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Day
30
Month
July
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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■ - T ' - arr ínstí" llíteri tt) Ich Ter .envonior. - & n nit-dfj hg E Uiblii d éi about to be locatei ■.:.-■■ dWttteft - J. Li Behjaniin of Eomeo raintd California saltnon in artificial lakes. -=- Several saw-mills Oh the Menominee river cut from 900 to i ,000 logs tl day. - Searchers af tet cool breezes are moving toward Petoakey in large dukh bei% - Mrs. Thales Scovel of near LesÜe, dfopped dead Sunday. Slie w as subject to flts. - Edward Kline of East Saginaw, 8 years old, feil from a log on Monday and drownet'i - It cost a Báttle Creek merchaiit $700 to satisfy hittiself he couldn't beat a three card ttlonte dealer. - tn ÖWosso tl:iy had a pretty young lady to take the census, and lt is Claimed that there was no one ntissed - There are now two new salt well betng bored at Midland, which havo reached the depth of 1-50 and 200 feet. - An overdose of morphine earried off M, Boynton,a Grand Rápida sewing machine agent. Ilis cheek couldn't save him. - Lewellyh E, Woodiö forttierly sheriff of Mohioe .County has been ai pninted tndian agent at Oteo,Neb.,vice R. Gust, fesignedi -The upper península, with its 8.5,000 inhabitantSi coupled with ether cohsiderations, ill entitle lt shortly to a career of statehoodi - A son of H; B. Taylor of Covert, Van Buretl Cüi, Was instantly killed Saturday by beihg throWh from a load of wheat and run oven -The Post and Tfibuhe publishes a column headed "The Gentle Sex." Tha editor hasn't yet refused his wife a trip to the summer resorts. - Marquette county ships over 1,000,000 tons of iron ore a year, but the rails for the new railroad being built there are broüght from EngJand. The Rev. Benjamin ïteeVë of Eöscommon, a minister of the M. E. church, says that it takes one month to take the entire round of his ciimiit. - Mrs Wm. Farmon of Porter, Van Buren county, took an overdose of morphitie to álleviate pain arising from a fracture of the skull, and died. -Rev. H. C. Peck of Hanover, has been permitted to stop preacbingi He caned a boy, and people believed that was not the proper thing for a minister to do. -The State has piirchaséd for the ag ricültutal college PcH DUchess and calf of Avery and Murphy of Port Huron fov $1,000, She is the hlost expensive aniihai ever owiied by the college. -Th e oat erop in the región of Sti Clair will be a very heavy one - the largest in years, in fact. Corn on the lands is looking splendidly and Wlll be the heaviest erop in yearsi - J. R. Burgess of Leoiii township, Jackson cotmty, has had four acres of strawberry vines destroyed by some species of worm which, af ter a brief existehCe, changes to a miller and flies away. - Sixteen electric lanterns have been put up by the Grand Rapids Electric Ligiit ana Power Lompany, in sx of the principal storea Sf4, places of that city, and. OJ-5 liapids is now one of thP cities permauently supplied with I the electric light. -Two fresh water eels were caught from one of the docks in front of East Saginaw, a day or two since, and the aunouncement will créate some interest, inasmuch as it has not been heretofore delinitely known that eels were indigenous In Michigan waters. - Friday af ternoon as Malcom Clarke, the superintendent of a saw-mill in üungerford, Muskegon Co., was working about a circular saw, a board flew trom the saw and struck him in the chest and then threw him backwards, breaking his skull and killing him instantly. Ilis parents live at Glenway, Ont. He had been identifled with the rnilling business on the Muskegon river for over twenty years. -Charlotte Bepublican: Every man who wants it can find work, and there is no excuse for idleness. Steel rails are diBtributed along the Grand Trunk road for flve miles this side of Milletts vvhere they lie for want of men to put them down. From all over the country comes the cry for more laborers. The tramp is rarely seen now, and there is a wonderful Uecrease of crime. All owing to the prosperous condition of the country. -Miss Jenriie McGraw, daughtef of the late John McGraw of Ithaca, N. Y., was rnarried in Berlin, Prussia, Aug. 14, to Prof. Willard Fiske of Cornell university. The ceremony was perfürmed at the residence of A. D. White, minister to Berlin and president of Cornell. The bride inherited the extensive mili and salt factories built by her father in South Bay City, and is said to be worth $4,000,000 or 85,000,000. Sho is building an expensive residence at Ithaca.

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