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31
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October
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1879
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Bizer, the architect of the Adrián grand tand, waved examination Wednesday. and was bonnd over tor trial at the Circuit Court. The Flint & Pere Marquette Kailway are to erect a wire fence along the line of the westera diyision of their road between East Saginaw and Ludington, where not already f enced. Dr. Helen M. Bissell, a gradúate of the New York medical college, has been appointed to the charge of the female department of the Kalatnazoo Insane Asylum. She has had a lerge hospital expe'ience, and ishighly recoinmended. A 3-year old child of George Powella of Forestville feil into a kettle of boiling water Taesday night and was so badly scalded that it oannot recover. The Cass connty board of supervisors has econded that of Van Buren oounty by appropriating $3,000 for the capture of the murderer of Mr. and Mrs Morris. Jacob M. Burr. keeper of the Chebi.ygan lignthouse for the past two years, died on the 12th. A petition has been nnmerously signed risk ing for the appointment of his widow to the vacancy. Daniel Harrington, of Woodbridge, Hillsdale county. was thrown f rom his wagon in a runawav on the 17th and instantly killed, his neok being broken. He was an uld and respected citizen . The Board of Regent met again on Wednesday and disoussed at length and with considerable warmth, Regent Granfs charges against Prof. Kose and Rose's reply, but no definite action was taken. The sum of $100 was appropriated for the purchase of the portrait of the Hon. John D. Pierce, the first snperintendent of public instruction, and one of th'! earliest friends of the university. The oommittee in charge of the erection of the museum was instructed, if a necessary contingency should arise, to expend a urn not exoeeding 500 upon the erection and completion of said building beyond the contract price : also to contract for and expend a sum not exoeeding $4,000 for cases, shelving. and putting of f urniture in said museum building Wednesday evening, L. P. Eisick and one f the convicts at the State Houbo of Oorrection at Ionia undertonk to handle some ganoline, and while doing so Charles Christol, spilled a pailtul upon the üoor, which, ignited, burning him so badly that he died next morning. Easick, while trymg to rescue Christol, was also burned veiy badly, but it is thought will At Battle Oreek, Octobor 20, Mrs. Susan Cousadine feil down stairs and was instantly killed. She was 83 years of age. Homer Smith, while locating land near Bcekman's camp, Alpena county, had a narrow escape f rom being devoured by wolves. Not arriving at the camp at night, search wus made for him, and he was found ns-hting a pack of woive with a stick. His clothes were partly torn off him by the savage brutes in their attempts to bite him. When discovered he was nearly exhausted and could not have held out niuch longer. Bendry's saw mili at Baraga, Lake Superior, was burned on the 20th with one hundred thousand feet of lumber belonging to J. B. Smith. Total loss. Mr. L. A. Labadie, of White Pigeon, has a magnificent golden eagle. He obtained it near Grand Rapids, and keeps it living in a large cage in ornamented grounds at his residence. This bird measures Beven feet eight inches f rom tip to tip of the wings, and is probably w i..wSCn,t cagle in the United States. Judge Pratt of Hillsdale has been sufïering prooarjty1 J8Pnífe" JíSP.CatÍJPÍfe. n&Z}M, next spring. The dwelling of 8. 8. Conover, at Manistee, was burned Wednesday nignt; loss, 36,000; inurancB, t4,6t'O. As was to have been expected a movement is on foot among some members of tha Lenawee county board of supervisors to petition the prosecuting attorney to drop all proceedings against the parties on whom the coionor's Jury tixed the ïesponsibility for the grand stand disaster. Prof. Rose of the University commenced suit by summons Friday afternoon against the Asn Arbor Register, for libel, laying his damages at ten thousand dollars. The canse is supposed to be a statement about an annoymous letter to Dr. Wm. Cahoon, Secretary of the defunct Grand River Piaster Company. Albert Beek, the young man who took an overdose of morphine at Lansing Thursday, died Friday morning. By the side of the mardered surveyor Ives in Taymouth, Saginaw county, was found part of the gun with which he had evidently been killed. After a prolonged search the reet of the gnn has been fonnd in the Flint river. It is an important link in the evidence against the supposed mnrderer, Barnum, now awaitjng trial. The grand lodge of Good Templara in gestión at Kast Saginaw eleoted and installed the f ollowing officers : G. W. C. T. - John Evans, Bellevue. O.W.S.-Ë.H.Sunfier1.''"" G. T.- J. H. Hartwell, HartweJi w, . Superintendent Juyenile Cadets - Mrs. M. M. Potter. ünder an order of the United States district court ior the eastern district of Michigan, Dr. H. C. Votter , receiver of the Flint and Pere Marquette railway, has contracted for 10,000 tons of steel rails, to be delivered between December next and June, 1880,. to be laid mainly we6t of the öaginaw river. This, with what is already laid, will give over 200 miles ateel rails on this road. Jacob D. Crouch, residing six or seven miles ■outh of Jacksou. was robbed at his residence Friday night, of $1,000 in cash, and a certifícate of deposit for $600. H i had drawn the xnoney in the afternoon intending to use it in the parchase of a mortgage which a party wished to sell him, but on arising in the morning he found the cash and the certifícate had disappeared. Samuel R. Smith, a middle-aged man who resides with his daughter in the vicinity of Potterville, Eaton county, was struck by Saturday's afternoon eastern bound train on the Grand Trunk, while Crossing a bridge two miles f rom Charlotte, and killed instantly. Mr. Oscar D. Chapin, a prominent citizen of East Saginaw, died at his residence in that city on Friday at the age of 53 Mat. Fit; h, the villain who shot bis wife and little daughter in Hadley, Lapeer county, ■ome days ago and for whom an armed sëarch has been ever since made through the woods in that locality, was captured Snnday morning and is now in the Lapeer lock-up. A desperate attempt was made to lynch him by the enraged citizens while on his way to jail, bnt it failed. The 12 miles f rom Hadley to Lapeer was a race for life, and the jail had to be heavily guarded. Albert G. Hickensbaugh, a miner in the South of Walker's mine, at Jackson, was mothrred to deatd by firt-damp in the entry way 23 feet from the air sbaft. The body was recovered by John Patterson, whose light went out, and he narrowly escaped the same fate in the attempt. Hickensbaugh was a young man of 19, recently from Pennsylvania. The State Fish Commissioners are making arrnngements for 20,000,000 white fish ova, which they intend, to plant in the great lakes. This is a much larger quantity than ever before distributed. The commissioners will uot plant any more whitetish in the interior lakes at present. William Withiam, a farmer in the town of Burton, Genesee county, shot on Monday morning and instantly killed George Khinehart, who was cleaning out a county ditch through Withiam's land. Khinehart was acting under the orders ot the drain commissioner and ref used to quit work when ordered to do so. He lived in F, int and leaves a wife and two children. Withiam is a man 64 years old, of violent temper and has had trouble with his neighl:ors frequently. Heisan old settler of the township and has a wife and family of grown up chilëren. He was arrested and now lies in the Flint jail. About 3 o'elock Tuesday morning the barn of David öoper, two miles north of Grass Lake, was discovered in ñames. Three valuable horses, four hogs, 600 bushcls of wheat, 300 bnshels of corn in the ear, farming utensils, Bheds, straw and stalk stacks were reduced to asheF. The fire was probably set by tramps. The store, dwelling house and barn belonging to J. W. Switzer of Davis, Macomb county, were burned Tuesday morning. Loss about $5,000. The Michigan north-woods are f uil of hunters, many coming from New York, Indiana, Ohio, and even f urther south, to particípate in the deer hunting. The shooting is reported véry fair. The Michigan Ooal Company, at their f haft four miles west of Jackson, liaye struck coal at a depth of seventy-three feet. They are making three shif ts of men day and night, and expect soon to take out firBt-c!ass coal and begin to make shipments. The vein discovered ís four feet thick. Hayden's warehouse at Tecumseh was burned Tuesday morning with most ot' its contents. Loss $6,000; insurance, $3,000. TueBday morning the large steamer Amazon coming to Grand Haven from Milwaukee in a seyere gale made an attempt to enter the hitrbor aud struck the bar outside. In getting off the course was changed and tho heavy sea drove her ashore outside the pier. where she bc came f astened and it was impossible to get her off. The waves and swells prevented the approach of tugs and she soon became a wreek. The passengere were all taken off in nftj and part of the freight thrown overrd and saved in a damiged condition. She - over 930 tons of freight, uf which thire HJ bwT.l f S.ur, ud dr.w f Ut 14 feet of water. The Amazon was owned by the Northwestern Transportation Company and insured for $30,000. X'he actual lona on ship and cargo will be abont $150,000. Detroit in Brief. A party of one huudred and nfty Cauadians, bouad for Manitoba, with 21 cars of freight and hurses, arrived by the Great West. rn and departed by the Michigan Central on Tuesday. Another party of nearly two hundred emigrants went west over the Michigan Central Wednesday. Dr. Louis Davenport, a well-known physician of this city, was found dead in his office on Croghan street about 5 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon. He died of heart disease, accelerated by the death of hia mother, Mrs. Sarah Davenport, who died that morning. The Kepublican city convention met Thursand noniinated the following ticket: Mayor - Wm. G. Thompson. City Clerk- Max Hochgraef. Treasurer - Wm. Parkinson, City Attorney- Francis G. Russell. Justices of the l'eace - Phelix A. Lemkie, C. H. Borgman and Daniel öheehan. The Greenback city convention met Saturday and after a somewhat turbulent meeting decided to pnt no independent ticket in the field but to recommend a support of the Kepublifjan ticket. A ininority withdrew and nominated a ticket headed by Joseph A. Labadie for mayor. A joint stock company has been orgnnized with $30,000 stook taken, and the building formerly known as Hotel Hesse, on the corner of Gratiot avenue and Antoine street, has been purchased to be used for anew Detroit college to be called the Michigan College of Medicine. Drs. Lyster, Brodie,Kerr,Mulheron and Leonard are members of the faculty. Olinics at the college building will be opened at once. The preliminary term will begin early in March, 1880. The regular term will begin early in the following September and continue six months. The trial of Mrs. Curtiss for the murder of Ella Losoder. which occ.upied the Superior Cour for several days, ended Sunday morning in a verdict of not guilty. Early Tuesday morning during a galeón the Detroit River the large schooners Niágara, Kelderhouse and Porter came into collisiou at the head oL belle Isle. The Porter waa sunk and all three were badly damased. The sunken vessel was loaded with 56,000 bushels of barley and both veBsel and cargo will probably be a total Iosb. The schooner was valued at $45,0U0. Detroit has a tobáceo house which spends an average of $1,000 a day for stamps. A forcé of 1,230 men are employed at the shops of the Michigan Car Company, and there are orders on hand to keeD the establishment buiy uutil the lst of February. MISCELLANEOUS. Gottlieb Noller, a farmer, near Berea, O., was awakened Tuesday night by hearing footsteps in the house. Before he could ise trom hi bed, bc was shot dead. His wife, awakened by the firing, was shot twicc on attempting to get np,and left for dead. An ïdiot son who tried to escape was shot in the face by the murderer and left tor dead. The latter ooming to eonscionsness, made hls way to a n'eihbor's and gave the alarm. Suspicion pointed to Lewis Noller, a son aged 23, as the murderer. Detectives were put on his track, aud he was arrested in the union depot, at Cleveland Wednesday afternoon, as h? was boarding a train tor Chicago. On the way to the jail the prisoner confessed that he shot his father, mother and brother, though he claims The American woman suffrage association will hold its annual meeting at Oincinnati, beginning Tuesday evening November 4. Bethany, Brooke county, West Virginia, has been troubled for tome months past by the attempts of some person to fire the town. A few months ago the atables of Mr. Locke were burned to the gr.und, and last week the barn ot Col. Alexander Campbell waa totally destroyed, both the work of the incendiary's torch. Thursday morning the fire-bug nttempted the destruction of Bethany College, valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The fire broke out in the north wing of the building at 8 o'clock in the morning, and owing to the scarcity of water and the ineffective means for putting out fires the wing was totally destroyed, the blackened walls only being left standing. A special from Grayson, Ky., relate u.- 200 men rode into Martinsburg, Elliott county, Monday night, surrounded the jail, overpo'wered the jailer and took two prisoners, John W. Kendall and Wm. McMillan, to a tree near by and hanged them until dead. The men hanged were known to belong to a gang of outlaws. Thesteamer Louise. from Algiers. África, arrived at New Orleans Thursa. "■-- tain reports that on the night of the 18th he picked up in the Bahama channel 17 aurJ'vors of the burncd steamer Neuvo Paiaro del Océano, including Capt. Diaz and two niateiy the steamer had a crew, oe á"Liamity ccurred. BaKPïeétiïfett'SPere in ajier.hig tir'uuating ueÉttffio'fioürV. A.t Moadville, Pa., on Friday afternoon 12 inches of snow feil. It waa reported in CLicago Friday that the body of a man wafl found on the lake shore, near Follestone, Ind., that afternoon, npon whose clothes and sleeve-buttous were the initials of Webb, who accompanied Prof. Wise in his balloon ascensión from 8t. Louis. The body was otherwise unrecognizable on account of decompoeition and bruises. One thouaand and twenty-eight emigrants arrived at Castle Oarden, New York, Saturday. In consideration of the fajts that emigration to America this year is unprecedented in point of numbers, and that the emigration of 1880 is expected to be larger than that of the present year, the emigration commissioners, together with officers of societies which help to takc care of newly-arriyed immigrante, have made especial efforts to gather accurate iuformatiou conccrning the districts which offer the best advantage to settlers. Daring the present year the New York emigration commissionera have helped about 20,0(i0remigrants to get to the western atates. No one has returnedHanlan has challeneed Courtney to row a second match for the f6,000 prize at Washington, and the challenge has been accepted. The date has not yet been agreed upon. The whole number of new cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis last week were 81: white 21, colored 10. Total to Saturday, 1,511. Total deaths from yellow fever tor the week 14; whites 12, colored 2, Total to date, 47U. The fever epidemie has been offioially declared terminated, and the city is open to commerce. Chief of Pólice Kenneay of Milwaukee has begun a civil suit in the circuit court atainst the proprietors of the Senticel of tbat city, claiming f25,000. The complaint charges libel, and is based upon an article which appeared in the Sentinel Thursday. Bail was fixed at f 5,000. Special Agent Adams who was sent to the camp of the hostile Utes to recover the women and childrea captured at Milk River, was succeBsful in his mission and reached Gen. Merritt's camp on tho 2;ld inst. He then retnrned to hostile the Indians, intending to visit Chief Ouray. Burrlars pntered the fur store of Burkhardt & Co., in Cincinnati, Saturday night, and carried away 26 line sealskin sacqnet, valued at about f 5,00(1. No clue to the robbers is yet discovered. The standard silver dollars coined to date are 44,343,850. OL this number, 12,222,101 are in circulation, the remainder in the treasury. The fifth annual convention of the Woman's National Temperance Union met at the First Baptist church in lndianapolis, Wednesday. A large number of delegates were present. The third biennial meeting of the Evangelical Alliance of the United States comuienced at the Second Presbyterian Church at öt. Louis Tuesday night. Delegates were present from all partB of the country. The sessiors continued through Wednesday and Thursday. The Bteamship England arrived at New York Tuesday mornir.g trom Liverpool. When the cargo was about to be unloaded a man was found leaning against a orate, who faintly gaBped out "water." He was terribly emaciated and weak. He was anked if he had been all these days while the ship was at sea without food and drink, and he nodded once, shuddered and died. The body was sent to the morgue. The England leLt Liverpool Ootober 15, und the stowaway must have been 13 days without food or water. The cabinet-makers of San Francisco bave begun a general strike for an ad varice of 25 cents. Two freight trains carne n colisión Tuesday near Williamstown, Mass., on the Troy and Boston IÍ lilroad, causing damsge to cars and locomotives of $20;000. The remains of Geo. Burr, the un fortúnate companion of Prof. Wise in the late disastrous balloon ascensión from St, Louis, arrived there Tucsday mormng, and were followed to the grave in the afternoon by a large number of friends. POLITICAL. The vote cast in Ohio on October 14 for State officers was ofhcially counted at Columbus Thursday, with the following result: Total vote for (iovernor, divided aafollows: Poster, Rep., 336,261; Ewing, Dem., 319,132; Stewart, Prohibition, 4,145; Piatt, Nat., 9,129; Foster's inajority over Ewing, 17,129., The official canvas of the Ohio election shows that all the proposed amendments to the state constitution werd lost. Ooi. Gillespie, Republioan nominee for licutenant governor f Loainiana, tiulii.M tha uominatioa. PERSONAL. Count Scbouvaloff is said to be seriously ill. 'f lio Pope has sent 6,000 francs for the relief of the sufferers bv the rloods in the province of Murcia, Spain. The Hon. Stanley Matthews will deliver the oration befure the society of the army of ttie Cumberland. Mrs. Nellie SartorÏR, accompanied by her husband, will sail for this country in a few weeks. Mr. öladstone was warmly welcomed in Venice. fcjir Richard T. Gindersly, formerly vicechanceüor of Great Britain, ís dead. The Hun. John C. New tclegraphs from Sacramento, Cal., that Geu. Grant will viait Indianuolis November 21), The Emperor William, Gen. Von Moltke and all the ministers and ambassadors now in Berlín were present Friday at the funeral of the late Minister Von Bulow. Mrs Hayes, Webb Hayes and Miss Fannie Hayes left Washington Monday evening for New York to attend the marnage of Gen. J. S. Fullcrton, of 8t. Louis, and Miss Morgan, daughter of Ex-gov. Morgan, of New York. The Hon. Lt. A. Brown, Hepublican State Senator-elect to the Ohio Legislature, died Sunday nipht at Hillsboro. President Hayes has sent a telegrwn to Gen. Grant, inviting Mm to be the President s guest when he visits Washington. roaEiGN. The Bpanish committee having in charge the subject jf slavery have adopted, by a vote of 16 to 5, a report proposing that slavery be aboli6hed in üuba, but the negroes who are enfranchised during the maxi mnm period of five years continue to work for their present masters, receiving not less than 10 piasters per month. The öpanish authorities say that the loss of lite by the fioods in the districtB of Murcia, AUcante, Almeri and Cartagena will exceed 2,uoa The lossfs of property by floods in Murcia, Spain, exceed 50,080,000 francs. A telegram from Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday, says: Severe rains in this island from the llth until tho 14th did serions injury to property in Kingston, St. Andrew, and the Port ftoyal mountains. Some 18 lives were lost in Kingston, while horses, mules, sheep, goats. huge trees and timber, bridges, houses and sacks of cofEoe and plantain trees were swept out to sea. Great distress prevails among the poor. The telegraph lines have been thrown down and communication with many districts is stopped. Business is almost entirely suspended in consequence. lt is conridently expected that the workmen from the two eitremites of the 8t. Gotharri tunnel will meet midway in the monntaiu before New Year's day. The five men hanged for complicity in the massacre at the British embassy at Cabul include Kotwal, head of the city moliahs, and two generáis of roya) blood. One of ihe gen orolc, t in cburgcd, drs;rcJ Hie lieHU trt ma], Cavagnari from the British residency to Bala Hissar. A dispatch dated Yokohama, October 11, says: The cholera is rapidly aubsiding, 150,00Ó cases since April and 85,000 deaths. The suppression is due to the unprecedented energy of the government in sanitary expenditures. The authorities claim that the epidemie would have been under control two months ago had not European representativos opposed, instead of seconding their efforts. The Emperor William oponed the Prussian diet on Tuesday and read the speech in person. The lower house postponed the electio of nresidfrit ttntíL 'rhiirsday. Thr ..(.['''■ house re-elected the tonner officers. ïhe official statistics of the recent inundadations in Murcia, Spain, show that four-hfths of the arable land is ruined ana 3,000 persons are missing.

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