The State

When the stenmer Alaska left Put-lnBay for Detroit the otlier afternoon a gang of roughs aad pick-pockets boardel ! the vessel unknown to the oIIícits. As I Boon a9 the boat had nicely started these fello.WK begau their work of plundering i umi robbiug, insulting ladies and fightlng with whoever attempted to interfere with . thi-m. When near Detroit, the Alaska was Etojped in mid-stream, aad a boat put off to shorfl, and returned soon after with several oflicers, who immediately arrested six of thu lawless fellows. When the boat reuched her wharf in Detroit a patrol wagon was waiting, and the men wereimuiedintely taken to the station house. The next morúing the matter was laid befoie Asaisiant Lnited States Attorney Wllkina, who looked up tbelaw and fouud the following sections in tlie revised statutes of the United States: Mc 534ö. i-.very person who, upon the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in ony river, haven, creek, basin or bay, witliin the admiralty jurisdiction qt the 1 nited States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, on board any vessel beionging in whole or part to the lïnited States, or any citizen thereof, witn a daneorous weapon, or with intent to perpétrate any felony, coinmits an issault on another shall be punished by a ine of not more than $3 000, and by imDrisonment at hard labor not more than three years. Sec. 5 172. Every person who commits npou the high seas, or in any riyer, harbor, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, raurder or robjery, or any othsr offense which, if committed witbin the body of a county, would be punishable with death by the aws of the United States, is a pírate and shall suffer death. "The tneaning of section 5372," said Mr. Wilkius, "has been construed by the niU'il States aupreme court and settled jeyond question so far as the penalty is concerned. While robbery on shore may lot be punishable with death it is a capial offense on the high seas. The section, ïowever, makes provisión, besides murder aud robbery - which are capital- for any other offense which, if committed witliin body of a county, would be punishable with death.' Only two questions stand letwecn these men and capital punishment. üne is whether they can be convicted of robbery. The other is whether ;he term 'high seas' will apply to these inand waterSj which do not directly commuñiente with the ocean. I think it does, nul we shall proceed under thnt interpre catión of the law." Warrants were issued for the men and hey are now in the custody of the United States marshal. The outcome of the case s looked t'orward to with great interest. Crop Eeport lor August. Since the July report was issued the tecretary of state has received three diferent reports on the wheat output in the southern four tiers ofcounties. Thethird report was made between Aug. 6 and 9' and gives returns from 6,173 jobs threshed, Bggregating 1.521,000 bushels from 123.60J acres, and indicates a total of 17,620,000 bushels in the counties named. Accepting these figures as correct the total product n the state will be 21,223,000 bushels. Grain is generally of good quality, though n individual flelds and in some localities lm berry is more or less shrunken. On Aug. 1 about 1,000,000 bushels of the 1886 vheatcrop was vet in farmers hands. The total number of bushels of wheat reported inarketed during the month of July is o05,900; number of bushels reported durng the year ending July 31 is 13,097,000, or ti bout one-hulf of the crop of liSSti. Oats are estimated to yie'.d 29 bushels and barley 'ü bushels per acre. The drouth that has prevailea in the southern iart of the state with scarcely a break luring the entire season has injured com and potatoes beyond hope of recovery. On Aug. 8 estimates of correspondent in the southern counties place the coadition of com at 70 per cent and potaoe8 at 53 per cent of an average crop, uit contiuued dry, hot weather nas lowered the condition since very materially. half of an average crop of corn and onefourth to oue-third of the average crop of potatoes is more than can be x erted. In many localitiei corn is being ut and eitber fed to stock or cured for winter fodder. In the central and northern counties the outlook for corn and potatoes is more favorable, though in these sections both crops will be far bolow an average. The area plantod to potatoes is about the same as in average years. Hay n southern counties was 8 per cent, in central 13 per cent and in northern 101 er cent of an average crop. Meadows ii'l pastures are dried up in southern counties while in central and northern counties they have sutfered less severely. A poor "catch" of clover sowed this year s reported though there is hope that more may spring up after rain has fallen. pples promise about five eights of an average crop. Farmer's Festivals. Following is a complete, or nearly com ilete list of the fairs to be held in Michi gan this f all : state Jackson Sept. 19-23 COUNTY. Antrim Bellaire Sept. 28-30 Allegan Allegan Oct. 4-7 :Jarn.y Hastings Sept. 27-30 Hemen lien ton Harbor..Sept. 14-17 Bay Bay City Sept. 14-10 Ëaton Charlotte Oct. 4-7 Jalhoun Marshall Oct. 4-7 ïration Ithaca Sept. 27-30 .ii'iiosee Fenton Oct. 4-7 ienesee Flint Sept. 19-23 Gr' 1 Travers... Traverse City Oct. 4-7 Hillsdale Hillsdale Oct. 4-7 Jackson Jackson Sept. 19-'J3 ivalamazoo National Park Oct. 4-7 Kent Grand Kapids. ..Sept. 19-23 Lenawee Adrián Sejit. 27-30 Marumu Armada Oct. 5-7 Uason Ludington Sept. 13-16 Midland Midland City... Sept. 14-lc, Monroe Peter-burg Oct. 4-fi Montcalm Green ville Oct. 4- Oakland Milford Oct. 4-6 Oakland Pontiac Sept. 27-30 Ogemaw West I ranch. . .Sept. 27-2. Osceola Evart Sept. 28-30 Ottawa Berlín Sept. 27-30 Tuscola Vassar Sept. 27-30 Van Buren Paw Paw Sept. 28-30 Waslitenaw Ypsilanti Sept. 27-30 mvnucT. Buren South Haven Oct. 1 Dau Dowagiac Oct. -1-7 lugham Stookbriiige Oct. 4-7 Lapeer Hadley Oct. 4-7 Wayne Plymouth Oct. 4-7 A Boy Kil's His Brother. A terrible accident occurred at Marlette the other day, by which the 18-year old son of Kobert Hood, a prominent citizen of th'it place, was instantly killed. Ue had gone up stairs to sleep until dinner time, and when the meal was prepared a younger brother, 10 years old, was sent to cali him. An old gun which had not been ' used for some time, stood in one corner, and the lad tbought he would awaken his brother by placing a cap on the gun and explodiug it. Ue carried out his inten" tions, placing the muzzle close to the sleeper' ear and pulliug the trigger. The head of the unfortunate boy was blown to atoras. The fuinily are bighly respectable peotle. CONIUÍNSED STATE .NKWS. Alpena wants a French p'iysician. lluron county horses aredyingof gland" ers. Jackson will invest 910,000 in electric light. The Jonesville cotton milis ar now run nigbt and aay. Gas was struck in the Coldwater gas well at a dep tb of 1,231 f eet. A Jackson lirm shlpped six of their wagons to Australia the other day. Jume. llowell is in jail ut Lansing on a chargn of p sing counterfeit money. Mr-,. Abigall Reade of Romeo died on the lüth, ased 100 years and 10 months. Three miners were killed in the Cleveland mine near Ishpeming, the other day. President Cleveland says he cannot visit Muskegon tbis year. Ö'iuotlier time, per' hapt. The flr.t clover seed of the eason lirou,;ht $1 per bushei at Lansing the oth. er day. There are 10ü camp of the Sons of Veterans in Michigan, with a total membership of 2, 152. Daniel Champenoy, a wealthy farmer of Orange township, Ionia coanty, suicided a few day sago. James B. Preston of Bay City was run over and killed by the cars at üsakes, Ki., a few days ago. John Cole is authority for the statement tbat there is a gas well in Lake Hurón a few rods off Lakeport. The annual reunión of the Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, will be held in Tecumseh, August 26. Mrs. M. Sage of Delf ord.Tuseola county, has fallen heir to $10,000 through the death of an aunt in New York. William Pippen, a pseudo physician of Grand Rapids lm been arrested and fined for not complying with the law. Delegates from business mines associations throughout the state will meet in convention at Fiint, September 6. Lambert Stinson, a well known farmer of Casnovia, Kent county, euicided the other mornlng by taking laudanum. Señor A. Zalaya, minister of the French Republic of Honduras, has been visiting Hon. J. M. Weston in Grand Rapids. Olivet college receives $25,000 of the $1,000,000 dútributed by the will of the late Cornelius B. Krwin of New Britain, Conn. Coldwater will hold a special election September U, to vote upon the question of bonding the city for $60,000 for putting in water works. The Valley City planing mili and adjoining property in t Grand Kapids, to the amount of $20,000, was destroyed by tire the other day. Dr. Wier, the keeper of the hospital at Au Sable, arrested for causing the death of Mabel Clark, an inmate of nis hospital, has been acquitted. Alva Reid, agent for Aultman, Millar & Co. of Akron, Ohio, was arrested in Bat tle Creek the other day, cuarged with em bezzling $500 of the firm's money. Prof. H. V. Dubee, a gradúate of Halberstadt college, Germany, and a pupil of Winkelraan & Held, bus been secured aprofessor of music in Ülivei college. Oscar E. Robbins of Jackson accidentally shot a boy named Louis Schimpt in the face with a target gun curry ing a 2'J-calibre ball. The boy isdangerously wounded. The appropriation made by the legislature for the purpose oL building a new cell block in Jackson prison, is not large enough and the wiil have to be changed. The report of the exports of breadstuffi or the monta of Juiy, just issued by the chief of the bureau of statistics, show that tLe exports from Detroit were valued at $125,140; from Port Huron $234,519. Pleuro-pneumonia in its worst form has taken hold of the milch cows in Detroit and vicinity. Gov. Luce and the live tock sanitary commission have been notitied of the existence of the plague. A Flint & Pere Marquette freight train run over and killed Patrick Corbett near East Saginaw the other morning. He was sitting in a culvert at the time. He was 35 years old and the son of a farmer living near Birch Run. There is talk of extending the Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin railroad to Port Austin from Berne via the valuable cení ent quarries at Bould and Pinnebog to tbe excellent grindstone and building stone quarries just below Port Austin. Mr. L. E. Hawkin8 of Grand Rapids has been sued as indorser of a $1.000 promissory note given by D. L. Follett to Mrs. Helen M. Roberts. Follett was the Kent county judge of probate who skipped the town and left many mourning friends. The extensión óf the Chicago & North western railroad from Iron River to Watersmeet has been completed. This con nects the Marquette and Gogebic iron ranges, and forges another link in the upper península iron chain of prospority. Capt. Lockwood, in charge of the work of improving certain Michigan harbors has submitted his annual report. The amount expended the past year is something over $4000; amount which can be profltably expended next year, $901,015. The state inspector reports the manufacture of sak for July in the following couuties : Manistee, lil,4ttó bbls. ; Saginaw, 100,797; Bay, 93,541; Iosco, 8J,494; Huron, 6,071; 8t. Llair, 21,613; Mason, 18,726; Midland, 4,325; Gratiot, 900. Total, 406,736. Sheriff Lynch of Alpena county, who wa shot at Alpena, Monday, June 57, by Charles Conklin, alias "Blmkey" Morgan, whoin he was trying to arrest for the murder of Detective Hulligan of" Cleveland, lies dying in the Detroit sanitarium, of the wounds received. After lying in jail for months, Win. O Lane was sentenced, in February, 1887, to the Ionia county jail for one year for per. sonatlng an olilcer. Gov. Luce pardoned liiin on the ground tbat tbe man had al ready been in prison 10 months, and be cause he doe not believe in the conflnement of prisoners in idleness. An assessment of fifty cents on a share bas been levied on the bolders of stock in the Ropes gold and silver mining compa. ny payable September lOth, 1887. This ' will bring $40,000 into the treasury, and with this money it is proposed to build . mili twice the capacity of the present one, with fifty stanips, fitteon vanning machines and all othor machinery complete Gen. I. C. Smith of Crand Rapids, speaking of a recent encampment, has the fol lowing to say to a Grand Rapids Leader reporter: "It was the finest, in every particular, we have ever had. The boys took genuine pride in their work, and con ducted tbemselves nobly. 1 don't think we'll have any difflculty in getting an ap. propriation from the legislatura for the encampments hereafter." The Michigan Gold company has commenced the work of developing the Gingrass gold mine in Ishpeming, regardless of the unp easaut legal coniplications which have urisen lately. J. C. Koley of Tower, Minn., and George Grummett of Ishpeming, the other claimants to the property have strong flnancial backing and will contest the claims to the end The difflculty arose from the giving of these different leases by Peter Gingrass, the ownor of the property in fee. Will Colwrll, a bookkeoper in tbe em ploy of the iichigan Central railroad, at ! Jackson , met with an accident, which, ! though trilling at Vnt, is hable to cause the less of his left leg. He was whittling, and in some way dropped his knife, the i point of the blade striking the inside of ' his left knee. He went to work as ueua. , but in a few hours was brought home, hi8 ; knee badly inflamed. Since hen he has i been conflned to bis bed, suffering intense pain. Dr. McLamgh] n, who attending him, has grave fears tbat anchylosis will result. in which event the leg will bo permanently stift The old board of directors of Bay View Assembly were re-electud as follows: A. Winchell, Aun Arbor; G. F. Hunting, Kalamazoo; H. Hitchcock, Detroit; K. B. I Tupper, Grand Rapids; E. B. Fairfleld, Manistee; C. A. Gower, Lansing; W. H. Stier, Romeo; A. J. Aldrlch, Coldwater; E. A. Hough, Jackson. John M. Hall oí Flint, to whose arduous labor the succes bas been eo largely due, was re-elected superintendent lor four years. Tue assembly will protiably continue three weeks nest y ear and the dcpartments will be enlarged. Over 6,000 persons have attended the entertainments this year. The sixth annual reunión of Battery O. Lanphere's, was beid in Coldwater on the lOth inst. Forty were present. They enjoyed themselves visiting and by a steamtoat ride on the Coldwater river. A banquet was held in the eveningat the Southern Michigan hotel. The new otticers are: President, R. M. Wilder, Coldwater; vicepresidents, S. M. Barron, Tustin; P. Os burn, Litchfleld; Chas. Baker, Hillsdale; secretary, E. E. Lewis, Coldwater; treasnrer, Wm. Hurst, Coldwater; executive committee, A. Van Antwerp,Daniel Cook, Wm. Hurst. Coldwater; W. H. Palmer, Ransom; Monroe Barney, Kalamazoo. The next meeting will be held at Cold. water August 8, 1888. A fire warden is the latest. A man is going through the country representing himself to be an offlcerof thissort. Wben he finds a farmer with a fire upon his premisos he informs the guileless granger that he must accompany him to Lansing and consider himself under arrest. The farmer does not want to be arrested or go to the trouble and expense of a trip to the city, and after a little talk the bogus ofttcer kindly consents, for a consideration of Ï4, to let th e farmer off and gavo him a receipt stating that the nre is purely of accidental origin. A farmer from near Delhi told Deputy Van Buren Monday how the scheme had been worked on him, and when he discovered that no such offlcer existed he feit very cheap over ït and begged tbat his name be kept out of the papers. - Lansiug Republican. DETROIT MARKKT8. WmsAT, White $ 77 ffl 77V " Red 74?i@ 75 Corj, perbu 48 ei 50 ÜATf, " 19 @ 31 Bahlet 1 2d (u; 1 25 Timotht Seed 2 0) ($ 2 10 Gu er Sefd, per bag 4 70 (o} 4 0 Fked, per cwt 12 00 (12 50 Floib- Michigan patent... 4 25 ra 4 50 Michigan roiler 8 .5 @ 4 CO Minnesota patent.. 4 5) @ 4 75 Minnesota bakers'. 4 uO @ 4 Ü5 Michigan rye 3 40 @ 8 60 Apples, new per bbl 1 50 (e 2 25 Pïaciies, perbu 2 00 @ 2 50 Plu.vs, perbu 2 25 ($ 2 5) Pxaks, per bu 2 50 @ 3 )0 HUCKI.EHKKI -S " 2 ñ0 ($ 3 00 Hi.ai Kurmi! , per bu 3 25 (M 'i 50 Beass, picked 1 75 @ 1 M) " unpicked 1 10 M 1 2J Beeswax 25 (i 28 Blttek 18 @ 10 Ciieese, per lb 10 m 11 Hried A i ir;.-, per lb K@ 5i Eoos, per doz 12 ($ la HoNïï.peiib 8 (e 11 Hops 82 @ 30 Hay, per ton, clover 6 50 (g 7 00 " " tiiuothy 11 00 Wil 50 Mai.t, per bu 'tO (t 75 Oxioxs, per bbl 3 -.5 @ 8 50 Potatobs, parbu ÏS (a 10 Tomatoe, . bu boxea 1 15 @ 1 'M Poiltrv- (hickens.per lb.. 11 (? 12 Gee e 9 (# 10 Turkey 9 10 Ducks per lb i (i? 7 Pbovisioxs- Mess Pork 18 25 ((C16 50 Family lö U5 @16 50 . Extra mess beef 9W (9 25 Lard 7 @ 1% ])resed hogs.. 6 50 (cj 6 75 Hams 12 C5 12i Shoulders 8 (á b)í Bacon 10 (3 10% Tllow, prlb.. 8 O 3i Hides- Green City per lb... 6 (i 6 Country 6}@ 7 Cure;l 7(o) 8 Salted 9 Bheep skins, wool.. 25 @ 50 LIVE STOCK. Cattle- Market 10c higher for goo i ; shipping steers. $3 25@1 90; stocker and feeders, $1 -ttïrtiii 5; cowa, bulis and mixed, $1 UXctli tö; Texas cattle, t; 40 n .5. Hoos- Market strong and_5 to 10c higher; rough and mixed, $4 90(5 :-0; packing and shipping, $5 15@5 55; ligbt, t-i 7 O.(C 5 55; skipti, t 4 40. Siibep - Market strong for good, others steady: native muttons, t'i'ii.i 25; stockers Í2 402 -5; western, t-i 2ti(43 is5; Texaua, t: 50@3 50; lambs,$4@5.