News Of The Week

lhe amendment to tb, tax MU ejj nrooerty of soldier was voted down. The bill Tappopriate $260,000 in aid of fire sunerers pad the senate althongb a motten was made f Martha WUUa. n ir Rnrr a mwídk macbine agent at rrVoundinSauarela,, Onon.' He bad reached witbin 75 fe.t of Bbore When the ice fcroke and he waB drownefl. MMCh Ut an engine at Mülr turue4 a sommersaultbutnoonewashurt Prof W W. Beman has been ppointed by Jnd8e Harriman .uccessor to the late Prof. TruLell, on the Board of Washtenaw County school examinere. Theappropriationof 15,000 for a IirU house at Litüe Traverse bay is satisfactory to Saml. B. McOlaln of Adrián dbd Buddenly of apoplexy at Sturgi,where he wassupenntend4 workmen of the L. 8. M. 8. railroad. Ellsha Holt of Vernon an old respected Citizen has just died. MessrsMiley of Hiles Rose of St. John have purchased the Benton Hatbor Times and sTV Deïoe and her daughter LiUie, b, the breaklng of a seat in Col. Delos Phillips' carriage at Kalamazoo, were thrown out backwards and rendered unconscious by the fall. Chas B. Gillem of Rlchmond shot hls motoer, a. he alleges, to have "peace in the fainily." Hemanifeetsno remorse and his oondact is accounted for only on the ground of ■" Inquiry into thePorto case at Marshallled to theTerdiotthatthedeoeased died from nerroas shock, neglect and blood poisoning. Logs are coming d.wn the river to East Saginaw rapidly and about a month earher than usual. Two well laden excmrsion trams en route with[colonists for Manitoba, passed through Detroit thls week. At Adrián the examination of Ralpü J. Jewbll and Frank Stanton, of bad water works bonds fame, has been beguD, the charge being -onspiracy to defraud the Union Trust couipany, etc After one witness had testified, the examination was adjourned until the 16th inst., togive the prosecuting attorny time to get together documntary evidence. Casscounty reporta that the prospecta for an abundant wheat erop was neyer better. The arta ts greater tban that of last year and Bhould othing prevent betwean now aDd harvest, the erop will be an unusually g ood one. Thirty-one new doctors went foith from the Detroit medical colleges last week. At Charlotte a couple registered a', the Sherwood honse as J. E. Barbar and Lady. Later the gentleman was arrested on a'warrant from Onondaga, N. ï., charged with bigamy. The couple are said to be cousins. Augustus Mann at the Jackson prison from Xngham Co., was serlously hurt by a wheelbarrow handle striking him in the pit of the stomach. Chas. Cannon of Deerfield is stül alive, but bis symptoms are unfavorable, the wound presenting a bad appearance. Colbatli, who did the shooting, is still at large. D. F. Cole of Cold water, charged with obtaining money under false pretensions, has been discharged. ,„ . William Golden, son ot a wealthy farmer on Prairie Eonde, has been arrested charged with burning school house No. 3 in the township. Xhere bas been controversy in regard to the The propeller Rietz and barge Lester cleared Manistee for Chicago, laden with lumber and 8,000 barrels of salt. Mrs. E. Longyear of Cansing some two weeks ago broke off a cherry sprig and stuck it in the pot with her calla lily as a support. The twlg immediately gave signs of life and is now in f uil blossom presenting a pretty appearance in contrast with the green. Michigan press assoeiation will meet at Lansing on the 15th inst. The HenEepin canal project is favored by a large company of citizens from the northwest and south now assembled in Washington. Jackson is agitating the general use of the eleciric light It isstated that the partially suecessful attempt to rob the Wayne county treasurer's office had for its main object the seizure of $10,000 then believed to be in the money drawer. BAND BEACH HABBOB OF KETÜGE. The houee ia Washington passed the blll introduced by Mr. Rich entitled "A bill tor th government and control of the harbor of refuge at Sand Beach, Lake Haron, Mich." The bill provides that the Becretary ot war shall assume tull control over thte station now in course of conetructlon, and all piers, breakwaters,docks, etc., pertaining thereto, including channelfl and approaches to said harbor, and the secretary shall prescribe such leglslation as he sLall deem needinl to fully protect ana preserve said harbor. The bill fnrther provide that the secretary of war shall appoint, upon the reeommendaüon of the engineer offlcer in charge, of the work, a custodian of said harbor and the Improvements aforesaid. Said custodian shall have power to direct and regúlate the stationIng and anchoring of steam vessels and water craft in said harbor and the mooring thereof and laying out and discharging of oargoes and ballast in snld harbor; and it sball be the duty of said custodian to ieport to the U. 8. attorney all violations of this act, etc. Kegnrding the governiuent taking control, the report says tfiat the necessity for control of the harbor of refuge at Sand Beach by the government is shown by the experience of the past season, during which boats and veesels persistenüy crowded together and made fast to the break - watertin such a manner as to interfere with the work and the constricüon and use of the harbor by others, compelling vessels to slip their cables and leave the harbor during gales. Steam craft persistently deposited einders and other refuse inside of the harbor. Four men were killed in Marquette by the explosión in the Lake Superior powder compaay's nitro-glycerine works. The report was most terrific. One thousand pounds of nitroglycerine exploded. On Monday whlle despondent Geo. Wenderolt, a young man aged 27 yeare, the eon of wealthy paren ts in Chicago, committed suicide at the Battle Creek sanitarium. Mrs. J. W. Dickinson and Mrs. Charles Sturgis were struck by Jightning last Sunday at Battle Creek. They caunotlive. Adrian's council has removei City Recorder Stanton from office and requested Gov. Jerome to remove Mayor Navin. TleValley City iron miniBg company hai been organizcd in Grand Rapidfl with capital 9500,000. The company will opérate at the city of Negaunee, Marquette county, the junction of the Chicago and Northwestern and Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon railroads. Kalamazoo proposes to raise $8,000 to purchase land for a fair ground and race track for tbe county agsicultural society. Members of a scientifie assoeiation in Adrián were experimenting bef ore a company of farmers at Madlson grange recently, when an iron retort exploded, by which toe hands of Kd. Treat were badly lacerated, and the face of another demonstrator. Mr. Bredon, badly disflgured. Mr. Treat will lose hls index finger. Cheboygan proposes to sink another testsalt well in a new place. The controversy going on in the First Dutch Keformed chureb, Holland, is based upon a decisión of a majority of the members daciding to secede from the Protestant Beformed S'aurcli of America, owing to the tact that the General Bynod opposes secret societies. At a meeting ef the Holland classii, action againnt the seceders was prevented by the aeceders, who took possession oí the church and forcib!y reslsted the entrence of the classis and the nilnority membersbip. The authorities were aalled upon to quell the distúrbanos and the Mayor read the riot act and gucceeded in disbnrsïng the crowd after some of the oitizens had been arrested. Both sidee haTe taken legal advicf. The classis is expected to take decided ecclesiaBtical action azainst the eeceders. James Cowles and his two sons at Mt. Vernon have been arrested for stealing over 80 sneep from Mr. Crhsman. The sheep were driTên to nar Ovid and sold for cash. Charles W. Fonda has been arrested at San Francisco for emb( zzleinent while a bank clerkatConttmtlne. The Ancient Companion' Domestic Club will make a pllgrimage to Kalamazoo on the 17th to organizo an inütitntion there. James B.Bradwell is the president ef the local club. It has about 4,000 in the treasury. The motion to amend the tax bill po as to tax church property was TOted down. The house passed the fire relief bill with the dause appropriating 15,000 for the construc tioa of school houses. AUo the bill repealin the specific tax on train railways, and that appropriating 100,009 for new buildings at the reform school. A Corporation has been fovmed in Jackson for the manufacture of fine book, calendered and manila paper, with capital stock of 5dr 000. Two buildings were burned in Three Rivers on the 7th, including F. Arnold'g store, Wm: Woodhead's residence, etc. Loss over $12,000. In the late charter elections C. S. Gregory was elected preBident of the village of Dexter; Josiah Dilley of Portland; H. A. Hunsicker (welection) of Bellevue. - :