State News Brevities

On the 25th, some female prisoner confined in the Alpona County jail, tri ed to fire tbat building, but the üre wa discovered before much harm was done Clam Lake rejoices in young Califor nía salmón three to three and oue hal indios in leugth, the first fruits of a erop planted thorein by the fiah coni missioners. Colleotor Baüey seized ten barrels o iraproporly stamped whisky at Gram Haven on the 29th, which will be sok for the benefit of Únele Sam's oash box It oame f rom Milwaukee. A fair estimate places the average yield of wheat in Oakland County ai thirty busbelu to the acre. In some cases forty, forty-five, and forty-eight bushels have been obtained. The people of Cassopolis are trying to stook their lake with graylings and eels, but the lake abounds in pickerel, which don't allow any other fish to intrude on their premises. During the reoent session of the Board of State Auditors, accounts were allowed to the amount of $35,133 75, of which $24,538 35 was allow.ed to the State building oommisaioners. The city of Adrián receutly oontracted for the building of two iron bridges. The bridges were built, but the city claims they are not aocording to specifications and refuses to accept them. Chapman & Hewitt, of Menasha Mills, Menasha, Wis., have seoured th contract for furnishing woolen oloth fo the Reform School at Lansing, their bii being 90 cents per yard for 800 yards and over. St. Joaoph has purchased a steam ire engine of the city of Muskegon, for whioh they pay f 1,800. The engine ia a nickel-plated Silsby, and has the capaeity for gpouting water at the rate of 500 gallons per minute. The petition of the Centennial Guards of Grand Hapids, to the Adjutant-General, that they be mustered into the State service with the Seoond Regiment, was not granted, there being no vacanies in any legiment at present. The Buchanan Becord saya that there seems to be a regular gang of thieves about that plaoe that make a business of breaking into people's houses. ly every third house in town has been robbed during the last two months, and some of shom in a most daring manner. On the 25th, while Oscar Douglass and faniily, of Ureen Oak, Livingston Oounty, were away froin home attending a prayer meeting, burglars broke into the house und took from Mr. Douglass' pookets $29 in cash and some valuable papers. A Yigilanoe Committee, consisting of about 3Ü0 oitizens, has been organizad as deputy sheriffs at Alpena. This is in consequence of a slightly disturbed feeling and rumora of a strike at the milis. Citizens do not anticípate trouble, but think it wise to be preparad. A pair of horses stolen from W. S. Green, of Saginaw City, six weeks since, have just been found in the possession of a farmer thirty-five miles Southwest of Kalamazoo and restored to their owner. The thief seems to have escaped with the proceeds of nis sale. Délos Niblack, one of the leading spirits in the inoipieut riot on Thursday, has been arrestad on coinplaint of the Mayor for riotous oonduot in stopping railroad trains, and lodged in jail. Warlants are out for others. Niblack was not a striker or an employé of the company, but an outsider. - Jachson Citizen. The contractor has been obligad to suspend work on the new government building at Grand Bapids, owing to the failure of the contractors to deliver the iron necessary for use in the structure at this time. The iron is in Fittsburgh, and oannot be moved until the railroad oompi;.-;:., : ended. We understauu' the Frankfort Iron Works will commence Operations in the fall. They have been lying idle for along time owing to the price of iron, but now there is more of a demand and better pnces for it, and the proprietors will probably realize gomething on what they manufacture. When both stacks are running they employ between 300 and 400 men at the furnaces and in the woods. - Manistee Times. Harvey Wilson, of Glarendon, Calhoun Co., a youth of 18 years, took his father's horsa a few days ago, borrowed a neighbor's buggy and harness to go to the village, and went to Indiana, sold and traded off the horse and buggy for a watch and a smalt amount of money. He then carne back by railroad, and without going home, stole a horse (as is supposed) from another neighbor, took a saddle and bridle of another, and again put out.