Short But Newsy Items

The fish hatchery at Sault Ste. Marie hus fraished its season and closed. lliiiry l'hillion, of Pineonning, had his riifht hand smashed while coupling cars. Henry W. Walker, of Grand Rapids, secretary of the Masonic Mutual Benefit association, received notifieation of his appointment as deputy state insurance commissioner. A. B. Moore, who killed his vife"s paramour, Henry Reynolds, was acquitted at Grand Rapids. The Farmers' state bank of Brooklyn, Jackson county, has closed its doors, with liabilities amounting to about $20,000. Alex Iirown, a well-known railroad man, died at East Tawas of paralysis and dropsy. John W. Russell, the oldest pioneer of Oneida township, Eaton count37, died at his home in Grand Ledge at the age of 75 years. Vermontville is without a lawyer, the last shingle having been recently removed. The president has appointed Wifliam E. Quinby, of Detroit, to x, envoy cxtraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the Netherlands. The pastor of the Carleton M. E. chureh won't attend church socials. He doesn't believe in them. A farm-hand named liarnum made things lively near Schooieraft. He insistod at the muzzle of a revolver that his sister walk to Kalamazoo. The girl didn't walk, and Barnum was put in the lock-up on the charge of insanity. The funeral of Mrs. W. (Irybowski and daughter Annie was held in Coldwater. Mother and daughter died within twenty-four hours of each other, henee the doublé funeral. Mrs. Mary Wright died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. S. Bristol, in Galesburg, aged 85 years. Col. George I. Nash is the only surviving officer of the famous Loomis battery whicn went out of Coldwater in 1S61. Owing to the closing down of the iron mines at Bessemer, raany of the miners have turned their attention to gardening and farming in a small way. Henry Wood, lighthouse tender for many years at Point Aux Pins, mysteriously disappeared May 5, and siñee that time nothing has been heard oi him. The bill appropriating 575,000 for an insane asylum for the upper península having beeu approved by the governor, the inhabitants of the Soo want it located at that place. Abe Francoise, a mechanic, aged 45, committed suicide in Kalamazoo by drowning himself in the rivesr. William Boyd, the notorious private detective, committed suicide at Detroit. He left a letter regretting that he was iot a millionaire.