State Items

The Sullivan lynehing invetigation will comnience Saturday. W. M. Kaercher lias been appointed postmaster at Wein.sherg, Washtenaw county, vice John Schueider, resigned. N. Bates, the health officer of Flint, says that there is no occasion for any alarm being feit over the smallpox scare. The latest reports to the state board of health show that smallpox was prevalent at only three places during the pa st week. Mayor Vincent of Lapeer has issued a cali for a public meeting at the courthouse Friday cvening, to arrange for the proper observance of Memorial day. Warden Fuller of the state house of correction has announced the appointment of CyrusMendenhall of Oxford as chaplain of the state house. There are 192 teachers' certificates in force in Ingharn county. of which two are state certificates, 15 state normal diplomas, 12 first grade, 41 second grade and 122third grade certificates. This week there have been 3,000,000 young whitefish planted in the bay at Marquette This makes a total of 30,000,000 whiteflsh, 500,000 brook trout and 250,000 salmón trout the Soo hatchery has sent out and planted this spring. Isaac Snow of Otter Lake was arrested on Tuesday, charged with stealing a buffalo robe of a Lapeer man last winter. He isone of the defendants in the Snow-Loree counterfeit cases that will be tried at Bay City the 15th of this month.