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stock since the hunting season opened.
The health board of Grand Rapids is
alarmed over the spread OF diphtheria.
Although SO years old, Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Babcock, of st. Johns, is president of
literary club.
Sylvanius Day. OF Santiago, Arenac
county, died as the result of an acct
dent In the woods.
Apparently sleeping Louis Bodine,
aged 20, was found 10 be dead as he
sat at a table In Houghton saloon.
Gov. Warner will take his first hunt
| ing trip next week, going to Huron
county first and then to the upper
peninsula.
Quit cigarettes, boys" was the
warning of Barnard Foreman, aged 10,
as he died at Kalamazoo from the eff
fects of cigarette smoking
The game warden of Calhoun county
will be paid 80 cents day by the SUI
pervisors. Sheriff Turner gets 40 cents
day for prisoners board.
The mangled body of Herman
Schauer of Maybee, was found on the
d., T. e. |. tracks in that town. He
was 40 years old and unmarried.
Castor beans and resin TO the value
OF $500, TO have been used in the
manufacture of sticky fly paper, were
destroyed in a fire at Grand Rapids.
The board of supervisors at Mason
has increased Lansing's equalized val
uation from "a to 40 per cent OF the
entire county, on account of the city's
growth.
A copperhead snake, seven feet
long, was killed by Motorman James
Fritz. The reptile was found coiled
up on the sidewalk on Lincoln avenue,
Ann Arbor.
William Southland, once a wealthy
wholesale liquor dealer, while intoxi-
Gated fell down the back stairs of
Bay City resort and broke his neck,
dying instantly.
The Pinkertons have identified as
Matt Kennedy the body Of the criminal
shot while escaping at West Berkley,
Cal, alias kid" McMunn, a notorious
| Detroit crook.
A lawyer of Grand Rapids has dis
covered an apparently forgotten stat
ute of Michigan declaring all bowling
alleys or kindred games in which balls
and pins are used, illegal.
Gov. Warner has issued a requisi-
! ton on the governor of Colorado for
! Harry G. Reed who is wanted in De-
troit for ENLIGHTENMENT of railroad
tickets from the Wabash.
Thos. H. Ferris, of Cheboygan, con-
victed in the federal court at Bay City
of attempting TO pass counterfeit
money, was sentenced to six months
in the Detroit house of correction.
Woodbridge y. Ferris, of Big Rapids,
will not again be candidate for gov
ernor. So asserts John +. Bible, eX-
mayor of Ionia, who was a candidate
for acknowledgement on the Ferris
ticket.
There will be only one-third of a po-
tato crop this year in Monroe county.
| ts a result prices are advancing. Po-
I Eatoes are readily sobbled up at 10
cents a bushel. Apples also are very
scarce.
Two years in Ionia or a fine of $3.50
was what it cost Lewis b. Fox, a
Broolfield farmer, in the Eaton county
court, for peppering his neighbor Geo
Tulip, in the leg with a shotgun it
was the result of a neighborhood quar-
rel.
The storm blew down the huge 5000
smokestack of the Blue mine at Ne
gaunee, and as ii was impossible 10
get up steam the mine was flooded and
800 men are out of employment.
Miss Bertha Boyles, only daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Boyles, of Char
lotte, goes to Butte, Mont, to be mar
ried to Fred A. Clark, Lansing man
who went west two years ago to look
after mining interests.
Representatives of the Michigan
Sugar Manufacturers association,
which operates nine of the largest
sugar plants in the world, have been in
Minneapolis investigating the pros
pect for establishing a factory there.
man known to his companions
only by the name of Tim" employed
on telephone construction work, was
run over and instantly killed by a
train at Lake Gogebic. His body was
horribly mangled.
James f. Dudley, postmaster at
Harrison, convicted by the u. S. court
at Bay City of embezzling, has been
released on his own recognizance in
the sum of 81 to appear on the first
day of the May term for sentence.
X. Homma, of Toxic, a graduate Of
the agricultural college in the Imper-
ial university of Japan, is in Adrian,
having been sent to this country to
study the American method of fruit
growing, canning, preserving, etc.
During the storm a big tree fell just
as Mrs. Ellen Bartlett, near Menom-
inee, was passing in her buggy. It
knocked her from the vehicle sense
less A neighbor found her sometime
later and she died just as she was
taken to her home.
Silent 30 years, Edward G. Cowen
has just written his brother, James
Cowen, a Muskegon fireman, from
Franklin. Alaska. He has been in the
gold country II years. As Edward is
unmarried and is getting old James
thinks he may some day get bit of
Klondike wealth.
Combustion in a silo started a fire
which destroyed two stock and dairy