Condensed State News

Allegan county soldlers will have a reunion at Waylaud, Aug. 11-12, A new savings bank, wlth a capital of $100,000, has been organized in Bay City. A thrashers' unión for Brnnch and Cal liouu county bas been organized in Union City. The Clinton woolenmill,recently burned, has beon rebuilt aud is ready for business igain. lt is expected tbat an extensivo match factory f rom the east will lócate in East Saginaw. Kulkiiska hopes to havo a new unión depot when the D., C. & E. railroad is Bompleted. Mis. RolofT, a patiënt in the insano isylum at Kalamazoo, cominitted suicide the other morning. The new state flsh hatchery at Paris is to cost (3,U00, and J. C. Mauser of Cadillac aas the contract for the building. An 11-year oíd daughter of Fred Blansz 3Í Watson, Allegan caunty, lost a leg by a tnowing machine the other afternoon. Clifford S. Walton, a Michigan man, has been transferred from the war departmeut to the general land office at $1,200 a year. The fourth annual reunión of the sol" iiers' and sailors' association oí central Michigan will be held in lonia Aug. 115-18. 'i'hirty thousand dollars worth of iumber n tlie Cutler & Savige Iumber yards at Spring Lake were destroyed by flre the ji her moruing. State Game Warden Win. Alden Sinith iisposed of twenty-six cases of offenses igainst the flsh and game lttws In thirteén .'ounties iu June. Wm. H. Post, a pioneer of Ypsilan ti, and iather of Pension Agent Post of Detroit, lied suddenly the other morning of paralasis of the heart. WillJN. Moore of Eaat Jordon, Charlevoix county, has been appointed circuit ;'uurt comuiissionei' by Guv. Luce in place uf R li. Fogs; resipned. Chas. Bascom, aged 10, of Sunfield, Katon county, wout to Alaska. Kent county, to speml the Fourth with friends, and was uccidentally ürowned. The Suginaw hospital fund has reaehed Dpwarda of tll,U 0. A site will soon be .elected and the work of erectiog a builduig will oon commence. lludson hus raised the Í3',OUO required for aid of theCincinnati, Jackson &Mackiuaw ruilioad, and only the right of way huw ri niains to be secured. Harry Thomas, a passenger brakeman m ihp I), ti. t N., met with an accident tbe other day, while making up a train, ■i wbicfa lio will lose a leg. A letter has been received in Grand Rápida stating that the fugacious Follett heen seen and talked wlth by an old accjuaintance in the City of Mexico. Angus McKay, the bridge builder of the iirw Detroit I.ansing & Northern road, took hfteen grains of morphine at Urand Raplds and died about an hour later. Mis. Jacob linker of Cadillac, committed suicide a few weeks ago to get rid of do mestict rouble,and on the 4th inRt.,her hus band followed ber by the morphine route, rs.ithan Lewis, a well-known farmer of Qirard, Branch county, committed suicide the other day by hanging. No reason is known why he should have taken his ife. Mrs. Josliua lïrooks, the Vnar woman whose mysterious disappearanco bas been the occasion of much notoriety, has returned minus tho large fortune she is said to have Inherited. W allace Lampman, formerly of Bheri. 'lan, Montcalm county, later of Oghkosh, Wis., arrested for using the Uuited Htates States mails for fraudulent purposes, bas gone to prison for fifteeu years. On the lst iut. tbe presidential fices at Fowlerville, Grand Ledge and ; Morenei wcre relegatcd to thefourth class, their business hoving fallen below the minimum for I'residential offices. The grand stand at North Branch feil daring tlu Foi r h of July celebration. ! About 25U people were on the stand at tbo time, and men, woinen and children feil in a heap, injuring several persons seriously. Both the Chicago & West Michigan and the Grand Kapuls & Indiana roads are considering projeets for extending their lines to Elk Rapids. The latter road would have to build twenty-oue miles; the former forty. Wm. Mass had an arm cut off by a saw in a mili at New' Haven, Macomb county, a few days ago, and lost so imich blood that he died shortly afterwards. His age was 47 and he leaves a wife and sevcn chtldren. Judge Brown ot the United States court at Detroit has fixed the time for holding the regular terms of the United States court required to be held in Bay City on the first Tuesday of May and October in each year. Jackson is "figgoring" on getting the C. J. & M. railroad now in process of construction. JacUson is asked to dónate $'5,060, and a committee has been appointed to sec what can be done in the way of subscriptions. The goveinor baa ap)oiuted the following otlicial ïtenographqrs: Henry F. Walch of Grand Rupids, lTth circuit; Alonzo H. 11 :i vues of Bay City, lSth circuit, and Charles H. Bender of Grand Kapids, 2Utfa circuit. A 13-year oltl boy of John Keebles, living neiir Coldwater, was standing in front of a moving machine, when tlie horses suddenly started, causing the knives to strike him justalove the Instap of the right foot cutting the footcompletely off. Attornoy (onorul Taggart says that, all statements to the contrary notwithstanding, he has tiever given an opinión as to IJakin's right to pay for the period siuc.' lus expulsión, and, further, that no one has yrt souglit such an opinión. Phoebe D. Kico of Alpine hascommenced suit against Joscph Platte and Wm. Gainsby, Alpine township, Kent eounty, for damages for as-ault and battery, laying her claims at $l,0J0 each. Hhe alleges they beat her so badly that she was made dangerously ill. l'harlie Uelzer, aged 17, of Kingsley, lie cameangry at his three-year old brother and shot the little fellow. It is thought the little fellow may recover. Charlie lied and has not been captured. He was re. leased from the reform school only a few months ago. Tho sheriff of Muskegon county has arrested Stal Nuesmer for shooting his 60. year old father about midnight on the uight of the 4tli. They had trouble about a tronk wbiofa the young man had moved to a aeighbor'8 barn. Old man Nuesmer died the next morning. William Andorson of Marquette was carelessly handling a gun wliile under the influencn of liquor. Jack McGinnis cautioned him about it, whereupon Anderson shot him in tho neck. McGinnis died a few hours later. The nnirderer was captured and lodged in jai). Henry Baumgardner and his son, a lad aged 12 years, wero driving to their home a short distunce north of Monroe the other night, when their wagon was struck by a Michigan Central train. The wagon was knockei into the ditch and Baumgardner was killed, while the boy was badly injured. 'J he next anuual reunión of the 221 Michigan infantry will be held at Corunna, Aug. 18. That of the lSth infantry will come off at Tecumseh, Aug. 2fi, the 25th :i!iniversary of their uiuster-in at Hills dale. Brig Geu. R. S. Uranger will be there as well as Guns. Doolittle and Spald ing. The barn of Horace Wilcox, located two miles northwest of Charlotte, was struck by lightning the othernlght and burned to the ground with the contents, including 1,200 bushels of wheat, eighty tons of hay? two calves, one wagon and other farming tools. The loss will reach $5,000; insurance unknown. The board of supervisors of Bay county. have offered a reward for the discovery of (eorge Kepple who disappeared from Bay City in May last. Two hundred dollars are offered lor the discovery of his body, if dead ; $:!0ü for the discovery of his murderer; and, if alive, $50 for information as to his whcreabouts. The son of Rev. Mr. Perkins, who lives south of North Branch, left his father's home in April last and disappeared from the country. Mr. Perkins, who is a Free Masón, has been instituting diligent ■earch, through the assistance ot that fraternity, throughout the country, but up to this date bas been unable to Hnd any trace of his son. In tho July statement of the Dun & Co., mercantilt ngency, Michigan makes a very favorable -howing: The failures for the three months ended aro ::i in number with $295,961 of liabilities. Tlie total for the six months is S2 with 1078,553 of liabilities Total failures first half of lSSfi, 93; liabilities, $937,761. Total failures tirst half of 1886, 122; liabilities, $0,198,099. Une of the last acts of the legislature was t o pass another bill for the improvo ment of tho Maple river. It is very simi' lar to the previous act which was declare! unconstitutional. This decisión left contractors and others flat, and it ia therefore unlikely that any steps will over be taken to lift the re3idents of those bauks from the level of frogs and lizards. The wheat erop is reportcd fuvorable, oxcept in Genesee, Hillsdalo and Inghain countios, where the insect is working. The hot, dry weather has been reported as nnfavorabla to corn and potatoes. ripring ]laiited grains are sufferiiig from the effects of the drought. Wheat i- buing harvested and haying is nearly linisheil and a favorable erop reported. Lambert A. Barnes, president of the Peninsular Paper Co. of Ypsilanti, died very suddenly and unexpectedly at the Detroit sanitarium on the UOth uit., of pytemia. A short time before his death had sub mitted to the removal of a part of the left jaw bone. He was getting along iinely until the night before his death, when pysemia set in and causod his death. The rateras war horse "MisBlon Rldge," formerly with the Twentietli Michigan infantry, died in Ann Albor the other morning at thé age of ',ïi years. He was bred witliin twelve miles of Richmond' Va., and was rijden all through the war. Düring the past twenty-two years he has been owned by 1'. lionovan of Ann Arbon and has always len nu object of much interest. Messrs. Saundurs and Wbitney, the two 8aloon-keepi'r wlio are affeoted by an act of the egislature prevniiting any1 saloon belng eaUtblishsd or ma withln one mile of the so diers' home, propose to open up and tost tfae coustitutiona ity of the law. The proprietors say iLcy do not propose to sell au} liqnor to tbe "'ots," and that therefoie they will not viólate the intent of the law. Jamos O'Neill of Marquette, aged 12, was shot by a buil from a revolver in the hands of a plásmate, Juke Dunleavy, of tlie same age, who was trying to hit a dog on the strett. The buil ontered youug O'Nuill's left breast and the wound will probably prove fatal. The ball bas not been found. O'Neül's father entered complaint against Dunloavy, who is under arrest. O'Neill has onco before coruplained of this boy for cnrrying a revolver. A f ubsorlptiOD of $100,000 has just boen made by Michigan people for the beneilt of Oliveteolloge. It is the intention of the trustees to make at onco a large addition to the apparatus for illustrating the natural sciences. The alumni of the college have completod the sum of $1,500 for three alumni 8 holarships. The interest of caeh is to be given as a prize to that student in each of the three eourses of study, ; the classical, scientific and literary, who! bal] nttain the highest rank in tho studies' of the prescribed eourses during the junior and senior years. The following are the number of cases disposed of during the inonth of June by the game and tish warden and bis deputies i Charles Wiley, Ingham county; John L' Tick. Bay county; Frank W. Benjamin and Truman Chapman, Saginaw county ; Joe Soloraon and John Mastican, Algor county ; J. Limonde, A. Doucette and 1'. La Valley, Alger county; Frank Talbut Bay county; William Wyman, Maso county; Arthur Lambert, Ionia county; opilar Cornell, Allegan county; Abram Van Buren and Dirk Van Ort, Ottawa couuty ; Randolph Grant, Wayne county : B. Schurinfurth, Elmor Mussbach, Henry Lamers, Fred Woolf and Frod Kruse, Washtenaw county ; Henry I'intz, .Mackinaw county ; Byron Poppleton, Saginaw county; JuliUB Schultz, Saginaw county ; Burton Shaw, Casseounty. These are the cases that were reported to the secretary of state by Wm. Alden Smith, State Game and Fis'.i Warden, for the month of June. Michigan headquarters at the nationa! educational association, whieh meets at Chicago July 12 to lö, will be at the Talmer house. It is suggested that a re' union of uil teachers in atten lnnce at the associatiod, who are now teaching or who have ever taugbt in Michigan, be held at the Palmer houss some timeduring the meetings of the association. Prof. Wil Ham E. Bheldon, Boston, Mass., preiident write3: "As Michigan is one of the five grand states carved out of the northwestern territory, consecrated to freedom and education by the ordinance of 1837, the One hundredth anniversary of which we celébrate Wednesday evening, July 13, a' Chicago, I am especially desirous that your state should be well represented by editcator.s and also by 3'our historica! societies." The railroads will se'.l teachers and al! kchool olllcers "round trip ticket-' from all principal stations to Chicago and return for one fare, plus Í2 to pay for a memborship coupon. Tickets good goinj; from 3 to 15, returuing to September 10, inc'.u ive. _