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Michigan Happenings

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Day
4
Month
July
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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A lumber train ran over and killed James McGlynn near Lake City. Benjamin Moore, a vvell-to-do bachelor farmer of Bainbridge, suicided An attractive series of Caledonian games will be held st Menominee July 30. The ministerial institute of the A. M. E. church was well attended at J ackson. ■ The sawmill and barn near Marletta belonging to M. I. Brabb, of Horneo, were burned. Wm. Tureott, earpenter, feil 70 feet from a derrick at Jacobsville and was intantly killed. Banker V. E. Tracey, aged 62, and Miss Laura Broek way, age 24, were married at Xirvana. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Anderson observed their golden wedding anniversary at Traverse City. V. B. Flamsburg, of Flamsburg fc Hamlin, real estáte dealers, shot himself at Benton llarbor. . ames Ward was arrested at Lake City charged with criminal assault on Tina Stap, an 8-year-old girl. A bout 4,000 Sundav school scholars assembled for a rally at Allegan. They represented S0 schools. The St. Clair Pioneer society held ts annual meeting at Port ïluron. Rev. Mrs. J. M. Kinney presided. Dr. J. W. Francisco was arrested at Byron charged with committing a criminal assault in an Ohio town. Matthew Wathowicz, aged 12, was kicked over the heart by a horse near Saginaw and died within an hour. Geo. P. Robertson, farmer near Adrián, sold hard eider to two boys and was arrested for selling liquor to minors. Luna Shay and Dora Beach, keepers of questionable resorts, were arrested at Adrián for selling liquor without a license. Mrs. Delia Dyer died at Bath. She was 98 years old ana leaves two brothers and a sister, aged respectively 88, 86 and 82 years. There are nearly 1,000,000 feet of logs hung up in the Kawkawlin river. The logs are owned by W. D. Young & Co., of Bay City. St. Johns village council has called a special election for July 8 to vote on bonding village the for 835,000 for an electric light plant. The barns of Williain Thayer near Coldwater, were burned, together with contents, involving a loss of 82,500. Incendiary. Three boys. the oldest being 11 and the youngest four, broke into agrocery at Big Rapids and stole 87 worth of candy and other stuff. Chas Willis, aged 35, was eonvicted at Detroit of assaulting 4-year-old Bessie Perry. .TudgeChapin sentenced him to Jackson for life. Not to be outdone by the sea serpent at Petoskey, the citizens of Traverse City have discovered a genuine sea lion in their harbor. Charles H. Covell, of Napoleon, who lias just graduatod from the University has been engaged as superintendent of the schools at fct Louis, Mich. Joseph I'omminville was jailed at (irayling charged with threatening to burn Smithson & Beatty's sawmill. The mili burned. Loss $10,000. The six companies of U. S. infantry at Fort Wayne, Detroit, have been ordered to encamp with the Michigan militia at Island Lake, August 7. The annual reunión and picnic of the Old Settlers' association of the Urand River valley, was held at Reed's Lake, and was largely attended. Dr. J. U. Scott, of Bay City, while tiunting near Keney accidentally disL'harged both barrels of his shotgun, coinpletely shattering his left arm. The Alma college library isonly four years old, yet ithas accumulated 15,000 volujnes. There are lOOcurrent magazines and periodicals in the reading room. Frost appeared at several points in ;he northern part of the lovver península on the night of the 28th uit. causing considerable damage to corn and vegetables. Win. II. McGiverin, hotel proprietor it l'iue Lake, has been arrested for se'ling intoxieating drinks without a Ícense, lie was getting riuh on "hoppop ' sales. ' The Michigan Equal Kights associat:om will hold their annual convention it Traverse City August 1. Judge A. '. Tourgee will deliver an emancipation address. liiamond Crystal SaltCo. , Thompson Bros., salt manufacturers, and IJelknap fe Phillips, briek makers, all of St. I'lair, have advanced their employés wages voluntarily. Carelessness with fire crackers al most jaused a serious blazeat Pinckney. It v;is near midnight when Jackson & .'ady's store was diseoveredon fire, bilt ihe citizen's worked hard and saved the block. Attorney-General Maynard handed icwn an opinión in which he states -Jiat the law passed by the legislature elating to the licensing of peildlars by 'jownships, instead of by the stato ;reusurer, is unconstitutional. .Tudge Corbett, of Traverse City, decided to cali a special jury for july 8 to try Woodruff Parmelee, accused of the mui-der of Julia Curtís. The case will be hotly contested. Miss Minnie Wilkinson. a young lady of high standing in social and religious eiroles, committed suicide by shooting in the Second Presbyterian chureh at Itichmond, Va., during srrvices. A former designer for the Pope Manufacturlng corapany has organizad a company at Grand Kapids for the manufacture of a bicycle which is Bíter a uevv pattern. This will make the fourth eyele factory there. Officials of the treasury department state that there is no foundation for any rumors as tothe trciisury situation, or the coátinued integrity of the gold reserve, but that is on a firra basis. II. 11. lioekeloo, Jr.'s 4-vear-old daughter, Kitty, was dreadfully burned while playing with matches in the yard at Kalamazoo. Her mother's bands were burned so the flesh dropped off while extinguishing the flames. filter itoig-ht.fcj, of lilissfield. made a trial trip i -. a s;eam launch on the Kiver Kaisin, taking with him two men and four ladies. The gasoline used for fuel took 6re, and the vvhole party Jurnped into the water and were rescued later. The booming company trouble at Muskegou camwip in the circuit court. The old compaiï. of which John Torrent is president, asked for a further adjournment and conceded the use of the private channel to the nevv company until July 5. Floyd Gibson, of Jackson, beat his wife, threw his landlady and baby off a porch and ehased a neighbor, Who interfered with his fun, two blocks with a revolver and now will have time to laugh over it all for 65 days in the Detroit house of correction. Minnie Lynch, 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy Chicag-o saloonkeeper, committed suicide beeause she failed to pass the final examiuations. The g-irl deelared that her schoolmates and teachers were prejudiced against her because her father waste saloonkeeper. The State IJorticultural society meeting at Agricultural college, in conjunction with the (rand River Valley Horticultural society, was devoted largely to an inspection of the horticultural features of the college and experiment station and the reading of papers. At the Oakley race track at Cincinnati. Jockey Henry Weber was auakened at 4 a. m. by the noisy demonstrations of a colored stable boy known as "(Jib. " Weber rebuked the boy, whereupon an angry encounter followed, during which "Gib' fatally stabbed Weber. A Michigan Central freight broke in two at Dexter. The brakeman was unable to control the rear portion, which crash ed into the front, which was at standstill, piling 10 cars in a heap. Engineer Scallion was under the engine oing, and narrowly escaped beingAed. Alonzo Bley, aged 74, passed through severa! towns in the state on his way to Big Rapids from Council Bluffs, Ia., to visit relatives. He walked all the way and his feet were literally raw. He drewalittle express wagon containing clothes. His only companion is a dog. The municipal charter commission which drafted charters for municipalities of four classes in accordance with an act of 1893, has rendered a bilí for $5,'0U salaries and 8800 expenses. Mark S. Brewer, of Pontiac; Geritt J. Diekema, of Holland, and Edwin F. Conely, of Detroit, are the commissioners. There will be no more attempts on the part of the U. S. government to prosecute the 130 members of the Americn Rail way Union in California, charge! with participating in the strike of last July. There is not enough evidence to convict. Four cases were tried at a cost of 820,000 and all ended in acquittal. The house of Rufus Stagg caught on fire at Flint while the occupants were slumbering. Mr. Stagg's dog ran into the bed room -barking and tugging at the bedclothes. Stag? was awakened just in time to carry his bedridden wife out and to warn his daughter. The house was completely destroyed. The dog was saved. Jennie Ritesma. a pretty girl of lts, hung herself in the ivoodshed at her home at Muskegon. This ís the second attempt within a week. Her father cut her down, she being unconscious. It is said the girl, who is of Holland parentage, is keeping company with an American young man, to which her paren ts are opposed. Wesley Birney, a farmer at Cadiz, O., left his 5-year-old boy to attend a horso while he picked cherries. The boy tied the hitehing strap about his waist The horse ran off, dragging the boy under its hoofs through three fences. His body caught in the rails of one fence and was pulled through, crushing it almost to a jelly. The annual reunión of the old First Michigan Infantry was held at (rand Rapids with a large attendance. Otlicers were elected as follows: President, ex-Congressman James O'Donnell; vice-presidents, L. M. Nye, of Coldwateï, ('has. Owen. of Quincy; secretary. Daniel Griffith, of Coldwater. The next reunión will be in Coldwater. The Innes Rifles company. Second regiment, of Grand Rapids, was mustered out of the service, failing to come up to the scrateh in the matter of inspection. A new company haa been organi.ed with Ed. C. liennett as captain, and he will apply for the vacancy. The old company was deeply in debt. and the boys had lost interest in it generally. As the result of a strike by the 'Longshoremens Union, at Sault Ste. Marie, a fight occurred on the steamer Stimson, which was benig unloaded by nonunion men. Three of the latter were badly battered up. President Martin, of the unión, has been arrested, and other arrests will follow. Aaron Nash and Dora Kliss were arrested at Kalamazoo. They represented to the Children's Home management that they desired to adopt Ida hostil and Josephine Smith, aged 12 years. The girls charge criminal assault by Nash. The home managers are severely censured ior allowing the girls to leave the home with strangers.

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