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The general store oL M. .X. Smitb, at Ho dunk, six miles froin Union City, was robbéd of a stnall amount of raöaey and a few articles of merchandise, entrance being effected through a cellar window. A. Q. Randáll, commissioner of schools for Calhoun county, aivd I). A. Herman, coinmiasioner of schools for Branch county, are arranging for a joint teachers' instituto to be held at Union City some time within the month. The board of supervisors of Saginaw has offered a reward of SJñO for the arrest aud conviction of tiie tiends who poisoned the horses of Robert Auderson last week with a dose of paris green, both dying from its effects. Saturday. Jan. 13. The Howell condensad milk factory is paying out .$4,000 per month to the farmers of Livingston county. It will cost 810 license per day hereafter for travelinK auction stores to dispose of their goods in Dccatur. Rev. G. M. Hudson of Schoolcraft has accepted a cali to the pastorate of the Baptist church at Dowagiac. The Kalamazoo County Husbandmans' club will hold its aanual institute at Schoolcraft Feb. 7-8. The Cadillac veneer and basket works has filed two chattel mortgages on its entire stock, uiachinery, etc. Monday, Jan. 15. The city of Escanaba is supporting 150 people this winter, and there is already a deficit of $10,000 in the city treasury, Lainb & Folsom of Dryden have enlarged their business by purchasing the hard '.vare stock of J. W. Colé & Son. loseph Hiiiks, an old soldier and pioneer, died Friday night. aged about 80 years, at the homo of a granddaughter in Imlay City. During 1893 there wêré 73 carloads of wool, or sometlrtng over 2,150.000 pounds, shipped f rom Conslantine to one Cold water dealer. A new bank bas been organized at Centreville, and will be ready for business in i about two weeks. It will be known as tbc First State Bank of Cantreville. Xuesday, Jan. 16. A fish hatchery will be located at Frankfort for the purpose of hatching white fish. A movement is on foot to detach Laird and Biaican townships froru Houghton county and tack them f.n to Baraga county. A young lad named Taylor, living near Union City, (rank a quantity of writing fluid by mistake, and the doctor had to hustle to save bis life. Rflllo Geldi.sma was fatally injured at Spring lake by being thrown from a vehicle, his head striking a tree, bis skull being fractura!. At Pexter Jay Warren and Jacob i Harms, while playing cards in a saloon, got into a quarrel, and before it was over, I Warren bit a chunk out of Harm's chin. Wednesday, Jan. 17. Sand Beach will soon have a cigar factory. Out of the 14 inmates at the Sanilac couuty poor farm, 11 are sick with la grippe. The 14-year-old son of John Quish of Newberg, Cass couuty, was killed by falling on. the ice while skating. Aa epidemie of scarlet fever prevails at Rockford, there being 25 cases. Only one death has oceurred so f ar. August Adolphson of Trout Creek, while wórking in a sawmill, was struck by a piece of flying timber and fatally injured. He was 30 years old. The Biq Kapids Opera House has again changed hands, and E.M. Stickney steps 'i down iu favor of John Berles of Grand ! Rapids, a fortuer owiier. Thursilay, Jan. 18. The Lamb Knit Goodsconipany of Colon on a capital stock of 115,000 lias declarcd a dividend of L14,000 for the past year. Rev. H. F. Cocbrane, for five years the pastor of the Baptist church at Bloomingdale, has accepted a cali to Springport, Calboun county. The Western knitting works, at Rochester, started up with a full forcé of employés, and it is expected thac there will be no ïurther suspension. Hartford's common council will try to prevent future attenipts at burglary in that village by appointing a nightwatcb, if the business men will assist in paying the officer's salary. The calendar for the January term of the Van Buren county circuit court contains only six criminal cases, of which two are for violations of the local option law. Of the 16 chancery cases, 9 are actions for divorce.