Michigan News

Ovid lias issued prensáis for the erection of a brick building for the use of the Fire Department. A reunión of twenty-seven persons belongiiig to the Noble and Murray ' families was held at Battle Creek reeently. Foub prisoners esoaped from the County Jail at Jackson, the other uight, by digging a holo through the brick wall. So still was the work that none of the other prisoners heard anytliing of it. Two bbotkebs, named Forster, quarreled, one day last week, while at work on the Grant farm, near St. Johns, ting corn. Une receivecl a latal staD from tlie corn-cutter in the hands of the other. Caleb Knioht has been arrested at East Saginaw, charged with an attempt to flre the dweiling of Wm. Corren at South Saginaw. In default of $500 boüds he was cornmitted. He liad just been put under bonds for threatening to kill Carren. Henky W. Sage, of Brooklyn, being largely interested in lumber at Bay City, was interviewed by a reporter of the Bay City Tribune, and gave his opinión that it is not the excessive supply but the groat cost of production that causes the stagnation in the lumber trade. To overeóme this Mr. Sage says that a reduction in the expenses of milis is necessary, and concludes that the most possible way of doing it is by the importation of Canadian laborera. The verdict rendered by the Coroner's inquest on the remains of Claude Avery and Antoine Grover, recovered from the Herudon House ruins, in Marshall, is as follows: "No eatisfaetory solution of the origin of the lire can be derived. There were no proper facilities for escape in case of fire supplied in the construction of the building, and it ia the opinión of the jury that a competent night watchman should have been kept in a hotel of the magnitude of the Herndon House." An exciting scène took place last week in the court room at Detroit, during the trial of the Ward will case. Just as the court adjourned, Henry 8. Ward, sou of Capt. Ward, sprang to his feet and violently denounced Wirt Dexter, counsel for the widow, and threatened to blow 1Ú3 brains out. During Dextfer's mniks he alluded to Uie loineyn ctiarge that Mie. Wai-d and her relatives had worked upon Gapt. Ward so as to have Min appropriate most of hie property to her aud her children to the detriment of the children by the first wife, as the charge of a slanderous tongue. Eomeyn asked Dexter if he applied thoso iemarks to him, when Dexter replied that he did, and held himself accountable to Roineyn f or them in or out of court.