Brief Dispatches

- - -i - __ .ib íi a i (ni The cherry erop of Michigan proiníses to be a good one. Memorial day was appropriately observed all over the state. By falling from a roof near Albi n E. R. Wallace was instantly killed. Work ín the Agate Harbor mlre in Keweenaw county has been stoppeil. The state board of health will hold a sanitary convention at Hillsdale July 6 and 7. Gov. Rich is pushing an investigation into the lynching of Sullivan, at Corunna. Mrs. M. E. Pengelly has been elected as a trustee on the Kalamazoo board of education. Pioneers of St. Joseph county will hold their annual meeting at Centerville June 14. Twenty trains laden with ore are being sent out from Ishpeming and Nefaunee every day. The June meeting' of the state hortieultural society will be held in Sheiby June 13, 14 and 13. The death is announced of Dr. S. P. Choate, one of the first physieians to locate in Three Rivers. State Bank Commissioner Sherwood has reappointed Eugene A. Sunderlin deputy bank commissioner. From the ncw city directory of Jackson it is estimated that that city now has a population of B8,ö(i9. Albion is enjoying a building boom. Since April 1 the eonstruction of sixty new houses has been begun. Edward Stoddard, aged 7 years, son of Jesse Stoddard, of Lake City, was drowned while fishing recently. A man found dead on the highway near Gaylord has been identified as William Sunders, of Charlevoix. He had been murdered and robbed. The board of trustees inspected the Ionia insane asylum on Monday, aud pronounced themsclves pleased with the condition of affairs. In an address to the public the citizens of Spring Lake return thanks for the assistance so promptly rendered sufferers from the late fire in that place. The body of Mrs. llattie Sullivan, who was drowned March 13 in the Tittabawassee river, near Midland, was found within 20 rods of the place where the woman was last seen struggling. Mrs. Alva Kitchen, of Grand Rapids, swallowed a pin three weeks ago. and as she died a few days since, her friends are of the opinión that the pin was the cause of her demise. For lack of evidence to hold him on a charge of murder, George W. Ruiger, the Ann Arbor engineer who had charge of the train wrecked near Farwell on April 17, was released. F. P. Striker, proprietor of the Russell house barber shop in Detroit, will keep his shop open on Sundays and make a test case of the new law against such action in the supreme court. F. D. Clark has been reelected superintendent of the Michigan school for the deaf by the new board of trustees, who decided also to continue E. F. Swan as steward, and Miss Richmond as matron. Miss Harriet Wood, daughter of Maj. N. S. Wood, of Saginaw, was one of those who took part in the now famous production of the Greek play, "Ahtigone," by the students of Vassar college May 26.