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loss $4,000.
Clyde Brown, of Bronson, pleaded
guilty of conducting saloon with
out license and got 500 fine.
Frank Doran, a young farmer boy,
was digging potatoes Thursday when
big black bear approached him. He
procured a shotgun and shot the ami
NAL.
John w. Gray was formally notified
OF his nomination for governor by the
Prohibitionists, President Dickie, OF
Albion college making the notification
speech.
Responding to the appeal of 300 wo-
men who were aroused by instances
of youthful depravity, the Coldwater
council passed a curfew ordinance on
first reading.
Finding that Verna Upp gave her
age as II instead of Is, Judge Law,
OF Port Huron, annulled her Sarnia
marriage to Wallace Patton. Their
courtship lasted just two days.
Charles NJ. Green & Son have be-
gun suit In Port Huron in an effort
to either compel the Bay City-Port HUI
ron Railway Co. TO complete its road
or pay damages In the sum of $55 900.
John Gratzak, OF Oak Hill, while
driving into the barn of r. G.. Peters
Co. at Eastlake, was crushed between
Intel and a loaded wagon. He was
terribly injured and his recovery is
doubtful.
Carried by his station while intoxi-
Gated, Max Balfanz. farmer. living
north of West Branch, got off at st.
Helen and started to walk back, but
becoming drowsy went to sleep on the
tracks. His head was cut off by a
train.
Nine-year-old Orville Sundguist at.
tempted to steal ride on Muskegon
street car Thursday and fell under
the wheels. His right foot was
crushed. The boys father was motor
man on the car and witnessed the
accident.
One hundred and fifty men came
from Detroit Wednesday to work on
the new Flint and Saginaw railway
About 200 men are now at work and
officials of the company promise that
the road will be in operation before
snow flies.
Joseph Pecore told the Port Huron
police that his 12-year-old daughter.
Louise, was awakened by a burglar
who said 81 want a kiss" Pecore says
the girl replied that she only kissed
people she knew and that the intruder
left. Nothing was stolen.
John w. Kern, Jr., son of the Demo
cratic vice presidential nominee, has
been discharged from the Petoskey
hospital Kern was stricken while
making a trip through the resorts with
what appeared TO be appendicitis, but
it did not develop seriously.
After a separation of 80 years, Otto
Frohner, of Muskegon, and his broth
er, Oswald Frohner, OF Chicago, are
holding a reunion in Chicago. They
corresponded for some time, but af-
ter having letters returned each
thought the other had moved away.
A telegram from Aberdeen, Wanh
announces the death of Joseph La
brake. who lived in Saginaw for 40
years. and was well known in French
circles. He died on his 74th birthday
His wife, who died some years ago in
Saginaw, also passed away on her
birthday.
OF number OF gold mines that have
been opened along the south shore
OF Lake Michigan during the last so
years only one-the Michigan-is now
in operation. This. however. Is operat-
ed chiefly for the recovery OF the silica
of which the rock is largely composed
1t is much used in the manufacture Of
talcum powders.
A Traverse City coroner's jury de-
cided that George Smith, whose body
was found on the shore, came to his
I. l.
that in the opinion of the Jury death
was accidental. William Smith. son of
the dead man. took exception to the
verdict, declaring his father had been
murdered for his money.
Theodore Kivkovich a professor in
the Chicago Agricultural college, was
in Muskegon recently interviewing To-
cal real estate men regarding the
purchase Of 1000 acres of land on the
outskirts of the city. II is said that
he has in view the establishment of
farm where newly arrived immi
grants to this country. can be trained
and taught.
Highway Commissioner Earle says
that roadmakers in Michigan will have
to make a change in the manner or
building macadam roads. He says that
automobiles travelling at the rate of
40 and so miles an hour tear up the
roads as they are at present constitut
ed and that 1t is necessary to put on
a preparation which will hold the filler
together in the road
The October crop report shows an
average yield of Is bushels per acre
for the season, making a total of r.
600 900 bushels. Rye yields 5,272, 900,
oats 42,3S6,000. corn 1876, 900, pota.
toes 10000. 900, beans 4.301 900 and
buckwheat 100000 bushels II is esti.
mated the sugar. beet crop will be 729,.
600 tons, or nine tons to the acre.
Every employee of the Indiana &
Michigan electrical railway was en-
joined from doing any work in clos
ing the food gates ofsthe S1,000,O00
dam at Berrien Springs. Surrounding
property owners got the Injunction,
claiming that the closing of the gates
would food their land
Overcome with remorse because he
was drunk, a man who said that he
was a laborer. 40 years Old staggered