Events In The State

An electrie road now connects Ironwood, Jessieville, Hurley and Gile. The huckleberry erop in parts of Arenac county has been destroyed by frost. For self-protection Bay City bankers will hereafter demand thiirty, sixty anc ninety days notice from depositors. Bay City labor unions threaten to boycott merchants who do not coraply with the request of clerks to close at 6 p. m. Michael Shulek was instantly killed by fallinfr down the shaft of the Tamarack mine, at Lake Linden, a distance of 400 feet. James Higg-ins has sued the Union Street Railway company, of Sag-inaw, for $25,000 damages for injuries received in being run over by a car. W. E. Burt, of Sag-inaw, has sold his sawmill property and over 2 miles of water frontale 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 manuf aeturing purposes. Abraham Hawkins. while decking logs 8 miles below Rapids, was crushed by a falling log-, and died in a few minutes. He was 21 years oí age. Charles and Edward Hump, of Mancelona, have received word that by the death of a distant relative in Eng-land each of them has been left the sum of $38,000. Benjamin Hart, a farmer near Williamston, monrns the theft of $2,000 which he had drawn from the bank, throug-h fear of failure, and hid about his house. Forest fires totally destroyed the Phelps Iiumbercompany'ssawmill near Keno, on the Chicago & West Michigan railroad branch from Woodville. The loss is $5,000. A ponlar leaf flew down the throat of an infant in the arms of Mrs. Georg-e Shappe, 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 ag-o, 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 Bancrof t. against a railroad company. The lady says the money was never turned over to her, and has brought suit ag-ainst her father to recover $1,000.