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27
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January
Year
1888
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MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

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Alma clerks don't relish the idea of keeping open shop until 10 o'clock at night, since it interferes with the acceptance of leap year invitations, and have banded together to materialize a 7 o'clock closing scheme.

Gladwyn [Gladwin] is in pursuit of a grist mill and a tailor, but has several dozen cases of measles, which she will present to whomever may want 'em, without money and without price. 

A Muskegon man has brought suit against another citizen of the "Sawdust City" in the sum of $25,000 for alleged trifling with his daughter's affections. "Trifles" come high in some places. 

Snow in the northern portion of the state is so deep as to baffle even the "oldest inhabitant." Work in the lumber woods is said to be at a standstill. 

A club of Adrian young men have solemnly vowed never, no never, to marry any lady who wears a corset. The question naturally arises, how are they to find out?

A double partnership is that of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Conklin, who publish The St. Charles Independent. 

J. M. Slight, of Slight station, with a view of increasing the population and prosperity of his little burg, offered a gold dollar for every child born there within five years. This wise policy is already bearing fruit, as he was called upon the other morning for $5 for a single night's developments. There's nothing like a proper reward as an incentive to the right performance of life's duties. 

Fort Gratiot's calaboose is so small that 'tis said that in order to accommodate three men at one time they must be stood on end and packed in, sardine fashion.

Lake Superior iron region turned out 4,667,652 tons of ore during 1887, the largest output on record. The total production of these mines exceeds 25,000,000 tons. 

An Ogemaw county supervisor celebrates each meeting of the board by getting gloriously full of budge. And yet his township re-elects him with the regularity of each recurring April election. 

The Orchard Lake Military academy is the largest private institution of the kind, in point of attendance, in the county, and is deservedly popular.

W. S. Winegar, a Galwin man, turned out 50,000,000 shingles last season. And yet many a man's roof continues to leak during every thunderstorm. 

The Stockbridge fair association must feel lonely. It has $1,500 cash in its treasury and doesn't owe a nickel. Don't believe there's another pumpkin show in the state that can make such a showing. 

Sinners are getting scarce at White Pig on, ninety of 'em having been "gathered in" by a recent revival. 

The Grand Trunk's receipts at Bellevue station for the past year were $22,000. Upward of 600 cars of freight and 7,000 passengers contributed to the cash receipts. Number of deadheads not stated. 

Branch county's board of supervisors presented their chairman, George W. Ellis, of Bronson, with an elegant easy chair. uch is the pathway of fame. 

Marquette comes to the front with a 2,000-foot toboggan slide, but she has got snow enough to run one clear across Lake Superior. 

Twice during his earthly sojourn a Grand Ledge man has been so near death's door that his friends badly procured his burial suit, but he wouldn't have it that way, and wore them out at his regular avocation. He's again on the sick list, but his friends will wait for a sure enough corpse before getting the third suit. 

The grand council of royal and select Masons help their annual blowout at Grand Rapids. The goat was given an extra feed expressly for teh occasion. 

Beware of the aching tooth. A Bellevuew boy had one drawn, caught cold in the jaw excavation and has gone to the land where teeth are not supposed to ache. 

A progressive "spiritual union" has had the breath of life breathed into it at Lansing. Getting ready, probably, for the next session of the state legislature. 

Two sail vessels and nine steam craft are being built this winter on the Saginaw river. Notwithstanding the zero weather the beer schooners on that stream are still in commission. 

When a Flint man drew his boot, on a recent frosty morning, he found that it contained a liberal dose of pancake batter. Judging from the way the breezes blew for a few minutes, 't wouldn't have been healthy for the joker to have happened around just then. 

Lansing had three girls who answered 2,619 telephone calls in two days. But, then, the girls are great talkers, anyway. 

They are trying to organize a gymnasium at the state university. Now, look out for the discovery of a new comet. 

Port Huron is to have a new $100,000 mower and binder factory, and may be expected to cut a wide swatch during '88. 

Any fellow with a well equipped furniture factory, who may be looking for a more desirable location, is advised to correspond with Three Rivers. That town is red-hot, despite the zero weather, for just that sort of an enterprise. 

Richard E. Butterworth, a wealthy Grand Rapids citizen, died at his home in that city on the 17th  He located at the Rapids in 1843 and had long been prominently identified weirth business interests. 

Jumping at conclusions isn't always the wisest course to pursue. Some Gratiot country people, who were going to festoon a man with tar and feathers because of alleged cruelty to his wife, think so too. The accused has been tried for the offense, but the charge didn't hold water. 

Several Michigan towns are trying to solve the weighty problem whether or not the winter revival and the progressive euchre party can flourish in the same place at the same time. The trial has been somewhat severe on the revival, but at last accounts several of 'em were likely to make a go of it. 

Gratiot county is credited with twenty-two divorces for the last year. But she doesn't head the list by any means.

Port Huron has a detective in the person of E. W. Buckeridge, who evidently don't stand in with the crooks. He has recovered $1,000 worth of stolen property within a short time, and still is not weary in well doing.

The Y. M. C. A., of Marquette, has been laying the foundation for a missionary work. They gave more than 1,000 free baths during the past year. 

Barry county grave-robbers are on the warpath. So also are the citizens, and if the sanctuary of the dead continues to be desecrated, somebody's scalp is liable to suffer. 

A year ago Mary King, of East Saginaw, aged 15 years, was a convert at the protracted meetings helped there last winter by Evangelist Willis. The attendant excitement had a depressing effect, and now she's an inmate of an insane asylum. 

The Great Western cutter company of Grand Haven has suffered a total eclipse, notwithstanding the splendid run of sleighing. 

H. C. Chapin, the Battle Creek man who was reported in the daily papers as having perished in the Dakota blizzard, writes home that isn't so, for he's O.K. and finds that western climate both exhilarating and appetizing.

A rumor comes floating on the frosty air to the effect that the City of Milwaukee, of the Grand Haven and Milwaukee line of steamers, is to be rebuilt this water and converted into a "floated palace." Let's all take a trip next summer. 

Millington has a lady preacher in the person of Miss Caroline Bassett. The young men of that town are said to be regular church goers. 

A Rapids fellow loved his girl, he loved her well and true, but was too bashful to propose, which made her sad and blue; but leap year came to her, relief with promised light and joy, she asked the fellow to be her'n, and he's her darling boy. 

Muskegon wants $70,000 of Uncle Sam's surplus with which to improve her harbor.

Potter and Miller, the Chicago evangelists, have brought 500 Flint sinners to terms, albeit Dr. Jackson, the noted infidel, was too much for 'em. 

A Roscommon man got a year at Jackson for stealing a watch, while another R. m. went to Ionia for nine months for embezzlement. The latter seems to be regarded as a sort of gentleman's job by the average court. 

In 1878 the gross receipts of the Muskegon post office were less than $9,000, while in 1887 they were nearly $21,000. The sawdust city continues to forge ahead as the metropolis of the Michigan east shore. 

William Aldrich, druggist and prominent business man of Maple Rapids, went over to St. Johns, executed a deed of all his property to his wife, bought a ticket for California, and then skipped. As he was well-to-do financially, and his domestic relations were pleasant, his strange action is a mystery. 

The Chestnut club is a Flint organization that's going to throw and electric glare on the tariff question this winter. Congress will know just what to do with the vexed problem when the spring posies shall bloom and the Chestnut club has gone into a state of innocuous desuetude. 

Dr. Coleman, of the Cadilc sanitarium, is dead. 

Cadilac Congregationalists have hauled in fifty sinners from the blizzardly cold this winter, and are just warming up to their work. 

The Manistee Sun charged a citizen of that town with improper treatment of an orphan girl, was sued for libel, and not only won the case, but now has custody of the girl. The Sun celebrated its victory with a "red line" edition; that is, the paper was printed in red ink, as a warning to future repeaters of the libel act. 

Michigan railroads take a full hand in the lumber del. During 1887 the Flint & Pere Marquette hauled 215,000,000 feet of logs, the Michigan Central 148,000,000 and the Detroit, Bay City, & Alpena 218,000,000.

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A MUCH MARRIED MAN.

An Engineer of St. Paul Who Has Led Five Brides to the Altar. 

ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 21—Mrs. John Wilkins is the plaintiff in a suit for divorce from her husband, who is alleged to have wedded four other women. The papers in the case were filed in the district court Tuesday. In 1870 Wilkins married to the plaintiff in Fagundas, Pa., where they lived happily for a number of years. He then moved to St. Paul, bringing his young wife with him. In May, 1887, he contracted a marriage with Emma Stetson, and a few months later married another woman named Kate Fox, who is now a dressmaker in this city. Shortly afterward he married a woman named French, and followed this in August by marrying one Hattie Bowles. Each of these marriages was contracted under an assumed name. Added to this he was engaged to a handsome widow who is now employed at a corset-making establishment here. The difficulty of maintaining so many wives soon forced itself upon Wilkins, and last October he left the city taking with him Emma Stetson, who was his favorite. He was employed as an engineer while in this city. His parents reside in Cleveland, where his father is said to be quite wealthy, and a stockholder in the Standard Oil company. 

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POISON IN THE SCRAPPLE.

A Butcher's Carelessness Makes Many People Violently Ill. 

CHESTER, Pa., Jan. 24.— George L. Horning, a butcher at Second and Parker streets, filled a pan of scapple with "Rough on rats" Saturday and placed it in the ice-box for the purpose of making a wholesale slaughter of the rodents infesting his place. He forgot to tell his men about the docored pan, and one of his agents, Newill Carr, took the scrapple along with him on his regular rounds. 

Monday a dozen people who had eaten of the poisoned meat were prostrated, with several of them dangerously ill and almost beyond recovery. Chief of Police Newsome, his wife and son, John Newsome, were among the afflicted. They suffered intense pain, with severe fits of vomiting, but are now comparatively well. A young son of Thomas Gallagher ate a small piece of the uncooked scrapple and was made sick. Mrs. James Ross and her four children were taken with violent pain in the stomach and were son rolling about in agony. Mrs. Harry Dych and son, John, also ate the scrapple, and had it not been for the prompt use of emetics would have died. The victims are all recovering and none with die. 

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"The Devil Was in the Preacher."

 

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