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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1895
Page
5
Numerous local notes mark the period with an eventful week: River side park baseball slated for May 12 at 3:30 pm, a circus next Monday May 13, and a Wright-Dickey-Hughes concert at G A R Hall tonight. Births, deaths, property updates, and council reports thread through Battle Creek and Marshall society.
Marshall hosts a varied page of events from a Creati er Institute visit and trial treatments to a Japanese display near the M. C. depot and a Battle Creek Opera company performance. Community notes include court cases, detective claims, local meeting news, and a Unitarian church reorganization.
John Irvin aged 16 dies after a trap gun set by William Flagg at a Gognaq Lake cottage misfired during a break in two weeks earlier. Flagg faces arrest as law takes its course while political fallout shifts to Kalamazoo figures and prohibition groups. Community leaders and teachers prepare for a Battle Creek meeting on education topics.
The notice lists tea, cream, and cake at the A. HR. hall Friday May 17. Christian church hosts sermons on Does Christ Differ from other religions and Turning Points. Rev E D Rundell of New Buffalo speaks at Baptist church next Sunday morning on Sunday school work. Universarial church sermon topics include Religious Excitement and The Rich Man and Lazarus with Rev Swan. Miss Daisy Knight leads the music.
Mrs B F Sweet returns to Carson City while B Dobbins and family spend Tuesday in Detroit Afra and Chas Gardner of Battle Creek visit John Browns. Mrs E W Butler comes back from Chicago and Mrs Bishop Humeston of Jackson visits Marshall relatives. Rev Swee’s sister Mrs Dr G A Geer of Minneapolis visits. F M Townsend attends Michigan superintendent meeting in Lansing and discusses the committee of fifteen report. T L McKeen of New York plans equipment for a C M passenger train, a second unit to be equipped. Miss Mary C Robinson arrives in San Francisco from Vancouver after a rough voyage from China. Frank Kraus repairs machines at low price. Dr Filsworth the optician returns to offer services. Ben ner t continues home Saturday with notes on Chroni saunte names.
Airport court in Saxalon completed March term with cases June-ready. Ward Hogan, 21, convicted of assault with intent to murder Deputy Powell after a Battle Creek incident. Bourke to be tried in June. Kad dy, Harrington, Collins found guilty on sodomy charges with sentences of 12, 11, and 10 years respectively at Marquette. Hogan received 15 years. Hart and Murphy jailed one year each for schoolhouse breaking.
In Justice Henry's court at Battle Creek, Arnold was bound over for trial in the circuit court charged with the murder of his son George Arnold. The prisoner showed broken spirit, sold possessions to finance his defense, and faces a likely lengthy jail term as prosecutors prepare stronger evidence and witnesses.
A reader reports relief from a torturous itchy skin condition using Doay's Giut from a local dealer. The account notes an instant end to the discomfort and mentions obtaining the remedy through a supplier.
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