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Day
6
Month
May
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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MASON1C- Fraternity No. 262. Special- Friday evening, May 8. Work on Secoud degree. Visitingbrotliers cordially welcomed. Greexmax, Sec'y. 'l yr Chas. Schleicl-.er, forbeins drunk wüi serve 90 daysin the Detroit House of corree tiom. The flower thieves are on deck agaln this spring. Shot guns are the only sure cure for people troubled with this species of kleptomania. Arthur Poland was feent to the Detroit House of Correction by JusticePond Monday, on a charge of throwing stones at ïtocco Disderide. S. "W. Beakes, of the Argus, was elected treasure rof the Democratie Associated Press of Michigan at their meeting in Detroit last week. Being a postmaster hO is supposed to be %vell gtocked with funds - or at leaat more so than the average democratie editor. The two young fellows who tampered with a registered letter at t hts p. o. here feome weeks ajjo, had their examination befoire the grand jury at Detroit yesterday and an indictment was found against them. They will be tried at -the next term of the,U. S. court in 'Detroit. A fine book confcaining the city charter and ordinances, has come f ron? the printer, and is being distributed. There has been an edition of 2,000 copies printed eo that each householder can have one ty calling upon the city clerk. The excellent shape the ordinances are in represents a greaí deal of hard ivor'k, much of whifJr is due i o lex-Aklerman Prettyman, whe has done íaithful (service in the city's interest. Mr Smith, o. f 'the Monroe Democrat, pnys the memory of Robei-t Sha-nnon rhi.s tribute : "In memory of nofoert Hhannon, of Ann Arbor, there ■■ imi - ; i 'the eye of n,any a typo, the uab:dtXsn tear of reret. His quiet. unohtruivc li.'e was hidden in the oompoiiiig' tooms of newspaper offices, bu+. his m: -ri ing hand placed in medh'anical order, the crudities of inexperienced writers and- let the truth Bhime - the treasured storehouse of his bram often gave thought and direction to the leadere of the editor-in-dhief. The 'form' of Kobert Shannon is 'locked up' in deatli, but more fragrant than 'the flowers that decked his casket will his memory blossom in t!he hearts of the newspaper fello'w-craft, and of all who knew him, and knowing him were wiser and better for that knowledge." There was a Bhrewd and nearly successful attempt at jail breaking at our county jail last week. The prisoners had dug through the cement and stone flooring of two feet in thickness, into the cellar back of the f urnace, and the only thing that remained between them and Hbeity was a large istone that could easily have been remorved at the proper time. The mass of debris, cement and stotae, taken out of the hole was wrapped up in tnewspa,pers and stowed away on 'top of the cells so as not toi be in view from the corridors. It was the most ingenious piece of work ever attempted here, and was dome bo neat that ecarcely a trace could be discovered pf the work. It Is thought that a prisoner known as Dave Wixom is the fellow who did the ob, as he appears like a shrewd character Sh.eriff Judsoa caa thank fortune that he discovered the work just as he did, for in a íew houTs later the 'birds would have stown and it vould have been too late There were fco.me twelve prisoners in jail h,t the time including the irrepressible Jimmie Blithman.

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