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Within Our Walls

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Day
4
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Graad Ëapids' cominon councu raised th mayor't salary to 825,000 a year and votcd to gire street laborera 85 per day end board. The schedule of licenses were fixed aa follows: Saloons, 50 cents a year; water selléis, $300; book agents, 85 a secoad; side shows, f ree. It was also voted to rig up the watcrworks settling basin as a bathing school, and to oonnect the city water pump with a brewery. It may be that the opening jarnbouree of the "carnival of fnn," which was inaugurated by the Knights of Khorassan, ha.d something to do with it. Anyhow it seemed that everything was on the rise and rush in the second city when her street fair carnival was opened wjth the booming of cannon, the ring-ing of beïls, the blowing ot whistles and the blare of bazoos, by a multitude of masked and unmasked who.had been given the keys of the city. Gov. Pingree, ex-Govs. Rich and Luce and othér celebraties were present and for foor days and nights the air was ljept luried by the superfluous heat of the "hot time in the old town." Pronperity lu BIIcbieaDLabor Oommissioner Cox reoeotly made written inquiry of the village clerks of the incorporated villages of the state as to the average wages paid to laborers and mechanics, whether work is plentiful, If many men are idle and If any new euterprises have been started. Reports were received f'rotn 216 villages which indícate that in the smaller towns of the state business is reviving and but few men are idle. The average wages paid for unskilled labor is reported in four towns at 75 cents per day, in one town at 90 cents, in 90 towns at SI. 00, in 97 towns at SI. 25 and in 17 at 8L50 or upwards. In the 216 towns, 63 new enterprises are reported, including sawmüls, brick and tile faetones, stave milis, chcese factorics, planing milis, shuigle milis, banks, stove factories, grist milis and business houses of all kinds. Noteil Crook Bscapea From Tackgon. Jack Cannon, who was sent to .lack son prison from Detroit two years ugo for having burglar's tools on his person, has escaped. He left the tailor shop where was at work, went into the chapel and escaped from the tower block by climbing from the window. He is short, stocky, has a gray beard and large eyes. He is 61 years old and is one of the most noted hotel and sneak thieves In the country. Later. - (jannon was captured Dy Deputy Sherilï Wm. H. Smalley, near Grass Lake. The deputy saw a rnan in his yard who bore a striking ref.emblance to the fugitive and aecosted him. Cannou gave himself up without a protest, and was retnred to prison. He said he had had nothing to eat for 36 hours and was about used up. A Sensatiouiil Kidnapping. W. R. Clendeuin and wife, of Jones, Cass county, separated last Jur-, and Mrs. C. started divorce proeeedings. She allegcs that he has threatened her life and that on Oct 9 he whipped her. Tis latest eruelty was the kidnapping of their 3-year-old g-irL Clendenin and a íuanger drove up to the house and the husband walked in and snatched up the child. The mother quicUly loeked the door, out the stranger broke it down and the father escaped with the child to the buggy. The mother, deVermined to save her little one, climbed into the buggy, but was knoeked out by the strang-er, and the two men then drove away. Clendenlu has sinee been arrested at Sarnia, Ont., where he was knovvn as Chas. Helden, lie will be extradited. Killed by a Sewer Cave-in. Henry Ñau, a sewer inspector at Detroit, niet a horrible death froni ' catión. He was overseeing the constuction of a sewer in an alley when the sides caved Li, burving him aüve. Kis lifeless body was recovered about an hour later. Julius Hoeft, foreman of the job, was caught in the falling sand and would have been killed but the for timely assistance of two of the workmen. Aged Farmer Committed a Mnrder. John C. Wili;tms, an agcd farmer, living ten miles northwest of rtoward City, shot and instantly killed his nearest neighbor, R. Baldwin, as the result of a pretty quarrel. Williams has lived in the township for upwards of a quarter of a century, has held numerous offices and is well respected. He has been in feeble health for some time and is thought to be insame. While hunting near Fisher an accidental discharge of his gun blevv the head off of Alex Wilmer, aged 19, of Fisher. About 500 men have been put to work between Charlotte and Duck lake on the line of the new Toledo & Northwestern railroad. The Saginaw Cycle Path association has been organized by the most prominent wheelmen in the city to construct a einder path to Bay City. The kitchen of the Hildebrant hotel at Adrián burned atmidnight. Guests made hasty exits and dressed in the back yard. Damage slight. Watson Patterson, a demented old soldier, bound over to court on the charge of arsou, suicided by hanging himself in jail with a blanket. Walter Elliott hanged himself in his barn at Gobles, presumably to avoid arrest, because some stolen nieat wis alleged to have been founri at his place.

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