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Day
3
Month
October
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bronson voted in favor of electric Hghts. Charlotte will have a bicyele factory next season. E. C. Williams, of Grasa Lake, lost his home by tire. Jenning's Bros. barn burned near Oxford. Loss 1,500. Jewish citizens of l'ort lluron are going to erect a sjuagojne. Andrew Pierue, aged 35, was killed by a falling tret near South Haven. Carleton got scared at her recent tire and will pinchase aíire tighting equipment. Emmett Gillinore, asred 2". suicided with stryehnine at North Adauis. No cause known. Geo. Horton was arrested at Atlas, charged with assaulting his daughter .losie, aged 7. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Bliss. of Ann Arbor, have eelebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary. St. Joseph's Catholic church at Wyandotte held a silver jubilee, with Bishop Foley of Detroit in attendance. Lapeer couDty boasts of the oldest woman in the state, Mrs. Nancy .Sullivan, who was born in Ireland in 1783. John Blummer, aged 27, suicided by shooting near Sag-inaw. He was a cripple and this madehim despondent. A fire near Hillman cost John Hamilton S7.000 in house, barns and horses. No insuraDee. It leaves hiin destitute. The Fifteenth Michigan lnfntry meet in annual reunión at Deertield, on the aaniversary of the battie of Corinth. Minera and otbers about Negaunee need not starre daring the coming winter. The potuto erop is a record break er. While crossingf the race track at Bancroft, Benjamin De Kreeze, aged 7U. was run over by a team and fatally injured. ('ommissioner of Labor Morse, of Michigan lias been made president of the National Association of Factory Inspectors. Woik on the new bicycle factory of Ij. Marr .fe Co., at Saginaw, is proffressinsr, and wheels will be turned out this winter. Wliile playing foot ball at Olivet Prentis Mates, a college boy froto IVtoskey, broke his collarbone. The injury is serious. Michael Ivoren., carpenter, was iuItantly killed at the Delta Luraber Co. mili at Detroit, by being struck by a flying board. John W. Root, a vegetable peddler, of Hedford, was fined 811.80 by Justice Bidwell at Battie Creek, for kissing a married woman. J he steamer Montana, of the Westrn Transit line, struck the bank in ortage lake canal at Houghton and ost her rudder and shoe. She :nmediately filled and sank. She was oaded with flour from Duluth to Bufalo. A diphtheria epidemie is raging at Wolverine with fatal results. Two children died within 24 houvs and four more cannot recover. Over 100 children have been exposed and schools and churches have been closed for a time. The general merehandise establishment of Reader Uros. & Hunter at Scottville has burned. Loss $2,500. Dhere is no insurance, the last policy of 81.000 having been canceled the day efore. The building was an old landmark. The 8-year-old daughter of Harrison :ilodgett, at Belding, was fatally jurued, while atteinpting to heat a cloth to wrap her head in. The cloth caught fire; her clothing was all jurned otf and the body was horribly mrned. l'iie destroyed the home. barn, crops and machinery of Fred Zimmerie, near 'iles. The loss is (2,500 with no insurance. The family had a narrow escape f rom eremation, escaping in their night clothes, and they are novv destitute. Mnskêgon is in an vmcomfortable position nnaneially, owing to a special tax levied in 1892, having been declared invalid by Judge Russell. lt is feared a special sewev tax is in the same position. If so the city is out abo ut 50,000. Christian Goedecke, who resides west of Tawas City, was riding home with his sister when they were fired at. the ball takiug effect in the back of his headandcausingaslight wound. Alfred Johnson, attorney, was arrested on suspicion. Wm. O. fiowden, attorney of Barry county, recently ordained a Baptist minister, who fled from Ilastings after securing $1,200 on forged paper, has been arrested at Carrington, N. D., and Gov. Rich has issued a requisition. Fire in the MacLennan store at Lapeer, occupied by G. VV. Mahon with a stock of dry goods and groceries, and Mrs. H. A. Hunt with a dressmaking establishment, did datnage estimated at10,000. Considerable of the damage was caused by water. (ienevieve and Stella Burson, the giddy Schoolcraft girls who were thought to have eloped at night with two strange men, have returned home and say they have been with friends near White l'igeon. They did not like the restraint of home. A wild woman was captured near Alpena. The tattered reraains of an old wrapper was her only clothingand she had made a nest among the roots of a large stump under vvhich she had burrowed. She had evidently been living on roots and berries for some tirae. The steamer (raeie Barker, Capt. W. E. Chryselis. used in the ferry business aeross Little Trarerse bay, between Petoskey and Harbor Nprings, was burned to the waters edge at Harbor Springs. Loss, $4,000, with no insurance. Thought to be the work of an incendiary. The Michigan l'niversity regents have directed their attorneys to mandamus the auditor-general for one per cent of the land grant. The University has always received 7 per cent, but the legal rate is now ö, nevertheless the regents think they are entitled to the full 7 per cent. Wm. C. Denney has been returned f rom Indiana to Manistee. where he is charged with having secured $10,000 f rom the Manistee National bank in 18!!:.' under false pretenses. Hillsdale, Sturgis, Saginaw and Cirand Kapids banka are also said to have been "worked" by Denney. Michigan 's county jails have been a ïlecea for hobos during winter for some years, but Attorney-Genera Maynard has found an old law which distinctly provides that manual labor must be provided if possible, for al prisoners íh county jails. An effort will be made to put the law into effect. The annual conference and camp meeting of the Seventh Uay Adventists of Michigan aud Ohio. which was in session three weeks at Lansing has elosed. lt was a success in every way. Despite the disagreeable weather the attendance was very large, and 100 oonverts were baptized in the Urand river. Mrs. Enos Larkins, in jail at Monroe together with her husband. both being charged with the murder of Mrs. Merrill, near Petersburg, has madeanother yonfession to the effect that they had planned the murder six weeks bef ore it was committed and that Larkins choked the old Jady to death tin the woods and they then burned the body. I n reply to an inquiry from the state board of auditors A General Maynard has prepared an opinión to the effect that the board must begin suit to recover excess salaries drawn by the former state officer when it was reported that the constitutional amendments increasing their salaries had carried, but whicli proved to have been carried by fraudulent election returns being made. A bell costing S'.'Oü, the funds for svhich were contributed by Sunday school children in Michigan, was cast it the American Heil foundry at Northville and was dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased Arthur Minde l'otts. iive-year-old son of Dr l'otts, of the Michigan Christian Advocate. The bell will be sent to the M. E. mission at Aligarh, India. The Democratie campaign in Ohio was openeil at Columbas with a big parade and two big meetings. Ex-Uov. L'anipbell made the principal address. A sensalion was created at Washington by the military arrest of Maj. Armes, V. S. A. , retired, on an order from L,ieut.-(len. Schofield, acting secretary of war for theday. Maj. Armes ;ivs the arrest was due to a personal uarrel of 25 years' standing between líen. Schofield and himself. Recent advices state that the Japan=se have captured Changua and Tiivvan-l-'u from the Formosan rebels af ter severe fighting. The .lapanese at last accounts were marching on Anpig. where the rebels are concentrated. l'he Japanese army in Formosa, which numbers G0,000 men will have to be reinforced as the troops are vvorn out.

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