State News

Owosso, Dec. 30, 6th district press assoclation. The last state fair cost $40,000 to run it. l'oo niuch. Stanton has been afflicted with a f25,000 fire Friday last. The lawyers In the Crouch murder trial are not yet tongue tied. The finalices of the state grange have run behind $500 the past vear. Annual meeting of state teachers' association at Lansing, Dec. 29 and 30. A strange rumor reacties us to tho efect that Tostmaster McCann.ot Blissüeld, las resigned ! John F. Tryon a prominent Dowagiac attorney dropped dead one day last week, aged 40 years. Many HilUdale county citizens now located in Dakota, are returning fór winter quarter8.- Standard. Those who have poked around there a Ule, claim that Grand Hapids has 40 pubic and 60 private poker rooms. Senator Chas. Austin, of Callioun Co., s said to stand a good show tor the pro ein. preskieucy of the state seuate. The Michigan Farmer states that few who have read the reports of the Boheuian oatscheme will gel bitten by it. Battle Creekers dedicated a $00,000 addition tolheSanitanuin one day laat week. The dead-icators will have a meeting laer. Apsignuu-nt of business liouses in various parts of the state are constantly oo curring. Every daily paper urings t'resh cases. J. H. Kelley, a democrat, bas been ap)ointel postmaster at Midland by Presilent Arthur. Kirst blood tor the repubicans. A K.-ilaniM.oo man has tnvented a new :angled ballot-box with mahogony top and glas9 sidi's, Of course it was a Kalauiazoo man. The statement is made that the portions of the Gale Manufacturinr Co's works at Albion, recently destroyed by lire will be rebuilt in the spring. In only six weeks' time Grand Rapids raised for the Baitholdl statue fund the sum of $000,003.00!! In six weeks! Just think of it, ye stingy niortals! State Treasurer Butler recommends the semi-annual distribution of the piimary school interest fund, which at piesent accumulateson the hands of the treasurer in a cumbersome manner. The Petoskey fish hatchery, it is sald, will hatch out 39,000,000 white tish this year. But what good will it do? A few dynamite fiends would slaughter doublé the number in a few minutes. During the year ending Nov. 30th, ttiere were 3,252,175 barrelsof salt manufaetured in this state. There's a point for the salvation army. The number of wellsoperated was 2'6, and the average yield 11,492 barrels. The Lapeer county poor house burned Thuisday night, one insane person was burned to death, another was frozen to death, and mucli suffering from the cold by the 35 other intnates, who were rescued and cared for by neiglibois. The state trea3urerreported $1,142,330.C9 on hand Dec. 18. During the year, 63 of the war bounty bonds of $1,000 each have been purchased and cancelled. Tlie educacional trust fiinds upon which the state ]i:iys interest amuunts to $4,313,621.40. The grand residence of Col. Wm. BMcCreerv, of Flint, ex-state treasurer, burned to the jrrouud last Friday morning. It was perhaps one of the finest residences in the state, and was valued at $30,000. It was originally built by ex-Gov. Feulon, hut rebuilt by Air. McCreery a few years ago. Insured for $0,000. According to the Charlotte Republican cotton can be grown in Michigan, but probably not very profitably. C. N. Eiddle, of Brooklleld, has exhibited a sample bolt of his raising. The size and quality are fully un to the averasfc grown in the soutli. Mr. Biddle got the seed from Texas. He grew some last year from the original seed. That grown this year was from the seed of that of last year and matured in sometwo weeks less than the last erop. Kingsley W. Bingham of Brighton, the only surviving son of the late ex-Gov. Kingsley S. Bingham, the first republican governor of Michigan, has begun suit againstthe administrators ind heirs of the late Dr. Ira P. Bingham, for the recovery of about $10,000, that he claims belongcd to his father's estáte. Gov. Bingham was one of the bondsmen of state treasurer McKinney, who defaulted, and being the only respoii8ible one among the number, he ti ansferred his property in the main to his brother, Dr. Binghaiu, to prevent its being swept away. And at the time of the Dr.'s sudden death the property was still in his name, and has ever since inured to the benefit of his estáte. Jiidge Crofoot, of Livingston county ,has increased the bonds of Henry P. Bingham, administrator of the contested estáte $6,000, in view of the coutest.