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hurt.
Twice inside of six months the dam
across the Pine river at Milbrook has
given away The first time the dam
went out it cost the taxpayers 81, 900,
while the accident on the 23d will cost
$500 more.
The Central Telephone Co., with
headquarters at Kalamazoo, has been
sold to the Erie Telephone Co. for $780,
600. the face value of the stock. This
is hard blow to the independent com
panies of Michigan.
Recalcitrant members of the Meth
odist church at Oxford, who are OPP
posed to Rev. Lowry, will try freeze
out game, and say they will furnish no
more fuel and light while he remains
pastor of the church.
Four wooden store buildings valued
at SIS, 900 was destroyed by fire at
Muskegon at an early hour in the
morning on the cath. Heroic work by
the firemen saved the buildings on the
opposite side of the street.
The voters of Springwells township,
Wayne county, on the cath decided by
ballot to bond the township for $780,
600. The bonds will be issued at once,
residents of the township.
The farmers in the vicinity of Holly
report that the wheat crop is in very
poor condition. While the ground has
not frozen and thawed enough to do
any damage, the wheat seems to be of
yellow, dead appearance.
Tha Port Huron Salt Co. has filed
articles of incorporation with the
county clerk. The stock has been di-
vided into $4,000 shares at $40 per
share. Just S100,750 of the S350,000
capital stock has been paid in.
BY the explosion of timers gaso-
line pot in the plumbing shop of Boyer
q Reisig, at Monroe, on the 23d, Mr..
Reisig and a young man were badly
burned about the head and arms, but
their injuries are not dangerous
The Uline & Yarian Manufacturing
Co., of Nappanee, Ind, has decided to
move it's stave, heading, box manu-
featuring plant and machine shop to
Berrien Springs. 1t VIII furnish en-
ployment to 30 men the year around.
The beet sugar man nfacturers de-
cline to agree to pay the farmers s. a
ton for beets, but are willing to pay
81. IS for IL per cent beets, providing
the bounty law is declared valid; other
wise they will continue tu pay 81 a ton
The Newaygo Improvement Co., in
addition to rebuilding the dam which
went out last fall, will PIT in another
one further up the river w. th "A capacity
of 10000 horsepower, which will be
| transmitted to Grand Rapids for the
Holland electric road.
! Two miners named Kraft and Sweet
| dropped nearly 1000 feet IN the Allan
tic mine at Houghton ON the 22d. The
accident was caused through another
accident at the engine house disabling
the hoist. Both men were horribly
mangled. They leave large families.
For some time past some person has
been committing all kinds of depreda-
tons in the vicinity 81 burlington.
The climax was reached a few nights
ago when shades and ornamental trees
were girdled, street lamps broken,
windows at the school house broken,
and other school property maliciously
destroyed.
Default has been made in the libel
suit of Gov. Pingree against the Port
Huron Times, no declaration having
been filed in the case within the time
limit fixed by the statute. "he suit,
however, can be renewed on the gov
ernor's behalf by the payment of the
costs which accrued up to the lime the
default was taken.
Here's a peculiar verdict rendered by
a conorner's jury at Houghton in ar
accident in which two men were killed
at the Atlantic mine recently: by
the evidence given we attach nc blame
to anyone. 1t was purely an accident
for whom no one is accountable. We
recommend the company to employ il
the future compe tent engineers.
The route of the proposed Detroi
and Toledo electric railroad is nov
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surance of settled weather will see thu
work of grading and laying of track
rushed to speedy finish, as the com
pany propose to have finished an'
fully equipped road ready for the sum
mer passenger business between Toledo
and Monroe.
Geo. A. Nye, for the past five year
manager of Alderman Tony Weller
saloon in Detroit, was on the 25tll con
victed of perjury in the recorder
court. He swore falsely to secure tn
acquittal of Johns, Mclaughlin an
, Lyle, who are each serving 20 years il
Jackson prison for having assaulte
; and robbed Nelson Cunningham in DE
; troit last February.
News was received on the cath to tn
: effect that John Smith, aged %, a foi
mer resident of Detroit, was devoure
by wolves about eight miles fror
Presque Isle That Smith fought DIES
perately for his life is shown by tn
surroundings. The deep snow wa