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The assessed valuation of Dundee is 1399,070. David Stever, a pioneer resident of Ogden and for many years its supervisor, is (iead, aged 76. Jackson laundrymen held a massmeeting and decided to organize against their common enemy- the Chinese. The school board at Dundee have're-engajíed Professor O. M. McLaughlin, a gradúate of tbe normal, for another year as principal of tlieir schools. Fruit groweis around Xiles complain thatapples and clierries are falling off in large mimbers. It is believed the late cold weather was the cause. The Bay City smallpox patiënt, WilliamRoberts, who was at the point of death Sunday, has passd the critical point, and is on the road to recovery. On a farm near Lansing there was plowed np recently a lump of copper weighing ''2 pounds. An analysis shows that it is about 95 per cent pure. The little 6-year-old boy of Jacob Carli, of Ironwood while playing around the cars at the shaft of the Bonnie mine, feil under the wheels and had one of his feet cut off. Mrs. LeRoy, a pioneer of Otter Lake, died of la grippe, aged about 90, Previous to her sickness she was considered unusually smart. She was a pensioner and much respected. A lamp at the station house on the Lake Shore road, at Raisin Center, exploded soon after the target men had lighted it, and the station building, a small house, was destroyed.