The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXV—NO. 48. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1891. WHOLE NO. 1297.

The Merrantii« («»>»»)•» calendar hr isoi. —It is now the yellows which is glv- —The merry-go-round is again in our Miss Nora Ryan left Monday for Den­ Real Grain Bags at John H icks ’. AUQUST. Beat quality Mason Fruit | ing the peach-growers the blues midst. ver, Col., where she is engaged as The following are the transactions in Don ’t miss tbe chance of having your 8 M T w T I are with Boyd Capa A. £. Dutcher is just in receipt of —“ Bittersweet,” jour letter is una- teacher in the public schools. real estate in Clinton county, for one photo taken by Hamilton before the 18th 1 a new Warwick Perfection, diamond | voidably put over until next week.— Mrs. B. P. Conn, and little daughter week ending, August 24, as recorded by of Octolier. i ‘A Pints, fl.no ; Quarts flJ» ; •i 3 * 7 H frame, safety. Sorry, but ’tis true. of Edward Brown, are spending the Register of Deeds F. W. Lamphere: Girl Wsoiwl. 9 10 it 12 IS 14 II Two Quarts, $1.40 per 16 17 13 19 20 21 821 —H. A. Pence and family, for some —The first annual race meet of the balance of the week in Detroit. Jesse D. Janes to Geo. 8. Seeley, live acres on Apply to Mrs. Geo. H. Judd, comer 43 <4 26 23 27 28 82 lozcn. time managers of the Central House, in Lansing Bicycle Club, will be held at section 84, Dupluln.faw. of and Cass streets, St. Johns. w$i . • Mrs. II. A. McGavish, who has been Mead an this village, have removed to Fostoria, the capital city, Friday, September 11. Jesse D. Janes to Olive A. Seeley. 0 acres on visiting her sister, Mrs. W. S. Dever, re­ section 84, Duplaln, S100. Hosiery. jwr-To all new subscribers, I Ohio. —Madame Price’s music school opens turned to Detroit Tuesday morning. Charles W. Lyon et al, to Edwin H. Lyon, lots Our hosiery department will be found as well as to those who will —School in district No. 5, Bingham, for pupils on September8. Those wish- Mrs. Geo. W. Emmons and daughter, 1 and 2, block 82, St. Johns. 13,000. complete. Fast olack hosiery, Cotton, will open for business next Monday, ing especial hours must make appoint- Gracie, w’ent to Detroit Tuesday morn ­ 8. B. Gil lam to Wm. H. Castle, part of lot fl, Lisle and Silk, all of tbe best “Herma- pay up all arrearages, we will I A.ufgust 81, with Mrs. Frank Kroll as I ments before the 8th. ing to remain during the Exposition. block 10. St. Johns, $8,601). dorf Dye.” They will not crock or turn send The Independent and the teacher. —Now is the accepted time—Detroit Jason II. W’llder to Joseph W. Wolford, 140 green. Absolutely free from all poison ­ Mr. and Mrs. C. Rochon left Tuesday acres on section 0, Watertown, $100—q. c. ous substances. John H icks . Detroit Free Press and House- —At a meeting of the heirs of Moses Free Press and Household and The morning for a visit at Detroit, Amherst- Wm. H. Castle to Samuel E. Qlllam, 80 acres Do you want some of Hamilton ’s fine hold, one year for $1.75, cash, Bro™' d< ^a8ed ’ beld Au»“J 6th’ Independent , one year for only $1.75. burg, Canada, and a trip up the lakes. on section 13, Olive, $8,300. photos V If you do you have only until , y v * ’ the widow, Mrs. Brown, was chosen strike while the fever is on. Miles R. Georgia to Bengal and Riley Baptist Mrs. Joseph A. Stowell, of Dundee, church, 4 acres on sectlou 83, Bengal, 11. < October 18th, to have them taken. administratrix in place of P. K. Perrin, —Will DeWitt will be united in mar- and Mrs. E. W. Rappleye, of Ridgeway, HOME MATTERS. I administrator. riage to Miss Rose Krepps, at the home Margaret L. Covert to W. H. Covert, 20 acres Black Goods. this state, are the guests of Mrs. O. L. on section 28, town Victor, $200—q. o. Our line of black dress goods is com­ -Milo W. Frink, of Bengal, has been 0f the bride ’s parents, at 8 o ’clock this Vreeland. John B. Ridenour to Jacob Ridenour, 20 a era plete with all styles and qualities of fine Brevitlea. I commissioned overseer in the State | evening. Rev. C. G. Thomas will offici- on sec. 23, Greenbush, 1650. This life would be a blissful state, E. E. Whipple, of the Whipple harrow Ralph W. Holley to Myron B. and Rarnest wool and silk fabrics. We cary the fin­ House of Correction at Ionia, aud will | ate. Holley, 30 acres on sections 16,22, Olive, $3,610 est imported and domestic goods. The And merrily would the world go round, works, went to New York city on busi­ celebrated “Priestly” silk warp Henri­ If ice cream was a cent a plate I enter upon his duties next Monday, —Harry Coleman is this week supply­ ness, last Friday, and expects to return Addison A. Woodruff to Beniamin F. Sobers, first, as assistant in the office 40 acres on section 34, Victor, *1,229. etta always kept in stock. And caramels a cent a pound. ing the place of 8. C. Knapp, as express to-morrow r. BenJ. F. Sober to Frank Smith, 40 acres on John H icks . —If. Y. Prtu. —Miles Boardman who wag arrested messenger between St. Johns and De- E. C. Thompson, wife and daughter, section 34, Victor, $1,000. —School begins Monday, September 7. 1 and lodged in jail Sunday, August 16tli, I troit, while the latter is making the James E. Plowman to Wm. T. Plowman, 20 If you want Hamilton's new Glace of Saginaw ; also, Miss Mamie Murdock, acres on seotion 22, Bengal, *300. printed photos, you have only to the 18th —The county pioneer picnic is being charged with being drunk, and admitted through runs, James E. Plowman to Dennis Roy Plowman, of October to have them taken. of Dexter, are visiting at F. F. Mur 30 acres on section 22, Bengal, $300. held at Round Lake to-day. to bail the following Monday, was ex- —The State Board of Health has dock ’s, this week. —If you would please a woman, praise amined before a jury in Justice Smith’s issued, in pamphlet form, a treaties by Phillip Mlllls to Willard C. and Edwin H. Bargain*. Mrs. Theo. Price will return from her Lyon, 33 acres on seotion 30. Lebanon, $2,600. Two buggies, wire plant stand, bang- her children ; if you would please a man, court, on the 22d, and acquitted. Dr. J. S. Pardee, of Three Oaks, on The summer vacation next week, and re­ Isaac W. Halstead to Charlotte A. Trimble, 2 lamps and chandeliers. G. S. Cokbit . praise him. —We understand that the store and Care of Children During Hot Weather, acres on section 9, Olive, $JU0—q.c. sume her instructions in music on Mon ­ Charlotte A. Trimble to Nancy A. Kennedy, Fowler House For Sale. —Clark Putt is erecting a new dwell- residence of H. L. Pruden, in thetown- which we re-print complete in this day, September 8. 2 acres on section 9, Olive, $450. The undersigned, having repaired ani ing house on his resident lot on Cass ship of Riley, were completely consumed issue Mrs. J. L. Ring and her mother, Mrs. refurnished the Fowler House, at Fow ­ stieet, east. by fire on Saturday night last. .It is —On Tuesday last a 6-year-old daugh- Divorce unit Remarriage. ler, Michigan, will sell the same cheap, , Lyon, left Tuesday morning for An interesting point in tbe law of di ­ or will trade for farm or village property . —Under this sultry sunsh ine the claimed that the total loss will aggregate ter of Palmer Lane, of South Bingham, Fredricksburg, Ohio, to attend a re­ Southern fields are blossoming into $2,000, which includes $2U0 in spot cash, fell from a fence, producing a disloca- vorce has been decided by the Supreme J. II. Fkdkwa , union of the Lyon family. Court of Vermont. N. H. Gkllek , snow —cotton, you know. and all without insurance. tion and fracture of the left elbow Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ball and Mrs. C. St. Johns. —It is not generally known that it is —The village fathers, at their last The child was immediately brought to A married couple were divorced in F. H. Geller, Kipp went to Owosso yesterday to at­ Massachusetts and thedefendant in the 1274 tf Fowler. only the female mosquito that does the meeting, instructed the village marshal the office of Dr. Wiggins, who repaired tend a wedding in which a Miss Black biting —the males have more mercy. to build or repair all sidewalks that have the injury suit remained in Vermont. Both the was party to the important contract law of Massachusetts and that of Ver­ Second Hand Store*. —Miss Brownie Bromley is the happy been reported by the committee. This —Miss Margaret Meams, a teacher in Rev. and Mrs. 8. S. Chapin and three I have two good, round, wood stoves, recipient of a handsome upright piano work must be done, and if not by prop- Mrs. Noble's training school, in Detroit, mont forbids a divorced defendant to and a Crown Jewell, base burner, coal children, who have been spending sever marry again. stove, for sale at low prices. of the Hallett & Davis manufacture. erty ow ners, must be done by the public and who received the gold medal in the al weeks with friends here, returned to Only $86,362 were expended in en- j at the expense of the property. contest at Detroit opera house, May 8, The court holds that the prohibition G. S. Corbit . their home In Stockoridge, yesterday does not apply to the defendant in this tertaining 38,000 veterans at the Nation ­ -Recently, C. C. Vaughan, of this im: will entertain our people, in a dra- Mrs. Jas. A. Stephenson and tMO The Boss $1.50 Fountain Pen at al encampment recently held in Detroit. village, in company with three other maGc recital, in the high school room, case. The Massachusetts statute, it _____ A llison ’s. daughters, of Menominee, Mich., are says, does not apply because the second —A telegram from Lorain, O., re gentlemen, sold a portion of a large this (Thursday)evening; admission, 25c. spending a short vacation w'ith kin Hilllker’a Lunch Room ceived by Loring Grant, last Monday tract of pine land in Mississippi, which I The Detroit Free Press speaks in high marriage did not take place in that in the basement, under the new ’ Hotel people and friends in our village, after state. The Vermont statute has no St. Johns, with a better lunch for fifteen evening, announced the death of a they purchased several months ago, terms of Miss Meam’s ability and power an absence of seven years. cents than I have ever offered to the cousin. to interest her listners. bearing for the reason that tbe divorce realizing a total net profit of about $11,- L. K. Patterson started on a trip, was not obtained there. public. Satisfactory rates to farmers —Recollect that the law calls for an 000. They still own 1,000 acres. —A distressing accident occurred at Tuesday, expecting to visit New York, n the hotel department. There is strong popular sentiment 1293 J. W. IIilliker . advance guard, forty rods ahead of a Pine Lake, last Saturday, in the drown Washington, Richmond, and other —The Clinton County Fair will begin ing of two gii Is: Ida Smith, an adopted that to prohibit a divorced person from thrashing engine to notify people of its September 29th and continue four days. eastern and southern points, finally, lOO-Acre Farm for Sale coming. daughter of Joseph Smith, who resides marrying again is contrary to public or trade for real estate in St. Johns. The premium lists are now in the hands locating in Rochester, N. Y. policy and morality. The courts seem —The Advent camp meeting opens near Trowbridge; Kittie McCurdy, a Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons, of Stockbridge, For particulars inquire of in Lansing to-day. There will be no of the secretary, and may also be had neighbor, and Pearl Schooley, whose inclined to take the same view of it. 1294 J. U. Fedewa . at this office. There are many induce this state, cousins of Dr. Wm. Havens, For example, the prohibition in New charge for admission as has been erone- parents reside in Lansing. They were and M. D. Baker, wife and son of Lan 20 Per Cent. Saved ously reported. ments for our agriculturists and manu ­ in a row-boat together, and in attempting York has been practically annulled by facturers to exhibit and compete. Do sing, brother of Mrs. Dr. Havens, spent By buying the St. Johns Chilled and —Keep your mind on the big races to to pass one another in exchanging the decisions bolding that any person may Burtcn Plows and repairs of Cross & something, and in doing so, try and portion of the past week with them escape its operation by simply going to take place at our approaching county labor of rowing, the boat was capsized. Al. Thomas, Will Urie, F. Waters Weller, at the St. Johns Foundry and fair. Just think of it, over $3,000 in the beat’the other fellow'. The McCurdy girl was rescued, but the New Jersey, Connecticut or any other Machine shop. Time saved is money and M. Flinn are spending the “last state to get married. In this state a di ­ earned. 1294-w4 speed department. A conductor says that female tramps | Gthertwo were carried down to a watery days of summer,” camping on the sun ­ —If you want your boy to love and are on tbe increase. They are not as grave. vorced person is free to marry at his or A Fine Feed-cntter. caress you don ’t make him pull weeds I daring as the men in jumping off and on ny shores of Muskrat Lake. How her pleasure.— Lansing Journal. PERSONAL. lovely ! The frogs make long leaps for Is offered in exchange for stove wood. or hoe potatoes in the back yard, while trains, but they are found hanging all Miss Ella Stevens has returned from safety. The Clinton County Institute. G. S. Corbit . the St. Johns Cornet Band is passing over a freight car, on the trucks or Go to E. T. Sumner & Son ’s for iur- the front door. clinging to the truss rods by hands and Valparaiso. Isaac C. Jones and his good wife, of The Teachers’ Institute opened in the O. L. Vauconsant is spending a sea­ Bengal township, left their pleasant niture. picture frames and mouldings. —Sir Henry Tvler, of London, Eng., feet, aud in fact in a good many danger- high school building on Monday last, at son in St. Johns. home a week ago for a four weeks’ visit Repairing a specialty. 1199 accompanied by all the railroad officials ous places that a male tramp would not the appointed time, and notwithstanding J. G. Wise and family spent last Sun at theirearly home in Senaca couty, N the inclemency of the weather, a goodly Are Yon Hungry? of the Grand Trunk system, recently think of getting in. day at Pine Lake Y., and to participate in a reunion of number of teachers were enrolled on the I have added to the Home Bakery, in made a tour of inspection along the D., | —The Grand Trunk officials have de- the Uuiou Block, a Lunch Counter, . . , Lyman Wickes is in Detroit, attend the Jones family. first day, and up to Tuesday evening 117 which will at all times, be provided with G. II. & M. division. cided upon September 19 as the date for . tjlft Exposition, Mrs. G. S. Corbit and her little niece ambitious candidates for knowledge had the opening of the Port Huron tunnel. | * n a„ irai,o n . hot tea and coffee aud tbe most desir ­ —The youngsters now begin to count | the opening Hettie Hawkshaw has gone to Detroit Miss Ruth Pierce, and Mrs. Matilda made their obeisance to the two honor ­ able cold dishes; pies, cakes, etc. the days as school time draws near I sir Henry Tyler will remain upon tbe | for a few days ’ visit. Shaver and her son Ben. will enter upon able instructors in charge : Professors Charges most reasonable. A trial is so ­ licited. Lizzie A llen . again. They’ve had a generous holiday, ground to have a general supervision of Charlie Reed, of Grand Rapids, was a trip to Puget Sound, Wash., this after Thompson and Converse. Inasmuch as and plenty of fruit has added much to the work of removing the caved in earth 1 in tow n over Sunday. neon, via. the Northern Pacific from St the session will not be more than half Money to Loan on Farm Lands. the satisfaction of the average small and will make the formal opening. It Miss Grace McCabe is spending the Paul. They will visit their brother over at the time we go to press, we shall Interest seven (7) per cent payable annually. No commissions charged. boy. will take two gangs of men, working | present week in Detroit. Bart Shepard, remaining several months omit anything like a complete report of —It is reported that two more daily I night and day alternately to complete Enquire of L. Grant . E. U. Gorsucli, of Corunna, spent each day's doings of this important as newspapers are to be started on the I the work by the date named for the 1263-tf. St. Johns, Mich. SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS. semblage until our next issue. rounds in the city of Lansing, one by D. I opening. Sir Ilenry says that the rapid Saturday last in St. Johns. Mrs. Wm. Ryan, of Dallas, Texas, is Novelties in Silver Plated Ware, for A. Reynolds, late of the Michigan running of passenger and freight trains J visiting Mrs. R. M. Shields. Rev. J. Davis will preach at Fowler, Advertised Letters. Wedding presents, at A llison ’S. Statesman, and the other by Robert will be greatly faciliated by the tunnel, August 30th, at 3 p. m. Fred Leland went to Ann Arbor Tues St. Johns , Mich., August 23,1391 For Sale. Smith & Co., the present state printers, and it is not improbable that a second | day last for a few days ’ visit There will be service at St. John’s Howland A Son, A J Miller & Smith A. Retan ’s handsome residence on Both to be independent in politics. tunnel may be built near the first one W. 8. Dever went to Detroit Tuesday church next Sunday morning. Harger. Mias Lena Webster, Mrs. S D Clinton Ave., north. Apply on prem­ —The time for bolding the Clinton —Durand Express. Jacobs. Charley ises. 1287-tf morning to spend a few days. U. B. mite society, of Bengal, will tW“ Persons calling for any of the above let­ county fair is not far away. Have you —Michigan has been favored with an Miss Blanch Myers, of Muir, is the meet \yith Mrs. Frank Lyon, Wednes ­ ters will please say “Advertised. ” The Mercantile Co. pay the farmers decided to make some exhibits ( Let excenent sight for her world ’s fair build-1 gues t Gf Mrs. P. E. Walsworth. day, September 2d, at 2 p. m. VOLNEY A. CHAPIN. P. M. more cash for Butter and Eggs than everyone take an interest in these an- inj?- A special has this to say M F. Holton was in Detroit on busi Rev. B. Ilamp will hold two days ’ ser­ Licensed to Wed. any three concerns in Clinton county. • nual exhibitions of the products of the of lt; The Michigan building at the ness the latter part of the week. vice at the U. B. church, Bengal, com­ Date. Name and Residence. Age Allison ’s 9 l Spectacles county, and they will be adding to their I wor id ’8 fair win be at the intersection ^jr and ^jre j j) Estes went to De­ mencing Saturday, September 5th, at 2 Aug. 22—Henry Bushre, Bingham...... 22 are the best. individual interests. Judicious adver-1^ w0 0f fke dne3 t avenues in Jackson o ’clock p. m. Llbble Scrubbs, Bingham...... 22 Don ’t forget that Kendrick keeps a troit Tuesday, to remain a week Aug. 22—Frank C. Tows. DeWitt...... 21 complete line of staple groceries and tising always pays. park. On the north is the art building Miss Kate McClaiD, of Lyons, spent A public dancing party will be given Hattie Lott, DeWitt...... 18 —Next year will be leap year, and we and thebeautiful park, filled with stat at Olive Grange ball, Tuesday evening, Aug. 22—John B. Ridenour, Essex...... 24 sells them cheap. Butter and egga Sunday with Miss Ellen Ferrier. Myrtle B. Shaw, Greenbush...... 14 wanted. suppose that the girls will orgauize a uary< wbich surrounds it. On the west Mrs. Morey returned from her extend September 1st. Bill 50 cents, includ ­ Aug. 23— Harvey K. Brown, Eagle ...... 23 brisk campaign. There are many eligi- i8 anot ber avenue with the Oregon and ^ visi't in the east, la8t Friday evening ing horses to hay. Jennie McCrumb, Eagle ...... 21 Watches, Clocks and Jewelry bleVvlsfc youngoAimrr bachelorsLonlml andOM/1 unrUspry Uwidowersr 1 /I AU'DrU Ii ...Washington « « A «buildings. m ___ On Atthe______eastA. •is _ I Repaired on short notice at A llison ’s. Mrs. W. F. Soule, of Ionia, spent Sun The ladies ’ aid society of West Bing ­ MARRIED. about town that should be looked after, the 0hio sltCi and on the 80uth wiscon day last with her sister, Miss Kate Burk ham, will meet with Mrs. John Feazle, vXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX “Jule’a Place,” and girls, next year would be a good 8in< and the two flne state buildings to Thursday, September 3 at 2 p. m. a cor ­ BUSHRE—SCRUBBS-In 8t Johns, August 22. Now under the management and name George Holton is spending a few’ days 1391, by M. N. Duncan, Esq.. Mr. Henry Bush of Charles P. Moinet, still continues to time to remind them of the scriptural be erected by Illinois and California are with his father, Chas. Holton, in Du dial invitation is extended to all. re to Miss Libbie Scrubbs. both of Bingham injunction, “ it is not good that man j je88 Dian four hundred feet south. The RIDENOUR-SHAW—In St. Johns, August 22, provide a “free lunch” and fresh beer. rand. Tbe regular business meeting of the 1391, by Justice Smith, John B. Ridenour, ol Everything in ship-shape style. 1281 should live alone. ” main entrance and railway station are Harry Dodge went to Chicago yester Congregational Y. P. 8. C. E. will be Maple Rapids, and Myrtle E. Sbaw, of Green­ —The old postal card, which is so 0jdy a thousand feet away. For beauty ^ bush. 1847 Roarers Bro.'s I day to remain an indefinite length of held at tbe church this (Thursday) eve­ BROWN-McCRUMB-At the M. E. parsonage familiar, will soon be superceded by two and convenience it is unsurpassed by I tfme. ning, after prayer meeting. Let all mem­ in St. Johns, August 28, 1891, by Rev. Knives, Forks and Spoons G. Thomas, Harvey K. Brown to Miss Jennie At A llison ’s. cards of different size and design. The any 8tate location in the park. The Elmer Ellis, of Dundee, visited his bers be present. M. Crumb, both of Eagle. smaller one ot tbe two cards will be on present plana made by Architect Pond father, Nathan Ellis, in Essex, last You are invited to attend tbe meeting Carpet*. white card board, 2 1-6x4* inches in of Ann Arbor, who has recently come week of the Congregational Y. P. S. C. E. BU8INE8S LOCAL8 The largest and best assorted stock of carpets in St. Johns is at Kendrick ’s. size. A vignette of General Grant as he t0 Chicago, will be changed from a Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. Allison and little next Sunday, at 5:45 p. m. Subject :— The Leading Fabric* appeared in Ins younger days is printed | square to an L building. It wiil have dau ghter Nellie, spent last Sunday in “ The Parting of the Two Ways.” Con ­ For Ladies ’ Suitings will be : In plain Water. on the card in a shade of blue. The two main floors about 80x140, with four owosso. secration meeting. goods, Serges, Henriettas and Flannels To our customers who desire a first- larger card will be three-fourths of an | rooms for employes above. Miss Edith Dunn returned from her Oue of tbe treats of the season will be and m fancy goods. Camel Hair and class job of Plumbing can have the same inch wider and one inch longer than the j Flannel Plaids. The trimming used done without any trouble, by applying —The basket picnic by the P. of I’s of brief visit at Bay View, last Monday the shadow social at the Good Templar will be black and colored gimps to to us, as we will do excavating, tap main, present card. Clinton county, held on the fair grounds, evening Hall (over Dutcher Bros ’, store) Satur­ match goods ; also, Polka Dot ana other etc. We keep on hand a good supply of —One of St. Johns’ true women asks day evening, August 29. Refreshments fancy silk trimmings. water woods. Fowler & Ball . in St. Johns, last Saturday, was not as Ed. Dooling spent the front part of We have opened up the largest assort ­ “ Hid you ever notice how the tempera- numerously attended as was their meet- the present w’eek with his brother John will consist of peaches and cream and ment of the above goods that will be ment of a man is indicated by the man- jn{? last season, which fact may be at- at Belding. cake. found in this part of Michigan. We Butter and Earare ner in which he takes off his hat to the tributed to the unfavorable weather and Miss Stella Keys and mother are at The M. E. Aid Society, of Bengal, will have always taken the lead in fine Dress Wanted in any quantity by, II. L. KKiendrick . ladies on the street ?” And then adds : hurrying time among the farmers.— tending the Exposition in Detroit, a few meet with Mrs. Henry Gay, Thursday Goods anu trimmings, and this fall we A man of showy nature and not worth However, the occasion was a pleasant days this week, afternoon, September 3d. As the annu ­ will show you a bigger assortment than ever. Our Fall and Winter Jackets are iTATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS. bis salt will give the air such a dig that and profitable one to those present. J. Mrs. Wm. Sage and her daughter al election of officers will then occur, it on sale, and parties contemplating pur­ you can hear the air rush into the vacu- e. Taylor, of Lansing, and Geo. Older, May, left Tuesday last for a four days is desired that a full attendance of mem chasing a garment this fall will do well COMMERCIAL AND SAVING8. tiers be had. to come in, select your garment, and um. A busy man will but touch his hat of North Star, Gratiot county, addressed visit in Detroit. have it put away. By doing this it in­ or take it a small ways from his head.— tbe meeting. A basket picnic was freely Peter Walsworth and Rodney Beebe sures you a good fit and twenty different CAPITAL 40,000. Tbe polite man will first bow and raise indulged in, and the good tillers of the of the First National Bank, went to A Literary 3uec«M. styles of garments to select from. his hatia a genteel manner.” soil returned to their respective homes Detroit Tuesday The elocutionary recital at the Brick Always the Cheapest, NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, $900,DOOM —Lansing Democrat : The city offlei- at a seasonable hour, and with the feel- George Tucker returned to Lansing church, West Bingham, last Friday Thelen & Dever . als have hit upon a novel scheme to ing that the day had been spent in a de- Tuesday, after a few days ’ visit with evening, was well atteneed, considering MIm Carrie Turner, PORTER K. PERRIN, President. settle the tramp question and one that cidedly pleasant and profitable manner, friends in St. Johns, the busy season. Much credit is due Teacher of piano and organ music. GEO. F. MARVIN, Vlce-Preatdent. it is hoped will cause this class of tour- We neglected to mention the fact that Mrs. Clemmie Crossman will resume Miss Cobb, of Elsie, who so kindly and Singing class and dumb bell drill free D. H. POWER, CMbler ista to give us the go-by. The plan is | D. Conklin, of Grand Rapids, manager | her old position with Chapin & Co., the to private pupils : to those other than H. K. FITZGERALD, A*ii*U*t cheerfully assisted. Her easy manners >rivate pupils a charge of $2 for twenty dress goods hustlers. and well rendered recitals were highly [ to fence in the city lumber yard and set of the State Commercial Union, was essons, will be made. Fall term com ­ DIRECTORS: all the tramps that visit Lansing to present and gave a very satisfactory ex- Mrs. D. P. Wilcox and daughter, appreciated, as was evidenced by the mences September 7. 1296-3 P. K. Perrin, O. W. Munger, Geo. F. Marvin. J. B. woik therein sawing wood for the city planation of the aims aud objects of the Maggie, are attending the Exposition expression of the audience at each reci­ Souvenir Spoons at Allison ’s. Corbit, J. H. Fedewa, Otis Fuller, Edward poor. If the idea is faithfully carried | Union, and sited hundreds of instances in Detroit, this week. tation. Each speaker did well, but Ktnmona* Cider Mill Brown, A. Retan, B. B. White, out it will not be long before this place of financial benefits to tbe members. Miss Kate Burk and Miss Rose Moinet time will not permit further remarks.— Will commence operations September 7. C. S. Allison, G. E. Corbin. will be stricken off the list of tramp’s He left a very favorable impression with go to Detroit Saturday to spend a week The receipts netted $11.50, for which the Cash paid for apples. Custom work paradise. bis hearers. with a brother of the former. church is very thankful. Present . Tuesdays and Fridays during Sept. 2w 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Depeelt * CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, AUG. 27,189 i. hi g- agug. — jg m. The first prize at the upper peninsula BRIEFLY TOLO. OVER 0.000 KILLED. firemens’ tourney for hose cart racing was MICHIGAN IN GENERAL. MUTINY ON HIGH SEAS. The Final Battle for Hu premar y In won by Ishpeming after a dispute in which Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, is improving. Chill. Iron wood was the contestant. Frosts in Nebraska Sunday morning. A s{*ecial from Valparaiso, Chill, gives An lonlu .’Tinit Wlio Lett Home In 1873 August 31 the electors of Ludington will The Firemen ou an Atlantic Steamer The Promoter* of the 8t. Clair Hirer the following: President Balmaceda and Co be Away a Year baa juat vote upon the proposition to issue bonds to Draw the Fire* and Bring the Harry George Powlett, duke of Cleve Tunnel 8ay Another B ill be the Junta de Gubierno are clinched in the lieturucd. the amount of 8100,000 for the purchase of Vessel to a Standstill, land, is dead, aged 88. ’ Built Soon. final desperate struggle for the mastery of the water supply company ’s plant. Hon. P. M. Adams, a prominent Ohio the republic of Chill. The chosen battle The Michigan Dental Aaaoelatlon In Fred Goodenough, a Greenville hotel The Leader or the Mutiny Attempts democrat, died at Tiffin, O., Chicago Woman Horsewhips a grouud Is in full view Of the city of Val­ Meaalou at the Now Havlutf a * to Assalt the Captain, but Is Millionaire and His Lawyer paraiso, and thousands of anxious eyes are keeper, has a queer name for one who is Almy, the Hanover, N. H., murderer, Splendid Time. to be tried on the charge of a felonious as- Shot Uuwu. lu a Court Boom. watching from every point of vantage the is identified as George H. Abbott, a noted battle which is to decide the fate of the sult upon oue of his diningroom girls. criminal. A Rrother and Slater Meet After Being All Hands Arrrested and the Captain Clever Western Crook Outwits the country. The battlo begun on Friday the Separated Fifteen Years. The The largest reported wheat yield in tilves Himself up for Murder John Fruth struck Jacob Stokesbury at Jailor by Making Counterfeit first meeting being at tho mouth of the Boy Waa Stolen by tiiypelee. southwestern Michigan it* that of Robert auk Is Ueleased on Ball. Ada, O., Saturday, with a stone, crushing Mouey lu Prison. Aconagua in which the government was Wiley, a Cass county farmer, who thrashed his skull and causing death. defeated. The battle now on is a final tost 47 bushels per acre from a 10 acre field. Michigan's Worlds Fair Commission. Mutiny ou the High Seas, A cloudburst at Pottsville, Pa., Sunday Another Tunnel to Canada. . of strength. About 8,000 rebels landed in Mr. Moore, the Ithaca hustler In agrl- Quintero bay, taking Baluiaceda by Lansing , Aug. 20.—The Michigan board New Y ork , Aug. 24.—The steamer Ob- flooded the streets and drovo 400 families cultuial implements, has fitted up a build ­ Sarnia , Ont., Aug. 24.—lu an interview surprise, who was able to gath­ of world's fuir commissioners in session dam, Capt. Bakker commander, left this into the second stories of thoir homes, Sir Henry Tyler, promoter and overseer er only half of his troops. hero this week appointed a committee on ing for an electric light plant, and will soon have the light-bearing wires strung. port July 18 for Rotterdam, with 300 1 N> K puirbank. one of the most prom- of the St. Clair river tunnel expressed him­ The rebels attempted to cross tho river plans for a building, two of which were passengers. After 48 hours at sea reports inent of Chicago business men for nearly self as well satisfied with the progress of under cover of the guns of six warships submitted. It was decidod that the build ­ While In a fit of despondency over the came to the captain that the firemen were bajf a century, has retired from active the tunnel works and with the highly anchored in Cosnon bay. when the troops ing will be constructed at some conven ­ loss of a small sum of money Thomas Far­ about to mutiny. The captain went be­ business. beneficial change which the tunnel will of Balmaceda gave battle and the engage ­ ient shipping point in Michigan by Michi­ rell, un unmarried laborer, 27 years of age, low and finding the fires drawn asked work for Grand Trunk traffic. He said: ment lusted almost all day, but the latter gan labor and of Michigan products, and shot himself in the mouth tonight and can­ what was the trouble. Peter Duzer, the The dedication of Minnesota ’s monument “The opening which takes place September in commemoration of the Sioux massacre had to retire. The beach of Vina del Mar, shipped to the exposition grounds and not live. ringleader, said he bad grown tired of 19, will be in the nature of au inaguration the eastern shore of Vnlpariso bay. was ereotod. Vice-President Belden was au­ thut life and bad decided to take matters of 1862 took place at Now Ulm, Minu., of the Dew fust passenger and freight ser­ Joseph Bader, the Big Rapids tough, last week. chosen by the government as a second line thorized to visit the leading fairs this fall who was arrested for drunkenness and set into bis own hauds and have a good time. vice of the company betweeu west and of defense, and tho general in command to create un interest In theagricultural ex­ tire to the Jail to escape, is now charged The captain said he would . have to do The name of Ida M. Bittenbender has east. Soon alter the formal opening both leaving a small forco to copo with the in­ hibit. The 917 classifications of exhibits with arson. He is in jail, os no ono will away with him first. At this the fellow been placed upon the prohibition ticket of passenger and freight trains will cone- surgents took his final stand at this place, were divided into six grund classes, and go on his bail bond. started toward the captain with a bar of Nebraska as a candidate for judge of tho rnence running through the tunnel. Re­ where the battle is now raging at its high­ commissioners appointed us follows: Presi­ iron, but before he could strike he received supreme court garding the capacity of the tunnel and the est. Balmaceda has 13,000 men engaged dent Weston, forestry, lumber, woodwork ­ 1 Albert Salisbury, a Jackson milk vender, u ball from a navy revolver in his chest. volume of the traffic likely to pass through left his home the other morning to do his Reports from the Chickasaw nation say while the rebels have ouly 8,000 and tho ing machinery, printing, paper, leather, The captain fired the shot und the man fell nothing definite can be said until the tun ­ warships in the bay, which are unable educational —common school to university, barn chores. He has not been seen since, dead at his feet. This had tho effect of the Byrd party were victorious in tho re­ cent election. The result means thut the nel is in operation. ” “However, ” he said, to get in close range ou account of the professional schools, schools for defective although vigorous search has bceu made quelling the mutiny very effectually. On “a second tunnel will without doubt be for him. Foul play is suspected. intruder must go. guns at Fort Callao. Tho scene from the classes—asylums, hospitals and charitable reaching port all hands were arrested and built and tho prospects aro it will be com ­ city is a grand one and the hills all around institutions. Vice-President Belden, ag ­ The funeral of Henry C. Platt, of Niles, the captain gave himself up for murder, The Ionia district fair will be held Sep­ menced as soon us the present one is in ore full of auxious witnesses of tho fray. ricultural and farm products and live stock. was held in tho Episcopal church at Niles but was released ou bail. Duzer was a tember 22-25. Premium lists are now regular working order. ” Tho cost of a Tbe number lost on each side as far as cun Treasurer Flynn, nearly all manufactur ­ Sunday. Mr. Platt was ono of tho fore ­ Holluuder. a socialist and unmarried. The ready and may be obtained by addressing second tunnel, according to Sir Henry, be estimated now is about 3.000 killed. ing products, farm machinery and trans ­ most citizens of tho city, and tho church 300 passengers who were on board the ves­ Secretary Smith at Ionia. will not figure up nearly as much as the portation. Mrs. Pond, tho arts—painting, sel were greatly excited. All expected was packed to do honor to his memory. A terrific hail storm at Deer Creek, first on account of experteuco gained and Tlie Weather and the Crops. decorations, carving and statuary, music, that the mutineers would get possession of ..." ^1", , ’ the company huving machinery, plant, musical instruments and the drama. Mrs. It is officially announced at the execu­ the .-raft. The matter will be fully settled “J™" Monday night destroyed about etc., for the work. Of the prospects of The reports indicate that the weather tive office that Supt. Cooper, of tho Calu­ on the return of the craft to theother side. 2,000 acres of gram. Stacked wheat was conditions of the past week have been very Valentine, floriculture, manufactured cloth blown about and damaged. traffic this fall, Sir Heury speaks highly, products, silks, furs, laces and embroider ­ met and Hecla mine, will be tendered a Shioping men are confident, that Capt. saying they were never better. He ex­ favorable to corn, potatoes, beans and past­ ies, clothing and customes, fancy work, place on the world's fair commission to fill Bakker will be honorably acquitted. During a fit of temporary insanity Fri­ pects a large volume of freight from the ures. The rainfall, which has been above hair work, artificial flowers, church work, the vacancy caused by tho declination of day, Mrs. Barnbowser, of Helvetia, W. western states, and also that tho com ­ the normal in most all sections of the state, moral training, school for domestic aud in­ Hon. W. li. Burt Held Prisoner In a Filthy Boom. Va., drowned her baby, brained a 3-ycar- pany’s passenger traffic will increase. has greatly improved the condition of corn dustrial training for girls, physical devel- Cassopoiis indulged in a mad dog scare Duluth , Aug. 20.—Officers went to the old child and vainly attempted suicide. und potatoes, but some few reports indi ­ cate that the pastures were pretty well opement. Mr. Burts successor, mines, house of James Lindberg, demanded ad ­ 3A frightful explosion of gas in the West Horsewhipped By » Woman. Saturday, an unknown cur biting Peter burned up before the rainfall occurred. mining machinery, products and appliances, Stettiner, a grocer, and a boy named Rose. mittance aud asked for tho “old man,” Fairmont shaft, near Wheeling, W. Va., and the North American Indian. Auxilliary Lindberg led the way through a lament­ Chicago , Aug. 24.—Mrs. Edward Mc­ There is no doubt that corn and potatoes It is not believed that the dog was mad, Sunday morning killed Bayles, aged 14 Mahon horsewhipped Peter Smith, tho committees of three persons from each ably filthy house, and in one corner, in a years, aud terribly burned Alex. Robinson, have been injured by tbe continued drought, but his victims went to Chicago the same millionaire contractor und P. McHugh, h is which was broken during tbe week. The county and ouo for each 10,000 inhabitants day for treatment room five by seven feet, the door to which a miner. will bo appointed. Next meeting Oct. 0. was heavily barred and locked, they found lawyer in a court room. The cause of the rainfull will place the grouud in excellent W. H. Smallwood, who went with Andrew Spanberg, said to be 8 1 years old, One thousand feet of the Wabash rail­ double whipping was the readiug of a de ­ condition for fall seeding, and plowing for position by a Canadian dective impugniug A Michigan Fnocii Arden. Deputy Sheriff Cook to Saginaw in search literally reeking with vermin. Buzzing road track parallelling the Missouri river, fall wh&ut is now in progress in the south­ of his abducted daughter, returned with­ flies and other insects, roused at tho gleam at Randolph, Mo., fell into the river the 'chastity of Mrs. McMahon. Tho ern section. On account of the long con ­ Ionia , Aug. 26.—In the spring of 1873 out the child. It is thought that Mrs. of the light which one of the party carried, Thursday night, the water having under ­ horsewhipping is the climax of a series of tinued drought, considerable more rain AlpheusC. Johnson, then a rich aud influ ­ Smnllvvood hired Bonine Hernley to carry danced in swarms over the poor old man, j mined tho grade. sensations growiug out of a long standing would be very beneficial for all growing ential farmer living in Orange township, off the child and he will be prosecuted. whose days are evidently numbered. On j The British steamer Dehomyer, which family quarrel. Edward McMahon’s crops. ‘this county, decided to take a trip abroad. a hard ted, not two feet wide, he tossed j had on board a consignment of powder, marriage some months ago to his second He arranged bis business interests, which Miley McNair, 7 years oid, son of John wife, who wielded the rawhide in * court, consisted of two good farms in Orange and and chattered incoherently and his almost was completely shattered by an explosion, was very displeasing to his mother and Jed White, a Kansas City, St. Joe & McNair, a merchant of Prattsville, was sightless eyes told of abject fear at j She was beached at Vigo where she was some Ionia city property, placing them in playing in the wheat bin at the railway sister, the latter being the wife of millon- Council Bluffs railroad brukeman, was the sound of voices. He was wrapped in burned. Her crew was saved. murdered at Murrays, one milo north of the hands of tenants, and bade his wife elevator when he was sucked dowel and quilts and removed to oue of the hospitals. aire Smith. McMahon s little son Milton, good-bye, telling her that he was going had a fortune of $30,000 and it was assert­ Harlem, Mo., by highway robbers who buried under 500 bushels of wheat He Inquiry developed the fact that he had The wine growers in the champagne dis ­ away for a year. Until last week he had suffocated before help could reach tricts of France are having a fine largo ed that the stepmother's chief motive in had held up the conductor and the brake- been a prisoner in the room for years, his man. The robbers escaped. never was again beard from, and the wife him. reason slowly ebbing away. He came to j time fighting phylloxeria, milden, black marrying McMahon was to obtain poses- supposing him dead had the estate pro ­ rot a huge combine of capitalists who are sion of this sum. McMahon and wife on bated, and it was deeded to their only A. B. Taylor, of Morton township, Me­ America, leaving bis wile in Sweden, THE M.VltkM’i twenty years ago. He acquired consider ­ trying to get control of the entire growth. one side and his mother, sister and Mil­ child, a daughter, the mother retaining a costa county, has been bound over for trial lionaire Smith on tho other have charged on the charge preferred by his 16-year-old able property and when decrepitude came Detroit. dower interest. In due time the supposed J. F. McEIroy and T. H. Swope are each other with attempting little Miltou ’s Cattle —Good to choice... $4 75 & $5 23 daughter-in-law that be assulted her with on him he willed it to the children of Lind ­ Kansas City millionaires. They quarreled widow married again. Things ran along berg, and it is believed that a deliberate denh by poison to prevent the opposing lious...... 4 iiJ 0 5-0 Intent to kill. She alleges that hy threat­ in a hotel and Swope was felled to the blLEEP...... 4 50 ( 5 20 smoothly until recently when who should attempt has been made to hasten the old party from securing his custody. The ;put in appearance but Alpheus C. John­ ened her life, lay in wait and threw stones floor by his adversary. Then both men Canadian deposition read was in further­ Lam us...... 5 50 it# 6 00 man's death. son, the supposed dead husban-l. Johnson at her. drew revolvers, but friends separated ance of the legal fight by the Smith fac­ Wheat —Red spot. Na 2... 1 00 dfl 1 005 them. Red spot. No. 3...... 1 O4!.,0 1 0 4J -has been sojourning in foreign lands, and Mrs. Harry Bedell, of Grand Rapids, Over 300 People Killed by the Storm. tion. While spot, No. 1...... 1 04 0 1 05 returned penniless, supposing he would has applied for a divorce, alleging infideli ­ Paris , Aug. 24.—The full details of tho The gross assets of the American Wheel Cohn —Na 2 spot ...... 00 0 tti .And everything as he loft it. A sadly ty. She is a granddaughter of ex-Con- terrible storm which swept ovefr Martin­ company, of Chicago, for which a receiver And the Rain* Descended. Na 2 yellow ...... lil @ 0 4 complicated state of affairs exists instead. gressman C. O. Comstock and A. B. Tur­ ique, au island in the West Indies, last ! was appointed are $4,074,353, and the lia- Reading , Pa.. Aug. 26.—As the result O ats —No. 2 win la spot.... 35 <0 35 Clovlii Seed ...... 4 10 (J 4 40 Tho property is mostly gone and in other ner, and Bedell was a well-known society week aro just received. They indicate bilites *1,800,000, of which $1,000,000 is of the late storms no trains ran for several hands, and his wife is now another's. man when the marriage took place a short BAULKY...... 1 40 (J 1 40 that the number of killed is 300, and of ; in the form of promissory notes and ac­ days on the Reading railroad's Lebanon Rye ,...... u.i dfi Johnson will give no account of his ac­ timo ago. the injured 1,000. About 200 bodies have cepted drafts. vailey branch between Reading and 13 tions, nor the cause which so long detained H at —Na 2 per ton ...... 12 00 00 An enormous mastiff was takeu up in a already been found in the coast towns and Lebanon. Near YVernersville on this bxitAW—Porton ...... 555 d* 6 00 him from his wife and home. Marshal Brice, of Shelbyville, Ind., balloon at Reed lake, near Grand Rapids, the interior has not been heard from. At on this branch just after the engine of a Potatoes —Per bu...... 75 X# 1 Oi) tried to stop a fight at that place and was J3 1 75 and dropped in a parachute from a height Ducos only four houses remain standing. j fatally shot by Charles Hawkins, who was freight train passed over a culvert in Beans —Unpicked, per bu. . 1 d# safety the culvert was washed away and City hand-picked...... 2 15 d# 2 25 The Tooth Pullers lu Convention. of 2,000 feet. The dog fell howling into Eighteen were killed there. At St. Pierre arrested. The “best people ” of the town :,j 2 00 34 were killed. At Morne Roume 28, at the entire train of ten cars plunged into ArPLE.s—per nhl...... I d# Sault Ste Mahir , Aug. 24.—Tho an ­ the lake, but was unhurt. The humane { took Hawkins from jail aud hanged him £ UTTER—Perib...... , . 13 d# 15 the water and were swept away. August nual convention of the Micbigau dental as­ society threatens to prevent similar exhi­ Fondu St. Denis, 7, at Precheurs 6, at j to the nearest tree. Creamery...... IS & 20 sociation opened in the court house Tues­ bitions in tho future. Carba 4, at St. Joseph 20, Martin 8, Vau- Kobn. a tramp, stealing a ride, Lad a leg Egos —Per doz ...... 13 d» 14 chin 10. Lamentin 26, Francois 22, Robert Three alarms were given in quick succes­ broken and his arm injured. One-third of day, with an address of welcome by the ■ The steam yacht Cruiser, with the high- sion Tuesday afternoon fora fire in a six- ■mayor and invocation by Rev. P, T. Howe. 28, Riviere Pilote 7, miscellaneous, 18. a mile of track was washed away. A Cattle —Prime...... 45 well represented. Drs. Conway and Wil­ had saved eighty dollars, wheu regular army at the encampment of the ted, entailing a total loss of about $150,000. verts, bridges, portion of railroad track, dams, and everything in the way of the Mess 1’ork ...... to 10 & 10 25 liamson, tho local committco on arrange ­ two men entered tho house, stole her state militia at Camp Wickham, Mo., last The Pocock loss is about $100,000 with in­ Lard ...... ti fij at 6 05 ments, had so perfected arrangements that monoy and threw her into the bayou near week aud circulars and personal letters surance of $75,000. The other property mad rush of waters have been washed away, causing a great amouut of damage New l'ork. tho delegates are being nicely accomodated bouse. She was fished out and will prose ­ concerning it are now flying thick and fust was well insured. Cattle — Natives...... $:{ so 75 throughout the section. 0 $3 in spite of the crush of summer visitors. cute the robbers —if they are caught. about the country. It is tho most radical The young man James Roberts, arrested H ogs ...... ,. 5 30 0 0 00 Tho body of a man was found lying bo- plan to change the condition of the militia at New Washington for the Columbus Sheep—Good to choice..... 4 00 0 5 20 of the country that has risen since the war. Grove, Ohio, robbery and murder has been Carried Her Dead Baby. Lambs ...... - 5 00 0 0 ;.o Fell on Top. side the Grand Rapids & Indiana track six Wheat —Na 2 red ...... 1 io^a 1 13% miles from Grand Rapids Monday morning. The officers, Lieut, Robert E. Evans, of fully identified by Cashier Mable, John Bat City , Aug. 26—A strunge occur ­ • "Grand Rapids , Aug. 24.—Tho city re­ the Twelfth Infantry, and Lieut. Joseph Corn —Na 2...... 73 0 78 His skull was crushed and he had bruises Crawford, the hardware dealer, .who sold rence was witnessed at the Michigan O ats ...... ,, 37. '« t# 40 cently purchased a 20-acre addition to the B. Batchelor, of the Twenty-fourth Infun- him two revolvers, and five other residents Central depot here. A short time before John Ball park. In the center of the track on his face but none on his body. He is Him, .. Cl tv. try, gave a resume of the plan to* the en­ of Columbus Grove who saw him at the tbe time for the Mackinac train to leave a Cattle —Steers...... f! 00 ■is a half-acre owned by Jim Fell, the well- supposed to have been killed by a train. 0 $5 85 campment. time of the tragedy. He was taken to Ot- woman entered the depot carrying a baby Boas —All grades ...... 3 5J 0 5 75 known pugilist. Foil is in the west negoti ­ No clue to his identity und no mouey in his pockets. tuwa where he was placed in jaiL in her arms. Taking a seat she remained Sheep...... 4 25 0 4 1)0 ations have been opened for the purchase Some Big M int in a Smashup. quiet until the depot master announced the La mus ...... 5 25 0 5 75 of his property. Replying, he says he has Sexton Frank Raisen, of Ottisville, who It is reported from Caldwell. Ka., that Uik ViiIo . Los A ngei .es, CaL, Aug. 24.—A smash- train, when she arose and moved toward heard of the action taken and thinks tho removed one body from a grave to make a desperate light has occurred in the In­ Cattle ...... $5 35 0 $5 80 up occurred ou the Santa Fe road at First dian territory between the Dalton gang, the door. As she passed tbe gate keeper half-acre large enough for a beer garden room for another and then told a fairy street depot Fridav, in which Gov. Mark- he noticed, to his astonishment, that the H ogs ...... 5 15 0 5 22% und that it would make an excellent site. tale about it, causing the story of Nellie , . XT o. . I WOOwho heldUU1U upuy uuuand iuuulurobbed »a Santa i-Fe U trainvruiu Sheep—Good to choice... _ 4 25 0 4 85 ham and other state officials, United States ahou ttwo months ago, and a posse under baby was dead, and so informed the Lambs ...... 5 25 0 0 00 Ho asks SC, 000 for tho property. fcnover's body being fouud to gain circula­ the mother. Tho woman appeared stunned tion, has pleaded guilty to the charge and Senator Felton, Congressman Bowers and Unit?d States Marshal short. Tho par- Weekly Review of Trade. others were badly shaken up and a , | ticular8 are'meager, but it is known that by the discover}', but turned around and MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS. bus been sentenced to two years impris­ walked out of the depot tho way she had NEW YORK, August 24.—R. G. Dun A onment or a tine of $300. slightly injured. A special car containing . tjje marsbal amj one of Dalton's gang were Co. '» weekly review of trade will tay: Dur­ the governor and staff officers was ut'1 killed. The authorities have been pursu- come. Nothing was learned of her except ing the past week attention has been ab­ Owosso ’s new K. of P. hall will be dedi ­ Frank Wyman, wha escaped from jail tached to the regular train from ban J j the Dallon for some time. that she came from West Bay City aud sorbed by the great excitement in grain. cated September 7. at Grand Rapids last week, has returned Diego, which was an hour late. A box car i ■ was going to Standish. Russian orders prohibiting exports of rye and surrendered. He said he did not know bad been left on the track and the train | A band of armed negroes entered the The Western associated press was in were taken as official confirmation of the then what he was wanted for, but seeing ran into it. The shock was a violent one ( grocery store of Henry Joel, four miles Made Counterfeit Money In Jail. first reports regarding t ie harvest In that session at Detroit during tho week. by the papers that it was for murder, he and many of the passengers were burned. | cast of Memphis, ns he was about to close country. Tho price hero was so suddenly San Francisco . Aug. 24.—Frank Beal, Bay City Oddfellows will break ground at once decided to give himself up. He The engine crushed the obstruction into Saturday night, and after robbing him of advanced as to stop exports, and then rap­ professional burglar and all around crook, idly receded, closing at 81 H%. or !>%c ■next week for a 810,009 hall building. says he has not been in Ionia for 12 years. splintei s. all the money he bad, told him to open tho who has beeu out of prison only four The officers wired Ionia, but have not yet safe, at the same time holding a pistol to above last week's quotation. Tlieie is little ■ Aid, William Davis, of West Bay City, months, is on the road back there. The mom to doubt that foreign demand will be dropped dead while unharnessing a horse. received a reply. Locked tiic Babies In a Chest. his head. Joel made the attempt but was la8t tlmo be was in San Quentin prison greater than ever If prices here are not ad ­ Gov. Winans has, upon recommendation Ironton , O.. Aug. 24.—A terrible occur ­ so confused that he forgot the combination counterfeiting plant there with vanced to check it. It is In tho highest and gave it up. Finding themselves foiled lhe \vaUs and flooded the place will John McMann and wife, of Mosherville, of the board of pardons, pardoned Lewis rence hero last week has almost driven the place with degree important that the golden or port- have separated after 43 years of wedded place wild with excitement. George Ham­ tho briftes shot him through the head. unity should not he lest tiirougb such a Wilson, a colored man who was sentenced bogus half-dollars. Beal's outfit consisted rise in prices as would curtail foreign con ­ life. to the stato prison for ten years, for man­ ilton and his wife went visiting, leaving of a plaster of paris die, a crucible their three children, Neslie, Edith and Chas. King, a mild mannered patient at sumption. The general business of the The Genesee county union pioneer pic­ slaughter, from Cass county, in 1888. the insane asylum at Columbus, O., se­ and an alcohol lamp, and he made the country does well, with gradual Improve ­ nic will beheld at Long Lake, Fenton, on The victim was the Mrs. Johu .Aiken, who Emma, aged eight, four and two years re­ coins from scraps of lead and tinfoil that ment in nearly all branches, based on act­ spectively. On returning the children were cured permission to visit his mother, Mrs. tho 21 th. disappeared, and whose body was subse­ Hattie King, at Circleville, and while she he picked up in the prison shops and yard. ual increase of demand from fnrniltig states. quently found in the lake. The evidence missing. After a letigthy search the pa­ He will not tell where he got his tools, und Collections are not generally good. In other John Fleugel is tho name of tho stranger rents found their little oues confined in an was preparing a meal, slipped up behind speculative markets, except in grain, there who was burned to death in W. L. Smith's against Wilson was purely circumstantial her and shot her through tbe body, killing he was punished by the privatioa of all his is little excitement: while corn advanced and he has long been believed to be the old tool chest, where they had died from credits. During his four months of free­ barn near Cooper. suffocation. The mother is almost insane her almost instantly. He then tried to S%c. oats declined 7c, and cotton, with victim of circumstances. shoot a neighbor, Mrs. Davenport, but dom Beal has committed 20 burglaries. prospects of a large crop, declined 1-1 Go ; Lumber rates from Saginaw to Pitts­ in her grief. A stick fastened in the staple coffoo 15c per 100 lbs and petroleum 3c, A fanner 15 miles south of Marquette, of the chest indicates murder aud the po ­ failed in his purpose. Ho labored under burg will be reduced to 14 cents per hun­ the delusion that bis mother caused his in­ wiille pork also fell 50c per bbl, with lard u in crossing Masey’s Creek, discovered the lice are investigating the case. Old Ilntcli’i* Big Stake. dred September 1. carceration in the asylum. shade stronger. It is surprising fact that body of a man hanging to a tree by the New Y ork , Aug. 2 4.—Among the many tlie great iron industry does not yet meet H. M. Lowry has been appointed post ­ left leg, while tied to tho right wrist was a Tlie Treves Coat. George J. Osborne, superintendent of men who have profited by tbe present the setback which the enormous production master of Randviila, Iron County, vice H. bottle containing a paper. The body was tho Milwaukee company's elevators at rise in wheat is that eccentric gcutleman, threatens. The Treasury has put out fl,- W. Bent, resigned. in such a horrible state of decomposition Treves , Aug. 24.—Since the opening of 700. (MiO more than it lias taken In during tbe exhibit of tho “Holy Coat ” the town Minneapolis, mysteriously disappeared a Benjamin F. Hutchinson, of Chicago. He Robert Pursel, 93 years of age, died at that it was unrecognizable, and he could short time ago, and no clue has been oo- has been a bull on this cereal for some tlie week and the failure to obtain for ex­ not approach near enough to get the paper. has beeu thronged with pilgrims and visit­ tension a large part of tho 4% per cent Sohoolcraft on Wednesday. lie had been ors. The streets are crowded constantly tained as to his fate or whereaboues. His timo, and it will be remembered that he bouds seems likely to oblige tlie Treasury a Mason for 72 yoars. The place is four miles beyond the last sudden disappearance naturally aroused talked of “dollar wheat” when he came to disburse largo sums for the remaining settlement. Wm. FreJ, who ran across with sacred processions bearing lights and banners. Tbe cathedral is also crowd ­ suspicions, and an investigation of his af­ east some months ago. U rumor is to be bonds September 1. Money Is In brisk H. O. Rose ’s stave mill near Petoskey the body, went to the city and reported fairs ordered. Last week a body was was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. ed by pilgrims aud curious people. believed his faith in wheat has stood him in demand at nortiiwestern points, hut easy the case, and tjie officers of the Marquette found in the river near St. Paul, and laid good 6tcad, for his profits during the week for legitimate buslncsi at Chicago. The The loss was about $150. prison sent ou1«a party to ascertain if it Among the pilgrims are seen aged cripples business failures during tho past seven and people with almost every imaginable in the morgue two days before It was iden ­ are said to amount to over $600,000. Ho Edward Ganger, the alleged highway­ was not one of tho convicts who escapod tified as Mr. Osborne. It was a caso of has dealt principally through a New street day s number 310, as compared with a total recently. There is no one else in the vi­ disease and people from every country on of 227 lust wock. For the corresponding man who was shot on the Boulevard at De­ the globe. suicide. broker firm. week of last year tho figures were 102. troit, Sunday night, died Tuesday night. cinity missing. A special from Finlay, O., says the The Michigan Foresters met in conven ­ The members of the Saladin temple, A. strike on the Lnke Erie & Westorn is as Quite a novelty in the way of a balloon John O. Jeffreys, a prisoner confined in ascension occurred at Reed * lake, near tion at Grand Rapids this week. High A. O. N. M. S., of Grand Rapids went to The Old Settlers' organization of Ne­ tight as ever, and not a wheel on a freight Lansing, escaped last March. He was

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