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A Young woman's Christian associa-
ton has been organized at Hillsdale
college.
The county seat of st. Clair county
will not be removed from Port Huron
to st. Clair.
About $500 have already been raised
toward aiding the organization OF I.
M. c. A. in Hudson.
The first national bank of Marshall
has over 1853, 900 in individual deposits
and a surplus fund of $4,000.
Ed j. n. Andrews of Battle Greek,
died at Basic, Switzerland, recently. lie
had gone abroad for his health.
Grand Rapids boasts because Henry
Irving, the great English actor now in
this country, will visit that city before
he returns.
Greenwood and Harding, the MUIR
derers of VIM Maher of Detroit were
sentenced in the Essex assizes to be
hung December -.
This seasons sales of peaches from
the orchards of Judge Ramsdcll OF
Grand Traverse will amount in all to
about 200 bushels.
A man named Doolittle, of Damon,
of Oscoda county, was shot by an UNI
known and unseen person, while sitting
on his own door. step.
The treasurer of Kent county recon-
] mends that the county taxes be cut
down, as there is already too much
money in the treasury.
Two young men, real names I'M
| known, have been arrested at Adrian
for swindling people by selling them
| washed silver thimbles.
A tramp recently sent from Marshall
to Jail for vagrancy boosted that he had
arrived all the way from Colorado on
the payment OF 20 cents.
The John Coulter inquest at Dandy,
Ionia county resulted in a verdict that
diseased was poisoned and Mrs. Coulter
has been arrested on suspicion.
The result of the analysis in the case
of Cotton, who was believed TO have
been poisoned in Dandy, Ionia county.
revealed large quantities of arsenic in
his body.
Mrs. Maggie, wealthy German lady
of Stargis, proposes to build an opera
house there rivaling that at Coldwater,
if the citizens will contribute $4,000 to-
wards it.
The Hon. Shubael F. White, who sat
in the last legislature from the twenty
sixth senatorial district, has removed
from LudiDgton to Duluth to engage in
law practice.
A quantity of smuggled silks and
laces, brought from Canada TO Petos-
key last July. was sold at auction at
Grand Haven recently by the deputy
collectors of customs.
Port Huron has received eight pro-
posals for building an iron bridge over
Black river, connecting Huron avenue
and Military street. The bids vary
from $3.50 to $4,000.
Following the verdict of poisoning
in the Coulter case at Dandy. lonia
county, comes the news Of the arrest IF
Mrs. DE Camp, formerly Mrs. Coulter.
on charge of numbering her late hus-
band.
| Captain Woodruff, who represented
Clare county in the last legislature,
now claims the banner because he is the
oldest hotel keeper in the state Che is
over 10Y and has never sold drop of
liquor.
The village of Bronson, in Branch
county. sustained a heavy loss the other
night in the. burning,of planning, saw and
| grist mills. foundry and several Fri
vate residences. Total damage about
$4,000.
Every Thursday evening the high
school scholars of Battle Creek assem-
BILE in their room, and assisted by the
teachers, professors and literary eii-
zens, discuss the life and works of some
noted man.
| The documents issued by the State
Board of Health on the prevention of
contagious diseases is to be published
in the Scandinavian, Polish and French
| languages for the use of miners and
others who do not read English.
Hon. Joseph Gilman, of Paw Paw,
who was member of the state house
of representatives in 1855, fell from a
tree few days ago, distance of rs
feet and was severely perhaps fatally
injured. He is 75 years old and weighs
260 pounds.
Tho petroleum find near Bad Axe,
Huron county, was found on the land
of Reuben Rapson, about quarter of
mile frsm the village. Experts say
it is good oil, and large numbers of
people are fiocking thither, ana the ex-
element runs high.
Charles Tapps. on trial at Hillsdale
for receiving stolen goods, arose to
plead guilty. The judge would not ac-
cept the plea. but ordered the trial TO
proceed. The evidence adduced was
insufficient to convict him, and the jury
pronounced him ''notguilty."
The Stearns manufacturing COM
pany's wind mill factory, three DWELL
ings, and general store, large ware
house and half million feet of Norway
pine lumber burned at Grand Haven
recently. Total loss estimated at $780,
600, with about $4,000 insurance.
Wolves are so plenty and so fierce IN
the vicinity of Iron Mountain that they
chase men in broad daylight. A pack
kept man freed there for several hours
one day recently, but they finally left,
when their victim descended from his
elevated position and fastened home