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Day
2
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The department of New York, Grand Army of the Reublic, in its twenty-second annual eneampment at Syracuse unanimouslv adopted the per diem rated service pension bill, and quested its senators and representativas in congresa to vote for the measure. Mrs. Bridget Ward died in Elin, Hls., Friday, aged U8. She was a native of Ireland. Exeessive cigarette smoking killed James Copley, a Cleveland, Ouio, bar-tender, Friday. He smoked 100 cigarettes daily sometimes, inhaling the smoke, and a post-mortem showed that his body was saturated with nicotine. A meeting hs been called at Galesburg, Ills., for March Ifl and 17 of tbe Central Illinois Teachers' sssociation. AU departinents and grades of the public schools of tbe state will receive attention. Mmisrs. Bateman, Edwards, Forbes, Cook, and Holt will address the meeting. Kansas City saloonkeepers have formed an anti-law and order ler.gtie. Anthony Parslow, oí Albauy, N. Y., ate ten leet six inches of corn cakes turee inches wide and one inch thick the otuer day. An analysis made by government chemists shows tbac beer is badly adulterated. The brewers are correspoudingly mad. There is a beer war at Guttenburg, Iowa. The citizens are nearly all Grmans, and threaten forcible resistance to prohibition laws. Cardinal Gibbons is said to be the favorito of English, Germán, and Russian cardinals for tbe highesl office in the ciiurch when Pope Leo dies. An American pope would be a decided iunovation. Lee Sing, the first Chinaman in Kansas to apply for citizenship, was refused Monday at Wichita. Tbe official canvasa of the Eleventh Michigan district gives Suymour a [.lurality of 4J3 over Breen. Clara Louige Kellogg is suffering from bronchitis and whooping-cough, at Fiahkill, N. Y. Charles City, Ia., thiriki oil haa been dis. covered in paying quantities there, and the people are much slated. The house military oommittee has agreed to a bilí giving wr telegraph operators honorable discharge, but no money.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News