Michigan Happenings

Pontiac's charity ball netted $250. The number of students at Olivet has pa.ssed the 400 mark. Munominee milis savved 400,000,000 feet of lumber last year. Pontiac Baptists have decided to purchase a site andbuilda new church. Mendon has voted to give Geo. F. Aves a flve-year contract to light the place with electricity. lBall & Kent, of Council Bluffs, will furnish plans for the new $70.000 court house at St. Joseph. The C. & G. T. railroad are making their preparations for their annual ice harvest It will be taken from Sunset Lake near Vicksburg. Elmer Sharp, son of the St. Joseph county treasurer. accidentally shot his sister Blanehe while cleaning a revolver. The wound is serious. Jake Eleenbass, of Zeeland, went hunting. Uis gun was accidentally discharged and the charge struck his knee. His leg was amputated. A man who registered as J. Hill, of Ornaba, Neb., was found unconscious and half dead in a room in the Sherman house Flint. He blew out the g-as. A social puiity ugitation is on the tapis at Pontiac. Mrs. Jane Dawson is on the warpath and is looking up the hquor bonds of the various saloonkeepers. The Soo is greatly exeited over a report that the I.ake Superior & Atlantic railroad is tobo b.iilt after all, anda line from Ottawa to the Soo will be the tirstlink. The Prohibition state central committee met at Lansing and decided to hold the state convention to nominate candidates for justice of the supreme court and regents of the University in Lansing, February 21. C. E. Pipp, of Otsego, feil down stairs and one of his teeth penetrated his leg just above the knee, makinff an ugly wound. Inflammation has now set in and it is feared that the taan will have hydrophobi. Al pena feels very bad because ehchas lost the Detroit, Bay City i& Alpem: road and gained the Detroit & Maekinaw, in which the name Alpena docs not appear. The livery baru oí Herrick & Palmer, of Big Eapids, was destroyed by fire with all its eontents except the horses. The loss will ainount to about 3,0(10. No insuranee. Schuyler S. Oída denies that he vu offered the ciiairmanship of the national congressional corainittee. He says the rumor started either in Chicago or New York. Thievos wayláid a Jewish peddler named Uynau Backe, near Lake City, and stole 1400 worth uf goods. Then 1 he hyenas poisoned poor Sacke's horse ' - ■ t oí shecr cussedness. A water wcll in Ogden Center, at lüü 'ci t depth, dévoloped a rush of gas, ■ '.oh the operators foolishly ignited, id three nours' hard work was reired to exünguish it. Co. B antl Co. E, M. N. G., will be usolidated at Grand Rapids. They 11 use Co. B's armory, which will ;,e enlarged. An independent cotnpany will take the vacant place. Stephen De Vel ve, a team ster, found in the snow at Jackson the body of a male child wrapped in newspapers and cotton cloth. Physicians think the child was seven or eight months old, and that its life was taken by violence. The dwtlling of Charles Freiberg, near Grand Kapids, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of abouí 82.0UÓ. Mrs. Freiberg, who was ill at the time, was severely burned before being rescued. Gov. Rich announced his intention to appoint Chase S. Osborn, editor of the Sault Ste. Marie News, state game and fish warden to succeed Charles S. Hatnpton, whose term of office will shortly expire. West Bay City has evolved a unique scheme for helping the needy. It is a bread-baking contest, the person who bakes the best to get a prize. All the bread is to be judiciously distributed among the poor. It has just leaked out that Congressman Weadock, of Bay City, hasentered into matrimony. The bride was formerly known as Miss Nannie Curtiss, and was at one time his housekeeper. Later she held a position in the postoltice. Thomas Newall, a resident of Flint and vicinity for more than half a century, was found dead at his home. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he died from exposure. The deceased was the father of Capt. G. E. Newall, postmaster of Flint. Mrs. Louis Darragh, one of the most prominent ladies of Monroe, feil down stairs and dislocated her hip. She was alone and lay on the floor until the next day before she was discovered. She had suffered frightful agony. There ttie little hopes for her recovery. Battle Creek papers are abusing the detectives who arrested Bodewig and other alleged train wreckers. The claim is that these Hawkshaws made a great amount of noise with but little foundation for it. The general opinión is that the bottom has fallen out of the cases. A bilí will be introduced at Lansing to provide for the sale of pine barrens upon which there are delinquent taxes. üften the taxes have been allo wed to run until they have exceeded the value of the land. The sale to the highest bidder will put something into the state treasury. Mrs. Terry poured kerosene oil over her clothing at Colon, and then set fire to herself. Her screams awoke her son-in-law. E. A. Bower, who arose and extinguished the flames, but not before the womau had been terribly burned. She died from the effects of her injuries. Mrs. Terrv was aged and demented. I Mrs. Cora Hasbrook, proprietress of the Ashley house, Ashley, publicly horsewhipped C. E. Armstrong, editor of the Ashley News. while the latter was getting his mail out of the postoffiee. The reason for the whipping was the editor's continual editorials detrimental to the reputation of her hotel, which have lately appeared in his paper. Many citizens witnessed the chastisement. Donovan, of Eay, has a pet bilí which he will shortly upon the legistature. As he is a Drivileged character it will probably gö through. It provides for a system of ventilation which shall by law compel owners to place it in every public building. He thinks that school buildings especiallv should have some better method be6ides banging doors and rattling windows. Mr. Donovan was formerly a .school teacher.