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Mrs. Hendrika Geukes, of Kalamazoo, aged 67, hanged herself. James Colter, aged 16, was drowned while bathing in Muskegon river, near Muskegon. Woodruff Parmalee was held for trial for the murder of Julia Curtiss at Traverse City. Algonac's village council refused licenses to the four saloons, but granted one to a druggist. E. C. Warriner, principal of the Battle Creek high school, has accepted a similar position at Saginaw. John B. Corliss, of Detroit, has obtained a franchise for an electric road from Jackson to Vandercook lake. John McClellan, aged 21, stole his father's chickens at Battle Creek and now takes his meals at the Detroit house of correction. Peter Iederdam, aged 72, was found dead in his dirty little room at Muskegon. He was a miser worth $20,000, and lived alone. Over $4,000 was found in his room. Adam C. Arnold, who has been on examination for murdering his son George at Battle Creek was held for trial to the circuit court on the charge of murder in the first degree without bail. The Michigan Trust company, of Grand Rapids, has been appointed receiver of the Buchanan Power and Light company on the ground that the assignee is not properly managing the property. The liabilities are $67,000; the assets, $160,000. Wyandotte citizens were justly indignant when it was reported that the bodies of two victims of small pox had been brought from Rockwood and taken to the Old Western hotel on the orders of an undertaker. The hotel has been quarantined. A. P. Crell, of Ionia, claims to have perfected an electric mail car which will revolutionize the present system of transporting the mails. He says the car will travel 200 miles an hour, making the trip from New York City to Chicago in five hours. The poultry department is something new at the Agricultural college and is attracting much attention. Before the season closes there will be 500 lively incubator-hatched chicks, and in another year 1,000 will be raised. It is the design to show the farmers that there is money in the business. In Monitor township, five miles from West Bay City, five wells have been sunk to determine the extent of the body of coal that was discovered there last fall. In each hole evidences of gas were discovered and in the last hole a pocket of gas was entered that made a blaze as large as a barrel. The law giving villages the option of suppressing liquor business within their limits will be tested in the supreme court by Chas. E. Shafer, proprietor of a hotel at Northville, whose liquor bonds were refused by the village council. Mr. Shafer contends that a hotel with a barroom attached is not a saloon. Jackson is in the midst of a Francis Murphy temperance revival. The police and the Liquor Dealers' association united in ordering all saloons closed on Sunday, and Jackson was dry. The few saloonkeepers who sold liquor will be prosecuted. This is the first time in years that Jackson has had a "dry" Sunday. The latest grand jury at Bay City has returned 54 indictments. The jury roasts the superintendents of the poor who, it is alleged, have conducted their business loosely and sold many goods to themselves contrary to law. Judge Maxwell instructed the county treasurer to collect from each superintendent the $50 fine which the law specifies. The residence of Mrs. Oscar Allen, an aged Coopersville widow, was bur glarized during her absence. The theives got $1,300 in gold and bank bills, $150 in negotiable notes, a lot of silverware, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, two pairs of ladies' shoes and a dress waist. Mrs. Allen did not be lieve in banks and kept her money in the house. A post mortem examination and an investigation into the death of Julia Curtiss, who was found dead in the woods near Traverse City reveal the fact that the girl was about to become a mother and that she had been choked to death, instead of having suicided as at first supposed. Wood Parmalee. an old resident, was arrested on a charge of murder.
