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MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS. Chelsea fair October 11, 12 and 13. Tailors strike at Jackson ended. Employers grant raise. Not a scholar turned up when school opened at Hillman. Edward Water, of Saginaw, was killed by a train at Hamilton, Ont. The shops of the Gale Manufacturing company, at Albion, have started up. Michigan's Free Will Baptist State association convention, Nov. 7-10 at Reading. Henry Shetterly, of Utica, was dan gerously wounded while fooling with an old gun. A chemical works for the manufacture of wood alcohol will be started at Mancelona. Marquette has started on an elegant city hall. It will be three stories high and 92x72 feet in size. St. John's Lutheran school at Adrian closed on account of scarlet fever. Ten cases in one week. William Horan, a prominent Tekonsha farmer, dropped dead while doing chores. Heart disease. Fifteenth Michigan infantry reunion; Monroe; October 4. First Michigan cavalry; Romeo; October 19. A large tract of land has been purchased by the Orchard Lake military academy for a parade ground. Traverse City's flowing well, with a capacity of 1,200 barrels a day, has increased its flow to 3,000 barrels a day. Ed. Culver, a Pittsford farmer, fell astride a hay sieve and received painfull injuries that may result in his death. Most all the lumber in Oscoda county has been destroyed by the recent forest fires. Gen. Alger has lost 11,000,000 feet. National bank of Sturgis which suspended August 7, has received permission from the comptroller of currency to resume business. Fire at Flat Rock destroyed Charles Sherbean's blacksmith and wagon shop with their contents. Loss, $3,000, with no insurance. Fred Russell, judge-elect of the Fourteenth district wants a convention of judges of the state to be held at Lansing. Good idea. William Stapleford was arrested at Bayport for shooting Henry Stabus during a charivari at that place. Stabus is in a critical condition. State convention of the Y. M. C A. at Battle Creek from Oct. 12 to Oct 15. Gen. R. A. Alger and Rev. Dr. D. D. MacLaurin, of Detroit, are among the speakers. Congress has awarded a silver lifesaving medal to George B. Dean for saving the life of Ralph Caldwell, of Cincinnati, at Gratiot Beach, Lake Huron, on July 17 last. The tri-county fair at Petoskey under the auspices of the Petoskey Driving Park association, Sept. 19, 20 and 21. Premiums offered exceed $10,000, largely for speed contests. A mob at Hickory Corners came near treating a local minister to a coat of tar and feathers for marrying Mabel Scudder and the Negro Mahoney, who eloped from Calhoun county. The new mill of Ross, Bradley & Company, West Bay City, is running with 80 men. Ultimately 200 men will be employed. The mill will have a capacity of 40,000,000 feet per year. C. H. Welton, agent of the New York Life Insurance company was arrested at Grand Rapids for embezzling $215 from A. S. Davis. The money was paid to Welton as a premium on a policy. Four suits were commenced at Grand Rapids against Nelson Matter & Company, who filed mortgages amounting to $214,000. The company made an assignment to the Michigan Trust company. A barn burned in Jonesville and in view of the fact that Jonesville is a local option town, the discovery of SO many bottles of beer in the barn made a sensation. The quenchers of the fire put the hellish stuff out of the way in a hurry. Fire destroyed two barns, tools, hogs, poultry, 500 bushels of wheat, 300 bushels of oats, product of 9 acres of beans and 50 bushels of rye, the property of Frank Mc Donough and brother near Howell. No insurance; cause unknown. John O'Gara's attempted suicide at Saginaw was the result of cigarette smoking instead of love-sickness as at first reported. He has been taken to his home at Nashville, Tenn., by his mother. His mind is unbalanced by excessive cigarette smoking. Thos. Stoltz, Jr., and his father were shooting blackbirds on Saginaw river when the younger Stoltz received a charge of shot in the neck from the gun of a stranger who carelessly shot at flock of birds between the two boats. The stranger escaped without being identified. The new $12,000 Deaconess home at Grand Rapids was dedicated by the Methodists. It is named in honor of Rev. W. J. Aldrich, who originated the idea, and is the only building of the kind in Michigan. Mr. Aldrich's widow and eight other women have devoted themselves to the work. A collision on the race track at a matinee at Tekonsha between two competitive horsemen resulted in the death of Arba Wilkinson, a farmer of Clarendon. A wheel to his sulky was torn off, throwing him to the ground and against a post, crushing his skull.
