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STATE BRIEFS.


with several burglaries at Boyne
Falls, was sentenced to five years i'm
by Judge Mayne.
Ex-Judge Hiram J. Hoyt, one of
Muskegon's oldest attorneys. is criti-
cally i'll with pneumonia, and fears
are entertained for his recovery.
An ordinance has been passed by
the Flint council, raising the license
fee for street peddling from 81 to $15.
This is done to protect the merchants.
Saginaw's free employment bureau.
which was instituted a year ago, has
given employment TO 5000 men since
its inception, or daily average of
about 10.
Word has been received from Bron-
sted that big forest fire is raging in
that neighborhood, and that much tim
Der has already been destroyed. The
village is not in danger
About 60 veterans attended the an
nual reunion of Co. A, Thirty-second
Michigan infantry, in Coldwater. Col.
Mccain and Maj. CRUDE, of Grand
Rpa.ds, delivered addresses.
Father Adelbert Furman, a Chicago
Pol sh priest, has bought the c. c.
Flint farm in Norton township, to es-
tablish thereon a rest retreat for Chi
cago Roman Catholic clergymen.
Colon c. Little, of the State Dairy
and Food Commission, has accepted
the position Of president of the board
of trustees and business manager or
the Grand Rapids Veterinary College.
W. 4 Claussen was sent to jack
son prison from Detroit Friday to
serve life sentence because of
charges made to Agent Hill. of the
S. p. C. c., by his 13-year-old daugh-
ter.
Mayor b. f. Earl, Of Niles, has en-
gagged an expert accountant to audit
the books of the city clerk, claiming
that they are in such a condition that
II is impossible to tell how any fund
stands.
James Stringer, Sc, of Hancock, and
for many years one of the most prom
inent lumbermen in the state, is dead
of pneumonia. The remains were
taken to his former home, in Wayne,
for interment.
The new board of review, under the
administration of Mayor Evans, OF Bay
City, is doing things to the assess
ment rolls of city property, and it Is
believed that fully 100000 will be
added this year.
The druggists of Genesee county, ac-
cording to the officials, have enjoyed
a 100 per cent increase in their liquor
sales since the local option laws went
into effect. In one week there were
1,754 sales OF liquor in the drug stores.
While working in the machine shop
OF the Acme Chair factory at Reading,
MILFORD Kirk was seriously injured by
a belt which struck him in the sto-
mach when it broke. The belt struck
him with such force that his legs
were paralyzed.
The regents OF the IT, Of NJ. appoint
ed a committee 10 take charge OF the
arrangements for an art exhibit next
fall, as an opening function for the
new memorial building 1t is expected
that galleries in all the large cities
will cooperate in the affair.
Eva l.. Betz, from a small Pennsyl-
vania town. has been awarded YER
DICT of 81 500 against Frank b. Rus
SELL of Jackson, for breach of promise
to marry. Russell brought her to Jack
son and then remarked his divorced
wife. Miss Betz sued for $4,000.
At meeting of the association re-
Gently the Calhoun County Agricul-
tural society decided to provide $1,000
for premiums this year, this being the
first increase in the premium appro-
priation of 81 500, made at the estab-
lishment of the society, 81 years ago.
1t may be possible, in few million
years, to slide TO the north pole over
the ice, as the earth is growing colder
and the evaporation less. That's the
comforting prospect doped out by Prof.
]. NJ. Schaeberle. formerly of the u. Of
M. and later director of the Lick OBJ
servatory in California.
Marrozzio Paryurate and Joe Das-
cola, miners, were rivals for the hand
of Rosa Leonardo, who lives in Italy.
Fearing that the other man would
reach the old country and marry the
girl before he could get there. Dascola
shot and fatally injured Paryurate. He
is hiding in a swamp near Stambaugh,
and bloodhounds are on the trail.
Capt. Ralph Pringle, of ST. Clair,
who is charged with the murder of
George Birell McKinnon, Of Moore
town, Ont, will be tried, beginning
June Z. Pringle was arraigned before
Judge Law on a charge. of murder in
the first degree. His attorney, Joseph
Walsh. announced that the defendant
would refuse to plead.
Marinette's grand jury is getting
busy, according to one OF the mem
bers. He says that eight indictments
have been returned against ex-Sheriff
Brown 1t is feared that there will
be some difficulty in getting a jury
| for the trial of A. +. Schwittay, sus-
pended prosecutor, as the case has at
| tracted widespread interest.
William Rowe, Pittsfield farmer,
and Elmer Beadle, his hired man, are
under arrest in Ann Arbor charged
| with stealing a Jersey COW from the
| farm of another farmer named Ellis.
worth. The latter says that while tax
collector he seized the COW. belonging
to Rowe, for unpaid taxes. Rowe
claims that he was merely recovering
his own property when he took the
bovine, and will fight the larceny