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Louis Shung, said to be a Detroit
man, was killed in Wolverine by
falling tree.
John Corcoran, employed at the
Agricultural college, dropped a roll
of $33 and found a COW chewing the
remnants.
After separation OF nearly fifty
years, Charles Rain, of Otsego, is Wis
iting his son and daughter in Roches-
ter, N. Y.
The Ann Arbor fair grounds have
been chosen as the athletic field of
the u. of NJ. "co-eds" and will likely
be purchased as permanent field.
Kalamazoo college will ask the
churches of the state for $50, 900 need
ed to obtain the 5000 offered by the
Baptist national board of education.
While returning on a visit to his
mother in Ludington, Archie Upper, of
Scottville, fell under a freight train.
Both legs were cut off and he will
probably die.
Leslie Hatlett, while working in
the woods at Lake Ann, was struck
by a big tree and his head was
crushed, arm broken and he was in
ternally injured.
Withrhis home burning, G. M. Bump,
of Bay City, brother of the late Or
rim Bump, attended his brothers flu
neral, and left the firemen in charge
of his blazing home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebenezer Pennock, of
SO years ago, when it was a wilder
haf In
niversary last week.
Judge c. c.. Chittenden will retire
from the twenty-eighth judicial circuit
next year and move to Seattle, Wash,
where his sons now live and where
he has extensive interests.
Disregarding his physicians advice,
Walter Hale, aged 10, played football
with the Muskegon high school team
after recovering from an attack of
typhoid fever, and died from paralysis.
Judge c. II. Gage in the circuit court
ordered Saginaw officials to accept
printing work of Friedman & LYMAN
without the union label, holding the
provision requiring it unconstitutional.
A baby, given to its grandparents
by it's mother on her deathbed, was
stolen, Ii is said, by its father, Frank
Jones. from the home or the grand
mother, Mrs. Ferdinand Smith, in Ira
verse City.
Herman Lowe, of Washington, ID. c.,
died last week in that city, where he
had for many years been in the pen
sion department. Ionia was his home,
he having been for many years in
business there.
A dog given to a friend in New
Orleans two years ago by William
Farmer, of Bay City, returned to its
former master last week. How the
animal found it's way from New Or
leans is mystery.
More than 200 farmers of Orleans
met at the town hall and took the first
steps toward adopting the township
grade system in lonia county. 1t is
proposed to merge eight schools in
one and put up $4,000 twelve-grade
school building.
Secretary Taft writes J. A. Wagner,
president of the u. of NJ. Taft club,
that he accepts the invitation of the
club to banquet. The secretary will
probably speak before the Students
Lecture association when he visits the
university April 1.
Moy Lin Sam, a Chinaman who was
held in Lansing with four others, was
released by Commissioner Chaplin upon
showing that he was born In Seattle
Wash, and had not entered the United
States in violation of the exclusion
act. The others we're released on
bail
After sailing on salt water for 10
years, Capt. |. l.. Evans, of Baltimore,
Nd master of the sandsucker General
Gillespie, operating on the east shore
of Lake Michigan, has resigned to be
come a law student at the U. of M.
He served as pilot or the battleship
Missouri on her trial trip around the
Horn.