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Michigan State News

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
August
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The fpllowing paragrapfe is found in the last genera! orator iseued by Department ('otiimuiidcr Eaton, of the Michigan (I. A. E.: "The names and addresscs of all Miei men uho wcre attached to the K-riy üfth New Vork Infantry inthefallof 1864, by A. T. Huyok, of Carlton ;. Trufant, Mich. W&ntè to know in wluit coni])any and regiment of Michigan Joseph Twcll serveil, ami nis lastknown poki offloe addrcss, by Mts. Mary Vansickk', s)i W'.i.sblmrn streot, Lockport, N. Y. Wantcd, tbe addresa f any comrade who was with Geruid 1'. ECbnberly, (:miany 1, Tenth Michigan cavairy, on detacheü ilnty in the summerof 1M, by Mrs. S. B. Moorc, 316 North Ionia streel. Grand Kapids, litoh. The address of any comradc who knov Andrew R. Howey, of Second regiment Michigan cavairy, in 1863 or 1864, by G. H. Perry, commander of Post No. 364, Coleman, Mich," IleRllh in Michigan. Reports to the state board of hcalth by fifty observen in different parts of the state for the week ended July 35, indicated that typhoid fever, inflamination of the brain, cholera infantum, cerebro-spinal meningitis and cholera morbus increased, and puerperal fever, pleuritis, typho-malarial fever and scarlet fever decreased in area of prevalencc. Diphtheria was reported at twenty-two places, scarlet fever at twenty-seven, typhoid fever at twentytwo and raeasles at fifteen places. Shot 1 1 is Itrother's Murilcrer. Dan Dunn, wno shot Steve llarcourt at Seney about a month ao, was shot dead at Trout Lake by James Harcourt, a brother of the man hot by Dunn. Dunn had his examination and was discharged a.t Maiiistique. lie had sworn out i warrant for the arrest of James Ilarcourt for threatening to kill him. The sheriff liad Hareourt under arrest and was on his way to jail with him when they met Dunn. Hareourt pulled his revolver and fired. Dunn died almost immcdiatrly. Free Fight at a Wedding. The Finn settlers held a wedding a short distance out of Negaunee and all the Finns of the neighborhood were invited. They had plenty of beer and whisky, and before midnight got to quarrehng. Jacobson, the father of the bride, tried to stop the noise and fight, and for so doing was set upon by seven of the invited guests and beautifully carved. He would die. The seven assailants were in jail. Fortune for a Veteran. John Zimmerman, an inmate of the soldiers' home at Grand Kapids, received notification from the Germán consul in Chicago that afortune of S68,000 awaited him in the old country. He forwarded 'his identiücation papers to Chicago and was awaiting a remittance to enable him to start for the old country. He said the money carne through an immcnsely-wealthy great-aunt He is 68 years old. Michigan C'onimjsjdoiiers Nanied. Gov. Winans lias appointed world's fair commiaaioDera as follous: Isaac M. Westan, of Gruid Kapid.s; Wellington 1!. liurt, of Saginaw; James W. Flynn, of Detroit; Eugeno II. BWdin, of Horton; Mrs. Julius S. Valentine, of Lanslng, and Mrs. Julia A. Pond, of Hillsdale. Mark. II. Stevens, of Flint, was appointed seeretary. Uov. Winans is ex-officio a member of the commission. Short but n.-miv ítem. Gen. R. A. Alger has invested heavily in a pig iron industry at Seattle, Wash. Advices from upper Michigan sa.y that terrible forest fires, the worst ever known in that región, were raging. John Kerns, a Kalamazoo pickpocket, was sentenced to three years and nine months in the Jackson prison. It is estimated that the peach erop of the state will amount to nearly, if not quite, 4,000,000 bushels. The first new wheat of this season was raarketed at Holland and brought eighty-five cents per bushel. The quality was all of the very best. Misses Anna Dean and Mary Doran, of tetroit, were reporteid to have been ÍUred of long-standing diseases by praying at the shrine of St Anne De Beaupre in Quebec. It is said that 150,000,000 f eet of sunken logs lie in the bottom of Au Sable river. The F. W. Wheeler Ship Coinpany of Bay City is building a vessel for a Boston man that is to be used in the coasting trade of Central America. Chief Harrington. of the national weather bureau has appointed Signal ófficer Norman B. Conger, of Lansing, lócal forecaster for that section. Edward Snay while unloading sawlogs from a car at Bay City was struck by a log and had his ueck broken. The first fire this season as the result of the threshing engine is reported from Coldwater. Isaac Rupright lost $2,000 worth of buildings and contents. Several million feet of lumber on the docks of Churchill's mili propërty in Alpena burned. Loss, 875,000; insured. Over 5,000 of the Sons of St. George gathered at Houghton and had a parade and jubilee. West Bay City is to have a new opera house and music hall, the plans haVing been alread.y prepared for it. The 8-year"-old daughter of John Kopple, of Fremont, was playing about a wagon in her father's yard when she tipped a barrel of salt over on herself, crushing in her skull. Waller, Cook & Wagner, corporation lawyers of New York, have purchased the entirc Detroit street railway sys1tem for about 55,000,000. Lake Linden lost twclve buildings by fire during the pattwelve months; just One a month. The total loss was about 860,000. WyandotL'. a h.irse valued at 10,000 and owned by John E. Madden, of Lexmgton Ky., feil dcad at the races in Detroit A. B. Maynard, agcd 75 years, one of the most promirlent lawyers and best 5ury pleaders ia this state, died at Eomeo as the result of injuries received Ut & runaw :i v :iccident last spring.

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