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igan, is at Mount Clemens, and will winter
there.
Deer hunters are very plenty in the
Traverse region, but the deer seem to be
scarce so far.
w. A. Shank retires from the Barry
County Republican. Horace Watkins is
his successor.
Seven pairs of twins were the attrac-
ton at Sunday school exhibition at
Ypsilanti recently.
"A special committee appointed by the
Supervisors of Gratiot County will investi-
gate the Justices of that county.
The widow of the brave General Gus
ter is to be appointed Pension Agent at De-
troit at a salary of $4,000 year.
George Haupt, of Negaunee, recently
shot white owl which measured five feet
two inches from tip to tip of wings.
There have been about $50 deer shipped
from AIpena this fall SO far, and they are
coming in bv wagon loads avarv dav
William N. Carpenter, capitalist OF
Detroit, was thrown from his carriage by
runaway horse, dying shortly afterward.
-Alonzo Plumstead, one of the early
settlers and business men of st. Johns,
died at his home in that village, aged seven
ty-seven.
Andrew Burrett and John Bent, Of
Three Rivers, have been victimized for a
large amount by lightning-rod swindlers.
Burrett is 83 years old.
The Lansing Wheelbarrow Works have
received an order for thirty dozen barrows
to be shipped half way around the world,
going by way of Cape Horn.
-Manistique has had erected in it three
Jail buildings within the past four years,
and yet the citizens claim that there is
really little necessity for any.
Consumption swept away Rev. Theoph-
ilus Anciaux, pastor of st. Anne's Church,
Detroit. He was native of France, and
had been priest in Belgium.
John NJ. Thalen's two children went
into the woods near their home in West
phalia, Clinton County, and ate poisonous
berries. One died; the other will recover.
The Dickerson Gymnasium, given to
Hillsdale College by f. b. Dickerson, Of
Detroit, and the first and only college gym
nasium in the State, was dedicated re-
Gently.
If deer-hunters continue to mistake
women and men for game, there should he
a change in the game laws. Scarcely week
now passes without an instance Of wild
shooting.-Inter Ocean.
DIR. G. S. Graves has been the rounds
of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad,
from Richmond 10 Mackinac City, and has
vaccinated over 200 agents, operators, bag
| gagemen, and other employees.
Lord Tennyson's new poem is called
| "The Close of Another Eve" This, Of
course, does not, for obvious reasons, re-
fer to the clothes of Mother Eve, but
Smother eve. Free Press.
Eva Jenkins, a 14-year-old Flint girl,
has been chewing shoemakers' wax for some
time. Friday night she was taken violent
ly ill, and vomited piece of wax two
inches long and three quarters of an inch
thick.
The Ludington Appeal thinks that
county fairs were unsuccessful this year be-
cause so many reunions had been held this
fall that the money usually spent for the
fairs had been used before the season and
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The Supreme Court declared the oleo-
margarine law unconstitutional, since "the
body of the law does not correspond to the
title" That is the difficulty with oleomar-
garine itself; the body of the article doesn't
correspond to the title under which it is
sold. It consists of one thing and is
called another, and the Legislators seem to
have concluded that an oleomargarine law
must be constructed in the same way. Both
are, therefore, unconstitutional. - Free
Press.
The New Haven parties who desire 10
locate clock factory in the West, and who
have been corresponding with parties in
this city, have $25O,OOO capital, nearly all
paid in and nearly all to be expended in
preparing for business. They require
from six to ten acres of land and two large
buildings, plans for which are already
made. They propose to turn out on the
start 1 900 clocks a day, employing from
100 10 $50 hands, the number TO increase
as business grows.-SaOinaio Courier.
-Hillsdale College is growing lively as
winter approaches. Upon the arrival Of
students at their classes recently, il was
found that oil the chairs, some six hundred,
had mysteriously disappeared during the
night. All the recitation-rooms on the first
floor of the three buildings had been COM
pletely stripped of their furnishings To-
ward noon the chairs we're discovered scat
tered over the country, about mile from
the college, IN barns or hidden beneath
bushes. II took large wagon and three
men oil the next day to undo the work that
few energetic students had done in less
three hours.