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killed by train.
The Supreme Tent.of the Maccabees Mt
Port Huron received $500 applications
for aembership within twenty days.
|, William Nichols, accused oftthe murder
of odd Michael Colt. near Williamson,
was discharged upon examination at Lam
sing. The murder IL still unexplained.
The Standard Oil Company has fled
articles of incorporation with the Secre-
tary of State aud paid franchise fee of
$1,750 to the State on its capital stock
Of $3,5O0OO0.
One hundred thousand acres of farm
and timber land in Delta, Alger and
Schoolcrnft Counties. have been sold by
the North New England Debenture Com
pany for $4,000.
Two Grand Rapids kids, aged respcc-
lively IL and 10, are getting good school
Ing in crime. They held up companion
with revolver in true robber style, and
stole all the money he had-15 cents.
Mrs. Ellen Shane, an aged Port Huron
woman, committed suicide by taking
strychnine, mixing the drug in cold tea.
At the inquest il developed that a neigh
Dor had procured the poison for her.
While excnvating for the new Presby-
terrain Church Port Huron workmen
found skeleton, apparently 80 years old.
buried only few inches beneath the sur
face. Nobody knows anything about it.
Michael Conely and Eugene Keller, of
Carrollton, are minus an ear and nose re-
spectively, as the result of a scrap in a
saloon. They had been sworn enemies
for some time. Conely is in serious con-
dition.
Walter Thurlby. a young Birmingham
blacksmith, charged with taking Fred
Stephens pocketbOok containing 1866,
was honorably dismissed. Friends gave
him On ovation, and he is the hero of the
hour -s..4ss -i~-.|-----
Rev. John Hooper, the former presbyte-
rian minister at Cadillac, involved in a
row that led to several law suits and to
his retirement from the ministry, passed a
creditable examination ut Benzonia and
was admitted to the bar.
Sawmill operations bid fair to be lively
at the 500 this year. 1t is reported that
John Torrent will move 1OO,OO0,OO0 feet
of lumber from the Lake Superior forests
feet will be moved by other lumbermen.
The well-known wife of an Ann Arbor
professor, booked for a swell reception,
forgot her shawl. She ran up to get 1t in
the dark, but when she reached the recep-
ton she was Mortified to find that she
had thrown over her shoulders her hus-
bands last years ice cream colored pants.
August w. Lindholm, the Republican
deputy secretary Of state, who appropri-
ated about 81 800 of the funds of the
State, and in the spring of 1894 fed to
Sweden, was acquitted on charge of
embezzlement in the Circuit Court at
Lansing. Lindholm admitted having TAX
en- the money, but insisted that he intend
ed to restore it.
A few weeks ago man who called him
self Victor Moon arrived at Saranac and
announced that he was a horse trainer.
He secured several colts to break, and a
short time ago drove one of the colts over
to Bedding. He did not return, and war
rant was secured for him and an officer
started in pursuit. The latter found the
horse and rig at Greenville, but the man
is still missing.
Charles Supe, of Sault Ste. Marie, has
Just returned from the Sandwich Islands.
He saw some of the skirmishes with rebel
troops, but knew they would be defeated.
as the Kanakas would rather feast than
fight President Dole told him he was
heartily in favor of annexation. Good
mechanics are wanted on the islands, with
a prospect of So to 81 day. Mr.. Supe
will start coffee plantation in Hawaii.
noI, nf xh< Gfof Do rl Of
Health, has been apprised of an outbreak
Of anthrax among the cattle on the farm
of ID. p. Clay, in Newaygo County. The
disease is of very malignant form. and
several animals have died from its eff
fects. The germs are believed to have
been imported by some means from q
foreign country. The disease is greatly
dreaded by cattle owners, and it is some
times communicated to human beings.
Wednesday morning two sons of Frank
Andrus, living near Rose City, left their
home to walk to the woods where their
father was employed in sugar making.
They did not arrive Mt the place they had
started for, and when the father returned
at noon and found that they were missing,
a search was at once instituted, but no
trace was found of them that day. That
night ii turned very cold, and the next
day. the little ones being still missing,
hope of finding them alive was abandon
ed. The search was still continued. how
ever, until on Saturday the two bodies
were found, six miles from home, beside
a log where they had evidently tried to
shelter themselves from the bitter cold,
but unavailingly, as they had been frozen.
They were aged and respectively.
A substitute for the various primary
election bills is before the Legislature.
The principal provisions of the bill are
that precinct primaries of each party
shall all be held one day in the polling
booths, which shall be kept open from
$3.50 p. m. to 1880 p. m. Inspectors of
primaries shall be elected ut previous pri-
marics. and the chairman of the party
ward committee will be chairman of the
primary inspector board. All voting is to
be done according to the latest registra-
ton list, and voters must make oath they
belong to the party holding the primary.
Duplicate returns of the action of the
caucus are to be sent to the city clerk
and proxies in convention will not be
permitted, as vacancies are filed by vote
of the delegation itself. An attempt to
bride a delegate at convention or pri-
mary Ii made punishable by 1ne of
$1,000 or nine years Imprisonment, or
both.
Mary Dado, aged 10, wanted TO attend
q dance at Marshall. Her mother refused
permission and the daughter took a dose
of paris green. A doctor was callc-l but