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Admiral Dewey visit that city on bis
western trip. ~ Sx&
Oakley has an ''old maids club" the
object Of which is to make 1900 leap
year anyway.
@. Nj. Taylor of Alma made an unspc-
cessful attempt to commit suicide by cut
ting his throat.
The Milford Fair. Association has $823
IN its treasury with no debts. Affair
will be given next fall.
4. b. Parks and John Skinner have
stIrted a broom factory at Hartman. Six
hands will be employed.
Sixty saloonkeepers at Grand Rapids
pleaded guilty to keeping their saloons
open on July 4 last, and were fined So
each.
Newton McClintic of Pulaski owns a
sheep that is II years old. He has taken
sixteen heeces from it averaging II
pounds.
The Pere Marquette system will aban-
don the car ferry service between Mus
kegon and Milwaukee and send freight
to Ludington.
The residence Of Addison Horne, To-
Gated on the outskirts Of Lyons, burned,
together with its contents. Loss 81 200,
insurance $500.
Part of the brick work on one of the
tsrrets of the new Masonic temple at
Muskegon fell. No one was injured and
the loss is not serious.
Freight discrimination may result in
Montgomery Ward & Co. moving their
large vehicle manufacturing concern from
Kalamazoo to Chicago. GN
The big Phoenix Touring mill dam just
south of Worthwhile went out with the big
freshct, doing several thousand dollars
worth of damage. 1t will be rebuilt.
After being exposed to a terrible north
west blizzard, Samuel A. Howard, lead
ing citizen of Bridgeman was found in
half frozen and unconscious condition.
Inez Cook, aged years, boarded a
Pere Marquette passenger train at Lam
sing and was carried to Grand Rapids
before it was discovered she was u run
away.
The Sunday school convention OF Alma
and Arcade townships elected these OFF,
GERS: President, Fred Fullerton; secre-
tary, George Hill; treasurer, Francis
Palmer
VIM. b. Teal, Venay farmer, fell un-
der the wheels of a wagon loaded with
two cords Of wood, and although the
wheels passed over him, he escaped with
bruises.
The controversy in the State board of
veterinary examiners over the registra-
ton of graduates of the Ontario Veteri-
nary College has been settled in favor of
the graduates.
Joseph Dory, employed in the Lille
Lumber Co.'S camp near Carney, was
struck on the head by falling treetop
and instantly killed. He leaves a widow
and eight children.
ii. Cohen, who swindlcd the American
House at Kalamazoo out of 800 on
forged check, has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Chicago for swindling the
Auditorium Hotel.
The Michigan (BelD Telephone Com
pany, which recently absorbed various in
dependent companies in this State, voted
TO increase its capital stock from $1,000
600 to $10,000,000.
Harvey Cook, 10 years old and Riley
Keigley, 16 years old, cousins, residing
near Paw Paw lake, were drowned while
skating. ook lost his life in trying to
save his companion.
ID. J. Mccarthy of Fenton dropped
dead with heart disease. He was a mem
Der of the Michigan Retail Lumber Deal
ers Association. 53 years old and leaves
q widow and one son.
Mrs. Ami w. Wright and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Sarah III. Lancaster, have pre-
scented tract of ground to Alma Col
lege, upon which to erect new buildings.
The property faces the present college
buildings.
At the convention of the prohibition
party OF the Fourth congressional district
the Rev. James Hamilton, pastor of the
First Methodist Church of St. Joseph,
was the unanimous choice for the nomi-
nation of Congressman. The convention
was held, mt Planwell. Mr. Hamilton
says he will decline the nomination.
Lieut.. III. H. Bandhotz, formerly of the
Seventh United States infantry, and at
one time located at the Michigan Agricul-
tural College, has received his commission
as captain of Company G, Second United
States infantry. He has been ordered to
Powell barracks, Paso Coballo at the
entrance to Cienfuegos harbor, Cuba.
The coroner's jury investigating the
wreck of the Felch Mountain accommo-
dation train at Ford River switch re-
turned verdict holding the Chicago and
Railroad Company respon-
sible for the disaster, but failing to speci-
fy which of its employees were ut fault.
Testimony was introduced showing that a
man named jacobson OF Metropolitan was
also in the burned car and has not been
accounted for.
When Sam Smith and his wife, who
live near Osseo. reached home the other
night from neighbours they were at
tackled by two men, secreted in their
house. Mrs. Smith received a blow in
the face that laid the flesh open to the
bone Smith is a powerful man and
fought desperately but the two men used
their sandbags with good effect They
succeeded in getting away. Henry Rose,
a neighbor, hearing cries., came to the
rescue with double-barreled shotgun.
He hal hand-to-hand struggle with the
men, during which both barrels Of the
gun. W IRE discharged. Rose thought he
zed one OF the. men as an ex-con-
vict. rhe men have made good their es-
cape. Robbery is supposed to have been
their motive. r
Relatives Of Martin Erickson of Grand
Rapids who enlisted in the Fourth Unit
ed States infantry in December, 1898,
have received news that he was killed in
the Philippines in January.
Dan Conway, United States customs