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Day
26
Month
August
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Lots of wheat is being purchased by shippers at Marshall at prices raging rom 95 cents upward. The members oí Cranston, Oceana county, will build a new church, bejinning1 work immediately. Frank Johnson, Colou's missing1 man, s visiting his sister at Sturgis, and many sensational rumore are spolled. Jos. Strussie feil from a hay stack, near Stanwood, and landed upon a litchfork whlch penetrated hia luugs. James R. Rockwell, of Jackson, was leid to the U. S. grand jury for sendng a dunning postal card through the tnailE, Quincy's brass bai}d, after an existence of 21 years, haa disbanded for ack oí support from residents of the village. Slight írosts are reported from varous parts of the state, though not severe enough to do any damage to speak of. The survlvors of the Twenty-third Michigan Infantry will meet at Vassar on Sept. 14 for their thlrty-second annual reunión. Lieut-Gov. Dunstan has been appointed president of the mining school board to succeed Judge Juy A. Hubbell, resigned. Farmers in Saginaw county planted very little wheat this year and mourn because they can't take advantage of the high prices. Potato bugs must be thick around Saline this season. One dealers has sold four tons of bug poison so far, wlth demand still keeping up. Mrs. Abbie J. North, aged 73, of Teoumseh, has fallen heir to a goodly portion of the estáte of her brother, Allen Gregory, at Englewood, 111. The 900 employés oí the Pingree & Smith shoe manufacturing firm, of Detroit, have struck on account of a misunderstanding on the wage schedule. Frank Johnson, of Colon, who was missing for several days and was tbought to have met with foul play, has turned up. He had been visiting relatives. Chalmers P. Allen, a young druggist, of West Bay City died of appendicitis induced by a two mile wheel sprint on hls bicycle af ter which he took a Turkish batb. Jennie Heinecke, aged 12, was learning to ride a bicycle at Detroit. She feil under a heavy wagon loaded with scrap iron and her head was crushed to a pulp. Manistique has received another installment of prosperity, the iron f urnace there having resumed operations with 75 men employed, after two years of idleness. Broi. Clute, who was formerly president of Michigan Agricultural college, and who for several years has presided over the Alabama Agricultural college, has resigned. ötate OU Inspector Smith found that gasoline caused the recent explosiona of lampsat Grand Rapids, one of which caused the death of Mrs. Scoby and her llttle chlld. The Infant child of Mrs. Richard Martin, of Bay City, was taken out riding by a nurse girl. After eight houw eearch girl and child were found in the Michigan Central depot, at 3 a. m. The girl said she was walting for her aunt, whom she expected from Midland. Postmaster W. M. Barron, of St. Clair, indorsed paper given his cousin and deputy, T. D. Barron, and recently filed chattel mortgages on some property to protect himself. ïhe cousin is now missing, and a levy has been made on the vostmaster's property. There's a "car faralne" at Grand Kapids. Tlie G. R. & I. aud C. & W. M. are short 1,200 cars and other roads about 8ö0 more. Fruit shipments make great demands. The big returns shown by thrashcrs on tha wheat erop, coupled with the rice to whtch wheat has gone in the ast week, makes the farmer smile a arge expansive smile. Otsego manufacturing institutions are enjoying a return of prosperity. Two of them are building big addiions to the plante to accommpdats heir increasing business. The membera of the Ladies Library association of Ovvosso had charge of he cars of the Ossowo and Corunna Draction Co., collecting f ares for the enefit of their library. The lovers of trout flshing will make he most of the fewdays which remain of the time in which tiiey can lawfully go aftcr the flnny fellows. The open season closes September 1. Mrs. J. G. McCabe, of Coloma, was thrown to the ground while driving by :he seat of the buggy giving way. She was so badly injured that she died tome hours af terward. The widow of John Maynard, of Coldwater, whose pension was cut from $72 to $30 under Cleveland's adninistration, has been notified of its restoration, with back pay. An electric car oq the Salzburg line was struck and wrecked by a Grand Trunk train near Iïay City. Motorman iVank Tibido was thrown 15 feet, but escaped without serious injury. A traveling medicine troupe at Caro which advertised free shows, but charged 10 cents a seat, went away with $1,000 profit for a week's stay, and all the license paid was $10. Connection has been made between the twoendsof the Milwaukee, Benton Elarbor & Columbus railway at Bei lien Springs, but it will be several weeks aefore regular traffic can begin. Pepperraint harvest has begun at Muskegon. The erop is only half that of last year, because of the decreased acreage, wet spring and frosts. Only 90 cents per pound is offered for the oil. The city fathers at Midland have been ask to grant a 10-year franchise grivinsr the exclusive rights for the telephone business ia the village, the prices for service to be 815 and 820 per year. Prof. Harry Miner who called himself the great Brooklyn bridge diver, made a leap from the roof of the White mili, luto the mili race at Albion and was sevionsly and perhaps fatally injured. John Williams, of Muskegon, sues the Michigan Central for 825,000, claimiiifi that hls raluablo trotter, Charles B., was permanently crippled by bad switching at New Buffalo, while in transit. Cornelius N. Eckman, of Grand Rapids, obtained 150 pounds of sugar beet seeds from the agricultural college last On one acre he raised 20 tons, and talk of a sugar reflnery is renewed. The Q. A. R. members of St Clair, Macomb and Sanilac counties will hold an encampment at Yale, September 1 and 2. They will camp out on that occasion in tents, as in the days when they were in active service. Thos. II. Baker, of Shelby, agent of the Walter Wood Harvester Co., was arrested on the charge of embezzling $800 of the firm's funds. He promptly swallowed a large dose of arsenic and died before reaching the jail. A young man, aged about 20, deliberately threw himself under a moving traiu at the C. & W. M. depot at Grand Haven and his head was smashed to a pulp. A note found identified him as Lem Wilson, of Lexington, Ky. Lieut. Edwin B. Winans, Jr., ü. S. A. , son of the late Gov. Winans, has been detailed as professor of military scicnce and tacticsatthe Orchard Lake military academy, vice papt. F. A. Smith. Winans will report Sept. 1. The amount of building that is being done in Plymouth this season doesn't indicate that there are any hard times around those diggings. About 820,000 worth of residences and other buildings are now in course óf construction. Food Commissioner Grosvenor says the wholesalers who threaten to disregard the law prohibiting the coloring of oleomargarine till a test case is deeided will be vigorously prosecuted. He is firmly conviuced that the law is valid. Thirty mint distilleries are now in opcration at Decatur, and thousands of pounds of oil are being turned out. Several hundred men are employed in the industry just ut present, which livens things up considerably in the village. Horace Griffin and wife, of Manistee, quarreled violently and separated. ïhe husband made tracks for the Manistee Savings bank and draw 830 of his wife's savings. Mrs. Griffin sued the bank, and a justice court jury awarded a verdict of 83a The West Bay City council instructed the city attorney to flght the injunction restraining the mayor and recorder from issuing 820,000 bonds to build an electric light plant. It is intimated that the Bay County Electric Light Co. is behind the injunction proceedincfs J. II. l'otts, of Midland, met with a pecular accident the other day. He was flxing the chain of hia bicycle, when the hand in which he was holding a screvvdriver slipped and the tooi was drlven completely through the palm of the other hand, inflicting & serious wound. Wells and numerous stnall lakes and ponds throughout Kalkaska countj rise and fall in periods of several years, regardless of whether rainfall is much or little. The period of rising watei Is now on. No one seems to ffive an explanation of the periodic fluctuations. The indloattons are that there wilj je a large number of men employeí In the woods of Luce county this fall and next winter. Largo contracts for cut ing pine logs and pulp wood already made and othera nogotiated fó? will créatela, deinand for labor. Emmet county Indians have organt ired an Indian pioneer association, and will hold their flrst annual picnic at Cross Village, Aug. 25. The Indian, band will furnish music and the speak' ers will bc Indians. A large attend ancc is expected. Pat Kelly, of Marcelius, whose neck was broken several weeks ago, is still alive and actually recovering. At flrst ie was paralyzed below the hips, but iow he is able to sit in a chair and move nis legs, and expects soon to wallt as well as ever. The striking minera at the Monitor coal mine near Bay City have resutned work, having compromised at 87í cents a ton when they struck for 90 cents. The Bay mine which was paying 85 cents voluntarily increased to the new Monitor scale, The state convention of the Baptist Young People's Union was held at Fenton with a fair attendance. The program of addresses, discussions and conferences was enjoyable, interesting and instructive. A picnic at Long lake was onc of the features. Frank Thomas, of Merrill, took his wife and twochildren and two children of J. H. Whitney out íor a nde. The horse became frightened at a barking dog and ran away, throwing them out. Mr. Thomas was run over and killedj but the others we re uninjured. Mrs. Úrsula Burpee, who was ao quittcd of the charge of scalding the lcgs of her foster son, Ira, till his legs had to be taken off, has been bouncl over for trial on the charge of aban doning the 2-yearold chlld of a foster daughter at Ovvosso. The creditors of the broken Mecosta County Saviugs bank at Big Rapids are talking of conveiting the handsome Comstock block, which, being owned by the bank, is really their property, intb a sanitarium, to be cön trolled by a stock company made up among the creditors, Therc is a strange kind of bee, somewhat smaller than the native bee and with two web feet, robbing the tame bees in Lalceton township. The sting of the nativo bec seenis to have no effect on this sti-anger. They come in such numbers that they will clcaa out two or three hives ia a day. Farmers in northern Michigan are long on potatoes again thls year, and are hopeful that, in view of the numerous reports of erop faüures elsewhere on account of the bugs, they will receiTe prii-ci fl' tui' ir erop tbat will leave them a decent margin pf proflt, something they have not had for sev eral yeais. Several boys were playlng Jn tha wheat bins of the elcvator at Centrevillc when Roy Uu tier, aged 13, gofc into a bin that was being emptied. He at once discovered his danger, bufc bef ore the others i:ould asslst him he had sank out of sight. Six men worked 15 minutes to release the little iellow, but lie was then dead. The last rail of tho new Milwau kee, Benton Harbor ife Columbus rail road, from Benton Harbor to Bu chañan, has been latd. The people oí Berricn SpriDgs eelebrated the event, which is expected to result In a hg boom for the village, so long without communicatlon with the outside world, save by the wagon roads. The largest artesian well in that part of the state, on the grounds of the Northern Michigan asyluin, sfTuck' water at 93 feet and has a flow of 20,000 barrels daily. It will be piped through the institution and grounds and will be more than ampie for tha asylum, which now has over 1,000 patients. It will be a saving of several thotisand dollars annually and will furnish better water and more of it. The entire plant of the chemical works of the Elk Rapids Iron Co. was totally destroyed by fire, which caused a loss of $15,000. The loss will be greatly feit as it was one of the principal industries of the town. Alva Parks was thrown from a buggy and the hose cart passed over him causing paralysis from the neck down. and he cannot recover. John Herman was badly in jured by falling from the roof oi the burning building. In April, 1894, Newell B. Parsons,, confidential clerk of the Wells-Stone Co., of Saginaw, stole 81,600 worth of jewelry and 8460,000 worth of bonds from the vaults and skipped. Ile was captured at Grand Rapids and nearly all of the stuff was recovered. Parsons got five yearsat Jackson on one charge, with other charges hanging over him. The prosecutor has had the latter nolle prossed and Parsons friends are now working for a pardon. Gen .1. H. Kidd, of Ionia, was called to Lake Champlain, N. Y., whore he met President McKinley apd party"TScludSecretary of War Algei1, and was tendered and accepted the position of sec retary of the board of engineers for deep waterways from the Grcat lakes to the Atlantic seaboard. The position carries a salary of $3,000 a year and expenses. The other members of the board are: Maj. C. W. Raymond, U. S. A., president, and Messrs. Noble, of Chicago, and Wisner, of Detroit. Secretary Sherman has submitted to the Japanesn government an answer to Japan 's last note relating to the annaxation of Hawaii to the United States. It is marked by lts friendly expressions lowacd Japan, which givti. special satisfattion in view of the somewhat strained relatJons resulting from tlie previous correspondcncc. Hroiterates the position taken by the secietary of state as to the rig-ht and propriety of annexing Hawaii to the United States. With this, however, is coupled an assurance that the inerests of Japan in Hawaii will be iulJy saXeguarded. -' -.,-

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