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Bradfnrd Bohl of Mancelona, drew his gun toward Mm, Saturday. and was sluit dead, while hunting in the woods. líe was a bright young man, 16 years I of age. Prof. Robert .T. Stevens, a former Ypsilanti boy, now of Benton ITarbor, has a wine glass that was once the great Napoleon's, a piece of the palm tree under which Columbus' priest celebra' cd the first mass in America, a feather f rom Lincoln's funeral car, a piece of the Blarney stone f rom Ireland, a fragment of the battlements of the Spanish fort at St. Augustine, and (this information is furnished by the Xews itself) a rqpy of the (irass Lake News. all of which he values as rare and priceless curios. - Ypsilanti Sentiuel. A resolution was introrluced in the Owosso cominon council, last week, prohibiting women from wearing their, hats at any place of public entertainment where admission was charged Judging from the enthusiastic manner in wich the resolution was received, it will speedily become a law. C. II. Prescott of Cleveland, four years ago began the conversión of pine barrena near Pres-cott villaje, and has sufceeded in turninsr 1,600 acres into a fertile farm. worethan 12.UO0 bushels of all kinds of grain was raised uponit last season. Mormon missionaries are actively at work in Berden and Van Buren counties. Their aggressive proselyting is cansing alarm in some localities where converts are being made. Tlie purpose of the nussionaries is to promote inimigrati' n to Utah, where new settlements are being established. It is stated that fifty or more Latter Day Sainta have been zealously at work throughout southern Michigan and northern Indiana, and a num'ber of families have started overland for Utah. Several farmers of Lapeer county are likely to lose their farms, on account of the enormous tax imposed upon them for the e 'nstruction of the famous Mili Creek drain. which cost $32.281. The taxes on tlieir farms, together with mortgages, amount to more tüan the farms are woith. It is said that those who received the least benefit, or perhapa none at all, were taxed the most heavily. What is declared to have been the biggest hog sale ever held in the United States took place Jan 15 on th elllinois state fair grounds. Fifty i'our head of Poland China hogs brought the high uvenige of {251.50 each. The highest price paid for single hogs was for a sow bred in 1895, which brought $750. The agricultural college of the Missouri state university has been üotified that Secretary Francis has allowtd the claim of the college for 24,0UO acres of goveriniieüt land. Mrs. E L Negus entertained 1he following' people at her home Kriday last, the occasion being the eighty-third anniversary of the birth of her father, Curran A'hite: Daniel Tichenor, !)4 years of age; F. M. Hook' r, 70 years; Mrs. E. Sk'dmore, 69 years: E. .kidmore, 79 years; Mrs. T. Jewett, 86 years; T. Jewett. 79 years; Mrs. Ë. Keyes, (59 years; E. Keyes, 69 years; Mrs. Brown. 72 years; C. White, 83 years; Mrs. Stocking. 78 years: Mrs. B. Arnold, 75 years; Mrs Fletcher, 5Í1 years. The total aie, 988; average 76. The oíd peíale had a very enjoyable time. - Chelsea üerald. At a recent meetincr of the trustees of t e ITniversity of Illinois it was voted to ask for 58O,(KJO for an agricultural building suited to the uses of the College of Agriculture and the Experiment Station. The Burlington & Quincy railroad is about to establish experimental farms at diffennt points along its line of road. The object of the experiment is to prove the value of the improved methods of soil culture in the production of crops. The farms, forty acres each in extent, are to be located at the followintr points: Oberlin, Kan., McCook, Holdrege, Alma and Broken J5ow, JsTeb. Men are to be emp'oyed to opérate them who are thoroughly familiar with the latest methods of improved soil culture.