Michigan Happenings

Gladwin's flrst W. C. T. U. is being organized. The Single Tax Study club is a new thing in Adrián. Flint Knigbts Templar will give a charity ball, Feb. 8. Mrs. William R. Wells, of Dowagiac, gave birth to triplets. Bay City is organmng1 a branch of the Michigan Naval Reserve. ISattle Creek ohurches have organized a non-partisan Prohibition league. There are 50 paupers in the livanch county house, the largest number ever known. Ex-üov. W. D. Hoard, of Wisconsin, i.s lecturing on the dairy to Agricultural college students. The new $6, 000 gymnasium at Alma college will soon be built with a museum in connection. Public meetings have been prohibited at Unionville on account of the prevalenee of diphtheria. George W. Burkely, a prominent farmer, near Williamston, was instan tly killed by a railroad snowplow. Louis Lackey dangerously carved Biar Crohn at Graad Kapids because the latter would not give him tobáceo. A log train baeked down a steep hill on the F. & P. M. near Midland crashed into an engine smashing engine and two cars. The huge sea serpent which has so excited Petoskey's Prohibitionists turns out to be an old sail floating upon a spar. Maekinae Island residents do not take kindly to the scheme to make the island a permanent camping place for the state troops. The women of the state are taking measures to e stablish two lady professorships in HUlsdale college, one German, the other French and history. The Union depot used by the F. P. M., the T. & A. A. and the S. & CC railroads at Clare was entirely destroyed by tire. Loss about 85,000. The Anthony Telephone company won the fight at liay City and will get the franchise, the prices to be $24 for residences and g30 fOr business houses. All of the factories at lielding are running f uil blast and in many of them the pay roll is complete. Business is lively and the prospects are for a prosperous year. Mrs. Gertie McLellan, 30 years of age, committed suicide at Jienton Harbor because she had "seen enough pain and pleasure in this life." She was in delicate health. A malignant form of diphtheria is prevalent in Traverse City. There were five deaths within a week. and the disease continued to spread. The public schools are closed. A dog which was on the lost steamer Chieora has been found alive eight miles above lienton Harbor. He was covered with ioe and nearly dead having been exposed nearly a week. For some time Hastings bas been without fire protection owing to a strike. A volunteer company of 55 men has now been formed. Many of the oíd ñames are on the new list. Wm. Gee, south of Belleville. attempted to thaw out an iron pump in the barn by putting straw around it and then fire to the straw. Result, the barn and contents burned. Gov. Rich has appointed Chase Osborne, editor of the Sault Ste. Marie News, state game warden for a term of four years, beginning February 1, to succeed Hon. Charles S. Ilampton, of Petoskey. Ex-Gov. J. M. Ashley, of Ohio, lias sent Gov. Rich a map of Michigan on which he has marked out a new county from portions of Muskegon, Xewaygo, Kent, and Montcalm counties, which he suggests be named Zach Chandler county. The ladies of Lansing will be given an opportunity on Feb. 22 to show what they can do in a newspaper way. They will be given complete charge of the State Republican. Many of the best known ladies of the city have assignments. Dr. George Benton, veterinary surgeon of Coldwater, was bitten by a rabid dog, which he was treating. Mr. Benton went to Chicago to take the Pasteur treatment. The dog is a valuable cocker spaniel which took a prize at a bench show this year. The bursting of a valve in a steam pipe at the Calumet & Hecla mine scalded five machinists so seriously that two will die. Two inhaled so much live steam that their lungs are scalded and they cannot recover. The others are burned about the body and legs, but will recover. Ed Van oí man, an empiche of the Ellsworth Lumber company, near Petoskey on the C. & W. M., fell into a log slip, where the water is kept at the boiling point by an exhaust pipe. Ilis flesh was literally cooked and fell írom him in flakes as he was taken from the water. He died a few hours later. Andrew Robertson, aged 45, committed suicide in a Detroit lodging house by taking a dose of inorphine. He left note saying he was sick and starving. He had either sold or pawned his coat and vest and had been forced to steal an overcoat He belonged to an oíd Mt. Clemens family, but was a wanderer. Fire at Fennville destroyed the Raymond, Hutchinson & Dickinson block and the Johnston block. It started in Barber's general store and burned the Fennville City bank, Herald office, three stores, a barber shop and several offices. The total loss is about 830,000. There was a heavy wind and no fire protection. During the tire Mrs. Newton Arnold died in an outhouse from heart disease. C. J. Eskine, an actor with Rice's "1-492," is a outüron and when his eoiupany was traveling through the snow of northern Michigan he had a suriosity to see the englne plow through the drifts. He boarded the front platform of a blind baggage car, and as the train sped on his experienee delighted him for about 10 minutes. It so happened, however, that the train ran 25 miles before stopping-, and when Eskine was rescued he was aearly dead, with his hands, feet, face ind ears frozen.