Michigan

There are about 1,200 mutes in Mich gan. F. W. Dickoy of Marshall, lias 100, 090 celcry plants out. EllsworthBersuhaw.one ofSaginaw's prominent oitlzens, is dead. The Soldier's and Sailor's reunión at St. Joseph was a decidcd succes?. Mr. ParsoHS of Saline, Washington couuty, has been postmaster for 48 yeare. A ladies' band has been organized at Leelie, and Dr. W. H. Morse Is the tutor thereof. Mrs. Harvey Williams a resident of Saginaw City since 1834, died thcre a few days o. Grand Rapids has another "sweet elnger." Julia A. Moore had betterlook toher laurels. W. B. Smith.a Grand Rapids' capitalist, Is about to build a new $20,000 opera houBe in thatcity. William Carr, and ayoung man named Lewis Buche of Saranac have been arrested for forgery. A movement is on foot to divide Ontonagon county, and cali the new county A-gog-e-bic. The subject of a narrow guage from Ëlkhart Ind., to South Haven vla Dowagiac is beiog agitated. Kalamizoo ha 17 ehurches and feels proud becauee four-flfthe of its inhabltan9 are ehureb gocrs. Flint's new shoe iactory eniploys 40 bande, and is obliged to run to lts fulltft capacitv to fill orders. Battle Creek and Henry Willits [ave in the courte. The city claims property that Henry says belongs to himself. Julius Restau, of Detroit, who shot bis neighbor, Herman Koch, bas been conTicted oí murder in the second degree.' Charles Murray, one of Pontiac's rrctl hcrored and mpected citizens, died of Biight's diseaAp. a fax davs ago. The Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company bas expended over $20,000 in improvcment at Kalamazoo this year. Five prisoners escaped from tho Urand Haven jail by cutting througt the tloor into the cellar and digtjing their way out. A cornpany with 840,000 capital, has been organizod ín Grand Rapids., ior the maufacture of '-Diamond all finish" from piasier. Battle Creek has just had signs put up on its street corners. The hou3es are now to bc numbered aDd a new city directory issued. "Wilfui murder" is the verdict of the coroner'6 jury in the case cf Luke Phipps who hot bis wife on a Detroit ferry boat the other night. The Marine City salt wells turn out brine about 95 per cent of which is salt. It is expected the brine wUl be raieed by foreiBg fresh water In it. David D. Jack, an aged citizen of Grand Rap'ds, suicidedthe other day by eeverng an artery in hls arm. No reason is assigned or the deed. Sidney Green's barn iu Pittsford, tfillsdale county, was struck by ltghtning the otl-er day, and together with its contenta entirely destroyed. l'ho barn of P. 8. Vanderhoof, fou niles cast of Reed City, was struck by lightuing he other dav, and together with the seapon's rops, entlroly destroyed. An injunctiouhas been servod on a ection of the Mlchiean indOhiorailroad wsrk n nilisdale county by one of the old contractra. The work Is at a stand-still. Tho new button faclory at Ionia was burned a few days ago. Loss $15,000; insnranee $2,500. About 1,500 worth of ítoíkwas t ared. Incendiarism ie suspected. The Ouray Col. Muldoon says "thore are u ?reat Diauy Michieanders in Colorado, and about nine out of every ten are engascd in either sclüng or drinking whisky." Jerry Sullivan of Muskcgon bas been arrostedchargedwith convertlng to hii own use a check for $25, whlch a youncman named J. A. Coffecn entrusted to hlm to get cashed. An ax head feil from a box on a shelf in a hardware store in Whitehall some days ago, and its edgo was buried In ifie knee of Martin Carr, who was sittlns; beneath the box. The largest crowd of people everseen at Orcbard Lake visited that place on the Slet, tüe occasion being the annual picnic of the pioneers and supervisors' society of that county. Chas. S. Fee, ', formerly an attaché „í.h Arirain Times and a brother of one of ti lile vuaiu i- - the proprietors of that paper, has been appoluted general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific road. Mrs C. M. Aldrich, aged 73, of Addi son, Lenawee county, was knocked senseles? bv a stroke of llghtnin?, which completely „hivcred a tclephone. The aged dame recovcred in a íew hours. William Walsh of Sand Lake.jammcd oneof hls ilngers in a hay hook tiro week. ago and neglected going to a surgeon. Mortification set in, and he had to submit to the amputation of two fingers. Isaac Edwards, a hostler in ür. J. H. Roger's veterinary barn at Jackeon, wasklckcd in the b ad by a mare which he was hand llng, and died in a few houre. He was a young man of 31 years of age. Veterans of Lapeer county held tbeir fourth annual reunión at Columbiaville. Reports, speeches, and a camp flre, withacamt supper, consisting of hard-tack, bacon and 'offee, made up the program. The sanitary cenvention held a Mutk.gon is promunced a suecess The bcw rage and drainage question was ably diecuss3d, and all of tbc papers on varlons subject were oí more than ordinary merit. George Williams of Petoskey. whü eo route from Petckey In charge ! aa offleer made up hls miad that Ove years at Jackson was too long, and when near Howard City "sprang from the cara and to k to the woods It has been proven beyond doubt that the water oí the ccw Ypsilanti mineral well is of wonderful elBcacy in cases oí cáncer, and is also of especial yalue in the treatment of rheumatlsin, livcr troubles aud atsease of the kidneys. A largo and somewhat dilapidated trunk passed tbroneh the city the other inorníne from Chicago, bearing the following Inseription, wbich tella its own tale:"In Ood we trusted; in Dakotawe busttd."- Grand Raplds Time. The fine mineral spriugs bafeh house connected wlth the Avery house at Mt. Clemens, and standing near the bank of the Clinton river, was destroyed bj fire a few daya ago. The fire originatcd in the lanudry. Estlmatcd loss, 15,000. Peter Carlson, of Battle Creek was recently arrested for disorderly conduct. After jeing locked up OTer night lt was learncd that ie was innocent and was allowed to go. Peter wasn't satlsfled with this, and has brought suit against the policeman. The wife of Eugeno Haruüton, of Grand Rapids, conductor on the Grand Raplds and Indiana rallway, who was mistaken by her ïusband a few nights ago for a burglar, and was shot in the f oí ehead, has since died from he effects of the wound. A large baru and 10 cottages beloning to the Alyoslan lumber company, at DolarTllle, near Newberrv, were burned a few days 'he cottages were all occupitdand hardly anyhing was saved. The Io38 wlll probibly reach $100,000; partially insured. The hoase of E. F. Clark, a hardware merchant of Gobbles, was entered by a burg ar a few nights ago, who stole a valuablc gold watch, and $300 in cash, whlch was taken frora coat Ijlng near where Mr. Clark was sleepog. Company I, Second regiment, M. S. '., of Grand Raplds, has completcd an excelent armory an i taken possession of it. The rill room Is 49x56 fect and 30 feet high. There re also excellen; rooms for social and business urpDses. John Saughcessy of Jackson, the ther day tested a shotgun, whicb was leaded ver two veare, with the ramrod, to see if it wns loadeu, ana men bei il ul when it txploded, fllling one side of his face with powder, and tearing the piaster off the wall with shot. At the mont'ily meeting of the diectors of the Bay county agrloultural society he following resolution was unanimously dopted: Resolved, That the Bsy county agriultural society adjouru its annual fair until he year 1884. Elmer Hall, of Lawtoc, a student of the normal school at Ypsilanti, had hls ankle crusbed by falÜDg under the wheel oí a water tank of a steam threshing machine upon which he was riding. The horses tácame frightened and threw .bitn off. The iDJury vrü] crlpple him for life. The reported robbery at Addison, Lenawee county, In whlch a gang of Toledo or Detroit thieves weru alleged to have attnekcd and robbod a number of railroad men who had ust been pald off, turna out to have been mere ¦ a runkrn flght for a boMle of whiskey be ween a lot of track laborere. A young mm named Fay Jackson, a on of Francis Jaekson, of Chippewa station, sceola county, attempted to board a moving rain and falling beneath tho wheels had one g ent off near the body, and maj die. Hls ather lost bis shop and toóle by flre a few ights ago, lightniug having Brtuck the Bbop. J. A. Noaly and David Ring, conicted of partidpatlne in tho tarrin{ and feathering ontrage on Garwood at Lexington, wore flned 7" and $50 respectivoly, with the "Hemation of going to )tl. Two or three others who werc acquitted had eome pretty strong evidenee against thetn. A freight engino on tho D. G. H. & M. railway ran into an open bridge at Ferrysburg the other nigbt, the bridge tender having lowered the eemiphore signal before swinulng the bridge and the dense fog preTented the engineer from eeeing the opening. The cnglnc lies in aboiit 80 feet of water. Ko onc was hurt. The trial for assault and battery of the partios charged with the tarringand featherlng of Garwood. the Cleveland painter, at Lesington, resflltcd in the acquittal of all except J. A. Xcaly and David King. Tho trial took place at CYoswell, Jndgo Marston helping the proeecuting attorney. Jndge Mltehell of Fort Hurón defínded. Of the 300 graduates of the class of 83 at Chautauqua, nine werj from Mlehigan. They wcre Rose E. Mallory, of Flushing; Mies A. Lovell, Grand Raplds; Mrs. C. J. HooJ, Big Rapids; Mrs. MiunleA. Hendrlc, Detroit; F. E. Hawley, Morenci; Clara Travis, Coldwater; and Miss O. B Campbell, Mrs. H. A. Potter and Addie G. Robson, of Ovid. A valuable Hambletonian colt belongin to Messrs. A. O. flyde and Wa Rosecrans, of Marshall, got one foot over the top strand of a barb-wire fence, and was unab'e to draw it back, owing to the barbs. It made fearful struggles to free itaelf, and drawing its foet from side to side on the wire it was nearly severed at the ankle. lts recovery is donbtful. A man named Willlam Elliot, of Saginaw, while painting the comice od the new Sbearer Bros.' block on Center streef, Bay City, feil a distante of about 50 feet to the alley bclow breaking his rightleg justabove the ankle, cuttiDg his head badly and produclng a sllght concu-sion of the brain. The physicians say he wUl be disabled some time.but wlll recover. A general reunión of northern Indiana, eastern Ohio and southern Michigan soldliTs will take placo at Auburn, Iuu., September 19 and 20. AB the G. A. R. posts in the territory above named are invited to be present, aleo a battery of artillery. . A R. posts attendlug in a body will be acoommodated with quarters. Retiuced rates on all the railrosds have been secared. A rate dispute betweon the ft'abash and the Michigan Central, between Detroit Ch.cago, ii impending. Th3 cheap excurelons over both )ui;b a weU as orer tte Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee and Graud Trunk, are the begümlng. Tbe WabMh is selllng tickets to Chicago and return on all trains fo $15, one dollar leas than rates. The Michigan Central will follow suit. By a locomotivo coll3iou on tho Menomlnee Iron Range Bailroad, Patrtc'i Nee was badlv Bcalded aoout the upper part of the bod; and about the feet and legs. Johr Patterson was ecaldrd f rom head tofoot, scareelj an Inch of hia body eecaped. Drs. Mead, of Quinncscc and Coyne, of Iron Mountaln, were calleU ant every appliance used to save the unfortunatt men and mitígate their sufferings, but to no purpofie. P.ttterson dled at ter a few houra of agonj and Nee survlved him bat a short time. James Cnrtis had au oxamination at Cftssapolis before Justice lover on the charge of kllllng Macom Wllson attheOlvia celebration on the I5th inst. The evidencc dieclosed the fact that not to exceed 10 minutes bofore tbo shootlng he borrowed a revolver oi' one pereon and Borne cartridges of another, statlug that he was "goiog to shoot some d - dniggcr." He was bonnd over to th circuit court for murder in the first degree, and as it is an offense that will not admit of bal), he was returned to Jail to await trial. A gang of thrce counterfeiters was arrested ncar 8herldan, Montealm county, the otber day by deputy sheriff Snmmere, of Bheridan, who ha been on their track for some time. They we re supposed to be operating 1d that vicinlty. Philetus Quiggle, Thos. Patterson and Thos. O. Coyle are the men belonging to the gang. They were all taken to Grand Rapids to answerto the charge. In their possession were found eome dien and a quaulitv of ellver coin of their o n manufacture, consistlngof quarters, halves and dollars. Quiggle Is reported as being an old offender, having served a term of years In prlson for the same offenee. A terrific storm of wind, rain and hall passed over Southfleld and vicinity a few evenlngs ago, doing a great ainount of damage to thoge living in it pathway. The storm carne f rom the northwest, expanding its force on a strip of country about a mlle In hreadth and several miles in length, domoKshlnu trees, fences, and growing corn generilly. Fortunately but few buildings stood in the direct course of the storm, and these, being of a snbstantial character, wltlistood the tempest. Á wagon standing in a field, loaded, was driven up an asceet some 80 roda, etriking a board fence which reeieted its f nrther progress. The -ïomaffp tr ¦ - il 4. „nA mnn,{nrr crops will figure up several hundred dollars. A queer case comes from Saginaw county. A wcll known man la missing, and a body found in the 6wamps is nowclaimed to be oís because a tooth found in a certaln trunk flts in a cavity in his jaw. lie disappeared last November. The body was found in the same township where he had boardcd, and this trunk and tooth turn up rccently in a house a mile away. Nobody had heard of the trunk and tooth, however, until a relativo arrivés, hunts up the tooth (and trunk) and immediately flnds life Insurance policies in the same trunk. Chicago papers have published in advance of lts filing, a bilí in chaneery against Josiah W. Beerole, governor of Michigan, charging him with inalfeaRance in the management of the estáte of his deceased son, Frank C. Begolc. The son died in Florida in 1873, and the bill asserts that hc deeded to his father 1,. 000 acres ot Wlsconsin land, and also declares that the governor paio to the widow of the deceased only $4,800 out of $5,000 Insurance on his Ufe, and has never inadu an accounting as trustee and guardia. The bill is filed on behalf of an infant grandson of the governor. If the following tale from the Bay City Evening Press is true, there are men in that city for whotn there are vacant cells in Jackson. The Press says on the authorltv of Edward Thompjon of that city, tbat his (Thompson') little 5-ycar-old daughtcr, deaf and dumb, accompanied liy her 4 year-old brother, left tbc house without their mother's knowledge and that when their absence was notlced, another brother, 8 yeare old, was sent in search of thern. lie reports that he went to a 6aloon of which eompla nt bas been maku by rosidents of South Bay City, and that just ashe got there, one of the frequenter of the place swung the little iour-year-old boy out of the door by the arms, so drunk that hc could ecarcely walk or take care of hlmBelf, that the Ht tle deaf and dumb sister was found insido roll ing on the Hoor, and making what noiee she conld, beastly dronk. He picked the sister up and carried her home, and when the father, who is employed by Oeortce Lcwis, returned from work he fouad the two chlldren drunk. The father etatee that ho visited the saloon, but found the owner absei t, and received con flicting storie from the bar tender os well as gome of the bystunders. Shot ii Hls Son. Caleb Lincoln, a farmer living fonr miles westolSaeinaw City, was instantly killed by his son Charles, an unmarried man residing at home. The old man was addlcted to drink, and when in llquar was very quarrelsome, about two years ago iracturing his son's Bkul in a quarrel. The night he was shot he wen hone drunk, and getting posseislon of a re volver lereled It at hls son, when the latte drew Bis own weapon and shot three bullett Into tke old man's head. He went to East öaglnaw and gave hlmeelf up the next mornlug. DETROIT 1IARKGTS, elroit, Aug. 28, 1883 Wheat- Not very Much wheat ia being marketed at the present time, but all that ltbroueht la metts with a ready sale. Prlcea ar ai follows: No. 1, white. $1 07@l 08; No. 2 whitc, $1 02@l 03; No. 2, red.tl 09J(3 $1 10. Flour- Quiet and without essential chaage. Wheat bas been a little stronger nd the feel iBg is refleeted tn tbe condition of the market for producís, although there Ín no advauce Ín termi. Nelther 1 the movement In tho least qnlckened. Prevailing ratea continue as follows: Mlch whlt wheat, Iow p-ades $4 ?5@4 90 Miel) white wheat, common & 75 Mtcn white wheat, c bolee 5 75(3 Mtch white wheat, roller procese... 25 75 Mlch white wheat, patents 6 5d(36 71 Minn. bakers' 0 00@6 25 Minn. patente 7 50(58 0( Kye..: á4 0í' Fbd- Bran is iu deninnd at $13 50@12 75: coarse middlinj at $H 60 and fine íeeu $18@ 819. Miles to day have been two carloads a f 12 75. and one of coarse mlddllngs at $18. C0Rk_Hss rnled very quiet, but. there is nc evidence of any change In the state of th market. One ear'oad of No. S) corn was snic at 54c. Ht;h mlxcd could coumand about 56 Oats - Recelre rery Httle attentie. Fro C t 'J cernís kae kiwa the yrvvklllmg prlce. -""" ¦¦¦¦!¦¦ ¦ ¦¦¦VT,1 . .f-ftT-, Pkovisions- Prlces remain about the eam as at the close of last, weck, exeept it bc thal Detroit packed family pork Is held more flrmlv Stocks being very Hght. Other goods remate about the ame. Mess pork, I3 50 íor Cuicao stock; Detroit packid 50!575e ptr hl] more: family, 17; clear, $18@18 50; lard, 85ra9c in es, and 9}@9%e; for kegs; pails,10ca)i}ic: hams, He; bacou, 11% 12c; 8houlder,bi(SÖc: ied beef, scares at 17@18c; extra mess, 8TOCK MAKKET. Cattlï.- In good demand, and the inarket well sustalned; exports. $0 (aü40;goodto choice shipiiing steers, $5 90; coinmn to medium, $4 1C@5 125. ünp.EP- Market streng and hiffber. Prieee range frem $3 50@$4. Hooa.- Soles are vorv qulet, but steaJv t rom $4 50@5 75. Clover Sced, ¦% bu 7 00 @ 9 82 Apples, bbl 2 75 @ 8 00 3utter, f ft ; 16 @ 17 2ifgs 16 17 3otatoes, new, $ bbl 1 60 @ 1 fl5 Houey is (f6 20 Jeans, nrtn! 2 10 @ 2 15 Beans, unpicked 1 00 @ 1 50 Haf 9 00 @14 00 Straw 7 00 (f 7 50