Michigan

Thcro has bcon a loar weeks fight at Adrián over an atterapt to break the will of Mrs. Sarah Warner, on the ground that it was not legally signed and executed. The decisión sustains the validlty oí the wflL Midland and Saginaw are now tolephonically eonnected. ' Two Italiaus were stabbed in an affray at Addison, Lenawee countv. the olher day. A man named Taylor, liviug near Unadilla, went out and banged himself in the upper doorway of his barn a few days ago, His sou was having a little dilHculty witli a cow, and ehasing the bcast around the barn found his iather haugiug Uure. He was promptly cut down. medical help summoned, and Taylor was partly resuscitated, but died about 24 hours afterward. He. was a man of sober habits but owed $200, and his wife, who had some money, would not pay it, unlcss he would deed her the property. This he did, and then troub'.e thiekened faster and faster unttl Taylor cut the knot by suiciding. Loren R. Aus'.in, one of the oid settlers of Brauch eounty, died at his residence in Batavia at and adviihced age, on July' 35tb. He was one of the pioneers oftbat región, was highly respected, and had ahvays been prominent in all agricultural and edueational movements in the eounty. ín early days he was a pedagogue, and bis studeuts are reckoned amongst the prominent buslne s men of the state. He was one of the incorporators and later the president of the Farmers' mutual insiT-srrce company, and was active in the grange. The Sunday School Assembly at Bay View, near Petoskey, is now in session. A new edueational onterprise is about to be started at Battle Creek. Miss Abbie Parker, prtceptress of Oak Park seminary, located at Paw Paw, has oflered to give $2,5W toward purchasiug a building in Three Rivers, anc! remove the eeminary to that. plaee, if the eitizens will raise $1,000 more. Her oiïer has been accepted. and the school will open in September, lts principal features, apart from lts classical and literary character, will be normal, commercial, musical, fine art, photographv and telegrapby, and kindergarten departments. Thomas A. Pond, aged 35, a railroad sectiou hand, eommitted suicide in Jackeon Thursday by hangiug himself to a rafter. Congressnaan Hatch has fixed August 23 at Bay City as the time and place for the eiamlnaüon of persons applj-lng for the appointment of naval cadet. All those seeking the position must appear before a board of examiners at the time. At the Northwestern Amateur Rega held in Muskegon.the Junior four race wa won by the Minnesotas by 20 lengths, with the Excélsiors second and 10 feet ahead of the Centennials- The last race for seniors was won by the Excelsiors, who boat the Muskegons easily. Two third race for lunior doublé gkulls was won by the Hiil=dales, Centennials seeond. A State Sabbath School Association has been formed at Howell. The following is a statement of the object of the assoeiation: "The object of this association shall be the promotion of the general Sundáy school interests of tbe state, giving special atteiition to the gathering of Sunday school stattstlcs, to the thorough organization of the couuties, and to the holding of institutes for tbe training of teachers." Tbe association is non sectarian, represent atives from all denominations joining heartily in the work. The contract for doing the state printing and binding has been iet toW. S. Gorge c Co., Lansing, and the Peninsular Paper company of Ypsilanti will f uruish the paper. The corner-stone of Flin'-' new opera house was laid the other day nilh imposing etremoniesundcr the ausie.sof the Masóme raternity. A snit is now being tried bütween tho heirs of the original owners of the land held in Grand Kapids as a court house square and the eounty to test the question of the title. If the suit is deeided in iavor ofjthe eounty, then the Campau heirs w ill test tbe title of the north half in another suit. If the heirs win against the eounty, then the city will contest ti;le witb them. The young man whose body was fcund on a railroad track near Fuut proves to be tt'rn. Quade of Ransomville, Niágara eounty, N Y Hehad.beon workiug in the neighborhóod and i said tú have got drunk occasionally It is probable that he was walking on the track and was struek by a train in the evening- Mrs. Neil Hindes, aged 77, one ot the pioueers of Kalamazoo eounty, died in Genesee Prairie, recently, of paralysis.She has lived n Ealainazoo countv since 183. Nela Xelson. a Dañe in the employ „f 3 II. l.aby in Fair Piains, was mortally woundéd by being erushed by a huge stone whieh he was undermining to bury in tüe erround. . ., " Dr Jas. C. Wilson, oac 01 rap ¦ ees of tbc state iuMitution for Ihe draf and rlumb at Fltnt, who was removed by Gov I Begoleaihort time ago, and who reiused to rfre up nis poeition, lias been suitained in h s riübt and title to tLe posüion by Attornc}Oenera) Van Riper. Frederiek Ducrot, a stave cutter ai Van Lauáeghmcn's mili in Mt. Ciernen, was instantly killed bv being cauirlit in a fly-wheel. He bad been a cutter for thlrty-two yeM8, Md had ncver beforc reccived a scratch. He leaves a wife and seven children. Mh. Newington, of Flat Rock, recentlv acnuitted of t.furder, had a year-anl-a-half farm "car Flat koek. VVheu Mrs. Ncwlne on ilfifil wmm fused, and now talksof habcas corpus proceedinu's, etc. Thp wifc of tapt. vv. r. iuuUf, KeSSSSsMS sas the deed. R F Moody, for atoont three years accounts. Messis. Mead & Fowle, two ; young men oí HIHsdale countj, have establishca a bank at SaultSte Marie. Tol O M. Poe bas been placed in ohareo of'improvemerts on Detroit river, in SXrtaoners escapad fronx the jainn lienien'spnngs the othcr „ght The postmaster-at Kalamazoo lias boai suspended for abseace iromhis postwitü out leave. Gov. Begole has ordored the removal irom offlcc of Justice Sheahan of Detroit. A frcight train going north on the Detroit, Lansing and Nortiiern Railroad, a quartcrof a mile north of McBride's, ranover and lsillcd William Winn who was lying across tbc track in a drunken cmdit ion." His legs and arins were brokcn and his hcad and body badly bruised. He livcd three-quarters of au hour after the accident. The engineer saw an object on thetraek but supposed it was the Hmb of a tree. Winn was 18 years old and was cmployed in a llvcry etabln at. MoBHde's reformatory. The coroner'e jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the a'jove facts. üeorge H. Stephens, of t. Johns, bas been appointed a inembep of the b.óard pf trustees of the Ionia roformatory in place of (corge W. BuckiLgUain, resigned, The wheat erop in Genessee county is pronouneed a total failure, New wheat is being marketed. The. average priee is $1 per bushcl. Charlotte is to build a new ward school house. The oost thereof will bc $4,000. A. B. Boslwick, of Adrián, was one of the victims of the railroad accident on the Rome, Watertown, & ügdeneburg raüwav. Only a few moments before the accident Bostwiek was in the rear car talking with a party of frlende, and went into the former ear ju6t in time to bccome on of the victims. Mrs. Harriet Worden of Grand Rapids eelebrated her 90th birthday recently. This aged lady is the mother of Admira! Worden, U. S. N., the gallant oificer who commanded the Monitor in herfamous tightwith the Merriruac. The little Village of Hudson is defendant iu four law suits. J udge Van Zile,formorly of Charlotte, who has been district attorney in Utah lor the last live yeare, bas restgned and will return to Charlotte. % E. H. Hughes, Michigan Passenger Agentof the Michigan Central railroad, who accompaniedthe excursión train wbic.h eollided with a íreight car near Carlyon, N. Y. gives the follqwing (orructed list of ichigan people killed and woundad; Killed- C. W. Stone, BattleCreek; Mrs. .7. C. Wortley, Saline; Htnry McCormick, Benton, Eatoc county ; Mrs. Lcfcver, Bay City ; Willie Lef ever, Bay City; Mrs. E. J. Cari, 'Okemos; H. B. Bostwiek, Adrián. Injured - Mrs. C. W. Stone, niece and two sons, Batllc Crec-k; Alex. Dower. Lansing; Geo. W. Binford, Leslkri Mis. A. L. Brigge, Saline; Mrs. Salesbury, Battle Creek; Mrs. B. V. Monday, By City (daughter of Mj'è. Lefever who was killed) ; Mrs. Bell and daughtér, Leslie. Ferdinand Haquette, of Cheboygan, met with a very serious accident at Otsego lake the ottier day. In attcmptjng to board the pabooEC par of freight coming norti, on his way home, he slipped and feil beneath the car, which erufhed his foot and leg iu a shocking manuer. He was brougbt to Cheboygan and lus leg amputated just bplow the }$nee. The ïiiles Mirror says: On the lflth of July, the day of the great blow, hy casting an tye to the heavens one could diBtantly see by mirage Lake Michigan and a steamer on it in a gale. It was plainly seen ri?ht side up, v.-hich is evidence that it wae a second reücction. l'An aged lady named Land, of Stalwart Culpwewa county, dropped dead in the road while on her way to a neighbor's house. Frank Stoldt, a yung man living in Three Rivers was drowned a few days ego while out duck hunting with a party of f riends. Frank, a 13-year-old son of Williiara Vosburg of Lapcer, shot himself through the heart and was instantly killed. Young Vosburg. with another lad, was hunting on the farm of Frank McElroy, just on the outskirts west of the city, and as 'near as can be learned was climbing between the rails of a fence when the hammer of the gun was caught on the rail, flew back and exploded the cap and powder, the charge enteriiig his left breast ip the región' of the heart, oaueiug instant deat.h. The coropanion save the alarm, and the lifeless boy was brought home to his mother. Mrs. J. C. Wortley, of Saline, who was killed in the railroad disaster at Carlyon, N. Y., was formerly a resident of Hudson, O." M. DeGolyer, for niany years one of the most prominent business men of Hudson, is dead. J. F. Strong, a traveler for a whole6ile house in Detroit, diedsuddenlvat thePio neer house iu Cheboygan, a few days ago. The Wisconsin & Michigan Railway, il is confidently expected, will raake Menomnee the point'of shipment for the iron ore carrkd by it, thus neecssitating the building of ore docks and machine shoDS at that place. The company has already secured the righljof way for their passenger depot and freight house and but 8 small amount is needed for the right of way for the ore trains, docks and shop?. The üscoda salt and lumber eomnanv's large mili at Oseoda, across the river from Au Sable burned to the gronnd a few ¦iehts ago. Tbe orlgiu oL the fire is unknown. The ürc broke out about 11 :?0 at night, and it is supposed to haye originated from a hot box. The mili wae built in 187W, and cost $i 5,000. being one of the best equipo 1 on the shore, II not ín the State. It is belfeved that it a goud lire departme-nt had been provided the mili could have been sayed. This is the second mili the eompany ha lost by fire. The company's affairs are manaacd by a board of trustees oL whom Gco. K. Wasey, Of Detroit, Herbert' F Whiting, of Massachusetts, and Henry NT I ord of Oscoda, are members, and Aaron F' Gay i's local manager. The mili was made of conugated iran, exeeptinp, of coursc, the frame, and was eonsidered flre prooi so f ar as property of that kind can be made hrc proof, the cugine and boiler beiog situated m an taSSSMA building The loss is cstinuted at between $75,000 and $100,000. The citv of Grand Rapids has let a contract to" Jamos Higgins to build eight piers lor the new Bridge sireet bridge to T)e comXted NuvembcF 1. If built aecordlne to BMccilications, it is thought these new piers u'ill last muBV gencrationa. The contract for building the two wines of the institute lov the blind, prorided or by t lm last legislature, has beenawardedjo Fair & Vincent, of Grand Rapids, for ?,. The occupied by the Union fnrnUurc companv and Sprague & Down wire scr n works in Gerand EapWs, eaught Ure the ntíier dav and the rcsult was a total loss of n rïv iVoüO. The Union rurnitnre companj ksc aboú't$2..0. insured; Sprague & Down, $1 00 Tnoinsurance. Loes on building $1,ooó. An unknown drunken man was killed by a min on the Michigan & Oh.o railroad in Battle Creck. Charles J. Lockmead, of Sturgis, zWon went h Vre wcre tbirtcen other conti t n s. . „ISASrEBlNBAM RAPIDS. Kallwaj BrldgcsCanled Away. About-o'clockonthe morningof July -6 th Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukec railwav bridge at Grand Rapids gave way bcforc toetr mfndouspressureof the miles of logs hat have or two or three days been .lammed bridge was the nest one spanuiDg the current' and although lt was recently condomned and a nfiw etructure ordered to replice it; the old one stood the terrible pounding and .limming of the logs an-1 was not moved. Peárl street bridge was uext struck, the piers being badly damaged and the etructure is threatening to fall every moment, the center being badly suukcn and eome of the timbers having given waT. The Grand Rabids & Indiana railroad bridge was swept away clean from bank to bank, and floatcd off gracef ully on the logs. Thi rnaring, grinding mass oí logs and bridge dcbris next etruck the Chicago & West Michigan railroad bridge, and that, too, suceumbed 'and was entirely carried away. The catastrqphe was not unexpected, as it has been fcarcfl the Petroit, Graüd Haven & Milwaukee bridae could not muchlongcr wlthstand the terrible pressure to whicli it'has been subjected since the breaking oí the booms let the enormous mass of logs down upon it. So fnr as known at present there has been co loss of lite. The water rose rapidly and many of the cellars on Canal street were fllled wlth water in a ehort time. Every effort has been made to save the logs whieli wcre wasbed ou toward Lake Michigan, and it is believed that the grcater portion of them will be Btranded before they reach Grand Haven. There ie now no means of gettinjj across the river to connect wjth the Unes running nortb, nor is there likely to be íor weeks to come, greatly to the loss of the railroad com panies and communitics north, wbich have their only means of communication through Grand Rapids. TUI Is ftotpel Irutli, The following story comes from Öturgeon Bay, and cannot be doubted, coming as it does from a man who cannot He, and would not even lf he could : Bailey's Havbor has been vísited by a sea serpent. James Cady saya that early one morning recently, while standing on the shore of the harbor, he eaw a short distance from the beach what he at flrst took to be a log floatine around. He was about to go to it in a boat to, piek it up, when he saw the object moye and suddenly a, huge, flat head rose seypral feet above the sur; face. He began throwing stones at it, whereupon the trange reptile made toward him at considerable speed. The fisherman became frightened and ran toward his house. Before reaching the dweiling he looked around and sa the írightíul creature out into the lake pevhaps 4Q roos, disapneariii"; beneath the surface soón afterward. Cady states that Uu serpent was about 30 fect long and two feet iu diameter. Wnen it stuck its great flat head out oí the water, it sentforthahorriblebisbing sound. Mr. Cady is a respectable citizen and there is nogood reason fo'r doubting his stoiy, and of course np fine will doubt it. DETKOIT DiKKITü. Wheat-No. 1, white $ P6 @ 1 Ot Flour 5 00 @ 5 50 oyn , 53 @ 54 Oats 84 @ 37 llover Seed, f bu 7 00 @ S 35 Apples, bbl 2 25 @ 3 50 DriedApples, f ft S @ &h Peaches U @ 15 Cherries 15 @ 16 Butter, $ 5 16 18 Egge 15 @ lö Potatocs, $ bu 40 @ 45 Potatocs new $ bu 1 75 @ 7 08 Honey 18 @ 20 Beans, picked 2 10 @ 2 15 Beai k, unpicked 100 @150 Hay 9 00@14 00 Straw 7 00 @ 7 50 Pork, dresscd, S 100 9 Q0 @ 9 25 Pork, mess 1? 00 @lt S0 Pork, family 19 00 @19 50 Beef extra mess @12 50 Wood,Beech and Maple ... 8 Í5 Wood, Maple ". 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