The true northerner., 1900-05-30
STATE GOSSIP.
Bits Of Information Gath
cred from Various Localities
I'm Michigan.

Detroit Maccabees have decided to
erect $15O,0O0 temple.
The crop bulletin says last week was
more favorable TO wheat.
The assessed valuation of Tekonsha
has been raised $4,000 on personal
property.
Burglars entered u. u. Smiths jew
elry store at Capac and secured $500
worth of plunder.
Battle Greek liquor men have united
to test the law requiring them TO keep
screens before their bars.
The Grand Rapids board of health
has ordered the vaccination of all chill
dren in the public schools.
The first cheese factory in Chippewa
county has been built at Rudyard, and
will begin operations at once.
Calhoun county has the greatest
number of rural free mail delivery
routes of any county in the state.
William Sturdevant, of Riverdale,
has .unearthed the tusk and several
teeth of a mastodon on his farm. One
of the teeth weighs AZ pounds.
Luther Miller, convicted at Center
vile of murder in the second degree for
the killing of Darius Weinberg, has
been sentenced to 20 years at Jackson.
State superintendent of Public In
struction Jason L. Hammond has been
notified that he will receive the degree
of master of science from the State Ag-
ricultural college.
Growing wheat in Calhoun county is
in the poorest condition at present
that it has been for years. In the ma
jority of eases the farmer will be doing
well if he gets his seed back
The Grand Rapids board of educa-
tion has elected William Harris Elson,
of West Superior, Wis.,, superintendent
of schools at a salary of $4,000, to sue
ceed +. II. Hathaway, resigned.
While playing with bows and arrows,
Earl Crossman, aged 12, living near
Watervliet, was accidentally shot in
the eye by his brother. In Mercy hospi,
tai, Benton Harbor, the eye was re-
moved.
1t has been decided by vote of the
electors that Muskegon is to have bet
ter streets. At special election to
bond the city for $4,000 for better
streets, majority of 1,24S decided in
favor of the proposition.
Ishpeming claims distinction be-
cause it is the first city in the state to
erect a school building solely for man
ual training instruction. The building
is a fine one, planned especially for the
purposes TO which it is to be devoted.
w. A. Trip, of Detroit, representing
himself and a number of other persons,
has made a proposition to the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers associa-
tion to establish and operate a hoop
and stave factory in Port Huron, pro-
viding bonus of 5000 is given.
The county picnic of the Modern
Woodmen of America, to be held at
Saranac August %, will be the greatest
event of the kind ever held in Michigan.
Head Counsel Norcutt, of Rock Island,
H., will be the speaker. There will be
a prize drill between the teams of the
Woodmen.
Adjt Gen. Case, in order 10 complete
the records in the military department,
has sent letters TO the commissioned
officers of the Michigan volunteer regi-
ments asking them TO make atfidavits
70 the dates of their commissions, as
there is no record of the date when
they were given.
The proposed electric railroad 10 ST.
Louis is a certainty. Secretary Frank
L. Dodge said il was safe to announce
this fact, remarking that the Lansing,
st. Johns d St. Louis railway is beyond
peraGventure a reality, and that the
actual work of construction will begin
not later than June l.
The war department has granted the
request of the state military authori-
ties permitting the United States ma
rines Of the crew of the Michigan TO be
landed at Fort Wayne barracks so that
a portion of the Michigan naval re-
serves may go aboard the ship for the
cruise of the reserves July 9. The re-
mainder of the reserves will sail on the
Yantic.
The total assessed valuation of the
two Saginaws this year is SlS.994, 900,
an increase over last year of $3,974,365.
OF the total increase almost the entire
amount in personal property. The rate
of taxation in the western taxing dis
trict is Stag, reduction of SAG as
compared with last year; and in the
eastern district il is $780, decrease
from last year of 1896.
The new peach pest recently reported
from the western part of the state has
made its appearance in some parts of
Sanilac county and is doing considera-
BILE damage to the peach orchards.
The pest is in the shape of long, slen-
der fly with yellow stripes across its
back. 1t is supposed to destroy the
peach bud by piercing the bud. Spec
mems have been sent to the experiment
station at Lansing
Not for Retaliation.
Detroit, May 25.-The News says
Gen. Russell a. Alger has sold the last
of his Ontario timber limits, 10S