The true northerner., 1899-06-07

tton Gathered from ALI Parts
of the state.

The post Office at South Allen, Hills
dale county, has been discontinued.
The Bay City street car company is
to expend 100000 on improvements.
Homer Fast, of Charlotte, aged 2l,
was drowned in Snow lake while bath
! ing.
ST. Louis will celebrate Fourth of
July with great street fair and carni-
val.
Canker worms are doing considerable
damage in apple orchards in Oakland
county.
factory. The freight rates on coal and
lime are prohibitive.
Late reports from Oakland county
say that wheat will not average more
than 25 per cent. of the usual crop.
George T. Walker, a pharmacist In
Merritt's drug store in Charlotte, com
mitted suicide by taking morphine.
The twelfth annual encampment of
the Union Veterans union will be held
al jackson some time during October
next.
The Branch County Wheelmen's club
is very active in the work of building
cycle paths, and are materially aided
by liberal minded farmers.
The Stephens Lumber company, of
Waters, has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages by the estate of Mr.. Kellogg, who
was killed in the company's mill.
Three Rivers will have its business
houses and residences numbered pre-
paratory 10 the compilation OF city
directory, the first ever issued there.
The servant girls at Calumet have
formed a powerful union and have de-
manded an increase in wages. Their
demands have been agreed TO in most
cases.
Labor Commissioner Cox is daily in
receipt of reports from his inspectors
and other correspondents which indi-
cate a marked revival of business in all
parts of the state.
Between the beet sugar and chicory
factories of Bay City and the potato
flour factory of East Tawas the farmers
of Iosco county have this seasons crops
we'll provided for.
1t has been announced that this year
the high and classical honors at Olivet
college has been won by Miss Clara
Wright, and the scientific by Miss En-
ma Starr, both of Olivet.
The assessed valuation, as made by
the supervisors of Jackson, shows real
estate amounting TO S5,714, 790 and per-
sonal property to the amount of ST.
O47, $50. Total, $6,762,3 $40.
One of the oldest mills in the state,
the Calhoun mill at Homer, is being
torn down to make room for the new
electric lighting plant in that village.
The old mill was built in 1899.
The Wyatt -Minty block, two stories
high, collapsed at Battle Greek and
plunged into the millrace, running the
structure. The crash was heard for
many blocks. No one was injured.
There is talk at Gaylord of securing
a railroad from Traverse City TO Alpena.
Such "A road would open up an immense
body of timber that would feed ii for
20 years to come the largest belt of
hardwood in the state.
the Agricultural college in 1893, has
been appointed to position under Ed
win +. Smith in the United States de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton. She will investigate the diseases
of plants.
Veterans of the war with Spain
played a prominent part in nearly all
the Memorial day celebrations through
out the state. In many a little town
grizzled members of the G. A. r. lis
tened to the words of a youthful orator
from the ranks of '9s.
Detroit tax rate for 1899 is S156, GOT,
an increase over last year of 80 cents
per $1,000. The increased appropria-
tions by the common council and the es-
timators cause this, notwithstanding
the fact that the increase of assessed
valuation this year over last is S9,334,
40.
Berry growers and pickers of Mus
kegon county are going to reap great
er harvest this season, according TO
the present indications, than for past
years. The size and quality of this
years strawberries have never been
eXcelled, and the huckleberry crop
gives promise of being immense.
So many dead fish have fioated ashore
along the Grand river this spring that
the common council at Portland. as a
sanitary measure, employed man TO
gather and bury them, rather than let
them decay and poison the air. In
few DAYS 1000 fish were picked nm and
buried. IL is probable that the fish
have been poisoned.
Damage by Wind and Rain.
st. Joseph, June 4.-Sodus township,
six miles east of this city, was visited
early Saturday morning by cloud
burst. The Big Four railroad tracks for
distance of mile were inundated and
for several rods the roadbed was washed
away. Reports received here from va