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MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS. David Moore, a prominent business man and politician of Port Huron, died on the 26th. There is a smallpox scare at Hart and the schools will be closed to await developments. Owosso business men have raised $10,000 to be used to induce factories to locate in that city. The quarantine placed on about 50 citizens of Standish on account of black diphtheria has been raised. The ice companies at Jackson have formed a combine, and as a result the price of that commodity will go up. On the 26th, at Iron Mountain, Aug. Johnson, a Swede, was attacked and stabbed by five men. He cannot live. Jas. A. Moore, member of the city council of Traverse. City, committed suicide by shooting himself on the 1st. He was despondent. Thos. Flaven, a contractor of Port Huron, has mysteriously disappeared, and his friends are at a loss to account for his whereabouts. The village council of Centreville on the 2nd passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in this village after May 1. The F. & P. M. Ry. Co. on the 6th filed a $50,000,000 mortgage in the circuit court at St. Joseph in favor of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., of New York. It is said that the Pere Marquette railroad is planning to reduce fares to a flat two-cent per mile rate, and cut out mileage and all privileged transportation. Cornelius DeBryam, of Kalamazoo, is dead as the result of the cat bite received a week ago. DeBryam was one of the pioneer celery growers, and was over 80 years of age. Notwithstanding the presence of the legislature and its blighting influence on the surplus, Michigan started business on the 1st "with a balance of $2,789,730 25 in its strong box. Samuel B. Collins, member of the state house of representatives from Jackson in 1899-1900, died in that city on the 1st. For years he had been one of Jackson's foremost citizens. The members of the Carpenters and Joiners' union at Port Huron, 150 in all, are on a strike. They want 25 cents an hour, with nine hours' work and pay day on Saturday night. The Champion Copper Co. at Houghton has let the contract for 52 sevenroom houses; 40 at the mine and 12 at the mills site to Parker & Hamil, Hancock. Ora Passage and M. A. Patterson were seriously injured by the explosion of a 15-horse power gas engine at the Hamilton rifle factory at Plymouth on the 1st. It is thought both men will recover. Wm. Westbrook. Chas. Van Zandt and Norman T. Bisbing, the three Farmington burglars, have been bound over to the circuit court for trial on the charge of assault with intent to commit murder. Bank Examiner Selden says that the first dividend to be declared in the case of the First National bank of Niles. will exceed 10 per cent. He intimates it will be 25 per cent, and that it may be paid in a couple of weeks. Ex-Senator R. D. Graham, who owns large fruit farms near Grand Rapids, says that fruit prospects are very flattering at the present time. Peach trees are especially promising, the buds coming through the winter uninjured. Two rural mail routes have been established at Holland, one along the south side of Black lake and south to Laketown and Filmore in Allegan county; the second running east and north through townships Holland and Olive. John Vosberg, aged 13, of Grand was sent home from school with a note from his teacher, reprimanding him. His mother insisted on showing the note to his father, and while she was absent the lad shot himself, dying on the 2nd. The National bank of Ionia, in process of formation to succeed the private bank of Webber Bros., will be in operation by May 1st. The capital stock will be $50,000, and a strong feature is the fact that the stock will be limited to $3,000 to any one man. The Port Huron canal commission and the board of estim ites held a joint meeting on the 3d to discuss the canal project. The board of estimates agreed to provide for the $100,000 bonds necessary for the construction of the canal. The contract will, in all probability, be awarded to the Standard Construetion Co., of Cleveland. David Henning, the millionaire who died at Battle Creek on the 1st, was known one time as the "Chicago Apple King." Henning learned the cooper
