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MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

les at one time lately, but not one of
them resulted fatally.
A Merchants & Manufacturers asso-
citation, with 40 members, has been or
ganized at Marine City.
The first cheese factory in Chippewa
county has been built at Rudyard, and
will begin operations shortly.
Calhoun county has the greatest
number of rural free mail delivery
routes of any county in the state
Admiral Dewey will be the guest of
Detroit during part of four days, ar
irving there on the afternoon of June s.
The new Methodist church at Bad
Axe is rapidly nearing completion, and
Jnne II has been set as the date for its
dedication.
The sth biennial state convention of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians opened
at jackson on the 22d with over 100
delegates present.
People near Tekonsha invested in a
patent louise killer to rid their fowls of
vermin. They got rid of the vermin
and chickens too.
Last year the valuation of personal
property at lonia was fixed at S207 ,010;
this year il is SAB, i20, or almost
double, most of which is due to the
work of the state tax commission.
Growing wheat in Calhoun county is
in the poorest condition at present that
it has been for years. In the majority
of cases the farmer will be doing well
if he gets his seed back. And this in
the best wheat growing county in the
state, too.
Brighton people evidently are not de-
sirous of building an addition to the
local high school and adding 18th
grade to the present curriculum. as they
have defeated a proposition to that eff
feet twice within two weeks.
Ishpeming claims distin etion because
it is the first city in the state to erect
school building solely for manual train
ing instruction. The building is
fine one, planned especially for the
purpose to which it is to be devoted.
The recent rains have proven highly
beneficial to the wheat fields and
meadows of northern Lapeer county,
and growing crops of all kinds look
most promising. The outlook for an
abundant fruit crop was never more
favorable.
Someone wrapped big chain around
bridge rail on the Ann Arbor railroad
near Mt. Pleasant in an attempt to
wreck the southbound passenger train.
The obstruction was discovered and
serious calamity.
The order asked by the Michigan
Sugar Co.. of Bay City, requiring the
auditor-general to show cause why a
mandamus should not issue to compel
him to pay the bounty it claims for
sugar manufactured in 1898, has been
granted by the supreme court.
! Although 80 years of age, George c.
! Lord. of Grass Lake. still yields the
1 yard stick and scissors in his own dry
/ goods store with all the energy of a far
! Younger man. He has owned and man
aged this store for nearly half cen
fury, having started it in 1852.
I
/ Battle Creek, was swindled out of
I 81 900, the savings of lifetime by two
men who induced him to draw it from
bank, lust to show how easy it could
be done. The chaps disappeared with
the cash and the old man is heart
broken with grief.
Forest fires are again on the ram
I lei
hour reports arrive of the burning of
small lots of logs, ties and telegraph
poles left in the woods. On the 22d
! Herman IIoeft and Frederick ID. Larke,
of Rogers City, lost over 1 900, 600 hem
lock logs within a few miles of that
place.
A peculiar disease has made it's APP
pearance at Deckerville, Sanilac county
The doctors term it ringworm and claim
it is contracted from cattle. One man
who had charge of a large herd of cat
tie all winter is suffering terribly from
the disease, the symptoms of which are
large sores on the face and hands and
the falling out of the hair.
Bogus enumerators are beginning
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and claim to be Uncle Sans enumera-
tors and ask the usual questions con-
corning members of the family After
the desired information has been writ
ten down, the farmer or otherwise is
asked to sign the report. If this is
done, it isn't many days before the in
formation comes that there is prom
issory note bearing such and such a
signature at the bank and the buncoed
have to pay.
Notwithstanding the fact that Judge
Donovan advised that the city of De-
troit had no right to tear up the street
car companys curve at the corner OF
Gratiot and Mt. Elliott avenues, in that
city. laid after an injunction had been
served upon the company, Mayor May
bury. number of aldermen, Col. Kali
man of the board of public works, and
60 of the board of public works men
tore up the curve on the odd, in the
presence of about POO citizens, and
carted the large rails TO the eastern