Minor Michigan News

_ A mad scare has prevailed of late in the vicinity oí Pittsíord. The annual Masonic picnic of the counties of Ingham and Jackson will be held lat Pleasant Lake, Thursdav June 21. f' Paul, 8-year-old son of Peter Malone near Niles, fell 14 feet In the barn, striking on his head. His injuries will prove fatal. Riehmond's cold storage company has 19 teams on the road, employs 29 men and has already purchased 200,000 dozen eg-gs this season. President Harper, of the Chicago umversity, is expeeted to deliver an address at the Kalamazoo college commencement exercises. Farmer Strange, of Altona, discovered a wild cat eating his lambs. He shot the animal, which measured three feet four inches in length. At a special election at Lake City a proposition to bond the town for 87.000 to assist in buildinga glass factory was carried by a vote of 88 to 8. Dog-s are working great havoc with sheep in Uorr township, Allegan county. During the past month about 570 worth have been killed. The Salvation Army threatens to invade Ann Arbor again. The last time they tried it they utterly failed to drown out the students with their loudest timbréis and drums. Anna Rupp, a domestic in the employ of Meyer Berg, a clothing merchant at Merrill, haseonfessed to stealing- goods from the store and sending them to a cousin in Saginaw. Armada has made up her mind to celébrate the Fourth in the good old-fashioned manner, and wil', try and make noise enoug-h so that they can be heard in the next countv. A case of malignant smallpox has been discovered in Detroit, the victim a colored woman. The health authorities are taking every precaution to prevent its spread and th -re is no scare. Christian Marth, aged 73, while observing the anniversary of his wife's death by watering the flowers on her last resting place in the Royal Oak cemetery. dropped dead withi'n a few feet of the grave. í ive hquor suits f rom Elmira have been tried at this term of eourt at an expense of S200 or 3300, without a single conviction. One man drank whisky and another water out of the same bottle at the same time. Roscoe Teterson, of Coldwater, has received a notice to attend a cadet (naval examination at Annapolis. is Charles Harpham, of CJuincy, had been rejeeted on account of his father dying of lung troubles. Two men. have already been arrested charged with the Antrim county local option law. They had tendered their iicense money to the Maneelona council and thought they would take their chances in the court. lhe Keech block n Centreville, occupied by the First .State bank and Bryant Weed's drug store burned Hugh R. Stewart loses the finest law hbrary in the countv, valued at 83,000 Weed loses 83,400, and the bank $800. Mrs. Georg-e Bomberger, of Saginaw got so sick at heart over her starvinofamily that she started to the wootFshed with a rope in her hand, intending to hang herself From sheer exhaustion she was unable to carry out her desig-n. Gov. Rich has appointed II. A. Conant, of Monroe. paymaster of the state ' navy, with the rank of major. Mr. Conant Is well kuown in yaehtine I cireles. He was consul to Naples in 1880, and served as secretary of state ! for two terms. The clover leaf weevil is killinoclover n Livingston and adjoining counties. Prof. Davis, of the Agricultura] college, says, however, they are afflicted with a fung-us disease which v!ll soon kill them and at the same time save crops. A new telephone company has been orgamzedat Monroe under the name of the Harrison Telephone company for the purpose of and operatïng- a telephone and messeng-er service in Michig-an and Ohio. lts capital stock is 825,000. A portion of the C. & W. M. railroad a mile from Petoskey, suffered a land' shde, which carried 300 feet of the track into Lake Michigan. While men were at work another slide carried 25 men a hundred feet into the lake, but no one was injured. Snow commenced falling at Marquette and continued forseveral hours About three inches feil. Eseanaba also had a young snow storm, the mercury to drop about 30 degrees. Cold weatherthis late in theseason isblighting the crops of that seetion. The prevailing strike of coal miners is a good thing for the Sebewaing mines. One year ago the men tnere were out and assistance was refused them by the unions. Now the men are not unionists and business is brisk. More orders are in than can be filled. A man n Chelsea has struck a scheme that ought to pay not only there, but in al] villages or cities. He has started a ten-cent stable, where farmers or anyone else can have their horses taken care of, instead of havinototiethemup to some post where they will be exposed to all sorts oí weathcr. John Riley, of Sand Beach. was touml dying in his room at the Snyder house at St. Ignace from morphine poisonmg-. He liad been there a week and complained of sufferinggreat pain from neuralgia. He appeared despondent and suffering more than usual. He was known to have morphine, and nc doubt took an overdose. Ex-Gov. Cyrus G. Luce has resio-ned is a member of the commission appointed to lócate and erect the home or the feeble minded. The nature of he work to be performed requiring .he services of a resident member L.OV. Kich has appointed John Hevener if Lapeer, to fill the vacancy. Lee Sexton, aged 31, was seriously njured while at work on asmokestack or the All Right Stove Co., at Coldwater, by a masón dropping a 6-pound I bnck, which struck him in the hollow f the back while he was in a stooping osition. He was picked up paralyzed nd ït is feared he will never be able o walk again on account of paralysis