The State

Hand-books and eireulars are out describing the coming year's work in the C'h:u;tuu uu Literary and ScientlfioCircle. The studies this year have a special interest as they include United States history, American literature and American industrie-. The C. L. S. C. is for everybody, high school and colloge graduates and litóse who never entored a high school or college; for young, middle-age and old pcople ; for teachers, merchants and mechauics. It is a four years' course of useful and pleasant roading with a diploma ut the close, and for those who can attend Bay View assembly graduation honors. The readings are done at homo and all the readers in the place or community hold weekly or fortnightly meetings. There are U,aüU members in Michigan with M) circles and 5Ö0 graduates. We have a Michigan department - the only one in existonce - and this year the three or four hundred Chautauquans present at Bay View Assembly organizad a Michigan brancu oí' the C. ö. C, with headquarters at Bav View. Henry Johnson, D. D., of Big Rápida is president, John M. Hall of Flint, superintendent and Miss Uarrie E. ískillman of Mt. Clomens, secretary. The C. L. S. C. is one of the most useful societies over organized and nothing better can be formed lu any place for the winter. Write Mr. Hall and he will lurnish circulan giving information and heip. His Dlnner Killed Hbo. Edward Spencer, proprietorof the Spen eer house in Novi,purchased a quantity of meat from a Farmington pedler and had a piece of coru beef taken from the lot and cooked with cabbage for dinner. Besides the laudlord, his wife and daughter, Edward Fierson of Detroit, a traveling doctor who lives in Wayne, and Mrs. C. L. McCrunib of Novi sat down to the table. Shortly after diuner all were taken violently Hl. A doctor was summoned and succeeded in giving relief to all but Mr. Spencer. In spite of all the inedi cinal agento used he sank, and the same afteruuon 1 i - died. Dr. Brodie of Detroit was called to Novi to attend the stricken family. He found that they were undoubtedly victims of poisoning, but the character of the poison he was unable to determine without tirst making au analysis. He secured some iueat and cabbago from the remains of the nieal aud brougiic tliom to Detroit. Dr. Brodie says that the theory of paris green huving beeu the cause of death because used oii the uabbage while growing will not hold water, as he learned positively that no paris green had been used upon it. l'he rest of the tuniily, he says, will pull through all right. Saúl to be Unconstitutional. State Senator J. W. Babcock has filed with the supremo court a mundamus which invoives the constitutionality of the stule swamp land law passed at the recent sessiou of the legislature. Ex-Judge Marstou and Col. Atkinson are associated with Senator Babcock in the importan t casu. Tiie abolishment of this law would result in a loss of M.-lüö t0 Wayne county, aud would also involve ten other .Michigan counties in a lesser degree. benator j.abuock has a letter from Judge Cooley which states that in bis opinión thenew ïuw cannot atleet moneys that are the proceeds of swamp lands which, uniier the acD amended, the several counties had become entitled to before the recent ace was pasaed. lu all such moneys, Ju.lge (Jooley thinks, the couuties had acquired a vested right and the legislature could not divest them of it. Tbe swamp land law washotly contested in the lust legislatura. The old counties of tue state, having disposed of their swamp lands in railroad gruuts, favored the law, while tbe younger couuties, where the swamp inuls were still unsold, worked tootli and nuil against it. The present movement is instigated by the defeated laction. Fiske'.i KortuneMrs. Fibke of Detroit, who was formerly Mrs. Frank Sibley of Marshall, has come ïnto possession of a fortune which is estimatöd all the way from $3U0,(KX to $503,OU), by Judxe Hooker's dësision in the famous Peniu-Sib.ey will case, which has been in the courts for the past dozen years or more. The 6uit is ono of con-siderable interest as well as importance. Frank Sibley's ather left to hun in Lis will property con!4st:ug uf reai estáte, water power and buildings, provided that the son reached his majority. In the event of his death beiore that time, the estáte was to go to other persons. He died before he was 31 and ieU a widow. One Perriu, an executor, tried to carry out the provisions of the will and the relict contested. While the case was yet pending she married MrFiske. 'ihe case has cost a large amount of money and will be appealed. Folktt Heaid From. The flrst direct trace of Lyman D. Foilett, the absconding Judge of Frobate, was heard through Kev. Derossette, who was formerly rector of St. Murk's church in (rund Kapids. Follett says uiter he lolt he went to Chicago from iherc to Caro, when he walked 14 miles in the country and was taken yery sick, ly ing in the hospital three weeks. After recovering ha walked 5J miles to JNatchez, Miss., where he found Derossette on June 25andrelatedsome of his troubles but refraincd from the maiu facts of the crime. He appeuled for help, saying he would return the amount after his return home. The rector gave him fclUO, some clean clothes and, as lio was in a.deplorable condition, invited him to stay. Follett remained three days and then departed Derossette afterwards heard of him at Honduras, whe re he evidently went at onoe. WOLVEKIXIi WHISFERIXGS. Ontouagon people are nearly wild on the subject ol gas and silver. Benzie county is taking steps toward circulating local optio n j-etitions. A building and boom association has been organized in Berrien Springs. The receipts at the prisoa during the state fair amounted to about ímm. Dr. J. T. Fouts, an old and highly respected phjsician of Charlotte, is de ad. Challes Dawson, a prominent business man of Grand Rapids, bas become violently iusuiif. Williiuii Toland was killed at Clare the other day by a timber falling on him from a building. Fowell Slavick, a Pole, was killed in Tennoyer Uros.' saw mili in Oscoda the other inorning. A. Lorg's baby feil into a cistern at Greenville, and was saved by its mother who sprang in after it. Capt. George Brcniiigor, a leading mining man in the upper peninsula, died at Nor way a few days ago. Charles Lake died at Cold water a few days ago from injuries received by a clay bank caving in upon him. Allen P. May, a son of cx-Lieut. Gov. May, has loon adjudiced insane, and sent to the Kalamazoo asylum. Kight horses were Imrned to death in the lire which destroyed the hotel barn in North Branch the other day. Ezra L. Smith of Mió, has been appoint ed prosecuting attorney of üscoda county vice John L. Kittle, resigned. Prof. J. M. Wellington, formerly of the Detroit high school, is the new superintendent of Muskegon schools. Charles Andrews was fatally injured by a piece of bark hurled from au oak log at Linton's mili iu Kast Saginaw. Somo ono put poÍ8on in a feod box in the barn of S. Williams of North Branch and a valuable borse was poisoned. Mrs. Angelina Whitley of Quincy is 63 years oíd and has read the bible through 75 times. When 5S she liad read it 59 timet. A colusión occurredon the Intercoloniat road between St. Moise and Little Metis, íSept. J, and the engineers of both traius were killed. The fifty-secoud annual meeting of tho Baptist convention of the state oí Michigan will be held in Kalamazoo, commenc ing Wednesday, October '.9. The strike which was inaugurated at Mitchell & Co. 's mili in Cadillac, Sept. 8, (or 10 hours work instead of 11, has ended, n compromise liaving been effected. Hand-bills printed in Germán and Eng lisli have been circulated in Grand Kapids calling on the workingmen to move against the hnnging of the Chicago anarchists. Ulney Dodd burned his nieat market in Syraouse two years ago for the purpose of getting the insurance. He was arresteü in Jackson some days ago, and taken to Syracuse for trial. Fire broke out in the engine house and machine shops of the Pioneer furnace at Negaunee the other day, and dumage to the amount of $25,000 was done before the fíre could be subdued. Gov. Luce has pardoned Charles Russell, who was sent to the state's prison for 16 years from Cbesaning in 1881, on a charge of murder. Gov. Luce and the pardon board think Kussell is not guilty. Lena Bohnet of Kalamazoo, died in Grand Rapids a few days ago under peculiar circumstances. Circumstance - Indícate that a young man who kept com pany with her is guilty of a crime. Richard McRae, a íariner living in Bloomfield, was returning home the other night, when his team became frightened and ran away and threw him trom the wagon. He died three hours later. The fainily of S. H. Evans, living near Hilan were poisoned by milk the other night. The s,on, aged about 17, diod from he effect the same night. Mrs. Fvans lingered until the next day, when she toodied. A syndicate of capitalista are reporteci to have struck ït rich near Watersmeet, wbere they have been exploring for iron ore for seyeral months. Xew railroad facilities will soon bring their flnd to light. A project is on foot to build a logging railroad from the south of Black Lake into the vast forests of that section, so tbat loga may be readily and cheaply carried into Black Lake, and from there floated to Cheboygan milis. Albert Rouse, a hotel-keeper in DeWitt, Clinton county, has been found guilty in a St. Johns justice court of selling liquor on tbo Fourth of July lat, contrary to 'aw, and fined by the court $10 and costs, making a total of f103. The Sault Ste. Marie branch of the ('anadian Pacific railway from Sudbury to tbe Sault, about ninety-four miles in length, will probably be completed by the end of October. The contractors arfc pushing the work vigoroüsly. iGeorge Dunham, a well to-do farmer living near Flushing was struck by a Flint & Pere Marquette engine near Saginaw as he was driving in with a load of produce. He was seriously wounded about 'he hend and back and is in a critical condition. A quit claim deed made in l-'ñd to an un divided one-eighteenth of 9,680 acres in Wexford, Missaukee, Grand Traverse. Clare, Roscommon, Crawford, Otsego and Kalkaska counties, has just been received at the register's oflice at Cadillac for record . Sunfield is a new village in Eaton county, eighteen miles n rthvost of Charlotte and twelvo miles north of Vermontvillc, on tbe Michigan Central road ana is at present a shipping point. Thu new Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit road occasions the adventure. Colored men's state central committee met at Lansing the other day. County committees will be organized to co-operate with the central committee in aneltort to secure political advancement and ree. ognitiou. YV, Q. Atwood of Saginaw is chairman , Daniel Colé of Detroit, secre. tary. Anthony Broad of Negaunee has been cbosen mine inspector under the ncw Breen law. Eleven candidatos for ollU'iwere examined. He will have a salary oí $2,00J a year, mileage and incidentals, and must examine eachc of the forty-seven mines in the county at laast every two montbs. The house of Frank Hoek iu Muskegon, was discovered on tire while tbe man and wife were up town. Their three cbildren. aged 5, 3, and 11, who were asleep in the house, were suffocatod by smoke before tbe fire could bn extinguished. Tbe lire was caused by the explosión of a lamp. '1 he father had left the house only a half hour before the fire was discovered. The disoovery of natural gas at St. Ig. nace has iiiused great excitement in all parta of tbe nortbern península. The hol is live inchus in diameter and the gas was struck at íti."i feet íroin the surface. It will be bored deeper. Test wells will be sunk at ISewberry, McMillan and other points in the belt wbere it is said to exist by Charu'.s EL Wrigbt, state geologist. Russell Evans, formerly of Centreville, and recently real estáte agent at Pasade na, Cal., died at that place of malarial fever recently. He was a gradúate of tbe Centreville high school, and several term.s in district adjacent to Centreville and Colon. He wasan exemplary young man, well known by many, who will be sorry to learn of his death. Hls age was about 25 year.