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BETWEEN THE LAKES. The recent heavy rains quenched many of the forced and swamp fires raging in Michigan. A new Catholicchurch has been dedicated at Black River. Alger, Smith & Co. donated the site. John Boyer fell from the roof of Wagner's new brick at Kalamazoo and soon died of his injuries. Mrs. Edgar Tyler, of Jasper, attempted to commit suicide by cutting her throat. She may recover. The log jam in the Manistee river extends several miles and it is said to include 15,000,000 feet of timber. David L. Pearson, a farmer living near New Buffalo, has gone insane on account of the recent earthquak... Charles Williams, well-to-do farmer, ended his life by hanging himself from a beam in his barn near Yale. Norman Holmes shot a pure white "red" squirrel near Fowlerville, and Editor Peak has it among his curios. Joseph Besner, near Iron River, was shot by a set gun which had been set for deer, and will die from his injuries. Rev. P. T. Rowe, of Sault Ste. Marie, will be consecreated Bishop of Alaska in St. George's Episcopal church, New York, Nov. 30. While helping unload the steamer Colorado at Port Huron James Wers was fatally injured by a barrel of flour rolling on him. Warren M. Wright, of Ishpeming, has been appointed chief bookkeeper in the state treasury to succeed Will Evans, resigned. Firedamp caused an explosion at the Winning colliery at Blackwell, in the county of Derby, England. Seven persons were killed. Men are boring for coal about six miles from East Jordan. They struck a four-foot vein and will begin active mining operations. 1Lewis Stretch accidentally shot and killed Eben Ireland, aged 15, while hunting near Benton Harbor. Stretch is likely to go insane. Grand Rapids furniture workers will demand that on January 1 wages be restored to what they received previous to the recent hard times. Kalamazoo's common council voted to issue bonds to pay for the electric light plant. These are the only bonds standing against that city. A small force of men were put at work at the Norway mine at Norway, which has been idle five years, preparing for the resumption of mining. Andrew Dumon, of Tekonsha, while returning home from Coldwater, was waylaid by three men, pulled from his buggy and his pockets rifled of $180. The Negaunee brewery, has been removed to Duluth, but the plant at Negaunee will be used for a starch factory and potato whisky distillery. The secretary's books at the Michigan University show the registration to have reached the total of 2,850. This is a gain of 153 over the same time last year. The recent heavy freeze caught many farmers in Manistee county with their late potatoes yet undug, and the loss is variously estimated from 12,000 to 15,000 bushels. Foreign capitalists propose establishing one of the largest glass manufacturing establishments in the world, a plant of 200 pots capacity, at Delray, a suburb of Detroit. Jason Carpenter, aged 75, near Standish, received a divorce on the grounds of cruelty. In less than 10 minutes he had made application for a license to take another bride aged 32. The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wrege, of Saginaw, while at play, in stepping backward fell into a pail of boiling water and was fatally scalded. Bradley Matison, the oldest business man of Pontiac. has just made his first visit to Detroit in 29 years. He knew Detroit as a poorly-built old French town, and was hardly prepared to find a splendid city. Erastus and Dodson Webster were sentenced in the Livingston circuit court by Judge Stearns F. Smith to two years at Marquette prison for blowing up the residence of Geo. L. Hull, in Hamburg. Receiver Stone, of the defunct Central Michigan Savings bank, at Lansing, has notified the stockholders that they must put up the par value of the stock held by them to make good the claims of depositors. "Mark" Milks, proprietor of a lunch counter, Jesse Thomas and Clayton Sherwood, prominent young men of Kalkaska, have all been arrested, charged with having criminally assaulted a girl 14 years old. The recent dismissal of Prof. Gorton from the Agricultural college presidency is creating a great deal of discontent throughout the state, especially since it has become known that he was not given a hearing. Capt. Spear has had City Marshal Mitchell arrested at Adrian for tearing down a rail fence which the city claims was on the highway. Spear says the fence stood there over 40 years, and that established his property line.
