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ington.
The severe frosts the past month have
again ruined the BURBERRY crop in the
upper peninsula.
An insane girl was found by the
roadside, near Bad Axe, without q
stitch of clothing, and taken to Jail.
The 9-months-old child of Thoma.
Higgins, of Dollarville, pulled, over a
kettle of boiling water and was scalded
to death.
The May musical festival given by
the Choral union at Ann Arbor closed
with Saint Saen's Samson and Delilah'
and was spenClid success.
It is said that many of the business
men recently burned out at L'Anse will
never rebuild. j. Il. Smith, one of the
mainstays of the town, will move to
Detroit.
Mrs. Z. Clark, of Port Huron, placed
5000 worth of jewelry in the stove for
safe keeping and later started a fire in
the stove, running the treasure com
pletely.
Warrants were sworn out at Muske-
gon by Secretary w. w Locher, of the
y. NJ. C. A., for the arrest of five of the
men who played base ball on Sunday
and also the umpire.
Several weeks ago the women OF
La sing formed an association for the
purpose of establishing cottage hos
pital. They went vigorously to work,
and succeeded splendidly.
Owen Mcclellan and w. T. Price fell
a distance of 25 feet at Benton Harbor
from a scaffold, which gave way. They
were thrown to the stone walk below,
sustaining injuries from which both
will die.
A committee appointed by Superin-
tendent of Public instruction Patten-
gill to visit Agricultural college has re-
ported in favor of adding instruction
in the mechanic arts; also that ladies'
course be added.
The army worm is working great
havoc in orchards about Birmingham.
Mrs. Harrison Young's apple orchard
was stripped bare in "a hours. Louis
Stough's orchard, in Royal Oak, was
ravaged in the same manner.
The state live stock commissioners
at Alpena killed four thoroughbred
Jersey cows from the herds of +. o.
Avery, two from the herds of w. l..
and II. ID. Churchill and one belonging
j. A. Widner tuberculosis.
August Hartman, a farmer, near East
Tawas, literally blew his head off, He
placed heavy charge in shotgun,
filled the barrel with water and placed
the muzzle in his mouth. Then he
pushed the trigger with stick. Fam
lily troubles.
DIR. j. A. Morey, of Riverdale, com
mitted suicide by taking morphine at
Cadillac, where he was living under an
assumed name. He left long letter
to his wife at Riverdale and other pa
pers by which his identity was revealed.
,MoS asa physician Of the X. O. I.
NJ. Of Riverdale, and serious charges
were pending against him.
Eight miners had a narrow escape at
the Ashland mine at Ironwood. They
were working in No. shaft, drifting
on the third level, about 800 feet from
the surface, when cavern occurred.
The accident took place shortly after
a. IN. and it was thought their doom
was sealed, but by diligent working
the men were released by 0 o'clock.
The feeling toward Cashier j. L.
Kleckner OF the Citizens bank, of Ed
harrisburg, since the discovery of his
alleged shortage of $1,000, has been
anything but friendly, and eliminated
in very pointed demonstration of dis
A large crowd gathered at
the Citizens bank and proceeded to
hang Klecbner in effigy amid the boots
and the bowls of the mob.
There is more trouble between the
Kalamazoo foundrymen and the union
molders. The latter have been called
out of Wilson's foundry, and the shop
of Buckley 81 Co. The cause of the
trouble is the refusal of the firms TO
make the minimum wages 81 per day.
They wish to pay each man according
to their estimate of his worth without
the union.
Secretary Storrs, of the state board
of corrections and charities, has made
an official inspection of the jails in
Ogemaw, Roscommon, Altoona, Craw-
ford, Iosco, Otsego, Alpena and Che
boygan counties. There was but one
prisoner in the jails at Alpena and Che
boygan, and none in the other coun-
ties. Secretary Storrs says that this
record is unprecedented.
About 20 of the surviving members
of the celebrated Loomis battery held
their twenty-second annual reunion at
Coldwater. At the business meeting
the following officers were elected:
President, c. A. Lee, of Coldwater;
vice, James Harris, of Adrian; secre-
tary and treasurer, r. G. Chandler, of
Coldwater; captain, AID. Burch, of Ba-
tavia. A banquet followed.
Lightning struck the house of Justice
NJ. l.. Borland at Ribble postoffice and
set it on fire. The family had only
time TO save few household goods.
The postoffice was kept by Mrs. Bor-
land, and all the mail matter, pouches,
etc, were consumed. While Mr.. Bor-
land was trying so save the stamps and