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jmow mat tne open season lor deer hunting is terrninated, the hunters ought to find good sport at Monroetown. Claim for SUOO wortli of sheep tliat the dogs have killed have been filed with the township treasurer. Stanley Sterrett, the Waverly man who was arrested upon a charge of stealing turkeys from the farmers of Berrien, Van Buren and Kalamazoo counties, pleaded guilty when arraigned, and will remain in jail 30 days. He has an estimable wife and three small children. I H. Thurston of Dorr has directed Lawyer lurner of Coleman to bring a suit for damages against the Flint and Pere Marquette Railway company, and the result will be of general interest, because it will show the liabilities of common carriers. Mr. Thurston purchased a ticket from -Dorr to Freeland and return, but returnea on a train that did not stop at Dorr. The conductor refused to stop there, and Thurston was carried on to Coleinan. Saturday, Doe. S. AVhile Edward Morgan of Bellaire was at work in the woods a tree fsll on his back, seriously injuring him. Peter Fenstermachor, an aged and respected resident of Park township, was buried at Marcellus Fi-iday. Rev. J. N. Taft-, pastor of the Congregatioual churcii of Gfri en .-.'i ■, has resisrned to take effect April !. _ Counterfeit doltort) :,., . .a'.f dollars are in circulation at Ulte ( . . [) i8 tiiought that they are the work oi amateurs, Trampsentered Charles Dunn's house at Otsego and stolo a pair of shoes. They gained entrance by breaking a windew. John M. Shackelton, owner of the Belleville gristmill, ha.s sold the same to George Watson, a real estáte dealer of Detroit-, Momlay, Dec. 4. The roller skating rlnk is spreading anew tnroughout the state. Marshall ia the latest town to be afflicted. Hartford schools are so crowded with pupils that the question of a new school building is being agitated. A new opera house will be built at Marlette to replace the one recently burned A new hotel will also be erected. Landlord Giddings of Lawton cashed a 535 check lor a stranger, and is now tryinsr to ascertain bis whereabouls. The annual 'meeting of the Michigan L,mcoln Sheep Breeders' association will be neld at the capitol at Lansing, Dec. 10. They have been having a revival at Penu recent'y' and last Sunday 40 persons who had been converted at the meetings jomed tue different ehurches. An old lady who for a number of years was an inmate of the Van Buren county poorhouse, died recently, and a sack containing $21)0 was found under her pillow Tuesday, IJec. 5. Hudson lias collected several boxes of clotning and provisión tor the destitute miners. There are said to be 200 or more destitute families in Iron Mouutain, representing 1,000 people. Men digging wells at St. Charles found vems of coal which it is believed are large enougn to warrant sinking a shaft. The celebrated electric sugar cases, or rather three of them, are to be tried at the next term of court at Ann Arbor. Captain Hiram Johnston. a former Shiawassee county man, has been promoted trom the position of officer of the watch at the department of aRi-iculture to that of assistant property clevk in the same department. The BayCity school authoritlea are now trying to encourage school attendance Many were kept out on account of the diphthena epidemie, until the total number in schooi was only one-tiiird of those of school age. Wednesday, Dec. 6. A Cadillac man has orders from Cleveland parties for 5,000 Christinas trees. At Henrietta, Wexford oounty, it has snowed every day for the past two weeks. Nine hens belonging to a Spring Lake ratmer have laid 1,236 eggs during the past summer. _ Robert Huff of FennviUe was seriously ïnjured by a ball from a rifle in the hahds of a companion. Hopkins' Station, an Allegan county hamlet with a population of 350, bas 90 cases of the grip. Six farm barns have been recently destroyed by fire in Van Buren county, and in every case the incendiary got m his work. Mts. KItty Habbiland, aged 90 years who hved alone at Nïles, was found dead m her house Monday night. It is supposed that she died Sunday. Emil Goppo, a miner, was killed in No 8 shaft of the Calumet and Hecla mine at Honghton Tuesday by a mass of rock falling upou him and crushing his skull. Thursday, Dec. 7. Jolm Braciner, au old resident of Plymouth, died Tuesday night, aged 78 years. He had liyed at Plymouth 62 years. He was a Universalist in belief. Marquette has procured plans for a new city hall, but the bids for construction were all above the estímate and the controller is advertising again. Traverse City sent a carload of flour meat, beans and clothiug to the famiiié sufferers Wednesday, with more to follovv Over $1,000 have been raised in this city for this work. The Northern Michigan Hardwood Lumberman's association held it ■ innual meeting at Traverse City Wed esi ly. Kadical changes m methoda of woi'h. were planned for the coming year. Mrs. Hannah Daley, a pioneer of Imlay City, died at the home of her daugbter, Mrs. Newell Watkins, AVednesday. She was about 78 years of age. She recently feil down cellar and broke her shoulderbone, besides otlierwise injuring herself thus hastening her deatli. She was highly esteemed, áud left a large circle of triends