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The Democrat THE ANN ARBOR DEMOCRAT. SIXTH YEAR. *ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1883. NUMBER 267. his farm near the state line south of Monroe, TOPICS OF THE TIMES. MICHIGAN NEWS. aud stopping the engine, as the passengers say his head upon a small roll of carpeting, sent a J C. Charoth, mayor of Baton Rouge, who drove to Monroe, and exchanged it for a $325 NEWS OF THE WEEK. he could have done, he reversed the brakes and ball through his brain. A note was found stat- rig belonging to J. M. Sterling. They ar leaped off, letting tbe engine go crashing started the first daily paper in Louieiana out AW ARBOR DEMOCRAT A. V. Monroe, a well-to-do farmer of Coop- ing that he (deceased) was all ready for bis of New Orleans, the Baton Rouge Reporter in THE King of Siam, who is only a boy of believed to be Toledo thieves en route for De WASHINGTON. broadside into the middle of the passenger coffin. When the news was carried to his 1849, has jast died aged 57. er township, Kalamazoo county, recently train There were eighteen persons in the car, PUBLISHED EVERY 1KIDAY twenty years, has allowed his finger committed suicide by cutting his throat witi trolt. A CLERK'S INVENTION. parents the ecene was heartrending The cause —AT— The Pontiac asylum is overcrowded and ther and the scene was frightful. Men, women and of the rash act is unknown. e was a young Fr the pension list just published it is a razor at his residence in the presence of his A. H. Doan, a clerk in the Pension Office hildren were knocked out of their seats in learned that several persons who have been nails, it is said, to grlw until they aro family, it was a most ghastly spectacle. He are 300 more patients at the Kalamazoo asylum has invented a method of displaying weather man of fine business qualifications and irre- than the accommodations provide for. It wil every direction, and few escaped being man- proachable character. ctead several years are drawing their pensions ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN more than a foot in length. This deform- went to the buttery, got up on a chair, reach signals in the country for the benefit of farmers gled, bruised or scalded. The car took fire in- with surprising regularity. ed for the razor, took it in his left hand anc be two years before the northern asylum i TWO NOTORIOUS BURGLARS. which may be adopted by the Signal Service stantly and was wi apped in flames almost be- A. F. Blundell manager of the Nebraska ity reduces the monarch to a state of drew it across bis throat with such force anc ready for occupancy, and meantime the appli Bureau. It provides for a system of the signa fore the passengers could be gotten out. It John Irving and John Walsh, two of the most purpose that the neck was almost severed from cations for admission are unusually numerous notorious burglars in the United States.shot and lelephone company,has absconded with $1,400 BY JOHN L BURLEIGH. absolute helplessness, and for that flags to be known as farmers' signal flags, was entirely consumed. Most of thj passengers of the company's money. his bodv, the blade cracking against the Representative Bixby has been chosen cit. which are to be displayed from the sides ol were bespattered with blood and soot, but mi- killed each other in a saloon in New York City H. E. H. BOWERS, Editor. reason, probably, the Siamese regard bone. Then he got down and ran about the recorder of Adrian in place of Recorder Nix United States mail cars which pass rapidly and raculous as it may seem, no one was killed. the other day. They had a bitter quarrel, and It cost Missouri $10,000 to vindicate Colonc room, a great stream of blood spurting out, om, deceased. continuously over the country on the great once before attempted to take each other's rrank James. long nails as one of the peculiar attri- and finally he fell exhausted and died before network of tracks. The flags will signal in- ONE UNFORTUNATE'S STORY. life. San Francisco is trying to prevent the land- butes of sovereignty. his horror stricken family. He has before Hudson will have a Y. M. C. A., $400 having formation as follows: White, meaning clear The People's Paper had symptoms of insanity, and once attempt- been subscribed toward its organization. Helyn Leonard, the young woman wh o shot TO AVENGE HIS SISTER'S HONOR. lug of lepers from the Sandwich islands. weather; blue flag, fair weather; red, doubtful and seriously wounded Mrs. Clarence Smith, ed to drown himself. His family are all growr Capt. Smith's hardware store at Middleville weather, and black stormy weather, or high Crice Lisehy, colored United States mail Oae hundred and twenty-nine life convicts THE bill granting the right of suffrage up. He was one of the earliest settlers of In New York city several weeks ago, was con- carrier at Nashville, Tenn., met Tin. MeBride, e en ed the prison in Joliet TERMS: Barry county, was burnt recently. S. B. Smith winds. Signals can be ordered up from Wash- victed of assault In the second degree and ?«« 'f« > II'-since in Washington Territory appears to be Cooper, was highly respected aud was a man Charles Bundy, and Archie, son of Thomas ington by telegraph, and the cost of the entire colored, charged him with seducing his sister. 1868, and fifty-three are still t of prominence. He was in very romfortable Welsh, formerly of Detroit were killed by the sentenced to the penitentiary for three and a MeBride gave Lisehy the lie, upon which he $1.50 PER ANNUM. system, It is said, will be insignificant. half years. The young woman became an or- Foreign capitalists have ju»! bought a large in a fair way to become a law. Wycircumstanceo- , but his delusion was that his falliDg wall, Silas A. Geer injured and wil." shot him in the right arm. The arm was am- tract of timber land in southeastern Arkansas, If paid at the end of six months, or family would soon come to want. probobly die. phan early, was educated in a convent in Cana- putated and MeBride bled to death. oming and Utah now have woman CONCERNING MICHIGAN. da, later was a governess in Cuba, and later said to contain 460,000,000 feet of timber. suffrage, but the operation of the law in Pat Cavanaugh, a member of the fire depart- Mr. Steams' wind engine and pump works at The postofHce department has ordered the still became identified with a wealthy man TORTURED AND ROBBED. Two Republican and two Democratic mem- $1.OO In Adavaa.ce. ment of Muskegon, while under the influence 3rand Haven, including planing mill, ware- following star schedules to go into effect Octo- here, who abandoned her. She charged the Masked men entered the house of Edward oers of the new congress have died since their Office, Rooms 6 aud 7, Opera House those Territories has not been such as of liquor forced an entrance into the house of IOUSO, paint shop and lumber yard, has been ber 24: Route from Butler to Quincy—Leave abandonment to the influence of the woman McLaughlin In Joliet, 111., tortured the farmer election. to make it desirable to extend the actMrs. J. P. Magoon, getting in at a window. A lestroyed by fire also, two dwelling Butler Wednesdays and Saturdays at 11:00 a. whom sheshot. Then followed arrest, impris- and his wife until they disclosed the hiding- One hundred thousand children <arn their Block, corner Main and Ann Streets. Mr. Collins, an engineer on the C. <fc VV. M. louses, owned by Albert Kiel, and the store m., and arrive at Quincy 1:30 p. m.; leave orraent, trial, conviction and sentence. place of $1,000 iu gold, and departed leaving own living in New York City. elsewhere. Washington Territory will railway, who with his wife occupied a room up building owned by Mrs. Wilcox, occupied by Quincy Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3:30 p. the victims very nearly dead. John Verhocks as a general store. Mrs. Wll- m., and arrive at Butler at 6. p. m. From Tay- AN UNEXPECTED LOOP-HOLE. Nashville, Tenn., is agitating the cent ques- stairs, hearing the crash of the glass, rushed A. BANK OFFICIAL 8 MISERY. tion. The smallest coin in circulation in that be knocking at the doors of Congress down stairs with his revolver and fired at the cox was living in the rooms upstairs. Total mouth to Birch Run—Leaye Taymouth Wednes- Suspicions for some time have existed that COOK HOUSE, amount of tbe losses about $35,000. Fifty men days and Saturdays at 2 p.m., and arrive at many Chinese have been permitted to land The United States grand jury has indicted city is the five cent piece, and shopkeepers are next winter for admission as a State, its supposed burglar. The ball entered Cava- beginning to see the folly of keeping out th<- H. HUDSON, Proprietor, naugh's ueck at the right side, coming out at ara thrown out of employment. Birch Run by 3:30; leavs Birch Run Wednes- From Chinese steamers who under the restric- Kirtland Fitch, defaulting cashier of the War- .Newly Furnished. The lending house In Ann population now being about five times days and Saturdays at fi p. m., arrive at Tay tions act were not entitled to that privilege.
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