The State

The great event of the year in Michigan is the reunión of the Arruy of the eee which was held in Detroit on the 14th and lfith inst. Not since the centennial Fourth of July has that city blossomed out so lirillinntly in red, white and blue, as it did on this occasion. The old flag waved froin a thousand Windows and house tops, and with its overy movement came drifting the memorie of the days wben life and limb, youth and ambition, blood and energy, yea, even mony had value in brave raen's esteem only as all couldbe thrown without reserve upon the altar of the temple of our nationality. The streets literally swarmed with blue coats and brass buttons- black coats, too, which covered the backs of men whose empty sleeves or halting gait told, with" out words, of the field of Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg and Atlanta. The simple uniform of the Cï. A. K. was sprinkled plentifully through it all, and at every street corner groups of grayhaired old men fought over the battles of the sixties as vigorously as in the days when with forni erect and eye bright and Keen they marched to the front. business meetings and regimental reunioui occupied the forenoon of the flrst day, and the parade and review by the distiuguished guests occupied the greater part ot' the af ternoon. At the business meeting in the morning, Oen. Shvriiinii in his annual address detailed tbe causes of his differences with Gen. Logan, and of their reconcilliation before tbe latter's decease, at the same paying a glowing tribute to the noble dead. . In the evening an immense gathering assembled in the l'rincess rink, where Uov. Luce welcomed the veterans and visitors from abroad tp the Wolverine state; Acting Mayor Pridgeon of Detroit, extended a warm welcome to the city of the straits and Gov. Augustus Jacobson delivered the annual address, Un the second day the business meetings of the society were held in the morning. In the af ternoon the members of tbe society and invited guesta were given an excursión on the steamer Greyhonnd on the river and lakes. Krom 6:; to S:30 a reception was tendered Mrs. Logan, Gen. Sherman and other distinguished guests, which was attended by the society and hundreds of the citizens of Detroit. In the evening the annual banquet was held. Of all the distinguished persons present none were more warmly welcomed than the widow of the brave Gen. Logan. She came as tbe guest of Gen. and Mrs. K A. Alger, and by private arrangement with Mrs. Alger an interview with Mrs. Logan was secured for a select few ladles of the W. C. T. U., witb whom were Dr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Porter, the former a chaplain in the army of the Tennessee and the latter a prominent co-worker with Mrs. Logan at the front during the war; Mrs. John Palmer and Mrs. B. ü. Hudson, whose services in sending supplies to the front are still remembered in this locality, were also of the party. The meeting of Mrs. Logan and Mrs l'orter was very touching, and tbe other ladies were niuch affected by the subdued, yet cordial, way in which Mrs. Logan renewed the old acquaintanceship and referred to the h appenings of years f mie by. Tbe same party also visited the 'ennessee headquarters, tbose of the loyal legión and of the G. A. R., leaving floral giits. t Palmer's Generosity. Early last spring Senator Palmer purcbased the property on the southwest corner of Fort and Shelby streets, Detroit, íor $40,000. The property ia directly opposite the site of the new postoffice, and Mr. Palmer proposes to erect on it a fine business bloek, whicb shall also contain a ;uite of appartmente tor the use of the Gr. A. K. of Detroit. The liberal intention of the senator naturally created much in. terest in Grand Ariny circles. The project lay quiescent siuce that time, but the senator only held it in abeyance till he had 'ully made up bis miad. Within tho past few days he flnally con' cluded to dónate the muniflcent sum of 110,000 in cash to the Grand Army of the Republic in Michigan. The money is intended as a nucleus for a euni which will be adequate to buy a site in Detroit and erect tbereon a G. A. R. hall, fully equipped, for the necessities of the order in this itate. A well-knownDetroitGrand Army man lays that in addition to Senator Palmer's gih a liko sum of $10,000 would also be contributed by Gen. Alger. "I think that the Grand Army in this state will linally receive money gifts in this dircction to the amount of $50,000," said he. "This will be sufflcient to build and equip a splendid hall, with stores on the ground tlqor, the rent of which, after payiug taxa-, insurance. etc., will afford a liberal fund for charitable purposes and tor the support of unfortunate raembers of the order. There are a number of members in the order at present who are systematically relieved by the various posts, aud this expected contribution will be a valuable addition to the beneficient funil. Many an old soldier, whose health has been undermined by the liardships aud privations of army Ufe, and who has been unable to f urnish the technical proof af such disability so as to secure a pension, is being cared for by the Grand Army post of which he is a member. This donation will till a long feit necessity." Senator Palmer, in nis letter announcing the donation, says that as the Grand Army of the Kepublic in this state will in time cease to exist by the death of all the me nibcr.i, and that as some provisión will be necessary for the reversion of the property to a public institution after that time he suggeststhat the Detroit museum of art inight be made the successor of the Grand Army in the succession of the property. A Wild Main aptured. Jc"or some time past lumbermen on the Yellow Uog ri ver in Marquette county have caught glimpses of a strenge loolcing creature roamlng in the woods. A capture was planned. The party of oflicers that started for the place met the object of their soarch, being marched down the i oad by an Indian named George Madosh, who found him wandering naked iu tbe wooda. After he ha d been bathed and given a guit of clothes he was asked to write hu name in a book. He took it and wrote in a clean hand: "Barthias Booth." ' 1 hare two fathers," he said. "üne in Germany and one in Colorado. 1 also have one hundred wives. I escaped frora a penitentiary and carne here. I bought the wholo upper península." The man is Germán, S feet ij inches in height and would weigh when in flesh 180 Eiiimils. Ue bas dark browa hair and eard, dark gray eyes titted into a low but broad forehead. His hands are long and slim and show no evidence of hard labor. He evldently has been intelligent, and it is thought that he escapea from some asylum and fonnd bis way into this península, where he became lost. Every attention is being given him and there aro hopea that bis mind will be resto rod. Said to be Unconstitutional. State Senator J. W. Babcock hal flled with tbe supremo court a mandamos which involves the constitutionality of tbe state swamp land law passed at the recent session of the legislatura. Ex-Judge Marston and Col. Atkinson are associated with Senator Babcock in the important case. The abolishment of this law would result in a loss of f51,465 to Wayne county, and would also involve ten other Michigan counties in a lesser degree. Senator Babcock has a letter from Judge Cooley wbich states that in his opinión thenew law cannot affect moneys that are the proceeds of swamp lands which, under tbe act amended, the several coun ties had become entitled to before the r ecent act was passed. In all such moneys, Juige Cooley tbinks, the counties had acquired a vested right and the legislatura could not divest them of it. The swamp land law was hotly contested in the last legislature. The old conntles o( the state, haviiiK disposed of their swamp lands in railroad grants, farored the law, while the youngereounties, where the swamp lnds were still unsold, worked tooth and nuil against it. The present moveinent ia instigated by the defeated faction. Disastrons Fire at Ironwood. Fire swept away several of the bast business blocks of Ironwood on the afternoon of Sept. 17, mucu in the game man ner as three months ago its Bister Wisconsin town, Hurley, just acrossthe Montreal River, was devastated. The loss is estimated at (150,000, with practically no insurance. At one time the en tire town was threattnej. The flre broke out in the business center in some inexplicable way. WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS. Ice Is nearly a inchthick up In Presque Isle county. The Reading graveyard insurance com pany is dead. John Kendall, a Grand Rapids pioneer merchant, is dead. Gov. Luce says he favors Robert T. Lincoln for president. Judge Cüoley was banqaeted in Minne, apolis the other night. Saginaw's new match factory will be in operation about November 1. Ex-Gov. Luke F. Blackburn of Ken tucky died at Frankfort on the 14th inst. Theodore Madison was killed by a buzzsaw at Grand Haren the other day. The Advent college at Battle Creek has a new boarding house with 75 rooms. Warren 8. Draper of Pontiac, has oom menced the practice of law in Duluth. Trains will be running on the Chicago Kalamazoo & Saginaw road by October 1. The Cheboygan lumber company will cut pine this winter f rom its Canadlan lands. William Meyers of Saginaw county, an inmate of the Pontiac asylum, hai escaped D. B. Harrington of Mason exhibited 700 varisties of potatoes at the state fair. N. H. Hül, postmaster at Cedar Springi, and the ürst settlerin that village, is dead. James Cunningham's baby was scalded to death near Bentou Harbor the other day,' Tbare is talk of popsolidating the Sagi naw and Kast Kaginaw etreet par pom panies. Timothy Hall of Saginaw was killed in a lumber camp near Roscommon the other morning. : Over (15,000 hai been secured for the student's christian association building at Ann Arbor. It is stated that the proposed line from Chicago to Grand Rapids will be operated by the Grand Trunk. Rev. J. W. Coat of Leenwarden, Holland, has become pastor of a Holland church at Kalamazoo. Frank Harris, aged 20, had bis left leg crushed in an accident at McMilian's camp near Kosconimon. Chas. Townsend of Constantino, has secured a (1,003 per annum civil service clerkship at Washington. Ovar 700 suits against Michigan railroadj for fence property burned during dry weather by engine sparks. Prof. Crocker of Hillsdale, who has his troop of trained horses ia Eugland, is meeting with wuudert'ul success. Mrs. David Burhans of Owosso, was found dead by her children when they returned from school the other day. Collision on the Duluth & South Shore at Dollarvilla wrecked an ore engine and üfteen ore cars, but injnred no person. D. 8. Root of Muskagon, shot at a partridge. He didn't hit the bird, but hit T. T. Hamblin, and Hamblin's injuries are serious. George B. Bryant bas brought suit for damages against John McCusker at Central Lake for alleged shooting of three of his cattle. There is talk of building a large grain elevator at Harbor Point, lor distributing winter cereal supplies to farmers in Emmet county. Chester Byrd and Augustus Harris, both colored, living at Calvin, near Cassopolis, quarreled about a young lady, when Byrd shot Harris dead. A building 300 feet long, with 55 tons of machinery, giving work to 200 people, will ba put up at Kalamazoo for making capsules by the tecret process. The Grand Rapids iron company bas been organized, witb a capital of $500,000, to work the Wlieeling mine, which is within the limita of Nepaunee. A large piece of ore weighing nearly a ton (ell at the Great Western mine in Crystal Falls, striking a miner named Mylemberg. killing him instantly. Frank .Norton of Adrián, who mada a murderons assault upon nis mother lome time ago, has been tenteneed to eight years at bard labor in state's prison. The Macard brothers, cliarged with killing Michael O'Hara of Kent county, have been admitted to bail. One of them gives ball for $2,000 and the other for $1,003. After September 27 it will be unlawful for any one in Michigan except pólice officers and night watchmen to carry revolvers or other concealed weapons. John Faenerich of Jnckson, aged l-r years, attempted to board a moving train. He was thrown under the wheels and both legs were cut off. He cannot recover. Vicar General C. J. Roche of the diocese of Grand Rapids has resignad to become deán of the Bay City deanery and pastor of St. John's parish at Essezrille. David Uetchell, one of the best known I armera and business men of Berrien county, died at his home in Niles a few days ago. He lea ves an estáte valued at (175,000. Webberville, Eaton county, wants a bank, a jeweler, a foundry, alumber yardi a machine shop, a harness maker, a fur niture store and a building and loan assrciation. Two new priests from Belgium have recently come to this ttate. Une of them goes to Holland, Uttawa county, and the other will do missionary work in the Che. boygaa district. Ne' rly all of the $40,000 assessment on the Kopes gold mining company stock has been paid, and the money will be spent in building a 40-stamp mili and sinking new shafts in the mine. Fred Hogers, an employé at Woodard'i factory in Owosso, while adjusting a belt was caught aud thrown agamst a saw, striking his bead and making an ugly gash clear through the brain. Walter Utto Hanseu, s-yoar oíd son of Hans P. Hansen, who li ves bet ween Go wau and Freeport, was instantly killed while falling down a well, while engaged with his nlne-year-old sister in drawing water. The last spi e on the Dulutli, Lake Shore & Atlantic road was dri ven at Sault Ste. Marie at noon on the lüth inst , and the entire city turned out to witness the arrival of the lirst railroad to reach that point. Grand Rapids capitalista bave ftled articles of asaociation at Lansing for a new line between Grand Rapids and Chicago with a capital of $1,500,000, and to be known as the Chicago & Grand Rapidi railroad. Robert Guney, a brakeman on the Marquette pier trains, wbile switching on a pig irou train the other morning, was caught l etween the cars and his head badly crusbed, tearing oue ear nearlj to his mouth. The Rev. Walrto May, candidate for governor on the greenback ticket in 1S82 died in Mnson a few days ago. Mr. May had resided in Michigan about 40 yenrs, and was a minister of the Christian de nomination. Billy Mcl.ain, the pugilist wlio escaped from the St. Ignace jail, was arrested a Sault Öte. Marie by Sheriff McKen.ie after a hard struggle. Subsequently he tried to dig out of bis cell, but wa discov ered and put in iroiis. Mr. Ida Peterion, who was senteuced to 13 yer' imprisonment from Menoniinee recently for killing her husband, is confined in the county Jail at Jackson, awaiting a commutation of sentence to the Detroit house of correction. A passenger train on the Baginaw Valley & St. Louis railroad ran into a group of horss, a few miles from Kast Saginawi klUing nine of them and wounding others. The horses belonged to Kzra Rust and there was gome Taluable animáis among them. Will Osborn of üraylord was shot dead the other day in a buggy on the street by the accidental discharge of a gun in Burrough's sboe store. The ball passed through the shop door, Uien through Os bom' s body and aezt through a window acrosi the ttreet. William A. Taylor, state organizer of the prohibition party, was mobbed while speaking at Sutton's Bay the other night. Several persons in the audience were seriously injured by the mob. Several arrests have been made, and every effort will be made to punish the misereante. Tekomlia high school puplls are studying anatomy from the gkull of the old chief Tekon-qua-sha, after whom the village was named. The relie was exhumed about 45 yeara ago by curiosity seekers. who opened the grave of the chieftain thinking to find bidden treasure. Gov. Luce has pardoned William With am who was sentenced for life from (Jenesee county February, 1S80, for murder. Gov. Begole commuted the sentence so that it would expire Jan. 1, 1S8S. Witbam i very low, and it is doubtf ui if he will live to Le removed from prison. Since Sergt, N. B. Conger was detailed to form and take charge of the state weather service he has established 78 oh servation stations and 140 stations for the display of weather signáis, and has also had the signáis carried by the throngh passenger trains of most of the principal raüroadu. The jury in the case of the people against Ida M. Feterson at Menominee returned a verdict of guilty and the woman bas been sentenced to imprisou for life. The woman murdered her husband with an ax in a sbanty at Perkins last March. She had been tried twiee in Delta county and the jury disagreed. The barn on A. E. Jackson's place in Swan Creek, in Saginaw county, was des troyed by fire the other day, togetber with 400 bushels of grain and three horses belonging to Cross, two horses belonging to the thrashing machine, and separator, and one horse belonging to G. W. Thorpe of Swan Creek. No insurance. E. Z. Franklin, who is president of the mutua) publishing company, Boston, will lócate a branch publishing house, whose territory shall be the western and middle states, on a sjxty acre picc of land on the Grand Trunk railroad at Pine Lake, which is within a few miles of Lansing. Work on the buildings will be begun this fall. Bay City's program for the G. A. R. fireman's and bicyclists' celebration is now complete. It begins October 4 and lasts three days. The executire coinmit tee consists of Hou. John H. Wilkins, Aid' John Kose, W. T. Smalley, Maj. C. H. Hawley and Capt. H. P. MerriU, all good men and true, who can teil y ou all .about it. 1 Pr, N. J. Alken of Grand Rapids, who was last fall convicted in the superior court of mauslaughter, having been charged of committing an abortion upon a young lady, is a frae man once more. He appealed the case to the supremo court, who reversed the decisión and ordered a new trial. The case was on cali the other day, when the prosecution nol prossed the case. At the reunión of the First Michigan infanlry at Jankson on the -Oth inst., 130 members attended and orticers were elect en as follows : President, George C. Hoffer. Detroit; vice-presidents, William Widdicomb, Grand Rapids, Capt. Clinton Spencer, Lansing; historian, the Kev. Arthur Edwards, Chicago; altérnate, the Rey. C. W. Carnick, Dundee; gecretary and treasurer, Dan Grifflth, Jackson. Banquet in the evenlnR. The prohibition state central comnilttee, [n conference in Lansing with county chairmen and prominent workers, resolved to send out a tiuaucial agent to canvass every township for funds against the next campaign. Aftera long discussion of the local option question thesense of the meeting was seen to be in favor of heartily co-operating with this mo vument when once started, but an apathy for taking initiatory steps for circulating county petitions. Miss C. A. Reamer has resigned her posi' tion as lady principal of Hillsdale college' and sails in a few weeks for Honolulú, Sandwich islands, where she has been en gaged to teach the higher English branches in the government manual training school for boys. She is to be accom. panied by Miss Dressler of Akron, O., who will take charge of the lesser English studies in the same school, which is under the patronage of a princesa of the royal house of Kamehameha. Alderman Edwards andForeman Nebele of the Lansing fire department left Chicago the otber day with round trip tickets, which had not been stamped there as presented. 'I hey liad not noticed the fct. There was no guard at the depot gate, and the tirst intimatlon they had of the over. sight was on the train. The conductor wantod f are. Bcth refuged. They were put off the train at Elkhart. Suits against the Lak e Shore road have been commanced in the circuit court naming dam. ages at $70,000 each. In reply to inquiries, Attorney-General Taggart States that clergymen and ministers need not pay 25 cents to county clerks when flling certificates of marriage. One full and explicit atlidavit, and license, for which the clerk receives 50 cents, will sufilce ior buth contracting parties. These documenta niay be made out by any authorized person, but county clerks hould be very caraful to learn the authority of uuch deputies and to issue licenses only to tbose who have full knowledge of facts to be set forth in the affidavit Bays the Grand Rapids Leatler: The in. mates of the soldier' home now number 300, and those who have been out on furlough all suiiimer are beginning to return. It is expected the home will have 500 inmates before the close of winter, and the place will be crowded. Many of the vet. erans are putting in their time assisting in the tixing up and adornment of the home grounds, but a great part of them spend their time loafing around, smoking grumbling and playing cards. They have three subatantial meáis a day, and, without much exereise, it is not strange that they getcranky occRsionally. The health of the inmutes is tirst-clasü and thudeulli rate is low.