News Of The State

Petoskey's opera house : neáring completion and will be a modern structure with setting capacity ior 8üU theatregoers. A York state woman correspouded with a Mauton man and finally made a matrimonial tour to the latter place, but finding upon inquiry that her iutended was a married man of many year' standing, she set sail f or lier eastern home without stopping to look up the object of her search, About one-flfth of the Howell people who marry are candidates for divorce eredentials. The national woman's congress will hcild a meeting at Grand Rupids next November. Mrs. R. C. Hnckett, a Livingston county lady, is stül using the same churu and washboiler with which she began housekeeping, a qnarter of a century ago. The establishment of a factory at Alpena for the manufacture of hemlock extract will furnish a market for $50,000 worth of bark per year to the forest owners of thut sectiou. Grand Rapids has a hotel keeper who's been gaining wisdom by experience. I'earing that a lady boarder would skip out without settling lier bilí he attacked her trunk, but the lady replevinud it, threw the costs on the attacher, and now has him in jail in default of payment thereof. Missaukee county has a school district with a doublé set of officers, both of whoiu have hired a schoolma'am to instruct the young ideas, and loth pedagogues are trying to hold the fort. High old time? Don't guess again. . Harriet Kellogg is a Kalamazoo county woman who fires a $20,0(;0 suit at the doctor who treated her for cáncer when her ailment was nothing more nor less thau a tumor. Bentou Harbor is trying to secure a line of steamers to plow the waters of old Michigan bet ween that port and Milwaukee the comins; on. They've had a daily line to Chicago for many years. R. Wolff, a Bay City dealer in old iron and rags, has grown rich at the business, and has just completed a $10,000 domicile in which tpspend hib decliniag years. Gun-shot wounds do not always produce fatal rosults with celerity. Seventeen years apo James Bell, of Petoskey, was thus wounded and has just died from its effects. John Gesler is a Teutón citizen who may die, be"ause an ax that he was swinging deserted the loosely attached handle and struck him on the head. Once again are we assured that the oftproposed project of an electric car line be tween Ishpeuilng and Negaunee will be built some time during the year. A Grand Traverse firm has shipped a cargo of maple logs to Glasgow, Scotland, with the idea that there's money in that sort o' exports. C. A. Thateher, the Fenton gentleman who was arrested for practicing dentistry without the necessary permit, and acquitted, brings a $10,000 damage suit against the man who caused his arrest. The proposition to increase the attorney general's salary to $2,6(10 is favored by all classes of people irrespective of political affiliations, as a matter of economy. Too much money is now expended for outside assistance. The ice harvest at Cadillac is about completed, the last two houses of 18,000 tons capacity being nearly full. A Bancroft badger sucked the Ufe blood from tnree ducks. six roosters and fourteen hens and then tumbled their daad bodies into a common grave. Cadillac people have enjoyed eighty days of good sleighing - not a bad run for a warm winter. Mrs. Julius Houseman, the divorced wife of the late ex-Congressman Houseman, of Grand Rapids, dead. The swine house at the Ionia asylum bivned recentiy, cooking sixty hogs. Koast pork is plentiful now at that institution. Por many years past a Mount Clemens farmer has been in the habit of laying away loose change for future needs, and a few days ago he invested the accurnulated silver quarters and halves - $800 worth, in a farm. Work has been stopped on Bay City's public building becausethe people of that town don't like the plan thereof. Methodist ladies of Muskegon have an eye to business. During the late G. A. R. encampment they furnished meals for the hungry multitude and cleared about $250 by the operation. Adolpn Shumaker, who lived near Dearborn, went out coon hunting and in falling a tree to catch the coon he was caught beneath it and killed. The executors of the estáte of the late Benjamin W. Arnold, of Bay City, were required to file bonds to the tune of $70,000, the largest ever recorded in the probate court of that county. The estáte is valued in the neighborhood of $1,000,000,000. Years and years ago the town of Singapore was stated on the Michigan lake shore at the mouth of the Kalamazoo river. To-day there's but oue house left that's inhabited, and the family that occupies it lives in the second story on account of the sand that piles up all arouud that región. All the other dwellings are buvied from sight by the ever increasing sand dunes. Governor Winans has received a medai from the French government in token of the part taken by Michigan in the Paris exposition. Mrs. Horhsby, who lives not many miles from Hersey, had occasion to visii that town and took the precaution to wrap her baby very closely that it might not get chilled, but when her destination was reached she found that the little thing had been smothered to death. Alfred Ta7lor is a 3-year-old Jackson boy with an abbreviated nose. He'd watched his father shave and thought he would try it one day and lopped off the best looking portion of his nose. An oak tree was felled mear Coldwater recentiy whioh was five feet in diameter and is supposed from the rings, of which it was composed, to have begun its growth in the year 1395. Detroit has entertained over 14,000 cases of the grip during the past month, and is still engaged in the entertaining business. Some fellow, who's cramming his head full of knowledge at the State university, claims that a current of electricity ditected against, a safe will enable any expert cracksman to reach its contenta very üuickly. 'Tvill now be in order for the ,afe interviewer to carry a young dynamo around in bis inside pocket. Reports from both the east and west shore lumbering towns of tha state indícate that the log erop harvested the past winter exceeds that of the previous year.