Michigan News Items

Manistique will söon be lighted by clectricity. The D. té. & N. road will g-o aronnd the villag of Maybee. It is saM píbspeets are favorable for an electrte railroad between Lansing and St. Louis. The annual reunión of the SixtU ! Michigan cavalry will be held at Ionia : on Friday, December 31. Scott Haywood, of Niles, writes that he has crossed the White Pass safely and has reached Dawson City. The barn owned by üeorge Metcalf, of Séneca, Lenawee county, was, with jus concenis, aestroyeü by tire. Dr. R. MoDermott has been appointed a member of the board of pension examining surgeons at Uenzonia. Miss Marg-aret Stewart, of Farmington, Oakland county, has taken out a hunter's license at Iron Mountain. Delay Babcock, a Johnstown farmer, was held up near Battle Creek by two ! men on bicycles and robbed of 825. Port Huron's auditorium was fornially opeDed with a literary and musical entertainment and a ffrand ball. Quartermaster-Üeneral White's influence may secure next year's eneampment of the M. N. O. for Grand Rapids. The Holland carriage and bending works were sold under mortg-age sale for $7,000. The plant was valüed at $30,000. Wm. E. Hogue has been sioned postmoster at Baroda, James W. Payne at Pompeii and William Gag-e at Luikville. Farmers around Crosswell complain thatthey ave uuable to dispose of their hay and other produce on account of a scarcity of cars. William Earaes, of Grand IManc tovvnship, the oldest man iu Genessee county, has reaehed the lOOtli anniversary of his birth. The supreme court has rendered a decisión the new fish law the use of nets in the Great lakes from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15. While a targ-et on a tree with his rifle Guy Lamereaux, aged 13, shot himself at Otseg-o. The ball entered between the ribs and penetrated his lungs. The Garland Buggy Co., has been org-anized at Kalamazoo and will begin operations before Dec. 1. It will turn out belween 4,000 and 5,000 vehicles a season. Samuel Campbell, aged 45, a freight brakeman, vvhose home is in Detroit, lost lus left arm at the shoulder while coupliug cars at Vassar. Recovery doubtful. George L. Bowen, a blacksmith, was arrested at Lansing and taken to Petoskey, charged with betraying Cora Hauser, of Three Rivers, who gave birth to twins. Charles Selters, aged 20, assaulted John Watkins with a club at Watervliet. Watkins s in a precarious condition and may die. The tragedy grew out of a petty quarrel. Larium, at one tirae a small addition to Calumet, has built up to such an extent that it is now a large town and promises to surpass Calumet as a business and residente city. Grand Rapids filled in part of the oíd steamboat channel, in order to improve yic market site. The -war departracnt has prdered the channel restored at a eost of 810,000. The Universal Coasü-uction Co., of Chicago, has been ordered to remove the steel bridg-es whieh they built over Grand river at Eaton Rapids. The company has demanded pay. Susie, the 10-year-old daughter of Representativo .John K. Campbell, of Augusta, Washten&w county, was burneel to deatli by Unocking over a lamp and catchiug her dress oa fire. Louis L. Sliaeu-i-, aged 27, of ,Saginaw, w;is shot and killed while duck huntiucr with Rudolpfa Endert on Wild Fowl bay. Their boat eapsized and the g-un was accidentally discharged. Albert E. Cowles, ex-judge of probate, bas forined a law partnership at Lansing with Lewis M. Miller, chief clerlc of the house of represeiitatives, and compiler of the Michio-an statutes. The survey of the maia line of the new eleetrie railroad froni Kalamazoo to Battle Creek is nearly eompleted, and the surVey of the loop from Augusta to Cinll lake has been started. Bnrglars en te red the saloon of Geoi-o-e 1!. Martin & Co., at Newport, pried open the moncv drawer of one of the niekel-in-the-slot machines and took the box, wiih between $50 and $55. Nothing else was distnrbed. George King-, iiged 18, was butchernp hog-s at Iirown City, when he slipped and feil backwards on a long kDife, which went clear throuph his body, severing his ntestines. He died ia great agfony. Mechanical Engiiioev Moove has thoronfflily inspeoled the Pontiac, Oxford fc Nm-ilnTii roadbed and finds that tlie rojKiii's onlered last summer by the niilioad coiiunissioaer's office have bet'U made. Augustus Bean and Mike Oroutt went on :i spree togetber at Muskegon and upou wakiug from a stupor drank from n bot t Ie contaiuing nitric acid, which tlu-v inistook for alcohol. Two funerals w-as the resul t The troublcs of the Benton llarbor. & Eastern electríc laüway, which has been tied up in llie courts since July 17, were. Süttled by the eourt setting aside all injunotlons and previous orilers and placintf the affaire in the hands of the otïicers of the company. The oouchee-couehee has the official sanction of a Charlotte jury, as being a perfeetly proper and moral dance. The jurv acquitted Prank Valdez, managet' of the girls arrested for givinj;' an exhibitiou of oriental musclo dancing. The ase aíjainst the girls w'as dicontitriied and the show con ' ued all the week.