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13
Month
July
Year
1882
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The Fontaine Locomotivo Company with capital stock of $l,i '00,000 has just been organizeiliu Detroit. The offlcers ure : President, ThomasChrifitit-; Vico Presideu!, O. W. Shipmaa; freasurer, 1). M. Ftrr y ; Secretary, Anson Wariug. The purposes of the company are to manufacture aud sell locoraotive engine?, in accordance with the designs of the Fontaine patent. Ui the capita! stock 600,000 are paid in. the paid up stock consiatu of the two locomotivep, valued at 8d,000, and the patent rihts for the Uuited States, Canada, Eugland. Germany, Francs and Belgiam, estimated at $570,000. f he epecial train to Grand Rápida with the Detroit Light Guard and friende, ran into a freight train near Poniiac. The engine was deuooliahed and another sent from Detroit to tate the Iraln to Orand Bxpids. No one was reported serioualy hurt except the engineer. FraLk Fisher, a young man of Detroit, has justp-iteutüd an iuiyroved electric auuuuciator which promisei to bnng some money and reputation to tue iuveutor. J. Down, proprietor of an insect powder, at Colwell's drug store, Jacksou, has secured the 0 mtract for clearinï the s'ate piison of cockr.iacties and bediiuüs by its ubp. He furnishes 140 pounds of powder and the necessary blowera for $222, and tbe labor of applyiu it will mcrease his reinuneration to over 8oO. The yacht Diamond, on Detroit river, was run down by the raür ad forry boat Michigan, on the Fourtb, and the twelve occupante nar rowly escaped drowniug, all leing thrown out into the water. At the prizo drill in Grand Rapids the Detroit City Grays won ttie 48J0 priïj, and the Light Guards won secoud prize. Third and fourth prizs were won by Jackson and Gfand Rapids Suarda respectivfly. Frank Williams of Battle Creek had his nose blown to atoms yesteiday by the premature ex jlosion of a tire cracker, and Frank Griflith nearly lost bis ejes. At the bicycle tournament L. H. Cramton of Marshall woa the firat prize, a twenty-five dolar gold badge. C. K. Dudge, inventor of the railroad stand pipe usd by tbe Michigan Central and other roads, anda membnr of the flim that manufactures iheui, died euddenly at NUes of heart disease. The county auditors of Wayne county ha decided to inake a proposal to tbe Detroit coinmou coundl to ase the entire ground ftoor of ttie Citj Hall to the county f or 15 years. In accordancV with a papal brief the Suffragan biBhops of the provinneof Cincinnati were convened in tbat city July 5 by Bishop Eider, coadiatorof Arcubishop PurceU, for the e lection of a bishop for the newly-created See of Grand Eapids. The state military board, in session at Lanbídk tho 5th Inst., decided to hold the aouual encampment at iBland LaVe, near BrightoD, Livingston county, encampmnt to commence August 10. The deflant ealoonists of St Louis signed an agreeinent to sell liquor on the Fourth and hlp defend and pay the fines of those arrested Four have beea arrested. The 10-mile running race between Myrtie Peek ot Michigan and L'zzie Pinneo of Colorado, Rochester.N. Y., Úw Fourth, was won bï Mies Pek in 2(5:31. Miss Peek mada nine cliaages and Miss Pinneo seven. The purse was $4,'0. Ia the inile dash between Miss Peek and Miss Pinneo, the furtnor rode without a saddle. S:ow time was made, tna last quarter in thirtj Beconds. The Grand Led House and the Campbell House,Grand Ledge,liurned Thursday morning The fire origiuated in the room of a drunken guest wtio was burud to death. King, Quiik & Kinc of Grand Eapids are un der airesi for gttmg logs belonging to ottiers from Fiat Rivsr. th firmare lumbc-r manufaclurers i;i Lowell. Jas. A. Visger'fi house in Hamtramck, Detroit, was entered by burslars and $170 were stolen trom hia pantaluons pocket The safe iu Joyce's meat market, Biy City, tvas blown open, but the explosión aroused the eiihbors and the thieves fled without booty, Fred Lowry keeper of the Sheridan House, (acksnD, WdS caught in a saloon aud ciaar tore where he had effcted entrance tbrouh rear window. Ha bad packed a good supply f whiekey and suudiies reudy to take away When he was diacovered and arresied. D. Selleck was stopped on the steet ia Imlay City with order to pass over his nioney. He rocognized bis asaai'ant Benry Wilson and cailed him by name. Although fired at, Selleek got away and later eecured Wilson's arrest. Fire at Patterscn's mili yard in Kast Saginaw burned an ice house aDtl ?Uf,000 feet oí lumber, mostly hard woort. About 1,000 tons oí ícb owned byJeromeVanV alken bure were burned Total !os8 about 3,000, with no iusnrance. June bugs swarmnd aboat the epire of the Fort Street Presbyterian chareb, Detroit, in such numbeiB n to resemble s cloud of smoke issuing f rom Ihe oteeple. An alarm of fire wasturned in, and the department exiingnishtd the flies. Shoo, fly. John b SioipsoD, convicted ot wife murder in Detroit, has been taken to Jackson, where he íb expected to reinain for Ufe. Thaddeus Van Loon, 18 years oíd. livinR in the tnwn of Blaine, whiie hauling tan bark fel olí tbe wagon under the wheels, and was inetantly killed. Henry C. Lybrook, one of tbe oldest realdentsof Dowgiae, han j ust (fled, aged79 years. Mr. LyBter carne to Dowagiac in 1841, and wal one of its most prominent business men. He is well kuown to the grain and commission men. John Arderson of Jackson had all the finge ra of his nht haud taken iLf by a planer In the purifier workB of that city. An excursión pirty of 250 persons from Chicago vÍBÍtd Beuton Haibor uiiDeral springs last Thureday . fhey were tendered a banqu;t by 3. P. lhrei-her. A iatg brick huildinpr owned by A. HuhnrL Grand Haven, and occuuied by Huffuiaste' i. Co., asa carriage factory, has just bnrned. L-.it b, f 9.0U0; insurauce $4,950. George A. Knill, proprietor of the Byrant house, Fliui, and Chas. Black, W. W. Barnt s and Dan Carrol), b trtenders, bave been an ested charged with seiling liquor on tbe Fourtb. of July. Tbe three story brick block being built by the B g Baplds furniture company is nearly completad. Two men at St. Ipnace blasted a rock in the bottom of a well witb dynamite, and ihen went down to rrmoFe the piects before the well was cleared of the gas caueed by the explosión. Both of them feil insensible. J Nunn was let down into tbe well tnice, and brougbt tbe men ont, thus saving tbeir liveB In tbe Marlow regatta on the Thames Saturday.Jtlie Hillsdale crew, beat the Marlow crew by a clear beat lengtb. Tne fence around the Detroit City Hall, bas been ordered removed. It cost in 1871, f 2,85 The work wasdone by C. C. Moodf, of Ruchester, N. Y. , who took tne contract for ornamentinz the erounds arouud the city hall for 400. Deacon Win. Bassett, a forraer resident of Three Rlvers, ditd at Soutb H;ivu, and was buried in Flowerfield, July 8; aged80yeaiB and tbrce niontlis. He carne to Michigan in 1684. Puilt) Farsonfl, preei'lent of the Detroit young mftu's socint; bas called a meetir g to consider the adTieabiliiy of dissolving the Oi ginizttion. Wilb f o fine a city library the jouug mem brary is supeilluous. The section boss on the Detroit, Lansin? and Nor hera railroad at Rodcey, whil hlpii g 'o cut a rail, was stnick wiih a piece of steel, putting tb. eye out and causing a very severe wound. tt. Ferry feil from a new mili, on which he was at wort, in Big Rápida and striking hls heai on a work bencb, and will probably dIe_______

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