Events In The State

EVENTS IN THE STATE.

Brief Mention Made of Numerous Interesting Occrrences.

An electric road now connects Ironwood, Jessieville, Hurley and Gile.

The huckleberry crop in parts of Arenac county has been destroyed by frost.

For self-protection Bay City bankers will hereafter demand thirty, sixty and ninety days notice from depositors.

Bay City labor unions threaten to boycott merchants who do not comply with the request of clerks to close at 6 p.m.

Michael Shulek was instantly killed by falling down the shaft of the Tamarack mine, at Lake Linden, a distance of 400 feet.

James Higgins has sued the Union Street Railway company, of Saginaw, for $25,000 damages for injuries received in being run over by a car.

W. R. Burt, of Saginaw, has sold his sawmill property and over 2 miles of water frontage on the harbor at Grand Marais to Bay City capitalists.

The washed-out dam in Grand river at Portland is again to be put into such shape that the water power may be utilized for manufacturing purposes.

Abraham Hawkins, while decking logs 8 miles below Big Rapids, was crushed by a falling log, and died in a few minutes. He was 21 years of age.

Charles and Edward Hump, of Mancelona, have received word that by the death of a distant relative in England each of them has been left the sum of $38,000.

Benjamin Hart, a farmer living near Williamston, mourns the theft of $2,000 which he had drawn from the bank, through fear of failure, and hid about his house.

Forest fires totally destroyed the Phelps Lumber company's sawmill near Keno, on the Chicago & West Michigan railroad branch from Woodville. The loss is $5,000.

A poplar leaf flew down the throat of an infant in the arms of Mrs. George Shappe, living near Ludington, and before it could be extracted the babe choked to death.

The body of John Cook, a woodchopper known to have had money in his possession when he disappeared two months ago, has been found in the woods near East Lake. His pockets had been rifled, and there were other evidences of foul play.

Several years ago Henry Feeley, of Linden, collected a claim in favor of his daughter, Mrs. Scranton, now of Bancroft, against a railroad company. The lady says the money was never turned over to her, and has brought suit against her father to recover $1,000.