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Gently appointed by Gov. Warner will
meet in Saginaw Feb. s.
The criminal calendar at Marshall
for February contains 40 cases, OF
which 29 are for violations of the To-
cal option law.
City Attorney Mcbride has served
a notice on d. ". r. oficials that all
street cars passing through Flint
must be heated.
The board OF health is preparing to
make an investigation OF the milk
supply in Port Huron. They claim
that II is being watered.
Congressman Gardner has notified
Charles o. Ball that he will be APP
pointed postmaster at Marshall, to
succeed s. r. Allen, who has held
the Office continuously for IL years.
Struck on the head with an ak and
robbed of SAG. aged Taylor Hunt. OF
Otsego, was found in a dying condi-
ton near the door OF his barn. A
posse is searching for his assailant.
Mrs. Martin Hoyt, of Grass Lake,
swallowed carbolic acid and jumped
into a stock-watering tank and was
found dead in the tank by neighbors.
Worry over her husbands i'll health
and financial troubles are given as the
cause for her dependency.
Joseph Clark, of Saginaw, a station
airy engineer, decided to relieve his
diet of liquids and light foods with
mush. He swallowed a quantity OF
it and was seized by an old disease
OF the throat The food stuck in his
throat and he choked TO death
Todd Kincaid. an Owosso coal mine
operator and representative Of Calu-
met corporation, has leased 700 acres
Of land near Kirby, in Shiawassee
county, and operations for coal mining
will be started soon. II is stated that
vein three feet thick is located on
the property.
Prof. William j Hussey, head of the
astronomical department at the Ann
Arbor university, reports that a very
bright comet has been sighted. He
states that 1t was travelling towards
the sun. This is supposed to be the
same one that was sighted by astron-
omers in South Africa on January IL,
r. l.. Lamont, an alumnus of the
engineering department at Ann Ar
Dor. has donated gifts to the univer-
sity which will total $4,000 They
include a plot of ground adjoining the
observatory. money to begin work on
a 24-inch refracting telescope. and ST.
eco worth of tools for the engineering
department.
To open the coal fields in Hazelton
township, the Grand Trunk spur line
running between Corunna and Kerby,
is to be extended II miles. The leas-
ing of a large tract Of land by the
Saginaw Coal Co. has necessitated this
extension which will open up a rich
farming country, at present without
railway facilities.
The Michigan Association of Ice
| Cream Manufacturers, in session at
| Kalamazoo, voted to ask the state
| legislature for more stringent meas
ures governing the manufacture OF the
| delicacy. They demand that the MANN
| facture in dark easements and other
| places where there is danger of con-
taminaticn, be prohibited.
Michigan won and lost in debates
on the resolution that THE United
| States has shown that a protective
| tariff should continue to be national
I DOlltN. he ann lOdll utl'dt
| ed Northwestern university team at
| Ann Arbor. and the men taking the
negative side were beaten by the Uni
versity of Chicago team in that city,
At the meeting Of the state board
| of auditors at Lansing a total of sos
claims were allowed. While the
amounts of claims did not reach as
large total as on previous days,
nearly $4,000 was paid out. The
| board also gave permission to the
/ state threshermen to use representa-
tive hall for their annual convention,
which occurs on March 80 and 81.
The electric railroad meeting at
| Coldwater. in response to a call from
Mayor Sherman, brought out 500 men,
| The subject under discussion was the
proposed line between Coldwater and
| Battle Creek, for which the citizens
of Coldwater are asked to raise Sc
| 600. A committee was appointed and
nearly $4,000 was subscribed at the
meeting 1t is planned to run the
road over the old Coldwater Mans
field roadbed.
1t is believed at Marquette that the
explosion OF dynamite which cost the
| lie or one miner ana seTlOuSly III
;ured four others. and destroyed the
dry house" at the Carey mine re-
Gently. was the result of plot, though
the motive for such crime is a mys-
terry, as the men are working on a
friendly agreement with the company.
Investigation shows that the explo-
sive was placed at five different places
under the building.
The Bellevue council, through
President Brockett, has started suit
against three of the aldermen ia
show cause why they have not at
tended recent council meetings. Some
time ago a proposition concerning
lighting came up and the council be.
came divided. Since that time the
men have never attended. although
they have handed in their resigna
tions, which could not be accepted
without full board.
Word has reached Mackinac Island
of the death, in Fort Smith, Ark, OF
DR.. John A. Bailey, n, state park
commissioner, and one of the best
known physicians in northern Michi