Full Of Interest

The severe winter has killed all the quaü ia Oceana county. An unknown inan fatally stabbed Frank Rosengard in a fight, s. City. Owners of the Cornet miue : ..; reI fluced the time of their employé.-, from ten to eight hours a day. A falling tree crushed the skiill oí 1Syear-old John Larsen, at Thompson. He died within an hour. Charles E. Hawley, of Bay City, has been elected colonel of the Thïrd infantry, Michigan state troops. The question of removing1 the county seat of Montmorency coonty from flillman to Atlanta will be voted on April ?,. While ir Seattle, Wash., on business, T. F. Langsdorf, of ftay City, dropped dead. llis renicios were shipped home. It is said that Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, would not decline to be the can didate of the republicana lor United States senator. At the age of 82 years Mrs. H. M. Ellsworth, who had been a resident ol Bay City for over thirty years, died there on Monday. Selah Winfield, ajred 101 .years, a ve.teran of the war of 1812, is confined te what wili probably prove his deathbed, at his home near Wayne. Rumor sa3rs that a new company, with acapitalof $1,000,000, will assurae control oí and enlarde the Eureka iron works at Wyandotte, turning them into a steel plant. The vesselmen at St. Josepb expecl that navigation will open ibout Apri) Ion Lake Michigan, but Díe straits will not be open till abont April 15 pi 20, at the earliest. The women of Detroit are taking an active interest in the coming1 school election, and an earnest effovt is being made to induce all to register and te goto the polls and vote on electiön day. Itepublicans elected theïr municipal tickets in the villages of Deeatnr anti East Tawas on Tuesday. C'arlW. Wilson is the new president of the board of the former village and Wüliam E. Lacke of that of the latte r. A former resident of Grand llapids, Z. S. Keyes, while in a dranken fit a1 Chicago Sunday night shot liis wife and a neighbor Iad3',seriously iujuring both, and then put a bnllet throujjh one oJ lis lungs. 11e will die. Warden Malmborg, of the braneh penitentiary at Marquette, refutes te surrender his office to John R. Vanevera, the new appointee, on the ground ;hat the latter's commission is defecAve. The board of commissioners is n a quandary. Two years ago Will Efran, of Grand jlapids, murdered Patrick O'Connor, and was sentenced to a long term hl urison. Brooding over the disgrace jrought upon his family by his brother's crime has made Miehael Egan insane, and he has been placed in the asylum at Kalamazoo. After an Hlness of ten days at Grand lapids Hon. C. W. Leavitt, a niember of the legislature f rom Oceana eonnty. died Saturday night. He n-as taken ill with progressive paralysis in Lansing and startcd for home, but conld get nc 'arther than Grand llapids. Voters in Muskegon will be asked in April to indorse the purebase by the city of K. MeGraft for' $100,000 of an eighty-acre tract to be laid out as a lark. Mr. McGraft will place the money in the hands of a trustee, and use it n inducing manufacturera to lócate at tfuskegor. The glee and banjo clubs of the university of Michigan will start on a 2,500-mile trip on the morning of Apri) 3. They will visit and give concerté n Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Chicago. 3es Moines, Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfielrl, Toledo and Detroit, ending1 the season with a concert on reachinff home ut Ann Arbor.