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The fair at Howard City will be held from September 19 to 15. A $:!0,000 hotel is to be built by Chicago capitalists at Sand Lake. Osen Betts, a farmer living near Ilillsdale, committed suicide by hanging. Conrad Kiel dropped dead from sunstroke while workingina hay field near La Salie. A falling1 timber in the Chapin mine, at Iron Mountain, instantly kiüed Capt. Fred Enuis. Otis Fuller, of St. Johns, has been appointed warden of the state house of correctiOQ. Farmers of Cheboygan county realized about $10,000 from the huckleberry erop this season. From the new school census it is estimated that Lansing now has a population of about 20,000. Mrs. Sarah Ketchum, of Grand Rapids, was killed by falling down a flight of stairs in a clothing store. E. C. Goddard, one of the best known lumbermen in the state, died at Saginaw of cáncer oí the stomach. The ninth annual reunión of the Michigan and Ohio Band association is to be held in Hudson August 17. An elevator with a capacity of 60,000 bushels of grain is in course of construction by W. A. Coomb at Coldwater.