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Day
18
Month
February
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Advices of tho liith inst., show a very serious state of affaire in all tho streams ! in the lower half of the statu. At Kala mazoo no one remembers ever to have seen the river so high. The low lands are completely flooded. Ico gorges have leen prevented by the use of dynamite, and the bridges have been protected by loading ! them with stone and preventing tho ac curaulntion of drift wood. At Coldwater the low mili grounds are all aHont. Barnhart's mili dam and that at Branrh are gone. The water ut Petersburg, Monroe county, is higher than ever known, but fences and hay and straw stacks are a vet tlie only sufTerers. Threa dama have been wa hed away in the vicinity of Colon. St. Joseph county. Several bridges are gone and acrosa country tr,vel great ly impeded in the región oi' Iludson. At Onion City the are under water and the railroad bridge is in daugcr. The ice having gone out of the Raisiu at Monroe the chief danger there is past, but the river is full to its hanks. At Uwosso the Bhiawassee has fino led all terrltory adjacent to its banks, carried o IV considerable lumber and damagcd buildings to a considerable extent. At Muir tho same serious conditions prevail as t other poiuts in tho vicinity, and merchante have abandoned their stores, and things are Renerally afloat. At Three Rivers the shops are all olosed in conrequence of the high water. Tho immense lumber piles are only kept from taking Frenen leavo by ben,; held by booms but this will probably prove offectual. Strenuous efforts have thus far preserved the railroad track from serious washouts. There is an extensive ice gorge in the St. Joseph, east of the town, which may vet niake still more serious mischief. At Vermontville the Thornapple river is higher than ever before known. Two large bridgos have been sweit away, and the railroad submerged. At Ionia the flats south of the city are under water and the roads in that direction rendered impassable. The bridges are being held by loads and chains and are beinp; closely watched. None have gone as yet. At fielding the high water has invaded the shops and compeiled a stoppage. Take it all around, it is a moist spell of weather. The business part of Lyons, Ionia county Was unuer irom tuur tu iji;iil ieui ul m iuoi for seveml days. A part of the Cornell works were swept away. tho tooi factory of J. fc P. Arnold bnrily damaged, the walls of the woolen. mili of O. A. Amsden cruslied in by the force of ice and water. And the bridge is badlv wrecked. The damage is between t75,00Uand f UU, (XX), and nenrly every business man in the place is t looser. Febrnary Crop Beport For the Michigan erop report for February returns have been received froin 775 correspondent, representing 599 townships; r5l of these reporta are from ''M townships in the southern four tiers of counties in reply to tho quetion: "Ihis wheat during January suffered injury from nny cause?" Fifty-two correspondenta in the BOUthern counties, 18 in the central and one in the northern answer uyes," and 494 correspondent in thesouthern counties, 110 in the centra! and fel in the northorn answer 'no." The groand may be regarded as having beun well covered with snow duriiiR the month oC January, only 13 corresponden ts in the southern counties, 8 in tho central and none in the uortheru rejioriint; it not well covered. The tutal nnmber of bushels of wheat reported marketed is 705,894. The amount of wheat reported marketed in January was lass than qno half the amount reported marketed in December. Stock 19 in rood, hoalthy and thriftj' condition. Horses are roported at 9S per cent., cattle W7 per cent., sheep 98 per cent. and swiue 97 per cent. State News Condensed. The ho-pital department of the Soldiers' Home is located in tho fourth story of tlie inst.it ut ion, iiinl thia arrangement does not appear to 1-e entirely satisfactory. Ata recent meeting of the board of managers it was decided to have plana drawn for a building which will be separate from the Home. to be used as a hospital and to cost about $25.000. An architect is preparing the plans. William Hamiiton worked for a man named Patterson, at Rapid River, forty miles south of Ishpeming. Patterson was married and Hamilton lived with hitn. The other afternoon Hamilton, when in a sbed adjoining the house, heard Mr. Patterson scream "murder." He graspeda rille and rushed into the house, wbere he saw Patterson covering bis wife with a rifle. Hamilton fired and instantly killed Patterson. Senator Hnbhrll tendered a grand ban' qnet to the ■ , , a.ve committee on the m:i. hik school, during its recent visit to Houghton. John Fitzsimmons, for over 50 years a resident ofReading. Hillsdale county, is dead. Mrs. Lathrop will speak for the prohibitory amendment in tnis state for the next few months. She told a reporter that she fat. trranflv onfniirnirAfi t. tin itmimot. tt success, añd that witli the aid of the New York bureau, with eminent speakers from abroad and local talent they would win. Gov. Luce has been chosen vice-president of the American agricultural and dairy MMolation. Ellsworth Ryder of Harrison,was changing his clothing the other day and hamled his wie his pocket book and revolver. She didn't dnow it was loaded and told her husband she would shoothim. Shedkl and his recover is doubtful. ïhey have ouly been married a few months. H. A. Cali, the bigamist, who had a wife in Kansas and married Miss Lizzie Hooker of Evart, has been senteaced to three yeurs in Jackson. Another salt well is to be sunk at Saginaw, making six in all. Mrs. W. D. Marks, wife of the superintendent of the fish hatchery at Paris, died on the 1 ltli inst. W. H. Tuthill, traveling salesman for Arthur Meigs & Co., Grand Rapids, feil on the ice at Muskegon and broke both bonea of his right leg below the knee. The winter meeting of the state hortienltural society will convene nt Uillsdale, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, l'eb. ruary 2"ï, 23 and 24. Samples of fruit, plants, flowers, branches, insects, impleinentsand contrivances. it broughtin, will receive attention ut the hands of the society. It is expected that I'iofs. Cook and Beal of the agricultural college will be present and addreM the society upon 'Destructive Inseets, Forest Growing and Preservation." aü kindred societies in I and out of the state, are invited to send i delegates. Reports from branch horticulI tunil soeioties. and the Question Box, will be features of the convention. Capt. H. McCormick, formerly of Bedford, Calhoun county, committed suicido at Wellsville, Kan., recently. Thomas McGrep;or, alias Beatie, who was recently released from Jackson, and inimediately re-arrested and taken to Port Huron on a charge of burglary. has been allowed to go free. E. E. Towns, a freight train brakeman, feil from his train while it was running through Concord, Jackson county, and was instantly killed. The body was dragged one and ono quarter miles and was badly mangled, the head being torn irom the body. Towns leaves a wife in Jackson. A correspondent ot the Detroit Tribune, writing from Cheboygan says: The large isiand of Hois Klanc, the gemof the straits will. it is thought, bc attached to Cheboygan county. A move is now being made In that direction and is meeting with decided approval on all sides, and the logisluture will be asked to consider and help the project along this session. The islanl iover ten miles long and three or four wlde and is noted for its immen e hardwood tracts, etc. A Reed City man had flve colonies of bees in his lellar for safe keeping during the winter. The reeent thaw floodcd Hi cellar and his bees are gone. Ue estimates his loss at $75. Last slimmer Terrill of Grand Rapidsi and n. vonnis man nnmpil Skiïinnr nnnrrnlnH over a girl and proposed settling the difliculty pugilistically at a house neur the city. They met at a public dance trotead and commenced flghtlng. James llcCul' lough, a mutual friend, interfered an'd a ! bullet from a revolver flred by ïorrill at Skinnsr killed him. The trial ended in a verdict of mausluughter. All the parties are young, smooth-faced and scarcely votéis. Teiiill received the verdict very calmly and was, apparently, not in the least att'ected. The case wiíl probably be oppealed. Geo. Davis, a switchman in tho Grand Trunk yards at Fort Gratiot.was killed the other night by being crushed betweon two cars. Twenty-seven young ladies of Quincy have sighed a document to the efïect tlmt they wLÜ uot receive the attentions of any young man who uses tobáceo, liquor or profanity. Geo. Kennard. who lias been on trial in the circuit court at Caro on a charge of buralng the Port Huron & (iorthwes ern railroad bridge near Yass.ir, bas been acquitted,the jury rendering a verdict ot uot guilty. A Btrange nialady luis broken out among the borxes in tbe lumber campa nearMarquette. Out of 80 in one camp lSdiodin one daj recenfly. Batt Sullivnn, a heroic minor of Isbpeming, descended to the botton) of 800-zoot -haft. in which there was 60 feet of water, to r6sou6 I lu' body of a yonog man named Roberts wlic was drowned Hiere a few ugo. The miners and owersof the mino nave tnade up a pursc f several hundred dollars and given to Sullivan as a rereward for bis beroism. A mad dog went through Jiighland, Livingston eounty, recently and bit a number of sheep belonging to E. N. Clark. A few daysafter! Ularkshired man, named Bchmidt, toot tho palta from tlie sheep. Bchmïdt had acutonthe back of liis hand which came in contact with the blood ut the sneep, and a few days later the unfortunate man was taken with all the sy mptoms of hj'drophobia. and died in great agony. There are 334 postofBces in Michigan of tin' fourth clasa where tbesalary allowcd is less tlian !() a qnarter, and 901 where it is botweon Slü and $20 per quarter. ïhirtythree postolh'ces receivo in exress of $40 per quarter, which places them almost in reacn of the Presldsntial class, as they begin with íl,(X0 a year, or $250 per quarter. Emanuel Myers, nged 07, ot Jnckson, in a lit of jealousy, shot and mortally wounded bis wife, aged twenty yoars. Aftor an all night wnke over the corpse of a child of Horace Sebrmg of Grand Rapids, the father got into a dispute with his wife over tbe preparations for the funeral, and grabbinir a large cheese knife a foot long. slabbed his wife and motlierin-law. cansins bad but not serious injuries. A complaint was lodged against iiim of assault with intent to do great bodiiy una. In the St. Clair eonnty poorhouse there is a well dressed, welleduoated min whose case is singular. He was picked up by the authoritie8 who found both bis feet so badly fro.en that aniputation was necessary to save his life. Ho is niildly insaue andgives neither his name nor place of residence. Ttirnntrh tliA lonHftrshin nf Afiï Tlirn Morehouse of Burton, Bhfawassee county, a raoverneut has heen commenced for the establishment of a house for aged and infirra deaf mutes and for the orphan :.i il ren of Uhiuwas eo county. It will be open to the state and subscriptions will be receivod from any one. The business men of Clare have organized an association to encourage settlers and manufacturer.-i to lócate there. The Miehig.ic business men's assooiation will hold a meeting in Gi'and Rapids on the 15th and lüth prox. One day last week, at Mendon, George Henkie's dog tried to cross the St Joe river, Imt the ico was broken and the animal WEi in imminent danger of drowniug, when a New Foundland ilog belonging to Dr. Shepard crawled carefully through slush and ice to his iminisoned brother, grabbed him by the neck and cautiously crept back to shore. The grand encampmont of Michigan Odd(ellows was hold in Muskegon. The report shows 10!) enciimpments in tuis juridiction, with a memlier.-lüp of .1,01S. The otBcers elected weio; John B. Alwanl of Camden, ü. P. : Andrew Harshaw of Alpena, Q. H. P. : Jame M. Crosby of Spring port, G. S. W. : E. H. Whiney of Lansing, G. S. : A. D. Gruickshank ól Uharlovoix, G. J. W.

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