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Michigan State News

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Day
1
Month
October
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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A terrible triple murder took plaee at Bay Port in whlch three Indians - John, Dan and IiillSquanos- were killed The men were in a saloon where they got into a quarrel with ('liarles Atherton. A man named ]!r;ulshav .was also mixed up in the affair. The latter struck John Squanos ón tíic head, crushing his skull. The other Indians in company with Atherton started for their cabina, aímile distant, and thcir dead bodies were íound in their homes. llvalth in Michigan. Beports to tlie state board of hcalth by Bixty-eight observers lo different parts of the state for the week ended September 1! indicated that typhoid íever, intlavmiation of the brain, cerebro-srmial meningitis and measles increased, and typhod-malarial fever, cholera morbos and scarlet fever decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reportedat thirty-three places, scarlet fever at twenty-seven places, typhoid fever at .sixty-eight and measles at nine places. HnKiit a Halr on lts lloily. There was on exhibition at Mcnominee a remarkable freak in the shapo of a hairless horse. The beast is 6 years old and hasn't the sign of a hair on its body. The horse is splendidly built and was foaled on the farm of a Belgian near Sturgeon IJay, Wis. For ueveral years af ter itsbirth cropfailed in the vicinity and the superstitious foreigners concluded that the hairless horso was a "Hoodoo. " Menominee parties obtained it for ÍI0 and have been offered 85,000. A Muhigau sknnk Farm. A skunk farm has just come to light in Jackson eounty. The gentleman who runs the skunkery is T. 1'. Vining, of Columbia township. He says that it it is easier, pays better and is pleasanter than plowing. The skunkateer has itarted breeding with five female skunks. lie figures Uiat by the. old problem, relativo to the Mails in the horseshoe, he will have in iive years 10,239 skunks, whose skins wil] be worth to him $17,958.35. Grawled [in a Tree and DJfkL A-party of himters discovored the badly decomposed body of a man hidden in the hollow of a fallen tree on Elander ilacle's farm, near Woodmer cernetery. Beside the body lay a five-ch amber revolver, containing four exploded shells. The corpse was ciad in a light cólored coat and vest and striped pantaloons. A slouch hat was erushed down over his head. A pair of kid gloves, a pipe and some tobáceo were in the pocket. Thrce Miners Killed. Peter John Gilbertend Eric Jarvoia were taking down two pillars of ore directly over the inouth of No. 6 shaft at tlu Republic mine near Marquette when the gronud ;rave way beoeath them and they went headlong down the shaft. Anotíier f all of ground from the foot wal) covered the shaüt a. It would I. efore the bodies eould be recovered as tliis sliaft was a wreek from tl i re. Munt bat .NiMvsy Items. Ernest Aldrich, of Goldwater, was sentenced to two years at the house of correetion for forgery. J. W. Hulchey, wlio surved as an alderman from the First ward at Lansing for twelve years, is dead. N. EL Yineent's lumberyard, 12 miles east of Big Hapids, was borned, and 1,000,000 feet of hemlock and 500,000 feetof hard nrood luinber was destroyed. For constructing the public buildings at Bay City C. A. Moses, of Chicago, was the Lowest bidder at 836,000. James Uaby, of Bay City, has passed the phyaical ezamlnation and will enter the Annapolis naval academy. A barn on the farm of Mrs. Ileff enden, in Prairieville, was struek by lightningand burned. It is estimated that 40,000,000 feet of hemlock loga vill come through the Tittabawassee boom tiiis season. Johannos Van Hits. a pioneer of Zeeland, aged 82 years. drank fly poison by mistake and died, It was estimated that the receipta from the state fair would iie about 84,500 more than the cxpenditures. Two dauffhters of ttov. J. Weist, of Maccrab, aged 11 and 15 yors respectively, died within forty-eig'ht hours of each other of diphtheria. The new schoolhousu erected at Leonard to replace the one burned last spri is one of the tinest in Oakland eounty. John Oougrlasa, a dock laborer, feil into the rivi'r at Detroit and was rescued. He then went into a saloon and while taking a drink fainted and died betere a doctor could be summoaed. D'J'lnor barns feelonping to A.H. Cranc, of Plttsford, were burned. Loss, 53,000. Mlcbael Welch, a marine englneer aged 45 years, '.vas fonnd drowned in Muskegon lake. Dan Martin, 18 years old. is in jail at Port lluro;i. charged with larceny. His parents s:i v he Is incorrigible. Edward O! ds, a prosperous young farmer w near Port lluron, committi'c) si. iiissweetheart married another tnan. AtKalamazoo Clai-k V. Mills brought a Bladder Buit against William F. Holmes for Í1Ü.00 i damages fordefamation of uharael ■■■ The, t6-mont!i ;■ iki child of Ueorge Wells was run over by.a Plint & Pere Marquette train a1 San I Beach and literal l.y cut In iv, CJyde Been au, ol Lima, aged 15, Btumbled and feil whtle rnnningdtfwn a hill, breaking both his arms. He broke them three 3 by falling from a tree. The Larkins brothers, the notorious highwaymen, were holding the oountry 10 miles west of Port Huron in a state of terror The robbers go armed to the teetli and no one was allowed to pass unehallenged. They hold up larmers and strip them of all their valuables.

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