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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wm. Rath has been appointed dej uty inspector of customs at Grane Haven. Fred Brewer, aged 65, a Grand Hap ids carpen ter, was fatally injured bj íalling from a scaffold. The Alma woolen milis were burnet by a fire which started in the engin room. Loss 85,000, no insurance. Sparks from a bonfire started a blaz which destroyed the Methodist churcl at Montague with a loss of 84,000. It is emphatically denied that th projected elctric railroad from Ba; City to Port Hurón has been abandoned East Tawas was excited by strikinjj a well which flowed natural gas anc made a blaze 18 incb.es high wlicn ignited. Geörge Rebech, instructor of philos ophy at the U. of M. has been oft'eret the chair of philosophy in the Colorado university. Probate Judge Peter Pasco, of Mar quette county, an ex-state senator, ha died at the age of , 66. Already there are 10 candidates for the judg-eship. J. W. Selden, deputy secretary o state, has been selected as natioaa bank examiner, much to the surprise of the friends of Gen. D. B. Ainger. Herr Paul SchrofE, better known as "the lion tamper," died a his home, one mile east of Royal Oak as the result of f alling out of his wagon Joseph Hennes, the millionaire morchant of Houghton, was injured by a fall at the Belt mine and is not ex pected to live, as his back was brokeu Robert Force and Mrs. Alice Turner were convicted at Lansing of living together without being married ani were sentenced to one year's imprisonment each. The grand council of the Order of the Star of Bethlehem for lower Michigan met in annual session at Detroit. L. D. Martin, of Detroit, was re-elected grand commander. Sid Solmes, a painter, was killed and two others seriously injured at Newberry, by the giving way of a scaffold on which they were at work at the Newberry asylum. While Perry Gilbert was attempting to pound a cartridge into a gun at Benton Harbor it exploded. He is now suffering from a bruised and burned face and it is feared he will lose his sight. Andrew Carnegie has secured the majority of the stock of the Norrie, East Norrie and Pabst mines at Ironwood for 83,000,000 and will increase the output to 1,000,000 tons of high grade iron ore annually. Warden William Chamberlain has appointed Rev. John F. Orwick chaplain of the state prison to succeed Rev. George Hickox, resigned. Mr. Orwick was pastor of the Haven M. E. church in Jaekson several years. Daniel McCabe, white, convicted 'at Paw Paw of a criminal assault on a colored girl, was sentenced to Jaekson for 10 years, John Mitchell, colored, for a similar offense against a white girl, was given seven years. A stave mili owned by the Van Landegham estáte, the oldest factory in Mt. Clemens, was destroyed by a fire, probably incendiary. The mili did a good business up to last year, employing 75 hands. The loss is about $4,000. John Bradley, aged 30, a farmer reBiding1 ohe inile northeast of Durand, borrowed a revolver of a neighbor to kill some rats. Bradley's lifeless body was found in his barn the next morning with a bullet hole through the heart. The Fourth Michigan cavalry, the regiment which bears the distinction of having made the capture of Jeff Davis, the leader of the Confedérate cause, will hold lts annual reunión in Kalamazoo, beginning Wednesday, Oct. 13. Miss Ellen Horn met a burglar face to face in the hallway of her father's home at Benton Harbor. He carried a sandbag and a dark lantern, but she grappled with him, captured his sandbag and false whiskers and then the fellow fled. Four masked men broke into the home of Elias Swanson, an aged Swede, near White Pigeon, beat him into insensibüity, then bound and gagged him, and made away with his savings, 825, and his only horse. Swanson may die f rom his ÍDÍuries._ Jí. Ui, Tlioupson, ihe veteraiï pugilist of Muskegon, has received an acceptance of his challenge to fight a 10-round contest with gloves for 81,0,00 a side. A. W. Bailan, of Moorland township, Muskegon county, says he is ready to tackle Thompson for any sum. Bailan l& 70 years old and weighs 230 pounds; Thompson is 68 and weighs 220 pounds.

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