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Oh cents bushel at West Branch.
Cadillac's high school has just grad
uated one OF its largest classes-29.
DOwagiac will have Carnegie H.
Drary OF the $4,000 type instead OF
the $4,000 kind.
The assessment OF Traverse City. II
Is estimated. had been Increased $780,
900 to S150,000 this year
The Increase In the number OF APP
phcants for divorce In Michigan is
double Of that OF five years ago.
There was heavy frost Saturday
night and vegetables and small fruit,
II Is feared, were badly damaged.
There is a great scarcity OF brick
layers In Manistique this spring. and
building operations are hampered.
The assessed valuation OF Hancock
has been placed ut $2,O0o,0O0. which is
an Increase OF $3.50 over last year.
wealthy woman at the Battle
Creek sanitarlum was arrested for
stealing a SO silk waist from a local
store
! n. 4. Stewart Il Menominee man In
the Nome district, has taken Great
| Dane dog To the gold district with him
to be used In hauling loads across the
country.
The separator in creamery at Bal
ley exploded Wednesday. instantly kill.
ing Claude Doubleday, boy employed
about the place, and injurlng several
other persons.
Shields Post. No. 6S, G.. A. r.. OF
Shelby, Will erect II monument In the
park at that place In the near future.
| Over 5000 has already been raised for
that purpose
While Representative Shook was
showing his wife n new revolver. 1t
was accidentally discharged. the bull
let entering her left cheek The
wound 10 not serious.
Edward Coer Dubois. formerly an
engineer Of railways in Michigan. died
Ill Lima, Peru, Monday. He had been
a resident In Peru for thirty-two years
ana was much respected.
A Finlander walking on the North
western tracks from Wakefield TO Mi
kado was run over by train. His
legs, head and arms were cut off and
the body terribly mangled.
Shepherd will have an 1S-year-old
boy rs superintendent OF its public
schools next year He is Harold Kel-
logg, OF COrunna. who is now in the
Normal school ut Mt. Pleasant.
Scott Burchfield was arrested at
Charlotte charged with being one of
the thieves who broke into the slaught-
erhouse Of Heyman & Son, May Ii.
"A nd Stnfa alNnt,f 4,
George Norton, n boy of Is. has been
arrested I'm Coldwater for being drunk
upon the streets of that place An eff
fort will be made to find out who the
persons are that sold him the liquor.
John +. Cronin. convict 1922 at the
Jackson prison. who was sentenced in
1900 for assault to do great bodily
harm less than the crime OF murder
from Bcrrien county, died in the prison
hospital.
st. Joseph has experienced another
dry Sunday. 1t is reported that an
attempt will he made to close all
places of business next Sunday. and
street cars will be stopped according
to the state Sunday law.
While sitting near Il window during
the thunderstorm, Mrs John McCor-
mick, living four miles from Campbell's
Corners, was struck by lightning and
severely If not fatally injured. Her
hands were terribly burned.
l.. T.. Mitchell, whose family had
mourned as dead for the past four
years. has returned to Marinette worth
a small fortune. He was injured in a
ilrnnH Collision i,,I Ia
says, was blank for four years.
Judge Wisner has made an order FIX |
ing the compensation of Clarence |
Tinker. receiver of the defunct State |
bank of Fenton, at $4,000 The bank |
failed in June. 1897 4 final dividend |
will now be declared and the banks |
affairs wound up.
Tommy Good. sent to Jackson I'm |
1890, threatened to take the life Of |
Deputy Sheriff Behrendt. but now an. |
pealS TO him for aid i'm securing n re. |
lease. His sentence expires In 1901 |
but ms no has been anything but a
model prisoner it is doubtful II he gets
free.
A man employed by the Lansing
Gaslight company on Wednesday fair
ly forced an entrance to residence
on Grand street in order to read the
gas meter. Afterward he discovered
that the cause of the opposition he
encountered was due to the presence
Of case Of smallpox in the house.
In Washtenaw county thirty-seyen
divorces were granted last year. At
the beginning OF the year there were
sixty eight cases pending and at the
end eighty ca.ses pending Forty-nno
new divorce bills were filed. Not
single divorce was refused, nor was
there a single divorce suit withdrawn.
G.. l.. Schuer of Allegan. believes
from a description given him that the
man who committed suicide I'm Michi-
gan City. md, by throwing himself
under n train. was his brother-in-law
who recently escaped from the NIichi-
gan state asylum. Matson. the suI-
eide, was buried in the potter's field
The prosecuting attorney saws he
does not believe he will be able IN
get ah impartial jury in the case of
Francis Teal, the Sl-year-old man who
used a club to defend himself from
the assaults Of Frederick Marker. %