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MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

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Gov. Pingree has named April 2s as
Arbor Day.
Amateur counterfeiters are worry
ing the people OF Copemish.
An electric railway from Cheboygan
to PetoslSey is in course of survey.
The balance in the state treasury at
close of business March 81 was 81, $780,
692.7O
Several cases of scarlet fever have
developed during the past week in
Cadillac.
jackson county farmers have been
compelled to buy hay for their stock
this spring.
Kalamazoo is to have new hotel.
A company with capital stock of
sec, 900 has been formed.
The proposed Portland cement fac
tory at Portage Lake, Jackson county,
will probably fall through
A. L. Chambers granary at Belding,
containing 200 bushels Of corn, besides
other grain, was destroyed by fire.
onondaga farmers report that many
acres of wheat are rotting, giving
forth peculiar and offensive odor.
Birmingham's postoffice for the first
time in years is now in building by
itself John Hanna is the new post
master.
The total cash sales Of the state land
Office in March amounted to sos, 1897,
The copper craze had much TO do with
the big sales.
The Big Four station at Niles was
recently robbed for the ninth time,
but the thieves secured only small
amount of cash
The business portion of Cadillac has
been visited by So 900 fire, and four
buildings was reduced TO ashes. Most
of the stock in the different stores was
saved.
The maple syrup and sugar season
has been an unusually good one
throughout the state. 1t it not only
plentiful and cheap, but of superior
quality.
Mrs. VIM. Vansceiver, of Lapeer,
was terribly burned by throwing a
lighted match into the draperies of a
sofa She was saved by rolling her in
! the snow
The Michigan National Guard asso-
citation is planning for reunion of all
| the officers concerned in the late war.
1t will be held at Grand Rapids, prob
ably in May
Horace Sutherby, Is years old, fell
off a strawstacli onto n hayknife, near
his home, some distance from Flint
The blade entered his throat and he
will not live.
Thomas Butler shot an otter near
| Homer last week, the first specimen of
the animal killed in those parts for
many years back, according to the old
est inhabitants.
Kalamazoo township board has
Fgranted 30-year' franchises for electric
lines over the Silver Creek and Gull
roads. They must be in operation
within Is months.
A bad freight wreck occurred one
mile south of Clio on a 30 foot embanlx-
ment, when large number of cars
were badly smashed and partly burned.
No lives were lost.
An organization of the Past Noble
Grands and Noble Grands of the /. o.
o. +. lodges of Huron county has been
organized for the promotion of Oddfel-
lowism in the Thumb.
Cheboygan has begun the boom by
starting the foundation for the der
rick of a salt well. A company has
been formed with n capital of $40, 900,
all subscribed at Cheboygan.
For some time past chicken thieves
have been plundering farmers in the
vicinity of Willow. VIM. fabian and
Isreal Grunda have been arrested
charged with being the culpits
In accordance with the act recently
passed by the legislature and made a
law by the signature of the governor,
it is now proper to say Harbor Beach,
instead Of Sand Beach, as formerly.
A compilation recently made by the
secretary of state, shows that there
were nine deaths from lightning in the
state last year Four in August, three
in June, and one each in May and July.
Clyde w. Francis, an Ionia news
paper man, has purchased the Ypsi-
lanti Sentinel The former owner of
the paper, NJ T. Woodruff, will devote
his entire time to the Manistee Journal.
Nine blooded cattle of Holsteins,
from stock imported by M. L. Sweet,
of Newaygo, have been found to be in
fected with tuberculosis and ordered
killed by the state live stock commits
sioner
1t has been announced that the pro-
posed traffic cor. bine between the
Flint &c Pere Marquette and the Cana
dian Pacific at Port Huron has been
accomplished, and will take effect
April /.
Wheat and clover fields are looking
very poorly in Jackson county this
spring. Wheat has mostly been killed
by cold weather and clover is badly
heaved by the recent thawing and
freezing.
Supervisor Harry Ryerse, of Brevoort
township, Mackinac county. killed
three large wolves the other day and