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THE TWO PENINSULAS. Port Huron police are raiding pool rooms which are kept open on Sundays. Mt. Clemens is anxious to secure the permanent location of the state militia camp. The St. Jose scale, a destructive disease which kills fruit trees very rapidly, has attacked the trees in Oakland county. A run was started on the Savings bank of East Saginaw by idle rumors, but the institution paid all demands without trouble. Lieut. Harold A. Smith, of Grand Rapids, will be assistant quartermaster-general instead of Capt. Ed. C. Bennett, who declined it owing to business engagements. Will Langthorn was capping a gun at Blissfield when the weapon exploded and the charge struck Edna Swift, aged 16, in the leg. Amputation at the knee was necessary, but the girl died from the shock. A wild man is frightening the farmers about Bridgeport half to death. The farmers who have seen him say he is eight feet tall, has a face like a gorilla and is covered with hair. Bank Commissioner Ainger has shut the doors of the Whitehall state bank, owned by the Whitehall Lumber Co., of Cheboygan. This is the first bank ever closed by the state bank department. Jos. Vallier and Eugene Buert were making a salve of gunpowder and lard at Menominee, but they got too near the stove and an explosion occurred which probably fatally burned both men, and seriously injured Vallier's wife and three children. Ex-Senator Emory Townsend, of Saginaw, declares that he will contest the seat of Henry H. Youmans in the state senate, alleging conspiracy in the election. Mr. Townsend, who was the Republican candidate, charges that there was an increase in votes at the last election wholly unjustified by the statistics. Land Commissioner French wants the state to plant pine trees on the state lands. There are 1,000,000 acres, mostly delinquent tax lands reverted to the state which might be utilized at once. Mr. French says that in 25 years the state could have fine growths of timber on these lands which are now useless, which would bring large revenue to the state. O. L. Partridge, convicted at Alpena, of embezzling from the building and loan association, has been granted a new trial. It was shown that two of the jurors-Wm. Munson and Chas. Habermehl-talked with outsiders before the verdict was given. These two were convicted and sent to the county jail for 30 days. The building and loan association will be reorganized. The extensive plant and greenhouse establishment of William Gregory, near Ludington was partially destroyed by fire, together with sheds, barns and a large number of valuable plants; the loss aggregating about $4,000.
