State News

- At Mtmistee, on Saturday night, last, about 10 o'clock, the hardware atore of Russell Bros. caught iim inside and was totally deatroyed. The flsmra communicatcd to Miss Ilaley's millinery store, which was also destroyod, Tho latter savod nearly all her stock. Ruasell Bros. saved about $1,000 wortli ; tho balance of about $ 15,000 was doetroyed, There was a total los ot both buildings and stock of about $20,000. Hussell Bros. had an nsumnce of about $10,000. - At Grand Rspids, just before noon on Monday last, a joist supporting the upper floor of 'the malt section of Christopher Kusterer" brewory, was disoovered to be cracked. Workmen went at once for timber to prop it up, but before they returned the floor feil under the weight of about 1,000 bushels of malt, carrying with it the floor below, on which were 4,000 bushttls, and also the west brick wall from top to bottoui. The men had not quit for noon, but fortunately uo one happened to be in the inalt section that moment. It will cost over $1,000 to make the uecessary repairs, besides the loss of niuch imtlt among the ruins. - Charles Preston, of Hunter's Creek, Lapeer County, was killed by a Detroit & Bay City train at Lapeer, ou Sunday morning. He was intoxicatnd and started ahead of the train, but caught his foot in a switch frog, or betweon the track and guard rail, and, before the engine oould be stopped he was orushed. Breston originally caine from Carabridgeport, Mass. - Several partios who wore injured in the Grand Rápida & Indiana railroad sruash-up uear Howard City, last summer, are bringing snit against the ooinpany for sums aggrogating botween 140,000 and f 00,000. - Under the new liquor law our Supreme Court has just decided : 1. In an act ion for civil damages it is inadniissible to show the amount of money spon1 at defendunt's saloon. 2. A declaration under the civil damagc law will allow evidenco of damages for further degrading a man who was not températe a the outset. 3. Under the civil damage i law, recovery cannot be had for the loss of a températe husband, whtn he hac alwayg been drunkon. Under the oivi damiige law evidence is admissiblo tha before the origin of the snit the drunk urd had promised to let liquor alone, as it would tetid to show his habits at the time. - The Calhoun Circuit sent Jas. Ev years at Jackson ; Harvey Chappell alias Harvey Porbos, forgery and horse stealing, eight years ; Oliver Bow, burg lary and larceny, three years ; Thomas Quuintance, burglary and larceny, two years , ffm. Terry, alias ffm. Jenness forgery, three years ; Theo. Boynton burglary, three years. - Marshall & Huntington have tanned and sold this season 4,700 buffalo robes, and are constantly reoeiving orders which they cannot till. If the raw hides can be procurod this winter they will largely inórense their facilities for manufauturing robes nest season. - A'ao 2fews. - In the Cass Circuit Elias Wilson has boen oonvicted of burning William Jones's barn, containing 10 horses and mules and large quantities of hay and grain, last April, and sentenced to lo years at Jaokson. - The Michigan State Halt Association has now on hand betweeu 400,090 and 500,000 barrels of salt, and is shipping about 20 car-loads of bulk salí daily. The dumaud for salt froui mokers is incressing steadily. - John Pitts, of Barry County, who shot Dean 8. Tyler somo months ago, bas been convicted of murder in the first degree and sent to Jackson for 15 years. Tyler was living in open adultery with Pitt's wife, which led to the tragedy. - It is reported that the C. and M. L. S. R. R. is to be extended from Pentwater to Manistee within tke next year. Supt. Kimball is now loobing over the ground in that direction. - The Grand Rapids and Indiana officials have received a new style of handcar, running on one rail and with room for two persons. It will be used by the superintendents of the road and their assistants in examining the track. - D. D. Ingalsby, of North Star, Gratiot Couuty, reoontly discovered that somothing was preying upon his flock of sheep in tho night time. A trap soon brought to light four wild cats. - The Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad expects to be running over the new Stanton branch to the ïntersection of the hagiuaw Valley and St. Louis Railroad, Within the next 12 days. - ün Monday, at Marshall, the case agaiust the ex-students of the Battle Creek Advent College, Arnold, Hughes and Hoyt, accused of burglary, etc , came up. Arnold pleaded guilty and goes to Jackson for three years. Hughes and Hoyt pleaded not gullty of receiving stolen goods. - Miss Estella Prench, of East Tawas, is perhaps the tirat, woman who ever held a position in the United States signal service. Sim is telegraph operatyr at East Tawas, and attends to the BÍgnal servioo work there. - Clark Woodard, who pleuded guilty in the St. Joseph Circuit to adultery with the wife of Fred. Wachterhauser, and was sent to Jackson for six months, had an interview with the wotnan in the jai], after the sentence, and they mutually agreed to go to living together again as soon as his petty sonteuce expired. - Mrs. H. A. DeLand, of Grand Rapids, a singer who bas been prosecuting her musical studies in Europe for several years, and of whom brilliant things are reported, is expectod home in January. - On Snnday a freight car, one of two or three coinposing an exoursion train of citizens from Romeo to view the new track built toward Rochester, jumpt d the track and turned over two or three miles south of Washington, nearly severing the tbigh of a young man and injuring three other persons, one quite severely. The train was run back to Romeo with the woundnd to be oared for.