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FROM MANY POINTS. Condensation of Interesting Bits of News Covering a Variety of Information. Thomas B. Gregory, a prominent saw manufacturer of Muskegon, is dead. The Amazon Knitting company, of Muskegon, the largest of its kind in the country, is to be further enlarged. Another hardwood sawmill and another tie mill are to be added to Omer's list of industries in the immediate future. A special election will be held at Durund on June 5, on the proposition to bond the village for $30,000 for a waterworks system. Judge Person, of the Ingham circuit court, will report to the supreme court that the amount of back taxes remaining due the state from Gogebic county is $33,000. The comptroller of the currency announces the closing of the receivership of the First national bank of Greenville, and the First national bank of East Saginaw. Some unknown donor has sent to the city authorities of Marquette a check for $5,000 for the enlargement or improvement of the local public library building. The village of Fountain, Mason county, will be able to boast of a centenarian resident if Mrs. Jane McLane lives until the Fourth of July. Mrs. McLane was born in Scotland on July 4, 1799. For the first time Queen Victoria's birthday was celebrated in Michigan. Englishmen connected with the Adventists' institutions at Battle Creek inaugurated a celebration at Goguac lake. One of the landmarks of southwestern Michigan, the Marvin hotel at Augusta, is being torn down, and will be replaced by a modern brick structure. The old building was erected 68 years ago. Four hundred members of the German-American free mason lodges attended the annual meeting of that body in Detroit Thursday. Hugo G. Eisenlohr, of Cincinnati, was chosen president. Simon Pickerd, one of the earliest pioneers of northern Michigan, died at his home in Leland Thursday. He came north to Manitou island in 1846. At that time there was no white settler along the entire shore from Manistee to Presque Isle.