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Alpena, caused the Thunder bay life
savers and the Sturgeon point crew to
scour the lake for 30 miles without
finding the burning vessel.
Chicory raising promises to divide
the honors with sugar beet raising in
Bay county. There is as much money
in chicory as in sugar beets and less
care is required in the cultivation.
1t has been decided that the 31st
Michigan will be located at Santa
Clara, Cuba, and the 35th Michigan,
near Havana. The latter is already
started for Atlanta from Camp Meade
and the 31st will leave Camp Poland,
Knoxville, as soon as possible.
Hiram Hoag, aged 70, who lived
alone in a small house at North Lam
sing, was burned to death. In some
manner unknown the house caught on
fire, and when the blaze was extin-
guished the charred remains of the old
man were found among the ruins.
An order was received at Camp Po-
land, Knoxville, Tenn, for each regi-
ment of the First brigade to draw
Krag-Jorgensen rifles and 10000
rounds of ammunition that is taken as
sign of move to Cuba soon and the
31st Michigan is wild with delight.
The auditors of Wayne county have
begun suit against County Clerk Rey
holds to recover S2,243 in marriage Ii
cense fees, besides large amount of
naturalization fees which, it is alleged,
he has illegally retained when they
should go into the county treasury.
The total number of deaths regis
tered in Michigan for October was
2,414 or 226 less than the number re-
corded for September. The number
was 6s more than that for October of
the preceding year. Consumption
caused POS deaths: typhoid fever, los;
diphtheria and Group, IS.
Corunna has granted 30-year fran
chise to the Long Lake, Durand &
Corunna electric railway, granting the
privilege to build street railway
through the city. Franchises have
been secured from Pontiac to Holly.
A through line will be in running or
der from Detroit TO Owosso by 1900.
Toledo advices say: A. f. Stillwell,
president of the Kansas City & Gulf
railroad, is slated as the new president
of the Detroit & Lima Northern. The
Stillwell people will place 81, 900, 900 in
the road. The name of the road is to
be changed; it will be known as the
Central Terminal & Connecting rail-
road.
Undertaken Gray Farmer has reached
Pontiac from Porto Rico with the bod
les of Private Louis n. Buttolph, of
the 10Th U. S. infantry, who died of
fever in the hospital at Ponce, and
Private Fred Preger, of the 31st Michi-
gan, who was struck by lightning
while in his tent. Both were Pontiac
boys.
Considerable excitement was stirred
up in California township, Branch
county, by the sudden death of Mrs.
Fay Graham, aged %, but recently
married. She had been in good health
and soon after dinner went TO her
room, where she was found dead on the
floor with her hands crossed on her
breast.
The c. & w. NJ. depot and mammoth
grain elevator, containing 1000 bush
els of wheat, were burned at Water
vliet. The fire originated from pass
ing engine. The water supply from
the big paper mill was a failure, and
only the heroic work of bucket bril-
gade saved the village. The damage
is from $40, 900 to SIS, 200.
Fire was discovered at a. IN. in c shaft
of the Atlantic mine at Houghton.
The alarm was promptly given and the
200 miners at work escaped on the skip
cars, but it was narrow escape. AS
soon as the work of rescue was COM
pleted, the mouths of the shafts were
sealed to smother the flames. About
500 men are thrown out of work.
VIM. Laughinwell was drowned at
Long lake, six miles from Coldwater.
His dog had broken through the thin
ice 10 rods from the shore. The mas
ter desiring to assist him procured an
old gate and showed it to the dog. As
soon as both dog and man were on the
gate the ice gave way and both were
drowned. Mrs. Laughinwell witnessed
the accident.
Judge Martin v. Montgomery, com
missioner of patents under Cleveland,
ex-judge of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia, later appointed
Judge of the U. S. district court, and
one of the best known attorneys in
Michigan, is on his death bed at his
home in Lansing. The disease is
cancerous growth of the liver and
other complications.
VIM. Courson, of near Lake Ann,
was visiting his aged father, Il. +.
Courson, near Copemish. The family,
including Williams brother-in-law,
Frank Adams, were sitting around the
supper table, when Adams reached up
and took down revolver that was
hanging on the wall, and in some man
ner it was discharged, killing William
Courson almost instantly.
Hon. Abraham II. Blakely, aged So,
one of Alpena's Oldest and most re-
spected citizens, was shot and instantly
killed at his residence. Preparatory to
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