Michigan News Items

OwoSSO will spend $35,000 for new pavements. The state treasury contains ever $1,250,000 at present. Allegan county turnee! out 5,000 children at their third aunual Sunday school rally day. Johnie Grelliok, a;jed 7. was a victiin of sunslroke while at p!a y at Traverse City, but will recover. Win. Williard, ag-ed 10, was drowned while bathing in a brickyard at Laüsing. Felix Raiïerty, of Kawkawlin, found a four-foot veia of coal at a depth of 140 feet. An electric railway isajrain projected from Saginaw to Bridgeport and Frankenmuth. Co. II, Sixth Michigan artillery, the first company mustered into the state service at the commencement of the civil war, held a reunión in Oák grove, near Charlotte, where the company was organized 3(! years aga ;.Thc miners at the Monitor mines near I3ay City have struck for higher wagcs for screened coal. Gov. Pingree has pardoned Jesse Smalley, sent from Gratiot county last October to Ionia for one year for larceny. Levvis & Allen will start an axle factory with 40 men, in connection with their vehicle spring works at Jackson. Thos. Payne, aged 24, a promising young man of Detroit, was drowned while bathing in Lake Erie near Cleveland. ITarry Schell, apfed 19, was drowned at Stoney lake, near Oxford. He was swimuiing with the aid of a rail, but slipped off. Douglas Parks, who escaped from Ionia prison June 33, has been captured at Ellendale, N. D., while en route to the Klondike. Alexander Grant, of Monroe, has been made assistant general superintendent of the railway mail service by the postmaster-general. A. T. Mills' postoffice building, Thomns Mills' store, residence and barns burned at Minden City. Loss, 10,000; small insurance. Fit-e bi-olce out in C. C. Barker's mili on Water Street, Bay City, and burned 900,000 lath and daraaged the tramway and salt bloek. Loss. 82.200. The Ionia couñcil has decided to bond the city for 80,500, to extend the city water system, and a special election will be held on Aug. 16. James Miller's 2-year-old son, at Cros wel!, became frightened at some hogs that came close up to him and feil in a f aint and finally died. Many bears have been seen in the vicinity of Alger and Moore's Juuction. ïhey eat a great raany berries at this time of the year and are quite tame. Miss Annie Discher stepped in front of a binder near Willow. Iïoth legs were nearly severed between the knee and ankle and she will probably die. The residence of Mrs. Mabel Tyler, of Sturgis, was entered by burglars, and diamonds valued at 81,000 and a gold -watch and other valuables taken. The F. & P. M. railroad has issued orders that no person shall be employed in any of its departments unless able to read and wrlte gently. üeo. W. Delano, of Monterey township, near Allegan, feil from a hay press, whieh ran over hiin and broke both legs above the knee. He may not recover. The Black & Wülard furniture factory at Buchanan was destroyed by fire. Loss, 820,000; no insurance. During the fire sevcral houses were burglai-ized. All the groeery stores and meat markets in Grand Rapids were closed for one day and the business men with their clerks took a day off for their annual picnic. The Michigan State Pharmaceutical association met at Grand Ledge with about 50 present. Besides addresses and papers there was considerable pleasure indulged in. Fire destroyed a doublé dwelling house at Calumet, occupied by Capt. Joe Champion and Joseph Ilirsch. Loss f3,000. Mrs. Ilirsch and five children had a narrow escape. Prof. Frank Wood, teacher of science in the Bay City high school, has resigned to accept a position in the governinent school at Tokio, Japan, where he will teach scienee and English. Fred V. Verdien, who Is wanted for the burglary of Albaugh's jewelry store, at Ilillsdale, where he was night watch, has been captured in Chicago and part of the stolen joods recovered. The City roller flouring milis at Adrinn have started af ter an idleness of tb ree and a half years. With cooper shops they einploy 45 men and have a capacity of 800 barrels of flour daily. Two cave-ins on the Union street sewer at Grand Rapids buried Martin Neal and Samuel Knight. Knight was crushed between the side planks and killed, but Neal was rescued and will recover. Henry Smith's only daughter, Ethel, was burned to death at Dimondale by her elothing catching fire from a rubbish fire. The father became so despondent that he took morphine, but will recover. A rig driven by Mlsses Kate and Nora McAulift'o was struck by a Michigan Central train wliile Crossing the track, near Albion. The buggy was wrecked and the horse killed, but the girls were uninjured. Lydia Brown, a pretty Grand Rapids girl employed at the Ottawa Beach hotel, was brutally assaulted by a negro namcd Collins, who decoyed her to the beach. The ghTs condition is very critical. Collins escaped. Mrs. Lydia Bender, of Ann Arbor, opened the valve in the oven of a gas stovc and forgot to light the gas. Upon opening the oven later and striking a match a frightful explosión occuvred. Sho was scriously burned. Prof. Dave Anderson made a balloon ascensión at Leslie, but when 200 feet in the air his ballon burst. He was severely shaken up, but no bones were broken. Sam Beach got caught in the gay ropos and was yanked into the top of a tree. Thousands of aeres of lands returned delinquent for taxes for three successive ycars are certified by Aud.Gen. Dix to Land Commissioner Frenen. The latter is having them examined and classified, and will hold them subject 10 homestead entry at 10 cents per acre. The street cars of the Marquette Citv' & Prcsaue Isle line were taken possession oí ty the youtig ïaaics 01 Marquette for the benefit of the Fr. Marquette statue fund. They acted as conductora, ringing up every fare and no change. Tickets were not accepted under any circumstances. Whlle fishlng on Vandercook lakei John Fltzmier and Clarence Rnssell, young men of Jackson, were thrown into the lake by tr.eir boat eapsizing. Russell succeeded ia reaching shore, more dead than alive, but Fitzmier was drovvned. Frank Spaniolo was bitten by a tarántula, while handling bananas at Lansing. His hand and arm doubled in size in a few minutes, and hebegged the doctors to cut the arm off, to save his life. Liberal applications of ammonia and whisky, however counteracted the elïects of the poison. Dr. L. E. Fiske, the ag-ed ex-president of Albion college, had nearly finished an eloquent sermón before a big congregation at the Methodist camp meeting at Albion, when he suddenly turned pale, reeled and feil unconscious into the arms of Presiding Eider Graham. His condition is not serious. About 125 men and women of the Minnesota Editorial association struck the Wolverine state at Ludington, af ter a journey across Lake Michigan froin Milwaukee, on a vreek's outing. A special F. & P. M. train carried the party to Detroit where four days were spent in sight-seeing and side excursions. Wm. Claridge, of Ferrysburg, an old man, charged with attempting tocriminaliv assault a girl under 16 years of age, was found guilty at Grand Haven and sentenced by the judge to two years ia prison. The case has excited considerable interest, as Claridge is an exceedingly pious man and about 70 years old. The abandoned coal mines near Sebewaing, some of which extend under the business and residence part of the village, are settling gradually. People frequently wake up in the morning to flnd that their front yard has sunk a foot, and it is nothing uncommon to find the walls cracked and the clock stopped. Two tramps stopped at the home of John D. Strickler, the Michigan Central baggageinan at Ann Arbor, and asked for food. Mrs. Strickler gave theni and lunch and asked them to go. ïhis made the tramps angry, and one slappe' her while the other struck her with his fist, knocking her down. The tramps then escaped. Roy Nunn, who was arrestad at Gladwin on suspicion and discharged for lack of evidence a few weeks ago, has confessed that he murdered Curtis Wright near there and has been placed in jail with George Bartell, who was charged by the Nunn boy with committinsr the deed. The boy now says Bartell had nothing to do with the crime. Certain Galesburg citizens succeeded ia closing the public billiard rooms and now the devotees of that game propose to retaliate by stopping public croquet, which they cali "church billiards." The croquet lovers indulge in some rather heatgd arguments at times which the others say do not have the most beneficial efEect upon youug people. CqI. Fred Schneider, as guardián oí for Eudolph and Louisa Grammel deposited 83,300 of theix money In the Central Michigan Savingsbank atLansing seven monthsbeforeitfailed. He received a certifícate for 81,528 in dividends, vvhioh he turncd orer, upon hi3 resignation as guardián, but Probate Judge Porter holds tïia,t he must make good the f uil amount. While the A. O. II. of Port Huron were picnicing on Steng island George Keamer, a C. & G. T. brakeman, engaged in a friendly fracas with Miss Gettings, his sister-in-lavv. She struck at him with her parasol and the point of the stick entered his ear over an inch, causing him to fall to the ground like a dead man. He was taken home as soon as possible, but may not recover from the shock. Hendrik Jan Michmerhuisen and his aged wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Overisel, Allegan county. The same day their son and his wife celebrated their silver wedding anniversary and their grandson was married, making three unique wedding celebrations. Several hundred landers helped them to make a success of the event. The oíd couple carne to Michigan 50-years ago andaré well off. A national organization of farmers and fruit growers is being talked of by Michigan fruit growers, to handle and sell all farm products at a nominal advance over actual cost, thus doing away with middle and commission men. It is proposed to establisti branches in the leading cities and to ship the products where the best prices can be secured and above all else to guard against glutting any one inarket. John Boyington, of Durand, and an unknown man were arrested at Saginaw charged with raising SI bilis to 810 and passing them. The same day two young womeu giving their names as Bella Whitmore and Lydia Ward were arrested at Detroit while Willis Whitmore and Sherman Johus were locked up at South Bend, Ind., all on the same charge. Detroit, Toledo, Lansing, Pontiac and other points have been visited by the gang and a great many of the altered bilis passed. Niles grocers engaged in a bitter price war until one gave away a pound of coffee to every customer. Peace and order seer .to be the watchword of the strikers. ïhev realize that tliey have the sympathy of the public, and if they lose it their cause will get a black eye. At the headquarters of the miners' officia in Pittsburg there are daily many profiera of aid, and the majority did not wish the public to knovv of their syrapathv.