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The city hospital at Muskegon will be dedicated next Tuesday. Vicksburg Knights of Pythias will hold their 14th anniversary party May 11. The dedication of the new $13,000 Methodist Episcopal church at Caro will take ilace next Sunday. A massmeeting of those in favor of local option was held at Coldwater Monday mght. Between 30 and 35 saloons at Muskegon will go out of business this spring. A 3-year-old daughter of John Lofgren )f Cadillac was instantly killed by being iicked in the head by a norse. The main building of the canning facxry at Ludington is nearing completion, and will be a substantial brick structure 60 by 150 feet. John Race and a man named Broek of [ronton, Charlevoix connty, ot into a quarrel and Kace shot the other, iuflicting a fatal wound. Charles H. Ferguson, who has been on trial at Kalkaska for several days on the charge of murdering George Scott laat January, confessed the murder Tuesday. Burglars tried to blow open the safe of A. R. Parks at Birmingham, but were scared away by persons returning f rom a party. They spoiled the safe, however. Abram Hartell, who was conflned in the county jail at Hastings awaiting examination on a charge of forgery, escaped by means of keys which he procured in some way. Two vicious doga visited the farm of George Kimball, near Muskegon, one night recently, killed 30 chickens and two )igs, and were trying to kill a Jersey cow wnen discoverscL aaidxiveB off.