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roommate. He will be returned to
serve three more years.
Grand Rapids.-President e. l..
Blake OF the state BARRIERS ex-
aiming board, dropped into town and
dug his probe deep into the local ton.
serial places. Deplorable conditions
were discovered, great many of the
shops being in unsanitary condition
A general cleanup has been ordered.
Jackson.-Samuel John, charged
with larceny Of 1892 from q
shoe-shining parlor in the Sun build
ing. pleaded guilty In circuit court
and was sentenced for two to five
years at hard labor in the reforma-
| tory at Ionia. The court recommend.
| ed three years.
Holland.-Johnny Merritt, eleven
years old, was instantly killed
while trying to board moving freight
train. Young Merritt with two COM
panions had been in swimming and
concluded to steal ride He fell un.
der the wheels and his body was hor-
ribly mangled.
Since he was released from the
Newberry asylum a year ago, Paris
has at times made threats against the
life of his aged wife. He purchased
a revolver and several boxes of cart
ridges.
Sault Ste. Marie.-After search
Ing steadily since half an hour
after the crime was committed, Sher-
iff Bayliss and his posse found the
body of William Paris, who shot and
killed his wife in fit Of rage, in a
swamp east of the city. He had killed
himself.
1t was after his wife had refused
to be reconciled to him after a sep
aration of two years that Paris shot
| and instantly killed her in her home.
Lansing. state treasurer re-
ceived $4,000 from the federal
government. The money was appro-
priated TO the State Agricultural col
lege to be used in teaching the farm
culture. Ten men have been sent to
the state and each will have charge of
district. They will cooperate with
the college authorities in the work No
head of the work has been selected as
yet.
Grand Rapids.-Mrs. Tillie Swift
ger has begun suit against the
Pere Marquette Railroad company.
asking 100000 damages for the death
Of her husband, Herbert Switzer. She
alleges he was brakeman in the en-
ploy of the road and that while on a
refrigerator car near Brighton, met
his death April 16, 1912. She claims
that the car toppled into the ditch.
crushing him under tons Of ice.
Traverse City.-Mrs. George II.
Lathrop, who was the founder Of
Edgewood resort, died at her summer
home at Edgewood. She came here
several years ago, built home on the
east shore Of Grand Traverse bay and
named it Edgewood. The resort now
numbers about fifty cottages and
dining hall, and has become a very
popular resort.
Battle Creek-W. S. Powers, Of
this city, temporary chairman OF
the Calhoun county Progressive Re-
publican committee, issued call for
the holding of a sound convention at
Marshall July 10 to elect delegates to
the state convention at Jackson July
20, where the delegates to the nation
al convention at Chicago August are
to be chosen.
Kalamazoo.-As the result of TAX
ing an overdose of laudanum to
kill pain, Mrs. Elizabeth Lancaster,
aged sixty-five, died in Bronson hos
pital. Mrs. Lancaster has been sick
for some time. She took the poison
to kill the intense pain from which
she was suffering. Death resulted in
three hours.
Battle Creek.-Local officers were
called upon to head off Ruby
Smith, thirteen-year-old girl who had
donned a boys suit at her home in
Bowling, Barry county, and started
out TO see the world in that garb She
was overtaken at Urbandale and sent
back home.
Kalamazoo.-George Hansen, aged
nineteen years, was drowned when
he dove from dam into deep
hole in the Kalamazoo river. His
body has not been recovered. II is be-
lieved that he was caught under some
logs which cover the bottom of the
river just below the dam. A young
wife and babe of six months survive.
Port Huron.-A report was re-
ceiYed at police headquarters that
Harry Corners, ten-year-old boy.