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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 12

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ii Dor Amual 1 COLD ENOUGH? WASHINGTON THEIR RIENDS A Very AND THE SAME Undarmarl IM! We shall offer some grand gains IN JEW GOODS AT VERY L8W PRICES TO CLOSE OUT COME EARLY hr MMs IMPORTANT land a cousin in GREATNESS 0 ed In $28550 udge Briggs in hihp Garrett i ent and THE SUB COMMITTEES THE COMMIT TEE ON PUBLIC LANDS SELECTED 3000 400 600 'Ui'iiana Oswald 1 2500 500 800 1400 1000 250 Judge Resignation Not to Take Place Before March 1 A Xdst of Those Who Did Not orget the Orphans Awards by th rench American Claims Commission At Cedar Rapids A Cedar Rapids January At 7 this morning thirty four below noon twenty three below midnight to night eight below EXPRESSION THANKS ROM THE fUDTESANT ORPHAN ASYLUM Washington if his friend Dr Rker entirely re uanticipation oi spoke often to ken death Dr: 600 5000 500 1200 8000 600 buried been provided for by persons living in the vicinity ana an them city The soiled Garments will be placed on a separata counter Beal Estate Transactions Real estate transfers recorded in the Wayne I Co vs Charles Walker Judgment for plaintiff County Register's office January 5 1884 reported by Skinner Burton: Sarah York to Henry A Merrill lot 61 sub division of outlets 54 55 Porter farm James McKay to Mary A Marvin lot I re subdivision of lots 17 18 block 97 Cass farm Traugott Schmidt to Andrew Wood 40 feet on south side of Jefferson avenue be ing part of lots 1 and 2 block 1 Cass farm Sarah Hosie to Golmjewski lot 322 Johnston subdivision Porter farm Geo I ar kins to Catharine Wall part of lot 14 block 99 Cass farm A McGinnis to George Lowe lot 7 Mc subdivision fractional section 31 John Goodrich to Kerns parts of lot 35 block 5 Thompson farm Christian Guth to the Detroit South Lyon Railroad lot 12 South rankliu street Lu Morau farm Levi Grandy to Henry Manecke lot 169 block 53 McDougall farm We have decided to close out nil (llir Ready Made Suits at a great rifice and discontinue the dep trim eui We shall mark every Snitso ridiculous ly low that every Suit should be sold ia ten days We have marked Silk Costumes that cost from $100 to $225 down to and $50 A lot of Shift" Suit' choice for $iij and $15 worth from $20 to $50 AU onr Cloaks and urs (Seal Cloaks) marked way down We must reduce our stock before ii yoking ebruary 1 if low prices will do it STORY ROM EAST WEST NORTH SOUTH PUBLIC LANDS APPOINTMENT SUB COMMITTEES ON SEV ERAL SUBJECTS Washington January 5 it is represented that Mr Cobb Chairman of the House Com mittee on Public Lands has appointed the fol lowing sub committees: Homestead and Pre emption Messrs Scales Henley and Ander son Desert Swamp and Overflowed Lands Messrs Oates Belford and Payson Iind Grants and orfeitures Messi Cobb Payson Oates Lewis and Anderson School Lands and Timber Culture Messrs Shaw Van Ea ton Brents Reservation Mineral Lands Messi Henley Scales and Belford Land Office aud Surveys Messrs Lewis Strait and Brents Claims of States to the Net Proceeds of Sales of Public Lands Messrs Shaw Van Eaton and Strait Very Cold at Elkhart Elkhart Ind January 5 Twenty eight below this morning No abatement in this evening The coldest ever known here Building Permits During the past week the ire Marsha! granted the following permits: Navler Letlash frame dwelling No 191 Bel lair street McEnhill Moore brick dwelling No 369 ho warn street William Kupperschmidt frame dwelling No 127 Grove street Wm Hutton frame dwelling No 909 East Congress street Wm Scott Co brick dwelling No 37 Put nam avenue James Christy frame dwelling Beaubien street Lutes Van Orden frame dwelling No 43 Piquette avenue John Kulwilki frame dwelling No 902 Rio pelle street Michael Zilenski frame dwelling No 120 Indiana street Collins Hubbard frame dwelling No 34 Piquette avenue Leo Scheible Co two frame dwellings Elmwood avenue Roper frame dwelling No 321 Twenty third street August Kenfuski addition to frame dwelling No 67 St Joseph street Gideon Viner addition to brick dwelling No 68 West Alexandrine avenue Kerns improvements to frame dwell ing No 131 Ash street Leo Scheible Co alteratious to frame' aweinng no tsenton street Total TO COMMENCE 'til' '2" Jr 7 7 General Impression That it is Austin Tex Well ixed inancially Austin Tex January 5 The temporary failure of payment of Austin city londs was owing to the delay of the mails The city is tn the best possible financial condition and had ful ly provided to meet the bonds when due 1 he authorities here learning to day of the failure immediately telegraphed the full amount to New York More than sufficient money' is in the city treasury to meet every obligation out ALL KINDS WOOD WORKING MACHINES Tools Engines and Boilers Sash and Molding i Resawing Machines Machinery of any kind for sale by JAMES JLEJNTKS and liandolpu st 8 A 31 0 1 0 Established Manufacturer of high nud low presitro an 1 beating toilers of all kinds lard reuleritu tanks: heavy sheet iron work sinvle nreachins etc AH wm delivered at and boat landings Old boilers taken in exehau tor new Rivets boiler plate and bo 1 tube i Corner oundrv street and Michigan tei Coldest Ever Known at ort Scott Ks ort Scott Ks January 5 To duy was the coldest ever known in this section The thermometer stood tliis morning from fifteen to four degrees below zero According to the variation of the instruments To night there was no perceptible change A carload of sixteen mules was frozen to death near here last night on the way from Lamar to Kansas City Also a number of mules and cattle on the Missouri Pacific between this city and Osage Below Zero at Cincinnati Cincinnati January The weather mod emted' slightly during the day but the mercury is falling to night and stands 3 below at 10:30 One man token to the hospital will probably lose his feet which he had frozen in a shed xvbere he took shelter last night There are a great many eases of frozen euronoses aud Angel's Business is much neglected A Change or the Better at Leavenworth Leavenworth Ks January The ther mometer this morning registered 20 to 28 be low but stands at 8 to night It is still moler ating and snow is falling Damage slight Stock suffers to some extent but not' great Railroad men report frozen ears and fingers Trains are all leliind time Tho Kansas Cen tral last night was compelled to lay over at Winchester One Hundred Mules rozen to Death Kansas City Mo January 5 A stock traiir bearing three hundred mules mostly weanlings en route from Austin Tex was blockaded at Summit twenty miles from here hist night The enimuls are not accli mated and one hundred of them have died from exposure Mails in Canada Carried on Snow Shoes Quebec January 5 The first mails from the country parishes since the great storm which set in on tho 1st inst reached town to day Tho bags were carried in on snow shoes Such a complete stoppage of communication in the country has not been known for twenty years past Twenty our Below at Indianapolis Indianapolis Ind Jauuary The ther mometer at 7 this morning was twenty four degrees below and at 1 1 a sixteen below All railroad trains are delayed and business partially jiaralyzed Several street conductors had hands anil feet frozen' hasnlx Club Election The Phcenix Club held their regular election of Jffieers on riday night at which the following officers were Isaac' Mendelson 'Vice Lewis Blitz Treasurer rist Rothschild William Black Stage DirectornMerick Rothschild Smnuri Ifeavenricb Horace Martin Jonas Ignatz Ground Jacob Brown Isidore jtobfnson A Suit for the Recovery of Insurance Money Milwaukee January The In surance Company of 'Chicago has brought suit against Mary A Melendy and Sarah Westcott to recover 13500 insurance money The bill alleges that when the women lived at Ludington Mich they set fire to a building occupied by Donohue Melendy whose stock had been heavily insured a short time previous Ninety per cent on the insurance 815500 was paid in 187b by each of tho companies interested The Traders had become subrogated to the rights and responsibilities of the policy issued by the Rhode Island Insurance Company and did not place the policy through their own agent The Lack of a Light Caused the Steamboat Accident at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pa January The Steam boat Inspectors began tho investigation this afternoon of the cause of the disaster to the steamer Bunton at the Davis Island dam last Wednesday Pilot Morris testified that on the left hand of the channel pier dam there is an iron frame lor a light and witness always saw a light there until the night of the acci dent The cause of the collision was want of a light on the pier as the boats could have cleared the pier if the position had lieen indi cated The bodies of the victims have not been recovered MISCELLANEOUS CONTRACTS AWARDED Washington January 5 The contract forfurring and lathing the Custom House at Memphis has been awarded to Haugh Ketcnam Co of Indianapolis and the con tract for mantels for the public building at Topeka Ks to the Pickel Stone Company of St lAiuis THE RESIGNATION JUDGE The resignation of Judge re ceived by tiie President to day As it does not take effect befoi March 1 it is not likely his successor will lie apiaiinted for some time THE CREEK ACTIONS Spiechie one of the rival Creek chieftains accompanied by ex Cliief Cbicota Delegate Hodge and Missionary Callahan called at the Indian Bureau to day Delegate Hodge presented his credentials and letter of introduction from Agent Tufts Spipchie said that another delegation representing his faction would arrive Monday The Commis sioner will then listen to their statements POSTAL EMPLOYES MUST NOT I'URCHAgE LOT TERY TICKETS The employes of the Postoflice Department wero to day notified by the Postmaster Gen eral that the purchase of lottery tickets will hereafter be regarded as sufficient ground for removal coinage The coinage at the various mints for the cal endar year of 1883 was $60092749 of which $28470039 was standard dollars A PRESS CLUB RECEPTION The members of the Washington Press Club gave an informal reception to night to the cor respondents in the city and friends of the club About 200 persons were present Speeches were made by Col Richard Wintersmith of Texas Representative inerty of Illinois and Delegate Maginnis of Montana ay night (Payne night 'and as tn eveiyt ig even to select senator luuner ersi Police Relief Society The Metropolitan Police Relief and Aid Society held their semi annual meeting on Saturday after the Common Council chamber The elec tion of officers for the ensuing year resulted as fol lows: Lyman Blakely Vice President Albert Wilford Secretary Eugene Sullivan 'Treasurer James Purdue Sanitary Central Station Precinct Michael itzpatrick Gratiot Avenue Precinct Ewing Trumbull Avenue Precinct Thomas Car mody The reports submitted shows the society to have ninety" members The Treasurer reported the finances for the last six months to be as follows: Money deposited in bank July 5 1883 $665 71 Collected from all sources 199 02 Total' $864 73 Disbursements 497 09 Balance dn hand 73 The disbursements were for sick and death bene fits A benefit of $1 per day is paid to sick or dis abled members Sixteen Widows Still Mourn for the Late It Young KB January 5 This morn ing Mary Young seventeenth wife of the late Propuet Brigham died at Salt Lake from blood poisoning in her 40th year Sixteen mourning widows still survive the prophet louitecu of whom live at Salt Lake 4 An Insurance Case Compromised 8 Pa January The suit of Mis Nutt widow of Capt Nutt against the Aecwienji Insurance Company of North tOi recover $5000 insurance on the file of the deceased has been withdrawn the matter having lasen satisfactorily adjusted i Died rom a Gunspot Wound Catlettsburg Ky January Maj naiddied this morning a shot by i Ar ii xvoca vasue Creek Waller escaped TOTAL COINAGE THE MINTS DUBING 1883 $60092749 The "Week of Prayer The week of prayer began in the Protestant Churches to day The topics have been arrangwa as follows: Praise and thanksgiving Confession of sin and prayer for cleans ing and renewal Prayer for families and instructors tM YVULL1 Thursday Prayer for the Church of Christ riday Intercession for the nation Prayer for missions at homebrood At ort Wayne Ind ort Wayne Ind January 5 Trains all delayed 24 below at 8 a 13 below at 8 The Cold Wave Subsiding in the West and Northwest Chicago January 5 The thermometer here at 11 to night registered 19 degrees below indicating that the weather has moderated only slightly as compared with last night Re ports from points west aud northwest however indicate that the cold wave has in a meas ure spent itself At St Paul the thermometer had risen from 20 in the morning to 9 below this evening At Des Moines at 7 to night it was 3 below with light snow falling a change of 24 degrees in a like number of hours On the Mississippi River at the bridge at Rock Island at 6 a it was 32 below atu this evening 20 below Several Deaths from reezing in Live Stock Suttcring Ky January 5 To day was one of the coldest days ever known here The mercury has been below zero since last night At this morning the thermometer registered eighteen below and has been stand ing at about this figure all day At night the weather is still colder The mercury stands twenty below There is hut little suffering among the poor reported as yet State specials report several deaths from freezing and much suffering among the cattle noLwell housed one complains of frozen ears noses feet and hands Retail business is almost at a standstill MURI IN SPRINGWELLS John Otis has just imported Jrom Germany a large number of hogs 4 The regular monthly meeting of the Township Board for the purpose of settlement with the Treasurer will be held at the office Monday afternoon The thermometer at this point registered seven degrees below zero on riday morning at six The ladies of the Board of Trustees of the Pro testant Orphan Asylum have prepared the follow ing list of contributions to the happiness of the children at the asylum during tne holiday season The list is poSsioly not complete as some names Were lost others were erased etc However to one and all the board desire to express their heart felt thanks for the assistance rendered and good Will shosvn: George Bissell Mrs Heckar Mr Ira Wor cester Hutchinson Co Mrs Butler Bishop Harris A Murray Sons Noble McMillan Wm Beal Mrs Stimson Jbb Mrs A II Dey Mrs itch Mrs James Biddle Mrs Sunderland Mrs A McGraw JJra Tripier Mrs Parker MrsJ Selling 3Ira Robert McClelland Harry Kingman Margaret Schmidt MrsWm Cowie Mrs Rouse Airs Andrews Mrs Thos erguson Pease two friends Mrs Peter Young Mrs Ed Carpenter Mrs A Roys Mrs Colman Mrs Church Mrs red Sibley A McGraw Co Mrs rank But terick 75 Sibley street' Miss Woodbridge Capt Grurnmond's' boys Mrs Philo Parsons Mrs Ed ward Kanter Miss Trowbridge Mrs Benson Lebot Mrs John Pridgeon Mrs Peck Mrs Wendell A Dupuis Mrs Smith Mrs Boeing llul Woodward avenue Mrs Solomon Davis Mrs Henry Duffield Mrs Xbos Mrs Curtiss George Doolittle Mrs Lokle A Morrison Mrs Contrite Mrs A Watkins Mrs Thomas Miss Bessie Blakely Mrs Dewey Hibbard Raymond Co Moore Mrs Elleu Bowers George Russell Mrs Jas Read Mrs Ellis Mrs Skinner Mrs Wm McGraw Mrs jValker 'Mrs A Windmay Mrs Clarke Misses EHen and Alice Ladue 1 conard Boys Canfield Sirs Mitchell Mrs Wiiipmau Mrs Bobzin Mrs Rice Mrs Rose Mrs Hubei Mr and Mrs Chas Mo ran Bessie Shaw Mrs Delano Airs echheimer Airs arrington Airs Henry sselstyn Marian Jarvis Gray Toynton ox Master Guy Crane Airs Al Jones Airs A Armstrong Mrs A Brush Mrs Edmund Brush Mrs Ladue Sirs Children Airs A Ladue Newcomb Endicott Co Mr and Lottie Robinson AL erry Co Mrs Chas Endicott All's Samuel Pitt man of Airs Al Davison Well Mrs A Alaular Airs Helen Moore Alrs Wight Airs Comstock Airs AV itch Mrs Jas Beattie Airs Judge Brown Airs George Wetherbee Walter II Thorp Airs A Cleveland Mrs II Smith Airs Buhl Airs A Lindsay Airs A Lorinan Commodoie Cook Mrs A A Dwight Airs John Newberry Airs "SI Stevens George Anderson Airs Percy Radcliff Mrs Brooks Airs Gillett Airs Dudley Smith Mrs Capt Lincoln Airs Harris Newberry Mrs Hallock Mrs Strachn All's Allen 8 Miami avenue Airs Wm A Butler Jr Mrs Barton Airs Wm Phelps Airs Led ard Mrs Traugott Schmidt Mrs Brodhead Airs Cobb Airs Clark Mrs Clark Mrs Nichols Airs Campbell Al Al Wordruff Joseph Riggs Airs Byrne Airs Heckar Airs Morley Airs II Walker Mrs A Wolfslager Airs Stephenson Airs Gen Cook Phillips Airs Jas Conklin John Blessed Airs Wears Airs II Burnham the Aldrich Son James Renton Mrs AV Swift Master John C'ooly Airs Alartin Butzel Airs George Spooner Airs Pinckney Lugenbeel Airs John Kendall Airs Ling Mr Elliott Mrs A Dean Airs Breen No 27 Canfield street Airs Ducharme Mrs Horace Par ker Aliss Alaria Pridgeon Airs Harry Russel Airs Hast Mrs Hamblen Alumford AV Cole Airs Dr Emerson Airs I Altman Mrs John Avery All's Claude Can dler Airs red AVoolfenden Miss Lowie Henderson Mrs John Sill and 'Airs James Nall Airs Joss man Airs Eugene Smith Airs Henderson Central resoyterian Church corner AVashingtou avenue Mrs: Griggs 161 Charlotte avenue Airs John Bissell Aire Lewis Alien Airs Jas AVorthmore Mrs A German Airs AVest Aire Rowland Mrs AV Rowland Airs Wm AVesson Airs Thorndike Nourse Airs Huber Airs Wendell Mrs Dr AIcGraw Airs A Raymond Aliss Al AV Johnson Airs Robinson Airs I Clark Airs ord II Rodgers Airs Thos A Parker Airs AVallcer Aliss annie George Airs AV A Aliller Mrs Rand Airs AV 867 Congress Street east Airs btridiron Airs Trowbridge Mrs II Smith Aire Embury Airs Walter Bourke Airs Barbour Airs Al Moore Mrs Chas Buncher Jefferson avenue Airs Al I Mills Mrs AV Silk Airs Bradley Wuitzer Balle Airs Jenness Airs Brash Mrs Parsons Airs Slocum Airs Thompson Aire AVilliam Holman Airs Buhl Mrs Alary Buckley 488 Congress street east Messrs A Rasch Co Airs AV Aluir Airs A Stokes James Al isher Airs Geist Alaster Reea Hunt Airs Solomon Davis box canned tomfiitoes from a friend box canned corn from a friead box canned fruit from a friend Airs Thompson Airs Stimson Aliss Doyle 128 Gratiot avenue Dr AIcGraw Airs II Jackson Airs itts Airs John Dyar Airs William Chittenden one boxteanned fish and groceries and fifty friends names unknown Guy Hinchman Airs Allen of Hair Emporium Church of the Epiphany John Campbell Belknap Drake Airs George liendrie Mrs Ed Carpenter MadisouInd WOT Chas HowelL oth 1 1 by Dr otu Awre well known f1 a jriW QTATE of MICHIGAN SuK Cii'Diiit 1 lit rmintr Ot arw IStli 1883 wherein At iary Scherer nre plaiutills ic William 11 Ruston and 1 uti ita it ai? defendants 'f that jj Lusiactorily appearing Uy affidtn ow or Mefendante not a Michigan but a resident of t'dts Lows 'rUest doL motion IrpnA nartR unknown vp'ito'luls 0 fcHj'rihrttsattorney for plaint efendants appear in said in i6 iPd'Js from date of first publication hereof Press i ted December 18 1883 chaAIBERS 8098 clfCUit judge 1 'OBIITJABY Dr Edward Edward New York Jauuary gaddenly Lasker eminent inan moroing of heart disease at visit iU this city Lasker who had en to this country since May last tinker dinner at the housof Jesse at No 2 East ortsixth street last evenm and remained there until about i qy time 11 Lasker seemed quite liapi' 11th tom he was at the house When i bade them good night he seemed to rate health and spirits 1 in company with A two been spending the evening the deana and went in the direction of 1011' turning down town engaged ixv £3 When they reached Thirty touW ker was suddenly taken with coughing which he tried to ettro 'J1" avaiL The gentlemen nntrol his Lasker making a strong effort seCJne cough Wasserman suggested iat he cin the assistance of a physician bu lain though he could not artulate plainly made known bis wisl to lowed to go on When wenty cigntu street was reached Lasker P'e ennan against his heai and stagger hjm threw his arms about hiiR and ritizen from falling and called upon for help' The citizen respond! and La was carried to a private stab niGts laid upon a lot of buffato robesJid blanket A physician was called but tolute to any service The pulse wa still beat lightly but even this slight lasted a few minutes Lasker 1st ing spoken at Twenty fourth sect in convei sation with Wasserman brother in Texasiw promp telegraphed of his death am the 5 ceived to embalm the body ml he would leave for New York to day $Thebody was taken to the occupied ny Dr Lasker during his stay in ts city No 1 Jx xington avenue and a co ner called to take charge of the case As ion as the fact of his death begame knownmuny friends called the earliest allors was his close friend Carl Schurz Dr Lasker has been in Aunca since May last and spent a month or pre in the city after his arrival and then wen est to attend the opening of the Northern icific llajh'oad After his return he vLited hinrother at Gal vestoh On his ivay back he S'l'cd awhile hi Washington and reached this iy three weeks ago to day The opening of the Reichstf required Dr presence at Berlin md passage to Germany had been engaged or him in the steamer "Main to sail January' It Will now carry' his embalmed bony Shortly after his return Dr Tasker was taken ill Jnnnhv sinninmiwl Dr gained his usual health and His thoughts JlUVVl VUCltWW MUI the approaching end and friends about his nrohabla 'Lasker was unmarried ha near 1 elatives lieyond a brother in Galvesi (land a cousin in this city Chas goods mer chant He was 54 years oM? Dr brother Mori Lasker who is one of the leading merchiin of Galveston Tex left for New York Satday afternoon 7 Col John I Ji in Pittsburgh January ol John Irwin Nevin editor of the Pittsbuh Leader died at his home in Sewickley tbinorning at 1: 15 after a protracted illness oflrigbLs disease Cui Nevin was 46 years of and leaves a AvidOw and four children John Allison ather of mator Allison Dubuque Ia January 5 Senator father John Allison died ahis residence in Peosta this morning at 2 He was 85 years of age was a farmer 11 removed from Ohio about the year lbfi5 purchased the farm where he has since rejed He will Le buried Monday' the rainains'ing brought to where they willv interred in the cemetery lot alling Raplcyy at Nashville Nashatille Tenn January 5 The ther mometer was ten degrees below zero and fall ing rapidly at 10 to night Moderating at Leavenworth Leavenworth Ks January The thermometer ranged to day from twenty one to four below anT still moderating GrowingColder at Wheeling AV A'a Wheeling Va January 5 At 11 the thermometer registered ten degrees be low zero and falling slowly At Sioux alls DMT Sioux alls January 5 The tem perature ranged from forty below zero at 6 a ni to two above at 6 nL Less Severe at Kansas City Kansas City January At midnight a light snow is falling Weather much less severe back again the national legislators returning to WORK Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Washington January Senators and Representatives are arriving by every train and the prospect is that nearly all will be here by Monday morning unless delayed by storms It is probable that all of session of the House will be taken up with the introduc tion of bills When the House meets on Mon day it will be necessary to adopt rules the period for which rules were adopted at the be ginning of the session having expired It is likely that the old rules will be adopted for ten days or two weeks! In the meantime the Com mittee on Rules will probably report certain amendments and have them considered before the final adoption of the code for the session RENCH AMERICAN CLAIMS ADDITIONAL AWARDS BY THE COMMISSION Washington January 5 The Krencb American Claims Commission has made the following awards against the United States: rancois Vinsoniieau St Landry La $1433 Dominique I alanne St Landry $1764 A Brocnard Avoylles $1764 A Caresse Lafayette $1 ut 8 A Destz Assumption $40U ieri Cerf New Orleans $150 Mrs Anriannc New Orleans $300 Eugene Giraud $2548 The following cases against the United States were disallowed: Caresse La fayette Charles errant New Orleans Jos Siegfried St Charles Jean Perilliat Brashear City Catherine Auriers Mobile Jean Sentille Uierville Marie Bershier Jeffer son James Wells administrator of Alex andria Albin Rochereau New Orleans Also the case of Wm Ogden Giles against the Re public of rance The meeting of the stockholders 1 1 esque Isle Brick Lumber Company wifi li nttheotilce of Moore Canfield lloffat bio'k Irbit on Thursday the 24th iiist at 1J tor the election of officers aud for uch other si Hess as shall properly come efoie said met'tu WM A MUORH Janiiary 3 1884 At Bucyrus BfrcYRus January' 5 day for two years 16 below this morning Local Brevities Warden Koehler of the new Territorial Peniten tiary of Dakota at Sioux alls formerly an official in the House of Correction in this city where he has I Southern Railway many friends was on Christmas morning presented with an easy chair by the officers of the prison as a token of their esteem The Sioux alls Leader speaks in high terms of the Warden of whose suc cess his acquaintances in Detroit will be glad to hear The temnemtnre Satnrflav as nhcervofl hr Black Co opticians 77 Woodward avenue was Tie InUuence of America Upon the Ohl as follows: At 8 a two above 9 a three 10 I World a six 11 a seven: 12 ten 1 President Wilder of the New England His ten 2 eleven 3 twelve 4 ni I toric Genealogical Society in his annual ad eleven 5 eleven: 6 pm ten I dress quoted the expressions of eminent En Pereons in the vicinity of the Woodward avenue I glishmen in regard to the greatness of Amer wharf dump their coal ashes on the ice in the river I ica: saying that it is cheaper to get riel of the ashes this I TVhnn cnnhl inz nf the mntno and way than to hire their removal fence of our country with its aspirations I suggestions and possibilities Dean Stanley A Dull Night in a Police Station I said: cannot be realized until touched by the news' asked a reporter of Rounds I ie actual sight of it Then we feel that we man Dan Kavanaugh at the Gratiot Avenue Station Ue presence of one of tnbse greatcrea at 1'30 this momine tive epochs of nations a vast and heaven 1 ax 1 ward inspiring is America I hat ent got the least thing for you and I am said Canon arrar of England sorry for it You expect news on such a night I mighty civilization destined perhaps to sur as this You see a cold day and that is proba? pass our own a land of illimitable hopes a bly tiie reason why you are I boundless continent! If glorious has been The point was well taken by the reporter who I ber glorious too have been upon asking how many arrests had been made dur I el tO us7 las Siycn us a type at 1 once of manhood enthusiastic practical in the night was told only one that of Daniel I self sacrificing prudent and Rev Burke who was brought in for drunkenness The Dr Parker of London when speaking of roundsman said: I our country and its institutions and jiossi man has been arrested four times in two I bilities says: is more than a weeks for this offense twice by the same officer I continent it is a little Mat Heis better in here than outside but this case is I evvi who is at present not Of much consermeneo to vnn thlS country when of I its influences under Puritan discipline says: I has become an i comparable and all trans A alse Alarm I forming remnant and the common topic of The ire Department were called out of their admiration for the Mr Gladstone warm beds at 1 this morning by an alarm I Kays: a)n proud of America America has from box 124 corner of Gratiot avenue and Antoine a territory fitted to be the base of the largest street When the engines which ran in that district empire ever established by Lord Coleridge when recently here said arrived the firemen found nothmg for them to do rejoice to see tire independence and prosperity and returned the bitter cold to their respective of your middle classes It is riot the immense houses hoping they would not be called size of your country that strikes nre most It out again during the night A reporter who Called I is the bigness of that sentiment which has at No 6 found the members of the company gath I Ejven best blood in vindication of human ered around a comfortable base burner endeavoring I I And Prof Seely of the English Cain to get warm after their run One of them said hSd thTnrokm our compliments to whoever called hr nut frx I a 1 tv 1 I OH IHC XXV1U41 LIL iX WI1OK3 COUUliejlv night I hope he thinks it is as mucn fun as we do I as far as the Pacific may be peopled and pros on such a night as I per under a united government If the United 7 I States holds together for another half century A Loneaome Home it will at the end of that time completely The funeral of Charles Knops who died at No 189 8tates as Macomb street and left four children parentless I 7 homeless and poverty stricken as was mentioned RTTJTT1 in The ree Press of Saturday took place in the I DU JX1X1JX PWLti afternoon of 'that day A coffin was provided at He Leaves a Legacy at the State House for the expense of the city and a neighbor paid the ex His Successor penseof a hearse Other neighbors provided con At the beginning of the administration of veyanees to enable the children to see their father Gov Butler it was there was not a uumeumve warns or tne cmiaren nave single copy of the Holv Scriptures about th ivh'lart Tsv hu noronno tx I I avnmiTTn effort will be inude to provide homes for nuu a rnena presented or the present they will be charges on the I a of I Bible The gift bore the following inscrip I tion: Detroit Science Association I GEN BUTLER Hereafter the Detroit Science Association wil Ik Godfrct88 meete very Monday evening at 8 in the lec Newtonville January 1 1883" ture room of the Michigan College of Medicine on Gov Butler leaves the above named copy in the corner of Gratiot avenue and Antoine street 1 the executive chamber with tho following in Dr Clark will deliver a course of lecturcson thereon chemistry to the association These lectures are 1 1884 free to the unhlic ae When I came into the executive chamber a year rree to the public ago I could not find a copy of the Holy Scriptures I 1 oppose each Governor took his away with him while a permanent cure of Rheumatism and neu A fend gave me this I leave it as a needed trans ralgia through the agency of Athlophoros must de mittendum to my successor in office to be read by pend ou its power to expel the poisonous and pro 1 hbn and bis successors each in turn voting acids from the system it at the same time I 1 BENT BUTLER Governor possesses wonderful potency in immediately alle 1 vnitiug the torture invigorating muscular action 1 rr and limbering stiffened joints Savs ev a 1 At New Haven Saturday' Janauschek the' Vt: use oil refused to play at a matinee until the pain from my system managers of the theater increased the adinis auddXu 80 h4t 1 couli 61Hon lleP' to The Drice VVMM9 UUUJ'H VUUlSi ON AND ATER THIS DATE a The 'firm of Bloom Co is dissolved by NELbON BLUUM At Columbus Columbus January 5 Tho thermome ter at Columbus at 10 stood 83 de grees below zero with the tendency down ward the mean for the day being 85 or the twenty four hours ending at 10:36 in the highest was 1 degree below zero 'f A Surprise at St Joseph JIo St Joseph Mo January 5 At 8 a the thermometer indicated 26 to 32 below zero Chas Wiedbahn was Badly frozen while driving in a sleigh to the citv He was taken home unconscious but will recover Trains are all delayed and many abandoned Live stock Suffering in Kansas Topeka Ks January 5 Tire mrcurv is about twenty five below early this morning Considerable snow on the ground Very little wind The stock in the country is said" to bo suffering No fatalities reported Not Quite so Cohl at Duluth Duluth January Tne weather was not quite so severe as yesterday At 6 this morn ing the thermometer was twenty two Irelow at two this afternoon at zero at 10 to night twelve below Heavy Snow in North Carolina The heaviest snow stoi in many years Cold and brisk northerly winds The snow covera the ground to a depth of two inches and is still falling The Peach Crop Injured In Indiana New Albany Ind January The coldest day in thirty five years 23 below At noon 10 below 7 12 below ruit growers say the peach crop is destroyed atal to Peaches iu Illinois and Missouri Chicago January Tho Inter specials from Southern Illinois and Missouri in dicate that the peach trees have been injured and in some instances killed THE DETROIT REE PRESS: AY JANUARY 71 1884 MEETINGS Detroit fire Name Ins Ci The regular annual meeting of the stock Of the Detroit ire fc Murine Insurance for the election of Directors of sai cotnpanv the ensuing year will be Uhl nt it office 'i Griswold street Detroit on the second Tuesiy 2 January next (January 8 18M) The patls will be open from 11 a in 2 clock The transfer books will be closed from and in l' ing the 2bth day ot December 1885 until att i election CLARK Sec Detroit Dec 18 1883 ort Wayiie Elmwood Railway Company The annual meeting of the stockholders ort Wayne Elmwood Railway t'ompmy li purpose of electing wn directors to servo term of one year and transacting such other ness us may come before them will I lautiary 15 1831 nt 10 o'clock a at office or trie company northwest corner of ort a' streets up stair Ihe transfer books o'" said eompnav will ten (10) days previous to the dav of said meeting VV GOODWIN Secieicy Detroit December 16 iks3 1 ort Wayne Jackson Railroad Co The annual meeting of the stockholders yf a tort Wayne Jackson Railread Company fer election or Directors and such other busiiu may le brought before it will be held on '1 nsi 1 tb January 188 1 at tiie office of the Jackson Michigan The transfer teoks will iu Jaminry 5 1884 aud remain closed until 15th ary 1884 HOLSTON Sneretarr Judge Biddle eas to day sus dgo lherce some i hihp Garrett Wo for rlfnn The alh I defaniatoryTe lit 'lit7 VVU KJUV hiwas a candidate riqlenS Juclie oil oring hiinself us a candidate invited yp tiny the cotn muTjicntion referred to via privileged one as PPefly Simon lllutM Jt So Serious as HepertJl Springs JuaryS Thero th? from here Cameron Th tO iilncss ot Simon gentleman rived last Monday ninromth1 fc d(y to tris 1 th? of journey he has 1 1Ueal theputf dining room arid JiCXe hnrl Jervievv this even his phjsician said they was a marked Im provement in Mr CaioJs condition Memphis Dot pftially unded The unding judgments ti I I oifliich $3500uo were uarvO Pe tor finding expires Jan bonds havJ ntelJaientsrinterest ou the new' visions keen ikde and ample pro tor Robbery' THT! BAILROADS The Northern Pacific VICE PRESIDENT OAKES TO BE PROMOTED Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press New York January A successor to Mr Villard as President of the Northern Pacific Ruiroad has not yet been chosen It is doubtful if the special committee to which the consideration of the matter was intrusted will report before the adjourned and five degrees below on Saturday morning I meeting on January 17 Vice President Oa es at the same hour has been talked about for the office and The owners of ice houses are reaping a good bar 1 stood that many of he direc ors are in vest of ice at present the weather of the last few promotion They wish him hon ever to remain in days having been extremely propitious The ice his present position and to adAto the dates or now being packed is from ten to twelve inches thick Vice President those of General Manager It is While on a visit to Samuel Emerson on Wedneg pected that he will soon remove to St Paul to carry day last Henry Campbell put his horses In Emer into effect the known wishes of the board barn: One of horses was so The chief names mentioned iu connection with severely kicked by one of horses that to the Presidency are those of John Sherman and end his sufferings he was killed the next day William Windom ex Secretanes of the Treas Augustus Buraeno of Delray died on the 3d ury and August Belmont Strenuous efforts inst after a long and painful illness He was to persuade Mr Belmont to take the born October 30 1809 He served the country 1 faith accenl the rons? fully through the wars with Honda Mexico ana unaer any circumstances we could cut the late rebellion and ever bore the record of a true I Oakes in a friend of the road said to day I that one half of him could be at St Paul and the soiaier other half here there would be no difficulty in chos The new SL Mark Lutheran Evangelical Chape I jug 7 and school house will be dedicated one week from I to day Rev Mr Newman of Ann Arbor Rev I The Canadian Pacific 7 Charles Haas of Detroit and other clergymen from I has an eye to A Detroit connection Wyandotte and this vicinity will be present and as 1 Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press sist in conducting the dedicatory services I New York January Uie officers of the Cana The installation of officers of Riverside Lodge dian Pacific Railway Company have been in eonfer No 303 I took place at Hall on ence with the Wabash people in New York with a riday evening last and in addition to the officers view to ascertain what business would be afforded elected as noticed these columns the following I them in case they extended the Credit Valley were appointed by the lodge: Railway from St Thomas to a connection with the rederick Vamham I Michigan system of railroads at Detroit Adam Miller I Wm Elliott I General Bail way News Martin I the western roads contemplating independent Lewis lint I It Amasa Armstrong I action rederick Leach I Chicago January The Western railway lines 1 John Gallagher I jjave not yet heard from Commissioner Pierson and James alconer I declare that uniess they are jn receipt of a letter by I Wednesday next week they will take independent The Pamphlet a Michigan Man of I action Him I LyllKI The Commission er of Immigration has received a I COURTS letter from Archibald McDonald a prominent far I UNITED STATES CIRCUIT mer of Jameston Huron County Ont asking for Hancock Inspirator Company vs James Jenks pamphlets on and Its for dis I Submitted tribution The following extracts are made from the I Ttle Union Trust Company of New: York vs the Chicago Lake Huron Railroad In equity letter: I Herschel Whittaker stenographer allowed $13 Your pamphlet had the tlesired effect on me that I is to purchase in Michigan When I left here on the I UNITED STATES DISTRICT Sth of March the snow was level with the fence on Thomas McGuire et al vs barge City of the roads and deep in the fields When I got to my I gtTOjts Ordered that the moneys deposited herein cousin's near Akron Tuscola County his cattle and I pad OVel to Maynard Swan proctors for sheep were grazing the fields 1 liked that part I cjjelits herein having been settled very well Went from there to Huron and Sanilac I Counties did not like them so well being I WAYNE CIRCUIT burned newer country and more broken with I swamps My son who is about 22 vears old went I befgre judge jennison to see the country the last of June time of the Valentine Hilsendegen vs Thomas Scheick wet weather and came home with the same report I Time to settle exceptions and findings extended to as I did So then I concluded to go again in August I January 12 to see the spring grain and if I liked the place to I befor judge speed buy a farm and sell my own here I went about I I re application ot Uua stokes et al minors the middle of August looked around for a week I fpI'sale estate Order appointing guardian bought 200 acres of cxcellentland but the buildings I 1 etition filed Guardians bond rued Oncr ap are not very good The land is in Akron Township proving bond and authorizing sale Computation Tuscola County one mile from Akron Village I I of life estate filed intend to move aboutthe beginning of March and to I red Lewis vs lint Pere Marquette Rail bring with me a good share of my stock and my road Judgment on verdict for defendant nunc pro fanning implements A number of my neighbors I turic as of November 2 1883 say they are going to see mewhen I get settled in I George Barnes vs illiam oxenet al Decree Miehimln fcr complainant 0 I ic nl rPnellA 11 Judgment on default for $389 74 Charles Swift assignee of Walker Hopkins before the court for $1894 10 Henry I ries vs Arthur Seamen et al In chan cery Motion for receiver denied Injunction dis solved I 8UPERIOR I William Robinson et al vs Thomas Walsh 4000 I Settlement of bill ot exceptions set for hearing Sat I urday next at 10 a rto I Jessie Aiton vs Ernst Hunt Motion for a 14 I new trjaj beard and submitted tan I John Antrobus vs Charles Robinson Or I dered that the verdict heretofore rendered be re duced $100 iuuu I Hudson vs John Molony Continued for 1 win I the term iow Anna Werher vs Edward Granger et al Motion I for new trial heard iu part I Elisha Blount vs Lettie Blount In chancery I Submitted on report of Commissioner I A Solid I liver 1150 I To the Editor of The Detroit ree Press: 1 ne river nas been closed nere above isois Blanc Island for two days and tiie ice has been running over and under ever since This morning the river is solid as far as the eye can reach the only open ing being at the usual winter crossing of the Canada ah we can do is to look at it ns we have no boat cros mg or to cross here They are yet working at the dock and bridges as well as the weather will permit Mouth of Detroit River January 5 TP Abraham HtSwinV 7 Paterson JanuafA Godwin once a proniiuei manufacturer a great grandson of Gen win of re volu tlonary fame and acousltr Parke Godwin of tire Now York this mottling of apoplexy SENIOR The Payne Men Appujrejy Havlng lt All Their Columbus January The Democratic members 'of tiie Legislatu caucus for of ficers to day resulting: Seto Elmter Defiance County Preside pro teni sC Vailandigliarn Montgomf Clerk Chas Negley of Duke Searga at Arnis In tho House A Marsh ofilercer Speaker David of Hardin erk Penis ter of Roas Sergeant atrnis This is the slate of tho PajTie men" The contest for United Stos Senator showed how 111 every thing Oulletou men were liandicupix'd iuVie start! the united action 4 he Hamilton County SpHgation from his home were solid agaiust'in Senator Pru den was chairman of ohe ujus and Represen tative Cogan the otbei jBoth are from Cincinnati and against 'rndlctonj They had the appointing ofn)oint committee three from each caucus rift the date of the Senatorial caucus appoitifr Senators Wil liams Va eloaf and Alctysin Representa tives Bargar Brunner auftlyers all anti Pendleton 4 A committee called a oi caucus to night' bieh decided to make tla tutorial nomina tion next Tuesday nights 1 Pendleton men uuuuu mgau xuiuay or pip men next Tuesday or Wed tllAH ir ivv vmvh ijj vVCJyi the chairman in'ad aj hite one of fiai IV hat Constitutes a Peiinsyai Philadelphia Jantnrj of the Court of Common tained the nonsuit1 trhith wmunguviiua ea against 1 he lill enit 'resident of the committee rf! a rm 111 viuirfuTxr mnrl 2 yumuineu Ill a iva us nre time Judge Brii for re election to the hu IrtQ ii Bayou Sarj was Killed yest highly coiurei I USi fa 1 fi ar B5 Mi a If I Kt 1 II '1 i 1 cl J' I a liiiiiciilt 4 1.

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