News Of The State

Mr.s. Pettibone, a Kjngston lady, and pan of milk took a trip down a Hight oi stairsi togothep. The milk was spilied and the lajy is dead. Corunna candidates for raatrimoniai bliss seem tn be particularly unfortunatt - at le:iM ïoraj of 'eni are- about 10 pei cent. of last yeur's mnrsiages resulting iu divorce cases. But tliat'.s a bettershowinfc tbat some towns are making. Ex-Senator Thomas W. Ferry, of Grand Haven, is having a tussle with the grip. Mrs. James Richards, a Chelsea lady, has a peouy that's indulged in 111 blossoms. William Warner, a Nües yonth of i seasons, was drowned iu the St. Joe rivet while bathing. Copemish, the new Manistee county village that bas attracted so much attention the past year, is to have a Congregatioua] cLurch and a Fourth of July hurnih. Cheyenne Presbyterians are preparing to build tliemselves a stone church, which will be the flirst religious edifice in Sani lac county to be built, of that material. John Brooks is a WUdron pioneer who has never let go of a profane word and has just celebrated the lOöth anniversary of his birth. Kemember tuis fact if great longevity you'd attain. A Mecosta county farmer had a handsome potato erop last season which he was not willing to sell for $1 per bushei, and so held the tubers for a rise in the market. Now he's having a tu3sle to close 'em out for 50 cents. Railway passenger depots are not always noted for the beauty of their surroundings, but the Petoskey passenger station of the West Michigan is to be located in the midst of a handsome park. Henry N. Moore, a Coldwater pioneer of 75 seasons, and well known to Michigan horsemen, is dead. B. Hern was the name of a Jackson neddler who died recently. He is josed to have possessed a large sum of uoney, but no one seems to know where it is loeatec. as Hem was very reticent rejarding its hiding place. The Hummer family held a family reunión at Oxford 'tother day, and a hummer it was, as 300 Huniiners and their friends were in attendance. Colorado university has captured W. J. Meyers, of the state agricultural college, with a $1,500 salary. Meyers is the fifth man f rom this institution who, in a brief period, has gone to other flelds of labor and a bigger salary. 'Andrew Duby is one of the very few men who ever succeeded in recovering health with a broken back. Andrew had a 1,500foot pile of lumber hop on to him near Oscoda last summer, and the bystanders thought he was killed. But he still lives and has so nearly recovered that, contrary to the doctor's predictions at the Detroit hospital, he'll soon be a well man. Rev. S. M. Eastman, a Romeo parson who'd seen forty-five years in the Methodist ministry, is dead at the age of 80 years. An Edmore man was scared nearly out of his wits by a ghost, one night, and ran like a white head to a neighbor's, half a mile away. When he learned that 'twas only a harraless cow dressed in white that caused his alarm, he was greatly comforted. The water is so low in the streams of Delta county that the flsh are said to be compelled to stand on their heads when ;hey desire to drink. Burglars bold cracked Sunday and four safes at Adrián without realizing a nickle, as the safes were entirelydry at the ;ime. Two Paw Paw women have been arrested for stealing flowers from soldiers' jraves. A Jackson grocer is the owner of a novel iy trap. 'Tis a tame mouse, and the animal keeps the show window ctear of flies better than the stickiest fly paper going. Bay City has completed her census count and finds that there are 35,835 people of all kinds and colors. Those Boston bankers agreed to take her bonds if 30,000 folks could be found- and the enumerators found 'em. Clyde Matterson is a Jackson lad who lost three toes by running afoul of some broken glass. The Haskéll & Barnett planing mili and factory at Ludington, is in ashes. Loss $10,000. Will be rebuilt. Dr. Jewell, of Adrián, has been made defendant in a $5,000 damage case, all because the doctor's dog feasted on the fatted calí of a neighbor's leg. Maud Gustoffson, a little Ludington lady oL 4 summers, was fatally burned while playing with some companions about a bonfire. J. C. Genning, a Decatur citizen, has been fined $50 for violating the local option lave. This is the first conviction secured under the law out of twenty-seven arrests that have been made. Ypsilanti bas captured the Scharf tag and label company from Toledo. The business will be run on a capitalized basis of $40,000. Saginaw has the most populous hive of Macea bees in the state, the membershin beinc 525. A Bewzie county widower, 44 years of ige, and owner of a 100-acre farm, adverses for a wife. Maidens with red hair, md those over 25 years of age, are debarred Irom competing for the prize. Reed is the name of a Ludington man who's scooped in a $5,000 street paving ontract from South Bend, Ind. Holland probably launehes more people jn a foreign missionary voyage than any ather town in the state. Albertus Pieter is the latest recruit, and Japan is his destination. Au Adrián man has a brood of 1,600 spring chickens, all hatched by a single incubator. Bay City has a citizen who insisted that his personal assessment should be raised $500, and will exhibit the phenomenon &t the World's fair in '93 should he live that long. Henry Carney, a Detroiter 28 years old, has been jailed for thirty days for attempting suicide. St. John's streets are carefully dusted by a street sweeper drawn by a span of horses. Marquette has just completed 75,00d worth of waterworks improveinents. ine old machinery had been in use twentythree years, and has been replaced by new power capable of squirting 6,000,000 gallons daily. A street car norse at Jackson has learned to chew and expectorates tobacoo juice with as much precisión as the fellow who taught the animal to imítate hiniself. Mrs. Alonzo Brown, a La'peer lady, ac companied by a quantity of butter and eggs, got in the way of a passenger loco motive. Upou reining consciousneei une exclaimed: "Where's my butter an eggs." The Battle Creek Advent college let gi of nineteen graduates at its eleventh au nual commencement, last wiek. Harvest has already beea Btarted iii th southeru portion of the lower penin sula. Josiah Allen is arranging to engage ii the saloon business at Vicksburg. but thi; isn't the Josiah made famous in flction b3 his "wife." Only four boarders at Wexford countj poorhouse, the balance having other and more verdant pastures. Gleason is the name of a New BufEalc 13-year-old lad who's got the very substan tial start in life of 190 pound avordu pois. Daniel Swears is somewhat suggestivi of profanity, and as this particular Dau iel, who resides at Flushiug. had $42 ab stractod from his trouser pocket while ht was asleep, the swear part of the pro gramme may have lwn carried out.