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Day
9
Month
June
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Detroit gralu and produce quotations are: WheaWNo. 1 White, 89j@89Jíc; No. 2 Red, 89J@89%c. Flour- Roller process, L00@1.25; patenta, f4.75@5.00. Corn-40c. Oats - No. 2, 28c. Butter- Creamery, 18 19c. Cheese, 13J@13}a Eggs, ll@HKo. The Oscoda Salt & Lumber Company is turning out one thousand telegraph arms i day, boxed and painted, ready to be put pn the poles. Nelson Peters, working at Cade's Camp, pear East Tawas, died recently from drinking poison from a bottle supposed to be whiskey. Por the first month of navigation there were shipped from Cheboygan sixteen million f eet of lumber. A National bank with $50,000 capital is being organized at Negaunee. The stock is all subscribed and the bank will be readr to transact business about June 15. W. J. Grotemut's grocery at Kalamazoe was burned the other evening. Loss, $1,800; Insurance, $1,200. Louis Bertch, of Bay City, a prominent meat dealer and a respectable citizen, accidcntally shot bimsefl through the head parly the other morning and died two hours later. He was fifty-five years of Bge, and leaves a wife and six children. A four-year-old daughter of Mrs. Zsb, ol Detroit, fell into a tub of hot water a few days ago and was fatally scalded. Ben Paine, who had been in jail at Mount Morris, Genessee County, for tover a year pn a charge of burglary, was released repently without trial. The United States Treasury Department has informed the customs collector at Bault Ste. Marie that he must at once stop his illegal practice of permitting goods tor Canada to be landed in Sault Ste. Marie, to be taken across the river on the ferry - boat. If goods are landed on the American side they must pay duty. Frank Gardner, a sailor on the schooner Wagstafl', was seriously hurt at Cheboygan a few days ago while engaged in taking in sail during a gale on Lake Huron. He was taken to the hospital in a dying condition. George N. Feazle, a barber at White Cloud, Newaygo Coun'jy, while practicing with a rifle recently had a cartridge explode, filling his face and eyeswith powder. It was feared that he would lose the sight of both eyes. A jroung man named Koehler, aged eighteen years, working at a circular saw table in Aertz' furniture factory in Detroit, stoopcd under the table the other day for somethingand carelessly allowed his head to tuuch the saw, which spiit his skull, killing him instantly. The Muskegon Car Company has receivedan order to buüJ one hundred cars for the Ft. Wayne, Cincinnati & Louisville railvvay. The wife of Jared S. Lapham, a banker at Northville, Wayna County, wtxo had been traveling in Medico and California, dieü at Anamosa, Ia., a few days ago while oa her way home. The contract has been let for an elevator in the State Soldiers' Home, and plans have been accepted for a system of waterworks, which will protect the home in case of fire and give the veterans all they want to drink in times of peace. A Kalamazoo man has invented an odorless frying pan. If it works successfully with onions he has a fortune in it. One of the greatest curiosities in Clare County for a long time is tha almost com. plete drainage of Beebe lake, The canse was a small ditch dug to let water into the river to assist in driving logs. The f orce of the water was so great that it dug a channel fifty feet deep to the river. John Pieper, aged seventy-three years, who lived with his son John in Detroit, committed suicide by hanging recently. Whisky was the cause. Mr. B. S. Farnsworth has removed from Detroit to Boston, after a continuous residence in the former city since 1827. In that year he left Boston to come West, and located at Detroit. Early the other morning a man named McCrossen, walking on the track of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railroad, at Hurley, was struck by a switch engine and fatally injured. An incendiary fire at four o'clock the othar morning destroyed ten business houses in St. lgnace. Loss, f30,000; insurance less than half. Near Manistee the other night Amos Ehodes shot and killed Louis Michelson because of his suspicious friendship for Mrs. ithodes. George A. Torrance, of Chicago, was arrested in Kalamazoo a few days ago for attempting to pass a forged check on a Chicago bank. Reports to the State Board of Health by fifty-six observers in different parts of the State for the week ended May 28 indicated that dysentery increased, and inflammation of the brain decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at nine places, scarlet fever at ten, typhoid fever at three and measles at twenty-two places. Johnny Bresnahan, aged eleven years, shot himself through the brain at Detroit a íew days ago, while playing with a revolver. Alger County is building a $5,000 courthouse. An oíd clay pipe which was found in the rulns of the Packer fire at Moren ei is thought by some people to have been an important factor in the cause. A new military company is forming in Battle Creek. One brick-yard at Sault Ste. Marie will burn flve million bricks this season. Daniel Masey's three-year-old child feil into a pail of boiling water at Quincy a few days ago and was scalded so that it died in a short time. Muskegon is sinking fifty wells for a water supply. Burglars enterad tha residen oe of E. E. Ellis at Charlotte, the other night and secured $150 in money. Frank Kruse, aged twenty years, employed in the office of tha Lako Angel! ne Mine at Ishpeming, fatally shot himseli while handling a revolver a íew days ago. A large planing-miü belonging to Maxsou & Weatherwax, of Pittsford, was burned to the ground the other night. Loss, $2,000; insured for $1,500. Lansing Presbyterians broke ground a few days ago for a $27,000 church. The ladies of the congregation turned the first iurrow and loaded tho flrst wagon. Burglars stole $160 worth of jewelry from Greorge Ballard's house in Detroit the other evening while the family were out. Tho large mines in the Lake Superior iron districts were recenlly complaining of a lack of cars for transporting ore, and it was feared that the strike of tho Cleveland ore-handlers would still further delay shipments. The Lake Superior Iron Company and several other mines had already been compelled to discharge a number of ore-handlers. The output of the minos would be two million tons larger than last year if transportation could be had. Two million flve hundred thousand shin gles are on the docks at St Ignace wait ing to ba sbipped.

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