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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1888
Page
5
City briefs mix with weather-less crop notes, firings and fireside items. Mentions of pension grants, school events, church notices, and a train with engineers heading to Chicago mingle with chatter about crops, a trial of a painter, a water wheel, and a Mayoral election mood in a midwestern town.
At a church meeting in Marshall arrangements were made for Sunday services through August, with pastors preaching and a pause in September. A separate incident reported a missing two year old found safe with a local family after wandering from a store on Shite street near Green street. The week also saw a Supreme Court review of a fishing net ban, a trespass dispute over a boat house on land, and a large, though quiet, High School Alumni Association gathering. A river drowning near Homer claimed a 35 year old man, leaving a wife and two daughters, with funeral services held Sunday. A note on an unusual surgical operation closes the item.
Charles Weakley Swears out warrant before Justice Canney against Officer Peter Koeher for striking Weakley with a broomstick in a midday dispute over driving Mrs Publier's cattle to the pound. Koeher offers a rival version that the cattle wandered near his property and that Weakley shouted and provoked the stampede. The incident ends with both sides presenting conflicting accounts of the encounter.
A garbled 19th century Western State report lists Central Railroad receipts for August and September with totals, then mentions postmaster changes, a marriage, stagecoach accident near Albion with injuries, a riot at Marshall Exchange on Christmas, and a marriage in Marshall. Names include J M Parsons, Miss Dollie Killaua, and Colonel Cook.
Marriage licenses issued for Nu to Ida Barker and others include F, Mooka and Melvin Osborne, Nellie Sulder, Charles Mrook, Veron, and James Mills with multiple ages and places shown. A train station in Burlington reports passenger trains fired upon, with both rail and other trains struck last Saturday, triggering a response.
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