Michigan News Items

Comuna voted down.r- by a inájority of 46- a proposition tó boñd for a mifntdlpal lighting1 plant. Xotn Toyle was found unconseioua at Ovvosso and he claims to have been sandbagg-ed and robbed of $64. Uucle Sam will soon let a 810,000 contract for up the old Fort Brady reservation at the Soo as a park. James Slocura, of the Star Island house at St. Clair Flats, was fiued 8225 for selling liquor without a liccnse. Frank Miller's bain burned near Dundee with 20 tons of hay, 700 busfaels of oats and $300 worth of machinery. Three large barns on the Golden stock farm near Hart burned and a man'a bones were found in the debris. Andrew Jones, aged 25, a railroad boilermaker, out of a job, died from a heavy dose of strychnine, taken af ter a spvee at Jackson. R. Lee Root, superintendent of the Bay de Noe Lumber Co., at Nahnia, was knoeked down and crushed to death by a tram car. ïhe new railroad from Van Buren, Kalkaska eounty, to Kalkaska and ürayling, will upen up a large territory for Grand liapids wholesalers. John EUison, who killed his father last spring to avenge the wrongs of his dead mother, was found guilty by the Kent circuit court and sent to Jackson for Ufe. The large refrigerator of A. F. A. Kolhaus burned at Calumet with a loss of SI, 500. A tramp was seen coming out of a shed with his clothing on fire, and he was fatally buvned. At least a dozen active caudidate are aftel the probate judgeship in Marquette eounty, to succeed the late Peter Pascoe. It is believod by many that Gov. Pingree will appoint ex-State Treasurer Hambitzer. Richard Dennis, aged 12, attempted to cross the Michigan Central bridge over the Kalamazoo river at Battle Creek, but was knocked into the river by the North Shore limited train and was picked up dead. City Atlorney Beaeh, of Saginaw, has returned from the Rainy lake gold región in Ontario, and reports that the Clearwater mine, owned by Saginaw men, is employing 14 men steadily and finding thiek veins of ore, which assav 840 to the ton. Thos. McGraw, who for nearly 40 years was prominent in the commercial afïairs of Detroit, was run down by a street car near his residence, 1085 Woodward avenue. He sustained a severe fracture of the skull and died of his injuries withiu 48 hours. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Woodward, of Flint, have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage at their home. Both were born in New York, Mr. Woodward in Geneva eounty in 1812, and Miss Elizabeth LaRoue in Cayuga eounty in 1817. In his latest bulletin Food Commissioner Grosvenor reports se ven arresta in Detroit and one in Jackson, for selling eolored oleornargarine. Of 20 eheese factories, 16, and of 15 ereameries, 11 were in good condition. Of 32 food samples examined only eight were pure. At midnight three barns on the adjoining farms of S. C. Dewey, G. M. Wood and P. L. Varnum, near Vassar, burned with their conten ts of hay and grain. ïwo of the barns were a mile apart and there is no doubt of ineendiarism. The leasesaggregate S10,000, with small insurance. Will Glasson, aged 17, feil down the Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet & Hecla mine, 3.000 feet and was killed instantly. He was stationed at the second pump, about 250 feet from the surface, and trying to catch the rope, was struck by the skip and knocked whirling down the shaft. The forest fires in northern Michigan and the field fires Ihroughout the state aio at last under control. Heavy raius of a warm, refreshing nature have fallen in all parts of the lower península after a three to five mouths' drouth. Beyond extiuguishing the fires, which had already caused huridreds of thousands of dollars' loss, the taina have been of incalculable benefit to farmers in enabling them to do their fall seeding. A map of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska & Southeastern railroad from the C. & W. M. line at liarker Creek, Kalkaska eounty, to L:ike City, Missaukee county, was reeeived at the railroad commissioner's office and the crossing board will meet to consider it. Thomas Hefferan, of Grand Rapids, is president of the new eompany. The piesent object is to reach a traet of timber near Lake City, but it is proposed eventually to extend the line to Alpena. Amasa Sprague and Mary Annin, of llanover, have completed nearly 01 years of married life. Mr. Sprague was born in Cayuga connty, N. Y., March 30, 1817. Mrs. Sprague was born in Geneva eounty, N. Y., in 1S18. Iiey ore married in Sew Vork in i ;ii and 10 years later they removed ío Hanover, where they have sinee eoutinuously resided. Both are hale, ïearty and well preserved. Four children were born to them, two of wliom are living. George W. Moore and wife, of Romulus, have celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. George Y. Moore was born in the city of New Vork, Sept. 27, 1808, and his wife in Gngland, in October, IS14. Sao ca. na -o America in 1832, and was married to Mr. Moore in Ontario county, N. Y., n 1837. They startcd the same day 'or Michigan, coming all the way hl a ;wo-horse wagon, stopping first at fontiac In 1840 they moved to Koya] 3ak, and in 1843 to Rotnulns, wl they have since resided. Of the seven liildren boro to their unicn sis are Still living.