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AROUND THE STATE.

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Fishing in Cass river is reported tie
best this spring that it has been for
many years.
| Caspar Schellng. OF Lansing. has
been appointed deputy game warden
for Ingham county.
The new Elks' temple i'm Lansing.
one OF the finest in the state, will be
dedicated May - and -.
The new chicory factory to he erect
ed at Gagetown is expected to be
ready for business next fall.
Mrs. Mary Bell, OF Traverse City.
craZed by insomnia. drowned herself
i'll Boardman lake at midnight.
Grant, Newaygo Co., will have Il
canning factory and a sailing station
| for pickle factory this summer.
Il. l.. Buffers house In Merritt was
burned Wednesday night and his
daughters, aged and 9, lost their
lives.
The Grand Trunk and the Ann Ar
Dor railway will give 5000 each for
Il X. X. \. NJ. Z. a. building in Du-
rand.
1t has been found necessary TO order
another shipment of street cars for
Battle Creek. to be rushed as soon as
possible
One easy mark lost $25, and many
others smaller sums in shell game
operated in connection with a circus
in Adrian.
Three Rivers will make hot fight
Tor the new normal school. Commit
tees of prominent business men have
the matter in hand
Mendon citizens will not have ice
this season. The local Ice men quar-
relied last winter instead of putting
up Ice and the people are lamenting.
After drilling to a depth of 2S5 feet
near Lake Goguac, Battle Creeks
water supply hunters have struck
flow OF petroleum instead of pure
water
Seven years ago on Monday, May %.
1S96-the terrific cyclone which caused
the death OF over forty persons swept
over Oakland, Lapeer and Macomb
counties.
An organized gang Of robbers made
systematic raid on the Menominee
saloons Saturday night, and, as re-
suit, live resorts are out cash and
various other articles.
Burnham's hardware store is out $50.
and the postOflice $40 and a quantity
or postage stamps, as the result of a
visit OF gang of five burglars to
Deerfield Saturday night.
The body of Nels Nelson. who dis
appeared suddenly two weeks ago af-
ter threatening to kill himself, was
found Sunday morning floating in Bass
Lake. two miles from Iron Mountain.
j. T.. Leland, alias Brown safe
cracker, convicted. who blew up and
robbed safe In store at Champion,
this county, has been sentenced to
eight years in the Marquette peniten-
tiary.
Gov. Bliss, having signed the bill
creating the village of Marlborough,
where the Great Northern cement
plant is located. the election of village
officers will take place on the first
Monday of June.
Bay county's four smallpox contract
surgeons have absolute charge Of all
contagious diseases. taking such cases
directly out of the hands of the city
and township health boards. The only
hNNh thihS dbobl hAtil oCiNlNNS 10 lhtu
salary.
Emery Shellett. a well-known
young man OF Essexville. died at
Mercy hospital, Bay City. after an
operation for appendicitis. A sad fea-
ture Of the ease was the fact that his
marringe was to have occurred in a
few days.
After a long and bitter legal contest
the estate of George Hirst, of Byron
township was settled and the three
heirs received 81 to divide among
them. The entire estate amounted to
$1,03S.77. hut the heirs could not agree
on division.
James Brown, coal miner Mt Bay
mine No. .. was married last Monday
and Thursday he was arrested for an
assault alleged to have been made
February Is on miner named Charles
Swanson. Swanson exhibits Il broken
jaw and badly battered body
Garrett Psoman, OF Kalamazoo,
aged II, may lose his life as the re-
suit of peculiar accident. While he
and companion were spinning the
Michigan Central roundhouse table lie
fell with his right leg across a steel
rail, breaking the limb below the knee.
Ex-Ald. Chester Sisson and family.
wanted for obtaining money under
false pretenses, were brought to Bat
tie Creel. from Denver. Colo, after
delay OF nearly month. They were
arrested In April, but faulty requisi-
ton papers made ii impossible for
them to be brought away from Den
yer.
BY RENTING to the auditor-general
STl6.O6. the difference between the tax
levied originally by the commission,
and the new assessment made by or
der Of the Supreme Court. the Manis-
tique Railroad Co. has won the dis
tinctlon Of being the only railroad In
the state to pay taxes under the new
computation.
Burglars broke into Zilk's hardware
store I'm Lenox Sunday night and stole
three shotguns, a revolver and $50.
They visited HOrning, another hard
ware man. next. and took his horse.
A little further on. they came upon a
buggy that suited them, and then they
drove Off
William -. Stormont. for many years
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