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Michigan Happenings

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Day
25
Month
July
Year
1895
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Public Domain
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James Moriarty, aged 80, suicided by drowning himself at Detroit. Wilson Keightly, an expert swimmer was drowned at Ureenbush. Athens sports will build a combinatÍ9n horse and bicycle race track. Methodists of Coldwater district will hold camp meeting1 August 1 to 11. Richard Tannei . of Fowlerville, was drowned while at Triangle lake. Geo. Holland, a.Jonesville deaf mute, was seriously injured by a Lake Shore train. Dottie Waters, aged 7, was fatally injured by an eleetric car at Port Hurón. Paul Verbanich was fatally injured by a fall of rock in the Calumet and liecla mine. A daughter of ffm. Simons was killed aear Saginaw by being thrown f rom a horse. The general merchandise store of Rothfus & lirown at Holloway burned and is a total loss. Wm. Iloiïman, aged 37, comitted suicided at Lyons by tuking1 ctiloral. Disappointment in love. Some scoundrel cut the throat of one of Chas. L. lioyne's most valuable horses near Jackson. James Christler, aged 65, a farmer near Flint, suicided by shooting, because his vvife left him. Williamsburg was placed in complete isolation by a strict quarantine because of malignant diphtheria. James Crowley feil from a cherry tree at Adrián and two ribs were broken from his spinal column. Scarcely enough rain has fallen about Belleville to lay the dust and the drouth continúes unabated. John Samuelson took rough on rats at Owosso because his sweetheart's mother opposed their marriage. The White laundry burned to the jround at Owosso with total loss. Stock and furniture were saved. Wm. Chaplin, aged IS, shot Isaac Davidson, a farmer near Gladwin. Wild west stories are responsible. Charles Schultz feil off a load of hay and broke his neck, near Rogers City. He died a few nioments afterwards. Arthur Busch dropped dead from lieat at St. Louis. He was the son oí a millionaire brewer at Burlington, Ia. Fire at the cooperage works of the Thread Flouring milis at Flint, destroyed the enginehouse and a frame building. Loss $5,00U. Peter Venise's three-year-old child ate a piece oí bread on which paris jreen had been spread for rats and died, near Three üaks. Kalamazoo asylum has notbeen free from diphtheria but for a short timo in over a year. The cause of the disease cannot be discovered. Postmaster Spring-, of Hubbard, says that the recent lires in that settlement, during the forest fires outside the town, were incendiary. The Escanaba, Frankfort & Southeastern railroad, has been sold to the reorganization committee of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan railway. Isaac Burr, aged 5, feil into Bell river at Marine City. An Indian rescued him after he had been under water 12 minutes, but his life was saved. Mrs. Theresa M. Porter, committed suicide at Detroit. SShe had been in ill-health about two years from severe nervous prostration, resulting in inganity. The Port Hviron & Lexington railroad will probably be abandoned. President lïrenuan is unable to float the bondg of the road and private capital oaunot be interested in the enterprise. The five year-old daughter of Chas. Johnson was burned to death near Stephenson. She tried to build a fire in the cook stove and her dress eaught on fire. Tred Harr, arrested at Big Rapids on a charge of stealing from his employer, Reese Marshall, of St. Johns, u horse which he droveto death. is but 16 years of age and a former inmate of the" industrial school. The Thompson Lumber company's dr3'kiln, with ijü.üOÜ foet of hardwood lumber, burned at Thompsonville. The planing and sawmill were saved. All lu.nber in the yard was also saved. Loss, $1.000, fully insured. ' The Marinette & Menominee Paper Mili company has decided to erect a 850,000 sulphite plant at Menominee. Thos. W. Palmer is announced to address his fellow-toilers at a picnic of Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland and Livingston farmers at Whitmore Lake, August 24. Jacob Teufel, of Ann Arbor, deliberateiy threw hiraself in front of a motor car on the Rapid railway between Detroit and Mt. Clemens and was instantly killed. Vm. Robinson started to Lapeer with a load of baled hay. The load eauD-ht fire from his pipe and he was fortúnate enough to save the horses and himself. Four Chinamen were captured at Detroit while being1 smugg-led from Canada. A car conductor and porter were arrested for hiding them from the officers. At a party at Bad Axe g-iven by Mrs. A. Haymarket two men began to quarrel. Fred L. Harder tried to make peaee, but was fatally stabbed in the stomach by Herbei t Sheets. Bishop Richter, of Grand Rapids, assisted by Frs. Hudon and Steffies, of Manistee, laid the cornerstone of the new Catholic church at Frankfort. The edifice will cost $10,000. A stubborn fire in the Jackson paper mili created great excitement among the convicts in the state prison adjacent. The fire did 815,000 daraage to rags, jute and other material. August Eollenhagen, aged 17, was hauling water in barrels near Ravenna. Going down hill the barrels tumbled, throwing hirabetween the horses. He was dragged 30 rods and killed. The only fatality from forest fires occurred hear Alden. Geo. Herenden, sent his five-year-old boy after the cows. He became surrounded by the flames and was roasted to death. The barns and outbuildings on the farm of Peter Gunlock, near Lenox, were destroyed by fire. Two horses, a lot of new agricultural impleinents and L'O tons of hay were consumed. The eontinued droutb about Jackson was not disturbed by light rains whieh feil in various partsof the state and the question of supplying the city with water is becoming serious. Keeeiver Burt, of the T..A.A.&N.M. raüroad,has secured a right of way for a new route from Ann Arbor to Whitmore Lake. A nuniber of expensive sinkholes, dangerous to life and to property, will be avoided. Reuben Morningstar, of Shelby, gave his 5-year-old boy an old revolver to play with. It happened to be loaded and was discharged, the ball passing through_ the littie fellow's head, causing immediate death. Forest fires destroyed the mili of the Phelps Lumber company, near Keno, together with 2,300,000 feet of lumber; also the barn of Supervisor George R. Loueks, of Marti ny township, Mecosta couDty, together with its contents. M D. Degroat was killed and John Moilles seriously injured by the fall of a scaffold at Wickes Bros', boiler shop at Saginaw. The men were both colored and they were engaged in whitevvashing the interior. Oceana county fruit growers are making terms with the transportation companies to extend their markets for fruit into Ohio, Indiana and southern Michigan. Heretofore they have shipped mostly to Chicago and Milwaukee. One-half the farmers around Galesburg are hauling water from the Kalamazoo river for their stock and even that resource promises to fail soon. The oldest inhabitant fails to remember a eondition of affairs approaching1 the present. A four-year-old daughter of Fred Whitney, a farmer near Bankers, died from poisoned apples. The vines in a potato patch had been sprinkled with paris green and the apples had fallen off a tree into the potato patch. An eight-year-old girl is not expected to live. The Clark house burned at Cheboygan together with the barn, a span of horses, wagons and all the boarders' clothes. Loss $4,000; no insurance. The tire is supposed to have originated by children smoking cigarettes in the barn. The roof was burned off D. C. Pelton's barn also. Fne was diseovered in the basement of F. R. Metcalf & Company's large dry goodsstoreat Adrián. The Sames were confined to the basement, but smoke and water destroyed the value of nearly everything on the vipper floors. The stock is valued at 850,000 and will probably be a total loss. The drouth about Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, Niles and all through the fruit belt was broken by the advent of a terrific rain storm accompanied by heavy wind which blew a great deal of fruit from the trees and blew many trees down also. The two-story walls of a new bank building at Decatur were demolished. The Nyanza, upbound with coal, collided with the northern liner.Northarn King, downbound in a fog at the foot of Sugar Island in St Mary's river, near the "Soo. " The Nyanza as t-ut down and was run into shoal water, whe.re she sank. The North;rn King was apparently uninjured. The Nyanza is owned by the McBrier syndieate of Erie, and was valued at 61110.000. The thirteenth annual meeting of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical issociation was held at the Light Infantry armory. Detroit The exhibits were presen ted at the Auditorium. Druggists from all over the state- about 500 in number - were present. Offleers elected: President, George J. Ward, M. !., St. Clair: vice president, B. P. Phillips, Armada; S. P. Whitmarsh, Palcuyra, and A. L. Walker, Detroit: secretary, Keni. Schrouder, tíranil Rapids; treasurer, Win. Dupont, Detroit.

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