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II. H. Hawkins' general store at Reed City burned. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $5,000. The strike of the riveters in Wheeler's shipyard at West Bay City may bp settled. Otis W'helan, oí Franklin, Lenawee county, has 32 potatoes which lili a bushei basket. The Adrián City roller milis has started up on an order of 14,000 Backs of flour that will be shipped to Scotland. The people of South Haven are looking for a very busy summcr resort season this year, and the resott hotels are being considerably enlarged. The Grand Trunk raKroad has issucd an order that hereafter eigh+eeu loadcd ears will be the size of freighl trains to pass through St. Clajr tunnel. If the pension laws aro two liberal, change them; but quit cliarging fraud to old soldiers, who neither make nor administer the la v.- Adrián Press. The action of the micldle-of-theroaders at Lansing indicates that there will be a mad sc7-amble bet ween the Populists and Sybrant Wessellus to renominate Governor Pingree first.- St. Clair Repabiican. D. B. Ainger, receiver of the defunot First National Bank of Benton HarbOT, announces fhat another dividen. i will be declared immediately. This, the second dividend, will be a 20 peí cent. dividend. The Kalamazoo Klondike party 1 ft Thursday. It included 15 men, the latest addition being Fred Longwell, of Pa-w Paw. Tlieir car boro a bauner "Kalamazoo Hustlers en route for KloDdike." The drainage of Duck Lake, near Al bion, by the teaTing away of the daai, will not lower the lake as much as was expeeted, and will not be such a heavy blow to sumruer resorts' busiiii ss as anticipated. ■I.inuai-y production of the WolvoTme iimuü will not fall short of two lnindred tons, or practically doublé the output of one year ago. The Wolveriue will earn $12 per share tliis year with copper at the present price. The stock pil(-s at the mines in and cear Ishpeming are said to be larger at present than ever before. At most of the propeTties the ore has been stoadily -oniing up and accumulating ever since the shiptog season closed. Insurance Commissioner Campbell says that the Dairy Mutual Insurance Oompany of Lisbon, Ia.: has no right to do business in Michigan, and that persons who insure in it have no rcdress in the courts of this state. The sixty-nrst anniversary of the admission of Michigan into the imion of states was coratnenmorated by a banquet under the auspices of the latües of St. Stephohs' Catholic church at Port Huron. it was a great success.