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Michigan State News

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Day
9
Month
March
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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A Mr. Patterson siied tho C. J. & M. Raüway company $10,000 worth, because of injuries sustained on that line in the fall oí '87. A jury has decidod that 5,595 will ftx the matter up in about the proper style. The little 6-year-old son of Charles Brough, of Ravenna, discharged the contente of a gun into a ten-pound can of powder, corapletely wrecking his father's store building. The boy was badly hurt, but several customers who were pre-sent, escaped without serious injury. Perhaps the most injudicious article of f ood is diseased pork. A Kalamazoo county farmer slaughtered some sickly pigs and the people who ate of the meat have had such a deuce of a time of it that they talk of bringiiig damage suite against the seller. A Teukonsha personage has earned $30 per month the past winter by walking eight milee each day and wielding the birch in a "district schule." A farmer residing near Grand Rapids had a little finger bitten by a pig a short time since, and 'tis thought he cannot recover from the resulting poisonous effects. D. R. Sutton, the gentleman who was recently hanged at Oakland, Cal., was the owner of a couple of lottery tickets that he valued at the modest sum of $10,000. As he'd have no use for such lucre on the farther shore, the tickets were willed to a couple of Michigan people. But the neighbors of the M. P. havèh't noticed any sudden influx of wealth in that latitude. An Isabella county lady recently procured a divorcc, but feit so lonely over the result that she re-married within flve hours. Some folks seem capable of changing their minds very suddenly, under favorable circumstanees. A couple of brothers named Lombard, residents of Addison, aged 84 and 80 years respectively. had never been separated more than a few days at a time, until the younger brother diod a few days since. Sylvester L. Da vis, late of Lowell, may not be a handsome man, but the sheriff of Kent county offers $150 in clean cash for a good, safe squint at him. Oceana county ranges herself on the side of local prohihition by a majority of 1,200. There were less than 300 "wet" votes cast in the whole county. Away'back in the CO'sNathan Lewis offered lis services as a Union soldier, but being 55 years old was refused upon account of over ige. Nothing daunted, he spruced up a bit, called himself 48, tried another recruiting oficer and was accepted. He made a gallant soldier, serving throughout the war in the Seventh Michigan. He has since resided at Goodland, where he died recently at the age of 80 years. A Grand Rapids iumiture factory employs a carver who claims to have decorated the eradle in which the prince of Wales was rocked, in the long ago. E. G. Butler, a prominent grocer of Paw Paw, Mich., died Friday morning of heart disease, aged 71. The railways in Michigan in the región about Mackinaw City are blocked with snow, some of the drifts being ten feet deep. Masón county, Mich., has voted for the jrohibition of the liquor trafile, making ;hirty counties that have thus far voted for prohibition under the new local option law, to three against. A policeman's benefit ball was held at Grand Rapids the other night that netted $7.50. Huron county folks claim to have had numeróos adventures with wild cats, of late. It seems to remind 'em of pioneer days. The Jackson jxetoffic-e earned ?27.'j,000 for the government during the twenty years príor to 1H80. Wexford county has a school district with five children of school age, but the pedagogue is worrying along with two pupils. The snow is too doop lor the other three to attend that shrine of learning. Escanaba has an eye squinting into futurity, and sees a glimmer of a $50,000 hotel. Some three years ago Miss Hattie Colton, a Constantine lady , lost her voice.the best medical skill being of no avail. A visit to Iowa some time afterward resulted in a complete restoration, but upon returning home the old trouble returned. Three times has the experiment been tried with precisely the same results in each instanee. Emmet and Berrien counties gave "dry" majorities on Feb. 28th, the latterbeing not far f rom 700. A local paragrapher intimates that there's deep-seated indignation among Adrián people toward the management of the industrial home for girls. But one physician was en gaged, and four deaths resulted from the typhoid epidemie. The people claim that balf a dozen doctors should have been employed.but why they should owe the inmates of the institution sueh a grudge is past all finding out. Witbin the pastyear Martin Krouse, a Coral farmer, has lost two children, and the other day lus home was destroyed by fire. Hl luck seems to follow in the footsteps of some people. The Harrington table factory at Alma has jast passed through a $2,7000 scorchiug, with little or no insurance. Something like 2,200 "helloos" scoot over the Jackson telephono wires daily. Port Huroivs wholesafc houses keep thirtyeight drummers hustling for more business. Genesee county folks dont seem to dweil together in penee and harmony, as the recent term of tboir circuit eourt comprised seventy cases, tlit Hm on the list being a charge of murder. . Michigan Ma-sonic lodges now number 30,000 ineniber. For the privilege of keeping an open, but unprotected ditch the city of the "Soo" has paid ono of her citizens $500, because he turabled into siiid diteh and hurt himself . A portion of the outfit of a school district in Wexford oounty is a well 252 f eet in depth. Tbere's rare sport for the thirsty small boy. The Calhoun county farmers' institute, in convention assembled, decided that the tariff on sugar and 'lasses isn't a bit sweet, that selling eggs by the pound is simple justice to the big biddy, that a uniform eystem of iveights and measures is about the proper caper, and that the present marriage license system is n. gEvart not oiily does not owe a penny, but actually has more than l,000 in her "treasury. A Kalamazoo firm, manufacturera of tubular well goods, recently fiUed an ordec from Queensland, 9,000 miles from home. Bronze medals are being cast at the Pbiladelphia mint to be presented as a souvenir to each delégate attending the G. A. R. state encampment to be held at Lansing in the near future. Marquette claims the proud distinetion o: frozen water niains that were covered with eightfeetof earth. Upper Península f rost seems to be penetrating. There are several cavities that loudly cali for a dentist at Addison. Hudson balances up things with seven chiu'cbes and a li'ie number of saloons. Less thnn a vear ago Senator Stockbridgo bousht Bell Boy in California for Í5.0Ü0 Having v o i ífi.OOO in purses tho past season, making a record of 2:36, he was recently sold to Kentucky parties for 180,000. The studente of the Grab Lake high-school were so wel] pleased with their instructor that theyVe covered his corner of the room with Brussels carpet. Port Hurón has the bulge on the ubiquitous book agent. She rnakes 'em pay a license before turning 'em looso on a long-suffering public. Cadilac people claim that nine-tenths of the tiinber land adjacent to that town is liberally covered with good, hard-wood saw timber. Looks as though they would'nt object to several good wood-working establishmente. A forty-five foot well, that's so crooked as to require the pump being bent to reach the water, is the property of a Franklin lady. A literary society and a tidal wave of f aithcure struck Petersburg almost simultaneously the other day. Tis simply amazing what ehocks some towns can withstand. A Pontiac man has developed a great attachment for the horse - so great, indeed, that he's served a three years' job at Jackson, and is again in the toils in consequence thereof. But twas another fellow"s horse that he loved so well. Mount Clemens benedicts have an extra charge of feminine music in store for 'em. The ladies of the town are about to wield a musical club. Niles has another attack of wanting the Michigan Central railway shops, now located at Michigan City. But the indications that her desires may be gatified aren't a bit better to all appearances than they've been for a dozen years past. Sylvanus Daniels, convicted at Flint of the murder of Jerry White, goes to the Jackson penitentiary for life. Oxford schools are closed. Measles did the work. United States signal station at Kscanaba has been ordered discontinued. Lack of f uuds tells the story. Blackman has a brass band which, cousidering it's only a week oíd, can make an uncommon big noise. Branch county circuit court will grind out eleven divorces at its March term. Muskegon's visible supply of logs for the coming is said to be 150,000,000 feet less than that of a year ago.

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