of Hillsdale eoilege with a note aayiuR it is to pay for property destroyed when he was a student. ,-AIonzo J.Munyon, lately a druggist of Coldwater, who went to Dakota lastfall, was ffozeu to death there. Inquines sent to all parts of the state elicit the reply that the growiug wheat is in good comlition, being wefl preserved by the suow, anil that of the old erop there is yet iu the hands of farmers 25 to 83 per cent., which they are unwilling to sell at less than f 1 per Imsliel. m m m rtiarles G. Ziegler. senior teller, and Herman H. Ziegler, savings teller, of the Detroit savings bank, are jointly defaulters to an amount of about $20,000. The bank will be but a sliglit loser, as the bonds given by these officials will nearly if pot quite cover the defalcation. Depositors will lose nothing. T. I). Brown was arrestad in Baldwin, aud Iodged in the county jail. About half an hour afterward the jail caught fire and tlie prisoner waa burned to death. Tbree men crossing the Straits of Mackinaw got tlieir feet wet and so badly frozeu that one of ihoni lias had botli feet amputated. The chiefs of the military departments of "the state, tlie brigade conmiander and the oolonels of the respective regiments are ordered to meet at Lansing February 15 for consultation. Charles Roe, with a small party of Indians and white men, left Cross "Village, January 3 with the mail for Beaver Island, which they reaehed after a most perilous journey over the broken ice. í'or several days tliey were supposed to have been lost The propeller City of Ludington Is still in the field of ice which moved out about three miles f rom (rand Haven, the loat being unahle to get out of the ice. The Menominee ' and Pepere are yet inside unable to get out Ludington people are urgiug tlio claims oí tliat port to be constitvited a harbor of refuge. Berrien County record : The peach orcliard of Win. G. Brown, of Lake township, eontaining 400 trees, is said to be killed by tlie extreme cold weather. Adrián Times: Adrián can have the next state fair it she wants it The question of location Tur th next two years is unsettled, but ■nis probable that the society will uot exbibil in Detroit The citizens of Jacksou and otlier places an' taking steos to secure the fair. Thu Bntler road will be in operatiou beforethe next exlilbition, the fair would bring inany Btrangere to the city and the establishment of additional inauufactories might be the consequeuce. CoL Curtenius of Kalamazoo has lost four clüMren tbis winter by diptheria. A fire in Ledyard'B block, Grand Rapids, Sunday niglit, destroyed property to tli" amount of $30,000. Several persons occupyIng aparments over the drug store of Shepherd & Hazlentine, were rescued by the Sternen, and Mrs. Rose Lowe was sutfocated by the fumes rising from the burning Chemicals. The following railroads have been built in Michigan during the past year. Miles. Chicago and Northwestern - Menominee river, Quinuesec n. w. to Wis. line ï% Chicago and West Michigan - Hart branch, Mear's n. e. to Hart 3J-4 Detroit, Butler and St. Louis, Detroit s. w. to A 1 1 lian 67 Detroit, Lansing and Northern - Stanton liranch, ex. Mecosta n. w. to Big Rapids 15 Petroit Mackinacaud Marquette- Poiot St. Ijnace n. w üö Marquette 2 flirt and l'ere Manmette- 'lare County biancli, ex. n.to Harrison. fi Round Lake branch, Butler Junction n. to Webber 4 Michigan Air Line, ex. Rochester w. by s. to Pontiac 10 Port Huron and Northwestern (3ft.), ex., swell to SandBeach Exti usiou in Port Huron % Marlette brauch, Balmer's n. w. to lette St. Joseph Valley, Huclianan n. w 2 Tawas and Bay county, ex. Camp Watson s. w 11 Total 255 Late post office changes: Postmasters appoiuted- (iilchrist, Mackinaw cöonty, W. B. Stepheu8;(Jnondaga,Ini;liam couuty, l'ouieroy Van Riper. Discontinuexl- Bast Side, Alpena county; Green Oak, Livingston connty; Kus seli's Mills, Lake county; Viola, Wexfonl county. A few evenings ago, in Nottli Castelar. Barry county, the house of il. M. Bloom was entered while he was absent, only a young wo man attending a sick sister beiug at h three masked men who tried tx frigliun the giil by sayinf; tliey had a warrant for her ar ris!. She ilemandedof tliem a reading of the warrant, but this they refused, and finally mad certain base prqposals to her, statin that if slie trrauted tlieir request that tliey would leave her without niaking tlie arrest. The girl thinking the proceedingH had gme far enough pro duced a revolver and ordered tliem to leave, which they were not long in doing. A shower of rock from a blaat in the canal cutting at SatUt Ste. Marie killed Thomas Wilson aiid injured John Murray, Thomas Tate and Allen McDonald. Tbe men had been waruud to keep out of the derrick near the blast, aa it was in a dangerous place, but long iuimuuity bad made thein careless. Tlie farmers' institute of the Armada and Macomb agricultnral societies will l liclil at JSxchange haU in Utica, February 16 and 17. Miss Hattie Ourtis of Fenton is going to lirazil South America, for live years a a inissionary. A fire early Tufsday inorning destroyed Milmine fc ('o.'s novelty iron works at Oraml líaids. Toss on building and content $7,W)U to ♦,000; insured only $1,400. The company will continué work without long intermptloa Twenty bands are idle meantime. A oew depoeit of iron bas been found five miles from Marquette At tho session of the grand lodge of A. 0. Ü.W., grand master workmanSesBionsreported that the orjanization liad been peculiarly fortúnate in its death rate, only ten assessinonts berag neeessary to pay all beuifits. The membersbiu in the state has increasod 1,000. Th rand Rapids Democrat tells a roniiiDtic story about a little boj belng picked up iii the streeta of that city 12 years ago, who apparéntly had no parents or relatives to care for biui, aud who could give no account of himst'lf except tbat his name was Barbotir and that he supposed be cauie from Coldwater. A Ioiik search faiied to nnd auybody of that name wliu had lost a hoy, and all hopt; of findfaig his párente was giyen up, when recently lio was ideutified by a brother, who noticed a peculiar mark on liarbour's shoulder, The long-lost Michigan CUarley Ross provci to be Hiram Hackett.whose parciitt liveii in liatavia, Braucli cuuuty. lie had probahly been stolen when an infant

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