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Harts Vance Boguri, a farmer living about five miles from Homer, hung himself with a chain from a scaffold in his barn. A Charlotte man has invented a chicken coop for shipping use which can be taken apart or put together without the use of tools. James O'Hara of East Saginaw, who was injured by the cars near East Tawas the other day, has since died of his injuries. It has been discovered that an attempt was recently made to rob the grave of Mrs. John A. Gale of Ypsilanti. The attempt failed. TenEyck's shingle mill in East Saginaw was partially destroyed by fire the other morning. The loss is about $15,000. The mill will be rebuilt. Mrs. M Sage of Delford, Tuscola county, has received word that she has fallen heir to about $10.000 through the death of an aunt in New York. J. H. Pixley, well known to thousands as one of the old Pixley & Grannis concert company, is now an employe of a crockery dealer in Grand Rapids. A big discovery of silver is reported five miles northwest of Lands, a small station on the Chicago & Northwestern road, about 20 miles below Negaunee. Frank Belding, aged 40, the youngest in the family after which the town of Belding was named, died in New York recently, and was brought home for burial. Prof. H. W. Dubie has been chosen professor of music in Olivet college. He has been a pupil of Winkelmann and Held, and is a graduate of Halberstadt college, Germany. Assistant United States Geologist Wooster is hunting up the tracks of pre-Adamite glaciers, which kept the Michigan forest fires and hot weather in check so many æons ago. The Estey manufacturing company of Owosso will put in a saw mill at Perrinton, on the Muskegon branch of the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern road, to supply lumber for the Owosso factory. Samuel Crozier, a prominent farmer of Claybank, Oceana county, retired in his usual good health the other night. The next morning his wife awoke and found him dead. Cause, heart disease. The supreme court allowed the creditors of the defunct Adrian savings bank $13,151. It was due August 11. Late advices to Receiver F. R. Payne from West Virginia put the payment off until September 22. Col. Charles B. Peck, who was formerly receiver of the Chicago & Grand Trunk railway, with headquarters at Port Huron, has been appointed manager of the Atlantic & Danville road, with headquarters at Portsmouth, Va. Charles R. Ballard of Jackson fell in with a party who invited him to shake dice. Charles did so, and at the close of the game found himself out of pocket $335. An officer afterwards recovered $295 of the money. Auyler J. Barton, a young man of Unadilla, is under arrest charged with setting fire to an Unadilla residence which was burned to the ground, and also a vacant store. Barton is thought to be responsible for several other cases. The John A. Logan post No. 1 of Grand Rapids, captured the set of colors for making the best appearance on review at the G. A. R., encampment at Ionia. All old soldiers say it was the finest G. A. R. procession they ever witnessed. Mrs. John Brunger of Charlotte, while cutting cucumbers from the vines, accidentally slipped and fell on the knife, the blade entering her breast above the heart, killing her almost instantly. She was the wife of an old and respected citizen. Miss Eunice Barclay died suddenly at the Tremont hotel in Vicksburg the other morning. A past mortem was held, and a coroner's jury gave a verdict of death from inflamination, brought on by a criminal operation by some person unknown. Halo Riddle, aged 3, dropped something into a milk can on a farm near Charlotte. The can was large and full of water. In fishing the object out she lost her balance. Her little body was wedged into the neck of the can. She drowned in a few minutes. Frank H. Rice of Flint, who was indicted last June for using the United States mail as a medium through which he conducted a swindling game, has been sentenced to the house of correction for six months and fined $24 upon his plea of guilty. A. Alexander, proprietor of a meat market in Henderson, Shiawassee county, brutally assaulted Postmaster Thomas Corcoran, breaking his jaw. Alexander was quarreling with his wile and she called Corcoran in for assistance. Alexander has been arrested. Prof. J. C. Stowell, late prohibition orator and editor, and later principal of the unfortunate normal school in Flint, was arrested in that city the other day, charged with assault and battery on the person of Mrs. Ganson, a lady of whom he rented rooms for his students. The officers of the West Michigan fruit growers' society have decided to hold their next annual meeting in Paw Paw, beginning probably on Wednesday, December 7, and continuing until noon of Friday, the 9th. The society includes all the prominent fruit growers from St. Joseph to Muskegon. The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad company will soon commence running a line from Manistee Junction to Grand Rapids, a distance of sixty-six miles, with a branch to Muskegon, and ultimately one to Petoskey. The proposed road will run through Kent, Ottawa, Newaygo, Oceana and Mason counties.