Michigan

scariet ievor at urolton and the schools ordered closed. Sevcnty-three Kentuckians have recent.ly scttled near Boyne Falls. The Adrián college societies aro arraiiging for a grand llterary contcst. An enoampment of oddfellows was established at Bronson not long sinee. Frank Melbourne, a Charlotte mechanie, lias fallen licir to about $22,000, left him by an okl unele la England. James Vanderburg has been appointed deputy oil inspector for the Btxth district, with headquarters at Grand Rapids. The Kalamazoo Telegraph ptiblishes statisties to prove that the postofflee in that villagc does more business than that at Jackson. Down in the Constantine región the crust cuts the horses' legs, and it is impossible to haul f uel and produce into the towns. Henee some folks are on short comruons. Some folks at Hudson are greatly exereised by the fact that several recent eouverts were baptlzed by immersion through holes cut :u the iee. The converts took it more coolly than some of the spectators did. Tlie Mecosta Advance says E. K. Wood of Stanton, has recently bought the Shearer tract of land near Stanton for $32,000, ind also the Windsor milis and lands. A spur rack is to bc run f rom the D. L. & N. R. R. to the mili. Walter Arndt, clerk of the Eagle hoel at Grand Rapids, diil not desert bis post vhen the hotel was burning, but worked like a ïero arousing the guests, direeting them to safety and assisting in rescuing the servants. One fick girl he carricd out in his arms. The supposed earthquake feit in many )laces in southern Michigan provestohave been hc shock eaused by the explosión of oil tank cars on the Lake Store and Michigan Southern railroad, east of Laporte, Iud. The shock was distinetly feit at Niles, 25 miles distant, and even 12 miles further north. The Eaton county soldiers aro to havo a reunión at Charlotte on the 15th. At Charlotte the snow is so heavy upon the roofs that it lias to be removed to prevent heir bieaking down. Mrs J. D. Sholes and Mrs. M. Murra3r. wo prominent ladies and old residents of Teumseh died at that place recently. A five-yenr old lad named Peter ïuurkema of Grand Rapids was run over by a oaded sleigh a few days ago, sustaining a roken leg and other serioug injuries. The litle fellow liugored along in ereat agony until leath relieved him. The wood of the gum tree, so well mowu in the south, has hcretofore been eonidered piacllcally worthlces, on account iA ts ggravatiug tendency to warp and curl out of hape, but a Michigan man has invented a proess oí steam kilniug it as soon as it comes f rom he san , -.vhereby it is as tractable as any other nood. Geo. H. Van Etten, formerly oí Bay City, is the hero who has couquered the hithero unconquerable gum tree. Those desiring to send for friends in he old Country should now avail themselves of he reducíion in rates prevailiDg. Chas. A. Varren, ticket aent, 154 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, has received orders to sell prepaid tcerage tickets from Liverpool, Queenetown, Glasgow" and Londonderry to Detroit for L31 00, ia the Anchor, Innian, Cunard, Guión, Nationil aud State unes. The faro from New York to )etroit is $10 and at the above rate the oeean assage eosts but $21. Iiates for points beyond )etroit are eorrespondingly low on the prepaid ickets. Tickets are good for one year from date of issue. This fare from the old couutry ,o Detroit is $9 lower than formerly and should je availed of promptly. East Saginaw spent $52,000 for water vorks improvements last year, and now their s a cali for $75,000 more with which to extend he mains. Mrs. Winfield Baker, wife of a cigarinaker of Coldwater, attempted suicide not ong siuce by taking morphine. She will rexver. Ilcr husbaud was out of work and she [vas discouraged. The lOth annttal convention of the Michigan assoeiations of agricultural societies met at Lausing reeently. Thcy discussed all orts of things conncctcd with the agricultural msiness and elected ofïicers. The custom rnill known as the Red mili, at Albion, burned at 4 o'elock In the morning. It was owned by the Albion milling companv and insured in theMillers' association or $,0Ö0. . The loss is about $10,000. Jacob Baldwin, an old man who lived a hermit-lik(! life in a shanty in the woods of ionroe township, Newaygo county, was found lead one morning, having evidently been murlered in the night. lie has long been reputed o have had money about Mm, and it ii supposed he was killed for the money. There is as pet no clue to his murderers. Twenty dollars was recently stolen from the money drawer of the railway station at Roscommon. , The steamer Michigan and tug Arctic ire still in the ice eeven miles from Grand Haven shore waiting for an eastern wind. Lew Gilbert of Clayton, an engineer, was caught in the mili machinery at Hudáon and his skull cut and his back badly hurt. Four robbers visited the house of Wm. Parker, a railroad man at Jackson, and compelled his wife to give up all the mouey she had. , . The peopk; at Monroe are wondering what will become of their bridges, etc., when the ice in the raging Raisin rivcr breaks up. It is two feet thick. Efïbrts are being made to arrest McMillan, the absconding Wabah railroad ageut who recently left Milau with some of the company's nioney in his pockets. The postmaster and a hotel keeper of Burnside, Lapecr county, are in East Sagimftv and have identifled Wells and Armstrong, supDosed burglars, as the men who were arouud Burnside thrce weeks ago, when the postoflice was robbed. Some vears ago a man namod Comstock who'had been eashier of a bank at Muskegon, left that city, with the bank hls ¦ ercdUor for a large sum. The bank took a Í20,000 policy ou his life, with the Northwestern Insurance compaur. Comstockhas sinee died anü the eompany'contest.s payment. Henee a suit has been begun by the bank. Fire broke out at Memphis andbefore it could be subdued destroyed considerable propertv. One f tirniture store, three grocery stores and a vacant store owned by a woman at Disco. Four families lived over the stores and they lost almost everything they owned. The Clin! house had a narrow escape, being at one time on Ure, bnt the men succeeded in saving it. The postoiBce, which adjoins the Cllff house was partially torn down but the flre was kept from it. There is no kuowlcdge of how the fire originated. The IoBCs O""'1'}: ings, it is cstimated, will aggregnte $5,000, and the total insurance carried was about Wf. The village has no lire proteetion except that alfoided by two cisterna. During tbe fire J. B. Chessall hid one of his legs broken by ialhng from his building, and a man named Kestner had his head badly cutby a fallfng building. 2A new coal mine being opened near Jackson shows a four-footed veiu only 38 fee from the surface. An Italian was thrown from the cage of the Wolverine mine, near Calumet, and died from the cffects of the fall. D. R. Waters, warden of the Ionia house of correction, will choose hts staff as follows : Deputy warden, Samuel Stowc 1, o Ionia; clerk, Norman Bailey, of HDgB engineer, Henrv C. Sanford, of Grand Haven , chaplaiu, Rev. 'C. I. Deyo, of Mendon. David Colé, a oook in one of John C. Brown's lumbcr camps on the Au Gres rivcr, startedto walk to West Braneh, 20 miles, to take the ears to Saginaw. He was found frozen to death about two miles from Au Gres. He was about 40 years oíd, a resident of Saginaw eounty, and leavee a wife and child. Irving Canfield tcaches school in Spicerville, two miles from Eaton Itapids, and had occasion to punish the sou of Fred Spieer, owner of the saw and grist milis there. Fred went to the school to sec the teacher about the matter, when they got into a fight, and Spicer seized a heavy irou poker and struek Canfield a blow over the head, which, had it struek square, would have brained him. It, however, cut a large gash atxve the right car, and glancing, partially tore his ear from hishead. Great excitement prevails over the matter, and it is believed Spieer will be arrested on a charge of assault with iutent to kill. An Eaton llapids firm is turning out Smith's patent 6trap fasteners, composed of brass and eoppcr, at the rate of 12,000 per day. Too much snow at East Tawas to teil anything about the wheat erop, but tbc reeent cold iveather did great damage to the fruit trees. Miss Clara Coffin. 103 years okl, for 00 years a school teacher, and 25 years a resident of Jaekson county, died at Sandstonc recently. ïhe "Battlo Creek & Ionia railroad" is receiving quite a boom along the line, and will uudoubtedly be built as soon as spring open6. E. B. Griffith, colonel of the lirst regiment M. S. T., died at his home in Jaekson, of apoplexy without a ruomeut's warniug. He was higlily esteemed. Samuel F. Drury died recently at Dlivet, aged 68 years. He had been in poor hcalth nearly a year. Hewas a liberal donor and supporter of ülivet college and of Drury college, Spriugfield, Mo. The Cougregational church of Charlotte receutly purchased a $3,500 pipe orgau, and it lias beguu to arrive. Two carloads have come and one or two more will follow. It is to be one of the largest and linest in the state. Bellvue is bound to have a hotel. A paper is being eirculated to raise $1,000 as a xmus lor a man who agrees to build as soon as he reeeives tbat amount. Two firms head the subscriptiou with $150 afld $100 respectively. The grand lodge of the knights of ïonor oí Michigan met at East Sagiuaw, 125 delegates being present. All the lodges represented but five, and all the grand lodge oflieers iresent. The iirst mcetingwas public; the rest of the sessiou private. William Newman of Naubinwaj, aged about 27, was frozen to death while re;urning home from Millicocoa. He was a p onin-law of W. C. Ileyman, the well-known lisherman of Huron, Ohio. He leaves a young wife to mourn his loss. While Washington Langworthy of East Tawas, was engaged in watehing stores a 'ew nights ago unknown partjes trifd t.n dzttaa lis üouse, ' lirst having blown chloroform through the key hole of the front door. His wife, who was quite il!, was awakened by the noise but was nearly sulfocated with the chloroform. On her calling to her daughter the seamps left. Tlio liefctsbttnre. Senate, Feb. 13. - Petitions were received agaiust any appropriations for the artificial hatchitig of while fish, in favor oí the establishment of a board of poor comtnissioners for W'ayne county, for detaching certain lands from the village of Mendon, remonstrauce against the passage of the bilí to establisli a board of building instruetors in Detroit; also petitions for the incorporation of Mancelona aud for the detachiug of Hudson township trom Charlevoix couuty and its attaehment to ütsego eounty. A resolution was adopted ealling for a special committee of three to inquire whether it is neceseary or dcsirable to ascertain the present legal status of the Detroit, Grand Haven and Mihvaukee railway, whether the state has control in the matter of enforcement of payment of ,6pecific taxes, and if such right of taxation or "collcetion exist it is desirable to take any legislative action on the subject. House. - Petitions were prosented foi the formation of co-operative assoeiations and trade ani labor societies ; for the abolitiou of the convict contract system ; for the submi9sion of a prohibitory ameudment A large grist of bilis was iutroduced, the folloiving being the most important : To provide for the inéörporation of trade and labor societies; to give cttain school trustees special authority to examine and license teachers ;to amend the eontagious cattle diseases, act 1782, 3 and 4 of C. L , 1871 ; to regúlate trial of actions for damages arising from negligenee ; to revise the Kalamazoo iueorporation act; to amend and add a new section to the drain law ; to araccd act 2S(i of 1881, rela'ing to sheriff s' fees; to regúlate hours of labor and employment of children; to prohibit fishingwith nets in Lake St. Clair; to amend the law relating to selection of jurors to lay out highways. liills were passed to reincorpórate the village of Dexter in Van Baren couuty and to incorpórate the village of Leroy inOsceola Co. a Senator Is Cliosen. W-hen the legislature assembled in joint caucus on the 13th a ballot was taken for senatoi amid much suppressed excitement. This was no doubt caused by the reports of Senator Ferrj's alleged crooked business transactions, published tne day before. The ballot stood : 1 erry 44; Willits 9; Stout 23; Chamberlainl4;CuJcheou 3; Burrows 8; Palmer 4; Lcthrop 1 ; Wells 2 ; Chas. S. May 1 ; Newberry 3 ; Hannah 1 ; Lacey2; B. J. Hoyt 1. The result indieated no particular chango of sentiment and a eau was made for a second ballot. A motion to adjourn was interposed and carried. A Boiler Explosión. About 7 o'elock on the morning of the Oth inst., the boiler in Benjamin J. Grier's large saw mili at Charlotte burst, instantly killing Mr. Grier, the proprietor, and William Gordon, the enginecr. This mili i situattd near the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad and not far fi-om the center of the city. The first thiug heard was a sharp report and the air was instantly filled with missiles of every description. The shock jarred the buildings all over Charlotte, and broke lights of glass in some that were blocks away. The mili is a total wreek, and the building was torn to kiudling wood. The boiler, whieh was of the hcaviest k:ud of iron and built in the strougest poseible manncr was torn completely in two by the explosión and rolled out períeetl y flat. The engiueer's head was blown off. Thomas Sadler, an emDlove was in the mili at the time but escaped without a scratch. Mr. Grier was the most DODular and active business man m Charlotte. At the inquest held the following day eoncerniug the death of Benjamin Grier and Wui. Gordou. Thomas Sadler, the man who eseaped uuhurt. gives the following facts concerning the disaster: At one minute to 7 o'c ock he eame to the mili and Mr. Gncr and Gordou stood talking together. As Sadler passed up ttertal M?. Grier stood by the boiler with his watch in one hand and the whistle eord in the other rcady to blow the whistle as he ofteu did As Sadler stepped back from the stairfl S &SS anTffleiiaodn He tl en ealled to Mr. Grier, but reedvmg no answér, craVled out of the ruins The spot vhere Sadler stood is the only one in the build skull was erusbed. Il was nearjy an hourafter help arrived before he could be extricated. VVm. (tordon, the engiueer, had his head blown entirely off aud waá fouud twenty ieet from where he stood when the explosión occurrcd. He had worked in thls mili and another one, whieh burned. over twenty years. Gncr's milis seemed fated as two others standing on that spot had burned. The othcr men who worked in the nüll were all providentiallv late thls morning, and thte alone saved tliem". A strangc ineident occurred the nlght before the terrible aceident. Mr. Grier slept with his oldest boy, a lad of nine years, and before he fel: aslêep told him he feit that he should uot live long, but wished him to be good and take care of his motlier. At the inqnest no cause for the explosión was found. 8adler thought the boiler liad plenty of water, but that they had nearlj twice the usual amount of steam on for starting. Nothiug furthcr will probably ever be k-iown. Mr. Grier liad lived herefor a score of years was loved by all. Mr. Grier leaves a'fam flve small childreu aud au aged inother. iniclilgan iu tlic New Rlvcr and Harbor Bill. The river and harbor bill reportcd appropriates $8,000,000 of which $150,000 arofor Charlevoix, $8,000 for Chehoygai), $6,000 for Au Sable, $4,000 for Outonagon, $115,000 for Muskegon, $15,000 for Saginaw river above Bay City, $25,000 for opposite Bay City, $25,000 below Bay City, 825,000 for Grand Haven, $25,000 for Saud Beacb. harbor of refuge, aud 850,000 for Lime Kiln crossiug. l'erry in Washington. A dispatch from the national capital on the 13th stated tbat ntitber Senator Ferry uor Ilubbell would come to this state to attend the bribery investigatiou at Lansiiig. Ferry feit quite sauguiue of eleetion on the 13th but the ballot that was taken showed the groumllessness ol lus hopes.