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Day
29
Month
October
Year
1891
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Public Domain
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Sixtcon years ajro. Anglist i!, Edward Molitor, politician and business man, Wa,s sliot dead ia his store at Hoger City as he sat at his desk. Althongh the names of the murderers were well known 110 direct evidence was obtained until the present snmmer. when one of the conspiratorsconfessed, and his confession was followed by several others. The evidence is direct and the disclosures starUing The prisoners number a dozen of the most prominent men in the country and fine of them are said to have eonfessed to the crime with Tvhieh they are charjfed. Health in Mlrlitgaii. Eeporta to the state board of health by sixty-two observers in different parts of tho state for the week ended October 17 indieated that inflammation of the brain. puerperal fever. membranous cronp. whoopinff conffh, rheumatism and tvphoid fever increased, and inllannnatiou of the kidneys, scarlet fever and diphtheria dccreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at thirty-four places, scarlet fever at thirty-five, typhoid fever at forty and measles at four places. Motiey for the Fottawatomles. Simon Pokagon, chief of the remnant of the Pottawatomie tribe ol Indians which are domiciled in southwestern Michigan, will soon receive 8230,000 f rom Washington for distribution amon); 250 members of the tribe. These Indians successfully resisted removal to Kansas in 1888, but claimed the annuity promised in that event Tbey received a small sum in 1866, since which time the present claim has been prosecuted. nareed with a Sliver. A harriwood sliver 7 inches lonjf, not more than a half inch in diameter at its widest poiut and weigninjf less than onc ounce, flow from a buzz saw and pierced S. Lessard, of Big Rapids. The sliver passed through a blue jacket, the bands of overalls and heavy trousers and two shirts, and deep enough into the unfortunate man to malee hi$ recovery doubtfuL Over i Century OM. Mrs. Aimio Demuud, of Woodland, Barry county, is dead at the age of 105 years. She was born near Séneca Falls, N. Y., in 1787. and had Kved at Woodland since 1828. She retaiüed her faculties to the end. She was the mother of thirteen children. and had flfty-two gi-andchildren, forty preatgrandehildren and six grpat-great(frandchildren. Hurned to Death. Mrs,. James Whithey leit her home in Port Huron to do som e work and her8-year-old daughter. Nellie, tried to start a fire by use of kerosene. Terrible screams shortly after attracted the neiffhtors to the sight of the child envelopcd in flames rushing around the corner of the house. Assistance arrived too late, and the child died in a short time. Young TVonien' Ass.u-i.it mi. At the serenth auuual state convention in Jackson of the Young Women's Christian association the following offlcers vere elected: President, Mrs. L. H. Field, Jackson; flrst vioe president, Mrs. Walter Steinhoff, Bay City; second vice president. Miss Berridge, Lansing; third vice president, Miss E. Smith, Belding; secretarles, Miases Strong. Ypstlanti, and Running, Flint. Fouud Two ISodies. The bodies of two Fin miners entombed by the fall of érround in the Republic iron mine at Marquette two weeks ago have been recovered. They were found buried under a thousand tons of rock and earth and crushed almost beyond recognition. Their naraes are Stephen Herlesli and John Kilteria. I Short 'uil Nnvrar Item An Indian was killed by a train near Muskegon. Two iacetlous yoong men oi Bay City a wire across the sidewalk and were fined $5 eaeh. August Jonas, a 51 years old, of Detroit, hanged himsclf. A case oí leproey was repurted at a recent meeting of the Michigan board of heajtb. Mr. George iïannibter, of Tüg Rapids, aged 75 years, ruptored a blood vessel while working in the garden and died. Mancelona will lose its oval wooddish factory. Traverse City captures it with a L20,000 bonus. Anolher old inhabitant is dead. His name was Thomas Rooney, he lived at Fremont ard was 109 years of age. The remains of an unknown colored man were found scattered along the Detroit & Hay City railroad about a mili; from Warren station. George Labadie, a West üay City 3year-old, féll head foremost into a well and was drowned. It was icolared in Judge Gartner's court at Detroit that one man could drink abc quarts of beer in a two-hour sitting without being the worse for it A brancli of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bngineera has been organized at East Tawas. The Iosco eounty supervisors have decided to submit to the electors the sroposition of bonding the county in ,he suiu of tS.OOO, to reclaJm some 25,100 acres of swamp lands by drainage. Marquettc hnnters discoveréd the .ifeless hod.v ,,f WilUwn Whitehill ïanging f rom a tree In the woods northwest of the city. I Ie was a wood urner, formerly from Detroit. Georg-i' Belt'iDfrer, working in a 'oundry al Muskegon, alked into a ot of naolten metal ;m,l was fatally jurned. William M alm bord bas been reapoined warden oí - prison at Marquettr. The Ínter i'olleííiaba Rugby tournauent will be held .it .lackgon Xoveiner 7. The okl war in Chwlevoix county has een revived by a peütion from Charlevoix to tho board of supervisors now n session to have the eniinfcy seat removed from Boyne City to tlie summer resort town. A lirely time was looked I or.

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