Michigan Happenings

Au Train is a county seat but has no chureh. Forest fires are raging in northern Schoolcraft eounty. R. H. Sherwoed, of Watervliet, set out 13,000 trees on 90 acres this spring. John Baird, of Grand Haven, was killed by a 1).. G. 11. & M. train near Berlin. The Old Settlers' asrsociation of Grand Traverse county will meet at Traverse City, June 5. Millions of little black worms are ïtripping tlie foliag-e from the inaple I trees at Flint. Chas. Palmgren broke his neck by 60 feet in the Chapín mine at lron Mountain. It is said that at least 150.000 peach trees have been plantee! in Oceana county this spring. Joseph Bell, of Alpena, was killed at Lake May, near Alpena, while lofrg-inw on the A. & N. road. Claus Fag-erman. a Cadillac .Swede, stepped on a rusty nail. A few days later he died f rom lockjaw. The authorities of Coldwater have reduced the price for tramps to 15 cents and the business is dead. Schoolcraft city fathers are thinking of better fire protection and will probably put down a series of test wells. Edward Robbins, of Ypsilanti, was found guilty of torturing, tormentinp ind cruelly whippinga horse to death. The ü. A. R and Oddfellows of Ingham and Jackson counties will hold a 5elebration at Pieasant Lake, June 12. It cost six Dexter young men $30 because Deputy (ame Warden Keil saught them spe;iring fish in Huron river. The annual general synod of the Reformed church of America will be held !n Grand Rapids during the week of June 5. The rumor that a furniture trust ívould shortly be formed at Grand Rapids s denied by the leading manufacturers. Dell Slantzse, apcd 17, near Ivalamaloo, was killed whüe dragging in a 3eld. H was found dead under one oí the horses. Rudoiph Abram shipped the first lot 3Í strawberries of the season f rom St. Joseph on the steamer Puritan to a Chicago merchant. Charles Dolph. 35 years of age, crim'nally assaulted his 12-year-old steplaug-hter at üwosso and was arrested ind jailed at Corunna. n'M': on. has a eow whiei, side of in i i were twins and the next trip] ; Saginaw authorities have discovered that thl; ' Kid Ie. whoin the county su] tm severa] years. Jeitani of severa! thousand dollars. lAbout :. fed to stock in Lapeer eounty this winter. It is nou impossible tobuy wheat mLapeerand milis and elvatort closing1. uieut. uov. .Mi mes sent h,tionto'Gov, Rich to take effect Ma That is the day when the legislative ■ session close-, and when Milnes' duties as president of the senate cease. At Washington, Narvey O. Carr j superintendent of the Urano Rápida pólice department, was re-elected secretaryand treasurer of the National Assoeiation of i'olice Superintendents. George McDonald, a Detroit merehant, is the latest victim of tne deadlv folding bed, and helies at Harper hospital threatened with permanent paralysis. At Summit City a gang of rowdies attacked Charles Wood. and one of them struck him in the face vvith a heavy stone injuries which may prove fatal. A well flowing 770,000 gallons oí, water every 34 hours has been struek I on the farm of Wm. Fox, near Kochester. The roar of the water can be heard several roda. Gerrit Van Lenta, an employé of the Walsh Deroo mili at Holland, had his entire arm and side from the shoulder down to his ribs ground into pieees bet ween two cog wheels. A huge meteor fell near Xiles and exploded. The sound was heard a long distante and frightened many farmers. The meteor was accompanied by brilliantly colored lights. Mrs. J. ü. Ross left her home at Rochester to place flowers on her : daughter's grave, as was her custom I twice a week. A few hours afterward 1 a boy found her at the cemeterv ffate, dead. J An amendment to Jackson"s charter this year changed the time for paying city taxes f rom May to July. consequently the treasury is empty and no prospect of replenishing it for nearly two montlis. I William M. Smith. aged 35, an alleged leader in the famous strike on i the Grand Trunk raihvay last year i was arrested on lus father's farm, near Holly, charged with causing the fatal wreek at Kattle Creek last Jnly. The lumber outlook at Muskegon is improving. The Thayer lumber company wul stock their mil] u-ith timber cut near Hungerford, Newaygo county. Their tract of pine in that section 'is estimated to contain 40,000,000 feet. The new city administration is reforming Bessamer. Not onlv are houses of ill-fame, saloons and "gambling houses kept closed onSanday, but restaurants, billiard halls, club rooms, stores, livery barns and barber shobs as well. D. D. Vannocker moved his elevator from Ridgeway to Britton on a üO-foot j flat car over the C. .1. & M. road. over two miles, in two hours and :o minutes. The ia 2L'x."0 and 4ü i feet high, with a capacito for 8,000 bushels. j _ Henry Wegel shot hiraself in the right lung at the rooms oí Nora Arsenault, his former sweetheart at Bast Jordán. They had been in each others company a great deal, although both were married, but the woraan had refused to receive Wegel lately. Danaher & Melindy, of Ludington. uill begin vvork next month on a sawmill on the Tahquamenon river, eight miles east of Seney. The firm have over 100,000,000 feet of pine to cut, enough to keep a mili of average capaeity busy for eight or ten vears. Fire destroyed over half of the lumber and all of the buildings of the Dwight Lumber company, at Detroit. The plant of the lumber company is ; situated at the corner of Scotten avenue and the M. C. railroad and extends lover two blocks. The loss is fullv 880,000. Mrs. Kate Garrett. of Adeláide, South Australia, and Mrs. Broughton. of Saginaw, have just been rennited after a separation of 40 years. They left Eng-land when yoiing women, soon after inarriag'e, one coming tó this country and the other g-oing to Australia. The uews carne frora Xew York that Charles C. Poe, the only son of Gen. O. M. Poe, had died suddenly. Mr. Poe was 3ö years old, and was born in Massillon, O. He graduated from the Annapolis Naval academy, and organizel and was commanding officer of the Detroit braneh of the naval reserves from which sprang the Michigan organization. The 21st annual re-union of the Loomis Battery was held in Coldwater. Ofticers chosen: President, A. J. Hanna, Coldwater; vice-president, C. A. Lee, Coldwater; secretary and treasurer, J. T. Beadle, Detroit; captain, Murray Tilton, Matteson: historian, S. F. Dwight, Hillsdale; poet, John T. lack, Detroit; orator, J. W. Streeter, Ühicago. The reunión closed with a janquet. The next session will be Ueld in Coldwater, May, 1890. The Prohibition state central comnittee held a heated session at (rand Uapids on the Todd-Fanning controrersy. The resolutions adoptad at the 'snap" meeting at Lansing, exoneratng- A. M. Todd, of Kalamazoo, of the ;harge.s made by Chairman Fanning .vere unanimously adopted. Chair Fanning was asked to resign. but refnsed Mr. Todd. A. C. isner and iohn Harloud resifined. K. A. Iüchirds, of Saranac, was elected treasirer vice Todd. T. C. Sherwood, state bank commislioner says: "The business outlook is :ertainly eneouragin. From the rxrts of the eondition of the banks aay.7, I see there is a very substanïal increase in deposits over their last eport. The banks register the busiless eondition of the country as quiek 1 v md as correctly as does the thermometer the temperature of the air. I jrophesy that the next year's will be jetter business than this generation as witne.ssed, and base my prediction n the effects of the former pank-s. specially that of 1873." A state spelling contest at I,ansiug s pojeted by tlie pedagog-ues.