Michigan Happenings

'Tis said that Manistiquegirls smoke cigarettes. Marquette rs going to have a statue of Father Marquette. will have a fire-clay manufaoturiug establishment. Destitution is becoming alarming in the north woocls, abput Nirvana. Farmers near Cass City earry water several miles. Wells have ifoiie dry. Detroit's four big stove plants are about to start work aain with fall iorces. The Presb.yterian churck at Uyron has been convertéd into an opera house. The Commercial house, at Vassar, burned, but most of the contents were saved. Loss $5,000. Salling, Hanson fc Co., of Grayling, will ship 100,000 feet of pine lumber to Cape Tovvn, South África. Women of Cheboygan have secured eonvictiou of C. A. (Jallagher, saloonist, for keeping open on Kunday. James Blake, a Cass county farmer, eaptured nine foxes in one hole with no other weapon than hls trus'ty spade. Burt Cameron, ag-od 10, a juvenile tough of Grand Rapids, i'atally stabbed Dlck Van Dellen, aged li, in" a street fight. Wilüam Sloan Green, of Swayzee, near Dowagiac, is IOS years oíd, ye1 be recently walked four miles to visit a relative. The "Soo" i8 to have a marine railway, whèreby Veasels ot ezceedtng KiO tons can be hauled out of the water for repairs. Sheriff Mills, of Monroe county, announees that unless his deputies report all violations of the liquor lans they will be fired. Mrs. S. S. Showers, of Oakle.v,, cut her hand on the spur of n chicleen slie was dressing. She will lose the hand irom blood p oisoning'. The local option law has been mistained by Judge Cobett in Antrira county. In February 20 cases againsi violators of the law will be tried. Residents the Vme of Gratiot and Clinton counties are movin to drain M.iiple river to reclaina severa! thpnsand acres of iiow worthless la The charity organlzation at Grand Rapids is considering a plan to start a public pawn shop with reasonable rates. The Grand Ftapids Brewing company will soon erect a new brewery to cost $100,000. six stories high- the largest in the state. Some mean fellow broke into a j Vienna school house, near Hint. and Iburned all the school books he could lay hands on. Prof. Joseph King, the splrituali.-t medium arrested at Vassar, pleaded guilty to working off a sham ghost and was fined 8100 and costs. Owing to the snow the narrow guage raiJroad is blockaded and Paw Paw is closed against the outside world, except through teams. Chas Kremble. an aged Germán, living near Buchanan. died while undergoing a delicate surgical operation at Dr. W. H. Smiths hospital at Nilea. Port Hurón has already subscribed 85,000 toward 815,000 asked to erect a fine Y. M. C. A. building, 50 feet vride, 130 feet deep and three stories hih. Fort Gratiot says her annexation to Port Hurón has worked damage to her in railroal facilities, schools, etc, and will ask the legislature for a divorce. Saginaw citizens kick beeause the liquor taxes received are unjustly divided between city and county, claiming the city has the most of the saloons. Chai-les Frieberg-, near I!ig Rapids, carried a sick uiio out of a burning house while flames roared all around him. The wife may die, and Frieberg is badly burned. The state board of eduoation have elected offieers: President. Perry F. Powers, Cadillac; treasurer, H. E. VVilson, Paw l'aw; seereturv, H. K. Pattengill, Lansing. Mr. and Mrs. Parratt, of Romeo, were struck by a Michi ;an Air line engine as they were drir: ig across the the track. IJctth were Í illy iniured and a 8500 horse killed. The new Alpenafc Northern railroad is opening up lots of new territorv. Farms are being settled, milis buflt and towns flourishing - Posen and Jackson Lake especially. Mrs. Susan Stebbins, agetl t;o. of Collins, was arrested for inducing Ürace Bugbee, aged 15, to submit to her son's beastly desires. Tlie son is 34 years old and'has a family. A Traverse City fruit and potato dealer paid out 813,188.53 for potatoes and apples last season, besides shipping for other parties, inaking in all three freight train loads of 33 cars each. The enemies of A. U. Sraith, newly elected clerk of Lake county, are torying to keep him out of office on the ground that he was never naturalized. He claims he took the oath, but can produce no papers. Chas. Warren, a farmer near liancroft, was feeding a vicious horse when the brute lunged forward and bit his victim's nose corapletely off. üther portions of Mr. Warren's face were terribly mutilated. A. H. Ashling, aged 63, a tinsmith who separated from thewife at Adrián uutuv years ago committeü suicide by sending a ball through his brain in the JSotsford hotel. Reraorse over family troubles causecl the deed. Mrs. Geo. Hochstadt, the young wife who disappeared at Ovvosso has returned. She s.ays she left home because of her husband's cruelty and would have suicided but for the thoughts of her babe. Nearly the whole force of 150 men ir the American Wheel Works, of Kalamazoo, a braTich of the wheel trust struck ag-ainst a reduction of 20 peí cent in wages. It is said the shop will be closed fr a ye'ar. A floating sawmill to raise logt from the bottom of Houghton and Higg-ins lakes, in Roscommon county, and to saw them on the spot. There are about 100,000,000 feet'of submerged logs lost by 1 um bermen in the two lakes. Graduates of the trained nurses' classes of Michigan University eomplain because amateurs foist' themselves upon the public as gradautes, thus securing good wages and by incompetency bring di.scrtlit upon the genuine article. Col. G. J. Lydecker reports to Secretary Lamont that the Kalamazoo rivei oug-ht to be mproved to Saugatuck until a 12-foot channel is obtained. Something might be done as far as Allegan, but improvements beyond that point are not feasible. The state board of health has Indprsed a bilí to establish a 860,000 hos pital for consumptives at Ann Arbor, where patients would be treated scientifically, medical studeuts would get valuable experience and physicians generally derive valuable pointers. Department Commander Louis Kanitz, of the Michigan (i. A. R. has issueu orüers severely eondemning the practice of soliqiting indorsement for public office on partisan principies in Ö. A. R. cireles and reproves in particular the A. S. Williams post, of Charlotte, for issning a circular to old comrades all over the state asking their indorsement for Philip T. Vau Zile for supreme judge. It is just 73 years ago since the first Presbyterian church in Michigan waa oranized at Wonroe, and the event was fittingly celebratedbythat church. Ki'v. W. A. Met'orkle, of Detroit, occupied the pulpit in the morning-, and in uia Bvemiijf uie auuienee wasaaaressed b.y the piesent pastor, Kev. L. Ii. Kisfell. The of letters from five ex-pastors and a paper reviewing the work of the church by W. II. Itoyd, ivlm lias been au eider in thie clmreh since 1839, completed. the ex eroises. In its biennial report the state blind school board reeommends that the minimum age for admission to the school be lowered from 10 to 5 years, and that education be made compulsory. Of 1,008 blind persons in the state, 500 might profitably attcrul the school. A working home would be a g-ood ihing for g-raduates. Last year there were 79 pupils. Military drill has been adopted, greatly improving the and sitting of the blind. The board asks Y14,000 each for the years 1895 and 1896.