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been leased for six years TO M. ID. Rich
ardson, of Traverse City.
Mrs. Philo Parsons, aged 80 years, a
resident Of Pittsfeld since 1925, died ut
the residence of her son, Roswell Par
sons, Pittsield.
Thompsonville Is perhaps the most or
derby town of its size in northern Michi-
gan. The jail is empty, and has been 80
for three months past.
An ice boat was tipped over while going
at full speed Mt Cheboygan Monday and
a man named Gusbrook struck on his head
on the ice and was instantly killed.
The officials of the Mackinac division Of
the Michigan Central Railroad are consid-
ering the advisability Of extending their
line to Duncan City. The extension will
cost about $4,000.
Hon. Thomas III. Bottomley, of Capac,
died at his home from mitral obstruction
of the heart, aged 80 years. Mr.. Bot
tomley had always been one Of the most
active citizens of the village. He leaves
a widow and daughter.
Theodore Hine, pioneer Bay City
lumbermnn, filed mortgages aggregating
the Mosher & Son lumber failure In 1898.
Bay City, Detroit, Port Huron and Sagi-
nav banks are among the creditors.
An ice gorge in the Grand river at Port
land has flooded the adjacent lowlands
and compelled merchants to remove their
goods to places of safety. At Allegan
high water in the Kalamazoo river has
compelled the closing of the mills and fac
tories and caused the electric lighting
plant to suspend operations.
After year of experimental electric
railway service in Pontiac, the reports of
the Pontiac-Sylvan Lake Railway Co.
disclosed the following: Total earnings
of the road for the year 1896 were So
5000; running expenses, $6,365; addi-
tons to equipment in shape of power
house and trailers, $500.
At Kalamazoo. the Owl Baking Com
pany has closed it's doors. Its mortgage
and lease Indebtedness is "a, 7S9, and
nearly score of employees have claims
ranging as high as $40. A notice has been
posted stating that the company lacks
funds TO push the business. The company
is composed of A. l.. and w. III. Conger.
The Economy Burner Co, organized in
Jackson with capital stock of $4,000,
has begun the manufacture of an oil
burner TO be attached to ordinary cook
stoves. George s. Dewey is president,
j. Il. Greenwood vice-president, Thomas
| Courtney secretary, and Josiah Creque
| treasurer. These, with r. Il. McNaugh-
ton, constitute the board of directors.
An attempt was made Monday night to
break jail by some of the prisoners con-
| fined in the Shiawassee County Jail, by
| saving through the bars. They were de-
| tected by Sheriff Scougale, whose atten-
| ton during the day had been called to
suspicious hicks that he noticed in the
bars. The prisoners were searched Tues
day morning, but only an old razor was
| discovered.
A short time since the 15-year-old
| daughter of William Stenton. Miss Mabel,
disappeared from Adrian, and it was soon
| found she had eloped with Mr.. Bishop.
| The parents had no trace of her until a
letter was received saying she and Bishop
were married and that she was perfectly
happy, and that any effort to locate them
would prove futile. The letter was from
some point south.
| On the Goth day of August, 1862, at the
battle of Bull Run, A. w. Austin, of Ches-
| aiming. was wounded with musket ball
| and three buckshot. Two of the shot
| lodged i'm the right arm and the large ball
nearly tore the arm off. The other shot
went into his lung between the ribs. Doc
| tors could not find nor locate il. Sunday
evening the gentleman coughs up from,
| the left lung near the heart the long-lost
| ball which had bothered him for over
thirty-five years. He says If the John
MES will prove property and pay charges
they can have the bullet.
Ann Arbor officers arrested Charles
Trempler, charging him with cutting with
intent to kill. On election day Trempler
demanded some money from his wife, and
| on her refusal to give 1t to him, penned
her i'm corner of the room, drew a sharp
pocket knife and deliberately proceeded
| in his efforts to kill her. She was des-
perately wounded, but managed to sum-
mon help. her husband escaping in the
| confusion. The officers have traced him
into various parts of the State since that
| time He secretly returned to the city,
but was soon located and captured.
Commissioner Anger reports that at the
date of the December call the State banks
of Michigan had aggregate resources and
liabilities of $S5 1886, 065, and a paid-up
| capital of $12,4S5,27 The loans, dis
courts, stocks, bonds and mortgages ag-
gregated 5.303, 1888. The total deposits
were $67.479,S51; commercial deposits,
| SIS. 274 .265; certificates of deposits, ST.
53O,592; savings deposits. $42, LOSS, S52.
| Compared with the report i'm October of
loans and discounts, stocks, bonds and
mortgages show an increase of $164,-
225. %. certificates of deposits a decrease
of SIT, 951.77. savings deposits an in
| crease of $140,59O.5S; total deposits an
increase of $S1 ,4S4.12.
Rev. p. w. Mosber, rector of st. Paul's
| Episcopal Church, Muskegon, was very
much surprised pastor when he opened his
| mail Tuesday. In one of the envelopes
was a check for $3.50, bearing the sigma
ture of VIM. G. Low, brother of President
Low of Columbia University. Some time
ago he wrote to the American church
building commission of the Episcopal
Church for $3.50 to raise the debt standing
against st. Luke's mission, which he has
been gradually reducing. The commits.
| sion replied that it could not spare the
funds and with resignation he took up
the old grind. In the letter which accom-.