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Michigan News Snapshots From Around the State
The Statesman reports varied items across Michigan. Mentions 100 liquor dealers in Menominee county. Pontiac insane asylum housing 395 patients. Grand Rapids electrified with 23 lights. a Greenback convention in use. Salvini drawing large crowds in Grand Rapids. Christmas day business quiet at state offices. a counterfeit silver dollar circulating. a Grand Rapids woman losing a $4,000 diamond. Telephonic link Detroit Flint completed. Paris M. Thayer of Flint dies of heart disease. two Reading men and two ferrata killed 41 rabbits in one day. Mrs. Langtry expected to appear in Grand Rapids. a new flouring mill at Holland with 200 barrels daily. German killed under freight train at Adrian. Three rival logists jailed for liquor sales without license. University enrollment surpassing all U.S. colleges. Grand Rapids manufacturer to ship 1,000 bob sleds to Leadville. Col W J Griffin of Carmel owns a 14 year old, eighteen-hand colt. Auditor General Latimer given a diamond stud by clerks. Seventeen Traverse City residents exposed to head cheese illness. Lazy Ypsilantians fined or jailed for snow and ice removal neglect. Northern Michigan lumbermen meet at Muskegon over patent dog suit. Ingham Farmers Mutual Insurance grows by 245 members. risks now 3,001,944. Big Rapids citizens donate 4,500 to Sisters of Mercy for rebuilt hospital, aiming for 5,000.