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13
Month
May
Year
1887
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Wllliam Wade, foreman of tho Kiver stave eompany in Trenton, was in a saloon in tbat vlllage tht; other evenlng in company willi :i number of others, ainnng wliiini was WllUam Hink, a young man wlin lias ïnr some time heen regarded as lialf cra.y. Without anj warning Hurk grabbed n i-arvitiac knifo and plunged it in wade's neck, lunictlng dangerous if not fatal injuries. Burk eseaped, but was Bubsequently arrested and taken to Detroit and lodgod in jail. There is liltle doubt that Burk is a very dangerous lunatlc. Be lias an [dea that he was defendlng himseff i' rom a ííanderous attack. Only the day before the stabbing occurred the young man 's f'riends hart instituted proeeedings to get him in one of the asjinms. A wiiid storm in the upper península the other aiternoon did about f?100,000 damages. The veloeity of the wind was seventy-tive and eighty miles au hour in many placeq. Dlspatches trom every city. irive reporta Of heavy damages. 'i'owns 11 Uic ilenominee range ar? damaged the most. At QiiiiiiiCi.ee, ('rystal l-'alls. Noj. way and Iron Mountain buildings were unroofed, store fronte smashed in, barns and ourbnüdiims demolished. At Quinnesec Firemen's hall wasentlrely destróyed. In foresto many thousands of dollars damage was done to standing tiniber and a nuniber of easualtles tn lunibermèn reported'. In the roj.j.er district the storm was uct ijuiie ao severe. The töwns on the beautiful Tawas Bay ure boomlng with a boom that is real and Bubstaittial. During win ter and spring sixty-four dweiling house have been built and more are In prooess of ereetion. Not r tenement house is for reut and several families ajé boarding at Imtels awaiting hmisos. Jlilo Kastman, Etobért Merrick and Temple Kmery have bought a location nn the bay west of the Detroit, Bay City A: Alpena railroad passender depot and will erect a ÏO.OOO hotel immediately. Piisiolli.c iBgpactbt A. M. James Qf Chicago has arrested a carrier in the Grand Rápida (■Hice named James L. Hurnj-, charged with robbLng the mails. Two decoy letters containing nioney were found 011 hiin. The depfedatiöns have been going 011 l'or two ïnontlis. Letters to.ljajiks and bi'.sinoss mrn have been rilled. i'hc total stealings are estimatcil at S(,000 In. cash and drafts. Uarry'was lódgfcd in jail at Grand Kapids lor tiial in the United Stafes court Mary lioar and Mand MeDonald, yoüng ladies of Lake Linden, while rlding on the Koek train on the Hecla & Toren Lake railroad, feil bctween the rars and were run over. Miss lloar was instantly killed, the head being severed trom her body. Mis McUonáld was badly mangled about the body and limba. Botb of her lower llmbs were amputatcd at the (,'alumet hospital, lier ri.cuvcry s impOBSlble. On June I the t'tirnaces Of the Calumet Sc Hecla srueltiug works at Lakë 'Linden. will begiu operations. Several hundred men will bc giveu employinént from the start, and on the strength of the establishment ui these mammoth lurnaces there been and still is a lively real estáte boom. Öne eonsequenpe of this new ennrpri-e will be the closing down of the furnace at Hancock. Manager Mulliken of the Detroit l.ansihg & Northern, lias ingpecting the route lor the new rond. which will be 51 miles )llg, and as straight as pO88ible, betWeen .ansiug and Qiand Rapids raaking the hortèst route between Grand kapids and Jet mil. contract for the construction vill be Ift May l.ï, and the road will be eady foi business by November. The ia'in residence of Archie Muilen, n the tówhshlp of lig Rapids, took Bre juin the kltcheu stove a few dáysagoand, wiiA ifs. contenta, was destrojed. Mis. Muilen, w 1 1 r , was alone in the house, was lurned some about the head and face vhile endeavorlng to save geoda trom the tpper Hoor. There was no Insurance. The jury in the case of Kred Joscelyn, charged with shooting Daniel Jlorrison at Uenderson, t'ailcd to agree. Morrison went to the school room where Joscelyn taught, got into an alteroation with Joscelyn tor whipping his boy and in a melee which foliowed Morrison was fatally sIiol. A decisión in favor of the defendanls has been rendered in the BUprëme court in the case of the Michigan & Ohio railroad vs. W, J. Dibble, administrator of the efltata of ('has. 1'. Dibble, for the recovery of a .-",, 000 Bubscription given in aid of the road. The Vpsilanti Savings Bank company is the name of a new Corporation recently organized ander the state law, with 1). Balcholder president, S. M. Cutcheon of Detroit vice-president, and R. V. Hemphill cashier. The Tuscola covinty' agricultural soeiety has decided to bold a spring slock show this spring at Vassar. May 25 and 2rt have been the days set for the same. There wil! alsu be some speed premiums offered. The 30,000 ton stock pile at the York mine, In [ahpemtng, whlch lias been an eyesore for a few yean, lias been soll for nearly ?'oo,ooo and will be shlpped at (incc and the mine resume operations. Col. .lames Gowan. fot wlioni the town six miles ïiorth of Greenville was named, die-d of hcart discase at Chicago a few days ago. He was for yeais quite an exk-nsive lumber ïnaimfactuni-. I.eroy Karr of Greenville was morlally wouiidcl by a large stone crnshing hirn in a hole yhirh líe ws (ligging in whicb to bury the stone. 11e lived but six hours. Be leaves a bride of fcwo weeks. The amount of primary school Interest fund. distributed to tin1 srver.il COUntles 0Í I the state in the semi-annua] apportionmeni jusi made, is $861,278. The rate per caiita is 00 cents. Tlie Gaylord Herald says tully 9,000 gallons of maple syrup will )e manufaoturcd in Otseo county this spring, w liilc the quantlty of sugar made will probably rcach 15,000 pounds. Tlie stute amendment assoclation lias Issnod its cali for a mass state convention of all temperance people, Irrespectlve of j political preferences, to be held in Detroit May 17 and 18. A Bjg Raplds man has been pioeeputed for kéeping his boy out of school and required to pive a S100 bond tliat lic will send the boy to school twenty weeks in the jear. Deputy Uailroad Coinniissioner Kan-om of this state asks the inter-state coniinission to relieve Michigan roads froni the "haul" elause during the season of navigation. George Weller, a noted character of Coldwater. djropped dead the other das. He was one of the wealthiest men in thal Iocality, and the most dlssólnte. John llnrd of Bridgeport, Conn., has sued the M. & O. railroail to recover 50.000 daniage for injuries he sustained on the line in this state a year ago. The Chicago & Grand Tronk railroad ran over and crlppled OonradFry's 2-yeaw old child at Corunna last i'all and has just pald S2,500 dainages. The coumion counell of Sagluaw has decided that Mayor Shacklcton nnit bc "investigated" for his allegod cotnplloity in the IJakin bribcry. Prof. Moseley of the Grand TCapids high school, will leave for thé Phillippine Islande in the ]'aciiie oöeao ut the close of the school j'uar. Miss McDonald of Lake. Linden, the young lady whose limbs were cut otï by an OM car. has lecovercd Jïoni the shock, and will live. The annual reunión of tlie BOldiers' and sailOTs' assoclation of Macoinb and Si. flair counties will be held at Port Iluron InJuly. Ex-fifiV, Begoíe has donated the union schooi district of Flint a cholee cabincl of mineiTils nunibering several hundred specimens. The Spring Lake vil lage fathers have rejected ev,erj saloon bond as insufflcfe.nl and there's a beerand whisky famine. Attorney-Geiíeral Taggart decides thal there is nothing in the law to prevent a .sheriff iilso serving asvillage marshal. A. C. Braddock. one of the oldest .-al! manufacturen In South BayClty, has beén appointed deputy salt Inspector. Thos. Hlckfl was killed at the Franklin eoppcr mines at Ilought on thé other aftérnoon by an explosión of powder. Alonzo Iimis, living near Calesburg. lied the other day froni injuries reeeived from the kick of a horse. James B. ïhorn lias been appointed jostmaster at lludson, vioe W. ï. 1$. Schernierhorn, deceased. Josepli Espott, a resident of Michigan luce 1838, died at thereeidenee of his son n üig Kapids April 27. S. I!. Manseii, a hlghly respected citi,éu of ('iildwater, died at J.os (edcles. Cal., on the 3d i rist. Dr. Frederifk Wlieeloek, oñe of the lii-st ettlers of Calhoun coiiuty, died in Albinn he other day. Sarah McLean, the Jacksou vman ac■used of poisoning, lias been acqultted. Robbers vlsited C. C. Courtrlght of llomer the other night and seciirèd 5500. It costs nine cents per day per man to eed the conyicts iu Jackson. John Colenian (jf Xorway was killed by i fa'lling tree the other day. The salt nmnnfaotories on the St. Clair iver have all shut down. Xeai iy evèry mili on the Saginaw rlyer is in operation. Forest fires are raging in the upper península; Pontiac Is.to have a conservatory of music. .

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