The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-06-16
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

toned the council TO raise the lid
Crows carried away IL chickens
from a Big Rapids farmer In one day.
Muskegon man seeks divorce be
cause his wife deserted him twelve
times
State authorities will stop adulter-
ations and limitations OF maple sugar
after July !.
Harvesting ferns Is an important in
dustry at ThOmpsonville One firm
shipped q tons last year.
Abner Brown, OF Lansing. who
voted for William Henry Harrison in
1910. Is dead. aged SO years.
Midland is raising a fund TO secure
new industries. Several thousand dol
lars have already been pledged.
Another floating drydock similar TO
the Dewey has been requested OF the
Senate committee on naval affairs by
Secretary Bonapartc.
A cadet at Orchard Lake academy
fired one Of the field cannon al q. III.
and awoke all Pontiac. Many thought
II was an earthquake.
The Dolson Automobile Co, OF Char
lotto. has received an order for spe-
cial ear for Baron Rosen the Russian
ambassador TO the United States.
The Battle Creek police, without
waiting he councils approval OF tho
"lid' closing program Of the police
sunday
a survey Of the territory burned
over by forest fires In Michigan re-
comfy shows 10 homes burned and
the total losses in towns ana country
are about 100000
DR.. Il H. Evans. OF Traverse City,
noted surgeon and professional writer,
has gone insane and been removed to
Kalamazoo asylum. lie has been
under medical treatment in Grand
Rapids
Judge Hess rejected the plea OF the
attorneys Of Frank Ellis and y Matsu-
hara that the transient traders act OF
the last legislature Is unconstitutional.
and bound the men 10 the superior
court for trial.
The large Catholic church IN Bun
ker Hill FIVE miles south OF Danville.
was totally destroyed by fire Wednes-
day. The loss Is $4,000, partly in
sured II Is believed the blaze orig.
mated from a burning candle.
Sixty recruits 70 the Colony Of Ben.
iamin and Mary In Benton Harbor
on their arrival from England on Sat.
urday were given the greatest demon.
stratlon ever given by any religious
body or sect In southwestern Mich.
gan.
The sugar beet fields surrounding
Ionia. are being filled with foreign
laborers. Several hundred Bohemlans
have been imported from Chicago. and
last night 100 women and girls were
brought In from northern Michigan,
having been picked up between Alpena
and Bay City
-Four clerks OF the auditor-gencrals
Office will have summer jobs In Wash
ington revising the states tract book
at the government land office The
four are George Eckheld Of Tuscola
county George b. Grove Of Wayne,
Guy +. Rogers of Eaton, and Murdo
Mcdonald OF Clinton.
Dragged and stripped OF nearly si0,-
600 and deserted but ten days after
her marriage. Mrs. Alexander T.. Pat
terson, a Muskegon young woman. has
NIUllfu " Ai' HtAA't ~ B'hf'Af Nf'tf
for protection. She has no friends IN
the west and believed in her husband
to such an extent that he induced her
TO sell valuable farm.
Mrs. Mary J. Tyers Is suing S6-yoar.
old Henry Carter. second cousin, OF
Pontiac. 10 compel him 10 keep his
promise 20 give her farm of 100
acres. stocked and equipped ready for
farming. II she would come from Willie
sea. England She says that he not
only refused 90 keep his promise. but
left her husband and herself, strangers,
to shift for themselves.
While Mrs. Walter Hobblns. OK
Parma. was talking over a telephone
/ the wire fell across a trolley wire,
| The hand In which she held the rc.
| ceiyer was severely burned, the tele.
phone destroyed and the house set on
fre. Mrs. Hobbsns Ia suffering mainly
from shock.
take me. mamma take me qulcki''
cried Harold Carson. aged II. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs Martin Carson. OF Ann
Arbor AS tho mother caught him In
her arms the little fellow gasped and
was dead He had been suffering from
heart disease for some weeks. but was
believed TO be recovering and had been
! out OF doors.