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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Detroit gram and produce quotations are: Wheat- No. 1 White, 77c No. 2 Red, 744@74c. Flour- Roller process, $1.00@425; patents, I4.75@5.O3. Coro- No. 2, 423@tó}c. Oats- No. 2, 30c Butter - Creamery, lS@2Oc. Cheese, 9C 9íc. Eggs, 12@12íc. Bradford Bros. stave factory in Detroit was scorched by a $5,000 Ure the other morninj;. At Mus3aukee Junetion a flre the other morning destroyei the shingle shed and over 1OJ.O00 shingles and two G. R. & I. cars; Ios9, 13,000; no insurance. The lire was supposed to have been of incendiary origin. In Ishpeming the other night thieves entered Thomas Pierca's salcon. Two holes were drilled in the saie near the lock, and the door opened without the me of explosives. The thieves got only Í35X Three bags, containing one thousanc silver dollars each were taken f rom the floor of the vault in the Commercial Bank at Port Hurón a few days ago. There was no clew to the thieves. A citizen of Hendon was recently finec for attaching sleigh bell to the harneas of his horsa and dr i ving through the streets. The legal rate of interest will be slx per cent in Michigan after September 25. Land-lookers who arrived at Cheboygan a few days ago reported a tornado passing through southern parts of Cheboygan County in the vicinity of the Rainy river district, and the township of Allia Presque Isle County, doing immense damage to standing pine. On one forty-acre tract not a tree was lef t standing. Tha roads in all directions were completely b'.ocked by falling trees and timber. The party returned leading their borses. Their wagons could not be extricated and were left behind. William S. Everett, who owned and run the Springfleld (Jackson County) flourinj milis for over twenty years, dropped dead a few days ago. Reports to the State Board of Health by sixty-flve observers in different parts of the State for the week ended july 23 indicated that dysentery increased, and consumption of the lungs, bronchitis, tonsilitis, inflammation of the kidneys and neuralgia decreased in areaof prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at twelve places, scarlet fever at twelve, typhoid lever at ten and measles at twelve places. Thomas C. Kineh, of Newaygo County, living near Paris, aged sixty years, feil in front of the knives of a mower a few days ago and was fatally mangled. While workmen were digging a well a few days ago at Walter Papworth's residence at Howell, Livingston County, a terrific roaring was heard, and stones and dirt were blown one hundred feet into the air. Natural gas bad been struck. The fiow was lighted, ani a fíame as large as a barrel ascended to a height of thlrty feet. Theodore Hassel, of Park City, went to sleep on the railroad trifck at Big Rapids the other day and woke up minus one arm. The Trade Council of Detroit recently opened a campaign upon f actories employing children under fourteen years of age. It was said that at least one institution there employed between two hundred and three hundred children between eight and thirteen years of age in direct violation of the statutes. A humane committee had been appointed to investigate the matter. August A. Anderson, ex -sheriff of Mar. quette County, and a man prominent in business and mining circles, died át his residence in Ishpemina the other mornins from injuries received in a runaway. After his death the physician found that Mr. Anderson had lived six days wittt a broken neck. Captain William A. Owen, of Detroit, a war veteran and well-kno.wn horseman and boat supply merchant, ha:i been insane for several weeks. The othar morning, whüe driving his team at a perilous gait, the pole gave away anJ he -ivas thrown on tlie street-car track and killed instantly. Deposits of soft irou are said to have boon discovored lately in the vicinity of Roscommoa.

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Ann Arbor Register