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wealthy and aristocratic people and the marriage of Miss Mary Bradley to Simeon Brooks was made a special occasion. March 15, 1856, Brooks died under mysterious circumstances as the result of arsenic poisoning. as was afterward proved. Mrs. Brooks was arrested on complaint of D. H. Stuart, a neighbor, and charged with the murder. The jury found a verdict of guilty and Judge Abner Pratt sentenced Mrs. Brooks to prison for life. When pardoned she had served nearly twenty-five years. She now marries the complaining witness in the murder case. A paying natural gas well has been struck on the Goodrich property near Port Huron. Plainwell has been enjoying a building boom all summer. A large brick hotel has just been completed and a brick building for the Plainwell News is in course of erection. The dead man whose body was found floating in the ship canal at St. Joseph Aug. 17 and who was supposed to have been murdered by George Boucher, who is now in jail awaiting trial, is without doubt William Hawkins of 320 Washington street, Michigan City. Charles H. Crane has been appointed receiver of the Central Michigan Savings Bank at Lansing, to succeed George W. Stone, who resigned after six years' service. Battery H, First Michigan light artillery, held its reunion at St. Clair and elected John Higgs, Detroit, president, and Geo. Lewis, Highland Station, secretory. The sheds on the Stimson dock at Muskegon, together with a large quantity of shingles, burned. Loss $18,000, fully covcred by insurance. James Whitney of Columbus, Ohio, who was sleeping in a box car which was in the shed, narrowly escaped being burned to death.