Michigan Briefs

MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

Measles in Jackson Prison. - What was feared might be smallpox in Jackson prison has developed into measles. There are two cases at present.

His Coffee Pot Exploded. - Charles McDermond of Sunfield was severely scalded about the face by the explosion of a pail of coffee he was heating on the stove.

Woman Sent Up For Drunkenness. - Mrs. Agnes Arnold, a member of a good Kalamazoo family, has been sentenced at Battle Creek to sixty-five days at the Detroit house of correction for drunkenness.

Died on His Birthday. - George Washington Whipple of Kalamazoo, aged seventy-seven years, died Thursday, the anniversary of his birth. He was an old resident of Kalamazoo and well known. The cause of death was heart failure.

Street Cars Running. - The circuit of Menominee and Marinette was made for the first time by the cars of the Menominee & Marinette Street Railway company Thanksgiving day.  The work of laying the tracks has been entirely completed.