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MIOTTTQ A IT.Premiums awarded at the Inst utrtc fair amounted to $151,000A Petofkey lady bu 1*3 varieties of p»unit's growing id bur garden.Utter Are so plenty ironed Evert tlmt they come boldly into that village.Alma Congregationl isls are to have anew ehuroh edifice The coat thereof will be $4 000.A (arrner of Ingham county claims to have railed 600 different varieties of potatoes this year.Roscommon is to have a new opera house. It will bo completed ready for occupancy the coming winter.Quincy, Branch county, celebrated Its semi-centennial Oct. 3. in a regular old-fashioned Fourth-of-July manner.Interest in silver mining prospects in ibo upper peninsula has been thoroughly revived by the success of iho Ropes' enterprise.About 3,000 nushels of wheat are being marketed daily at Portland— which is one of the busiest little towns In the state.James Curtis, who murdered Hacom Wllssn at the emancipation celebration in Calvin in August last, got 16 years in atato prison.The annual report of the treasurer of the slate for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1883, will show n balance on hand of •1.074,867,80.At Maple Grove In Manistee county, Tuesday, a seven years old son of James Daily accidentally killed an infant brother with an ax.A largo expanse of land in Bay county, heretofore useless for agrieutural purposes, lias been rendered tillable by the construction of dykes.Hon. Edwin Willits, principal of the state normal school at Ypsllanti, says there are about 660 students there now, and they mean business.”Bert Cole, a Lake Shore freight conductor, fell under the car# at Eaton Rapids and received injuries which will probably prove fatal.Frank Baldy, a special policeman at the Central fair, was shot at a dance in Lansing by a man named Louis Stark, and death is expected to be the result,A company has been formed at Grand Rapids to manufacture the Sweet electric clocks, another is to be foruiod to manufacture electric burglar alarms and gaa fixtures.A lad of 18 years uamud Barker, living in Court in ml township, Kentcounty, blew into the muzzle of his gun and received a charge in his face, from l he effects of which be died.John Coulter’s body has beeu exhumed at Danby. Ionia county, nod an examination instituted to determine the truth or falsity of octtain rumors about his having been poisoned.In a game of base ball at Edwards-burg, Cass county, Brad Sampson was hit on the aide of the head with a swiftly pitched ball and died from the effects of Ibe blow the same night.U, A. Plummer of Bay City has shipped 6,000.000 feel ol hard wood lumber thU season to Ralne and Milwaukee, and expects to ship about 3,000,000 feel more before the season closes.James Curtis, who killed Mscorn Wilson at the colored people's celebration at Calvin in Cass county on the 16th of August, has beeu convicted of murder in the second degree at C as sop-olid.Brooklyn, Jackson county, it believed to be the first of the 100 villages in the state, entitled Ui dose, to adopt prohibition of the liquor traffic under the local option law parsed by the last legislature.C. Merrill Co. of Muskegon report sales of 8.000,000 loet of lumber at #7.-25, 114.60 and •35, and 200,000 feet at m, •la and •38. The firm intend to put In uuiy about 16,000.000 feet of logs the coming winter.Daniel Garry, who was injured by falling down stairs while attending n meeting of the Salvation Army in Hillsdale on the 83d ultimo, has since died. A corner’s Jury will endeavor to find out where the blame lies.Culdwatcr in on the lice of Iho ancient Indian trail, anil later the first territorial highway between Detroit nail Chicago. The highway is called the Chicago road, aml in the same which « kaowu bv that name is Detroit.Th# Presbyterian church at Albion, the largest and finest house of worship in thCjplace.wiw burned the oilier night, and ills alleged that It was fired by an Incendiary. The loss Is •12,000, on which there ia *9,800 Insurance.William Hollainl was run oyer and killed by a passenger truin on the Chicago and West Michigan railroad near Grand Rapids. He was intoxicated and hod gone to sleep on the track. Holland was about 30 rears of nee and tin.
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The Lake County Star
Baldwin, Michigan, US
Thu, Oct 11, 1883
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