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A Honghton ma has a buck that he is feedinc; with a view of a fat saddle of ison at Christmas. The residenee of Michael Cohn, Ludington, vis deetroyed by lire. A portión of the household effects were saved. Coleman wanted to issue bonds in the sum of 5,000 with which to put in waterworks, but when the votes were counted the proposition was defeated by one vote. Otto Peters of Carleton recently rode to New York city and back on his wheel, making the entire distance in less thanfive days. William Mclntosh of Muskegon has been held for trial in the United States district court on a charge of si-lliiifj liquor without puying the special government tux. The Norrie mine ha.s hipped 500,000 tons of oie tbis season, and 1. as 120,000 tons more on hand that will probably be carried througli the winter. Mrs. Horatio A'.'ri r',(. aged 53, died of iimption at Adrián. She had beun ill for nearly a year and had wasted to a mere skeleton. Jeremiah (iiïord, 82 years of age, of Adrián township, while leiiding a cow ■was throv. u down by the animal and so seriously itijured that it is feared he will die. A boy named Cland Gilí, 6 years of age, was playing around a water tank at Vlcksbvrg when it tipped over and his o badly injuredthat he survived but two hours. At Vicsburg three tramps, who stole three baskets of food from a Grand Trunk fieiglit caboosa and when pursued fired a revolver at tiieir pursuers, have been captured and lodged In jail.