Michigan Happenings

1 Frank Jacobs, aged 8, was drowned while bathing at St. Joseph. Huckleberries and blackberries are a total failure about Schoolcraft. Mackinae island has been formally transferred to the state of Michigan. Tommy Oft'ord, ag-ed 12, living near Hart, was drowned in Pentwater river. Joshua Bettis, a pioneer farmer, was fatally injured by a runaway team at Carsonville. Detroit officials entertained 107 representatives of the official family of Columbus, O. During a storm at Hart, lig-htnlng strucn the M. E. church doing considable damage. Children played with matches near the barn of Chas. Boutwell, near Mt. Morris. Loss, $2,000. Lightning struck J. C. JeDsen's barn near Greenville, and burned it with conteuts. Loss, SI, 500. Martin Dubbs, aged 25, was killed by being buried 100 f eet deep in a well he was digging at liayshore. A G. R. & I. train was ditched near Edgerton and 14 loaded freight cars demolished. Xo one injured. A stepladder feil upon the only child, a three-year-old boy, of Gustave Balke, at Owosso, killing him instantly. Andrew Corcoran and George Curtis were fined at Ferry for catching fish with nets in Looking Glass river. Willie Ganss, aged 12, was drowned at Saginaw by falling from a log on which he was playing in the river. Calvin T. Beebe, aged 84, one of the oldest men connected with the state prison at Jackson, died of apoplexy. J. W. Uuderhill, of Flushing, was arrested chai-ged with improper intercourse with his 16-year-old daughter. A bountiful rain feil at Kalamazoo in time to save the celery erop. The growers had begun to feel pretty blue. August Slate, who visited St Joseph on an excursión from South Bend, Ind., was drowned while bathing in the lake. John O'Hara was kicked in the temple by a horse at Minden City. His skull was smashed, and the brain oozed out. ? Chas. Harter was instantly killed by i being struck by pieces of a bursting emery wheel at Hostwick's factory at Millington. N. Perkins was in the undertaking business at Clayton 61 years and h&s buried over 2,000 persons. He has just retired from business. Mrs. Geo. T. Boynton attempted to suicide by jumping into Black river at Hort Huron. She was rescued by the bridge tender. Sickness. Mrs. Richards and Pat McDonald, both of Traver.se City, were severely injured by the overturning of a coach on the ü. R. A I. railroad. Battle ('reek has dropped out of the state base ball league and Jackson parties have purchased the Pindlay,O., team and will iill ths gap. Chas. Faust and John Johnson were cuuyht in a cavein at the Chapin mine, Iron Mountain. Faust was killed and and Johnson seriously hurt. The Hrunk Shirt Co., of Albany, X. Y., signed a contract with Warden C'hamberlain, of Jackson prison, to employ .100 convicts to make shirts. Owinjf to a drop in salt, from 55 to 4.". cents a barrel, Thompson Bros., of St. Clair have suspended salt manufacturing operations for the time being. Henry Doberton, night operator of the (. K. &. 1. railroad at Sturgis, was held up in the office and $21 of the ;ompanys money taken, by a masked robber. A 1 -year-old son of O. W. Riley at Círeenville, got caught between a wagon box and a beam at the Kanney refrigerator sawmill and his skull was iruaJaad. John YounjJ, of (rand Traverse Jounty. i.s wanted at Vieksburg for an dssault on m oíd man, in which the latter had his skull fraetured and five ribs broken. A farmers' institute society has been jrganized at Coldwater, under the law af 1895, with Hon. L. M. Marsh as president, and A. J. Aldrich as secretary and treasurer. " While learning to ride a bioycle L. 3. Kosentield, of Detroit, slig-htly hurt lis ankle, blood poisoning followed ,nd his leg was amputated, buthe died espite all the care. Chas. Heinming-'s planing mili was estroyed by flre at Sebewaing. It lad not been run for three yeare and t is thoun-ht that, enemies of Mr. Hemaiing started the blaze. lolin McDonough, Will Harnes, Asa nson and Frank Ludwig, of South laven, uere jailed on charge of aieged illegal liquor selling, the result f a raid by Sheriff Lamberson and eputies on two "blind tigers." The little villag-e of Unadilla ha had many mysterious lires, and th fire has again started at work John WebVs barn and its content went up in smoke. Loss, $1,200. Thr secret service g-ives o the discovery of a nevv counterfeit S national bank note, series of 1882 01 the First National bank of Plint. Th of the bill is badly blurred.. The iointsession of the prison board at Mackinac island reported 300 idh convicts at Jackson, 150 at Ionia an 100 at Marquette. It was the sense o the session that the contract labor sys was the best. Men were put at work ui at the Arnold mine at Houghton, pre paratory to work on a laro-f scale. The mine will be unwaterec and strongly worked as soon as it can be put in shape. held a firemen's tourna ment for the upper península. Visit departments were present fron Miehig-amme, Neaunee, Republic Lanz, Ironwood, Marquette, Hancoch and Ked Jacket. Dingenis Brandt, ag-ed 60, whili handlmg wheat from a stack to the thresher at Zeeland slipped and fel; into the machine. Uoth lega were taken off, one above and the othei close to the knee. 1 Michael Kreig-, a laborer at Detroit, was fatally shot by his son-in-law Wm. nía, xne xatier was enraged because his wife refused to live with him, od account of his abuse, and had returneci to her father's house. Simon and Edward Kastead tried te protect two girls frora a burly Negro. VVm. Rose, at Kalamazoo. Kose pounced upon them with a knife and both were so badly cut about the arms and body that thev will be disabled lor life. The forest fires which have been raging on Beaver island since July 1 have not done any particular damage to the farmers, but destroyed valuable timber owned by Chicago parties. The hay erop on the island has been a failure, but other crops are looking fair. R. E. Wigent, while bathing off Forest lieach at Paw Paw struck on his head in shallcw water and failed to come up. His wife, who had been watching him from the bank, called help and he was pulled out aead. It is thought apoplexy and not drowning caused his death. Mabel Gray, the keeper of a questionable resort at Portland, was shot by Mrs. N. Pline. The revolver shot pierced her rig-ht shoulder, but the wound is not serious. Mrs. Pline was recently divorced f rom her husband and supposed her husband was at the Gray houise. No arrests. The peach erop about South Haven is the largest it has been in the history of the oldest fruit-grower. It is estimated that the erop will be 2,000,000 baskets, larger than has ever been harvested before. In manv instances the trees are breaking down from the weight of the fruit The Port Huron-Lexington railroad may yet be a success, although the bonds couldn't be sold. The workmen, who have 8,000 due them, made a proposition to wait six months for the money provided the work can be resumed and all labor paid every week in the future. It is claimed that $25,000 of the $35,000 necessary to complete the road has been raised. Miss Fannie Hunt, an esteemed young lady near Stockbridge, was on a 20-foot ladder picking cherries when hog-s knocked it from under her and she feil unconscious. An intelligent dog with her seemed to realize her position and made his inaster uuderstand that something had happened and thus medical aid was summoned in time to save her life. ' Lightning burned Brandt's building lt Durand occupied by C. E. Glover &nd Mrs. M. H. Glover, with stocks of groceries, loots and shoes and millioery goods. Glovers famüy lived tn the upper part of the building and were badly dazed and it was with diffi;ulty that they escaped. Nothing was saved but the scant garments they had on. The loss was J5,000. T. A. Carten, dry goods dealer of lonia, missed gloves and other articles froin his stock and made up his mimi that they had been taken by Mrs. John Morton. He got a search war.-ant and succeeded in finding part of ;he missing goods. Mrs. Morton is over 60 years of age, in good circumtances and an old and respected resilent and the news has created a seniatioü. A man visited Elsie a few days ago nquiring for a daughter of John raulding. Paulding disappeared 27 ears ago and his daughter was raised iy the family of Wesley Curtis and is ïow Mrs. Minnie Van Deusen, of Mcrtain, Mich. The stranger said Pauldng had left 870,000 in property in New 'ork City for his daughter. Many jelieve the stranger was Paulding ïimself. The report of Warden Chamberlain n the Jaokson prison for the fiscal 'ear ending June 30,1895, hasjust been resented to the joint boards of con.rol of the state penal institutions. Total earnings, $125,828.76; disburseoents, $137,"i0á. 53; average number of lonvicts, 803: earnings on contract vorK, ov.ibj. 4.-1; total cost 01 lood 2ö,60,34; hospital expenses, not includng salary of physician, $549.57; fuel, ights and water. $10,992. 03. Annie Kerr was arrested at Muske,'on by Deputy U. S. Marshal O'Donifli. charged with using the V. S. aails fraudulently. In answer to a üatrimonial advertisement she wrote o VV. U. Lucas, at Ked Lodge, Mont., tating that if he would send her 820 (ir o.xpenses she would go to him and ome his wife. She got the money, mt did not go, and Lucas made comilaint. It is said that Lucas was not he first "sucker" she had eaught. The American archeological institute as just awarded two of the four felowehipa under its control for study in he American college at Athens and - ome to recent graduates of the l'niersity of Michigan. The lucky men re Herbert F. Decoa, of Detroit, and ;iiter Dennison, of Ann Arbor. This s quite a (listinction for our university awanl is made only after carei exhaustive examination by a ommittee of disinterested persons.