The State

The propeller California, Capt. Trowell, left Chicago Saturday night, Oct. lat, bound for Montreal. She was laden with 20,000 bushels of corn and 700 barrels of pork, and cairied a crew of 22 persons, and also had throe passengers. She encountered a heavy wiud early the foUowine: Monday morning off the Beavers, and at 4 p. ni. the sea had increased so that it was impossible to steer her, and L01) barrels of poilc was thrown over, but without help' ing her much. About 11 o'clock p. m., when juat above St. Helena island, the sea broke in the gangways and put out the fires. Sho then swuDg round into the trough of the soa and began breaking up. The captain ordered the boats lowered, but she was so badly listed that it was imposible to lower but oiie. The captain went into the cabin to get the passengers out, but wiien he returned found that the first mate and several men had left with the boat. The steamer now began rapidly breaking up and soon all hands were struggling in the water. The captain and engineer succeeded in getting a boat loóse from the wreek and picked up the second engineer, cook and one lady passenger. Their boat then drifted down alongside the propeller A. Folsom, which was anchored under St. Helena, aud was picked up and taken to Mackiuaw City. Another boat load succeeded in getting ashore near Poiut LaCarbe. The steamer Faxton picked up one man who was drifting down the straits on some wreckage. Niue persons are known to have been drowned, aud some dozen others are missing, ko that it is probable the dead will number more. The captain says that all were supplied with life-preservers, and it is probable that all of the bodies will be recovered. The shore for miles around Jlackinaw City is strewü with the wreckage. The California was owned in Toronto and is insured. The Casa statue. Every state is entitled to place statues of two of its representativo citizens in the national gaiiery ot taiuary aivasmngton. About two years ago the Michigan legislatura appropriated J1Ü,UOO for the purpose of haTing a statue made of Gen. Lewis Cass. The commissioners appointed by Gov. Alger were Fhilo Parsons, 1 . Uamilton K. iSmith and Henry B. Ledyard. These gentlemen selected Daniel C. French of Concord, Mass., as the sculptor and adopted one of two sketches which he lurnished. Mr. French made a model at Paris, from which a piaster statue was cast. Photographs of the latter have been examined and approved by the commissioners, and Mr. French will now go ahead and complete the statue in bis Boston studio. It will be seven feet high, cut from the best Italian white marble. Mr. French's model is very highly praised, both by art critica and those who know Gen. Cass. _____ An I'npleasant Predicament. Five years ago Mrs. Charles Kreutzman of Saginaw swallowed something in a glass of water which she drank, which she claimed was alive. It sickened her at the time, but physicians attributed it to her fancy. Later she visited Germany and consulted physicians there, none of whom could relieve her. Lately, however, the reptile she believes to be a snake, has grown quite rapidly. lts movements can be detected quite readily. It sometimos comes into her throat and almost chokes her. A doctor with whom she was taking treatinent caught sight of what he believed to be the animal's head while endoavoring to tempt it out by putting milk into the woman's mouth. It is thought the reptile is now at least two feet long and two inches in diameter. WOLVERIXE WHISPERIXGS. Wheat thieves are operatinjf over ,the state. A large gray wolf was shot near L'Anse the otherday. The town of Eepublic is oujoying a healtby boom. A new iron ore range has been struck near Crystal Falls. Charlevoix wants a driving park and an agricultural society. John Tuft, one of the firat engineers on the Michigan Southern road, is dead. Gen. Alger is a member of the national council of admimstration of the G. A. R. 11 1 ram Ju wen, oue ol tüe oiuest settiers of Cass county, died ia Dowagiac the other day. Business men in Jackson are greatly ex cited over the prospects ol finding natural gas in that city. Gen. Alger bas given $1,030 toward the erection of an equestrian statue of Gen. Logan in Washington. The twenty-second annual reunión of tho Twentieth Michigan Infantry wiil be held at Charlotte üct. 12. Mr. Goff, a farmer living near Belle ville, was seriously injured a few day. ago by an infuriated buil. Kzra L. Smith of Mió, has been appoint. ed prosecuting attorney of Oscoda county vice John L. Kittle, resigned. Robort Meabon, who lives near Columbus, lost his barn, produce, stock and implements by Hre the other day. Mrs. Mary Macauley of Jac'.u-on be-ame discouraged because she was so deeply in debt, and suicided the other day. The state board of agricultural has voted to sustain Prof. Johnson, even if it necessitate suspeuding every student. The Presbyterian church at Coldwater celebrated the semi-centennial of its organization the last week in September. Roy Teater, a 12-year old boy of Coldwater, was killed on the fair grounds in that city by a nying board froni a saw. Almond King of Uunter'sCreekreceives $5 0U0 for injuries received f rom the bursting of a Michigan Centr al engiue'g cyliuder head., The Seventh Day Adventists, in session at Uraud Kapids, adopted resolutions Btrongly favoring constitutional statutory prohibí tion. Kmauuel Meyers, an old man of Jackson, has been seiitenced to fivo years in Jackson for the attempted murder of his wife in February last. Mrs. Emma A. Hampton of Detroit was elected president of the Nationul Woman's Relief Corps at the annual ü. A. R. encainpment in St. Louis. President Angelí of Ann Arbor has been ielected as ameinber of the commission to gettle the flsherv dispute betweeu the United States and Great Britaiu. All bids for the construction of new buildings at the stato agricultural college have been rejocted because they did not come within the limita of the appropria. tion. Michigan Central and Flint & Pere Marquette object to the proposed crossings of the Saginaw & Durand road. State railroad crossing board will examino the contested sites. Lewis Anthony, wbo made a criminal i assault upon little Emma Carlson, aged 9 j years, at Lisbon in June last, has been ' found guilty. He will be genteneed to I Jackson for lite. The "EnglishKitchen," a cheap hotel at 224 Jefferson avenue, Detroit, was burned on the morning of the lst inst, and two men who were rooming in the building were burned to death. Prof. O. J. Stillwell of Alma, has his grammar of the Volapuk language about ready for the press, and he is putting in all his spare time In manufacturing u Stillwell unabridged oí the Volapuk. The badges worn by Michigan ladies at the G. A. R. encarapment in St. Louis are said to have been tbe most bGautiful of any at the convention. The badges were the work of Miss Mabel Pluinber of Lansing. In the course ot his official dutles Depu. ty Sheriff Jerry Smith of Alma, had to take a cow on execution from Clinton Nelson and Nelson has had the offlcer arrested on the charge of cruelty to animáis. Hiram Corliss, head trimmer for the Brush electric light company of Detroit, was almost instantly killed the other night while working on the wires endoavoring to lócate the spot at which the wire was grounded. Sylvester H. Van l.envan, an old resident of Alma, was taken to Arkansas last January on a charg9 of murdering T,hom as Hier, also an old resident of Alma, while on a visit to Arkansas. Van Lenvan hns been acquitted. Dennis Downer, connected with the Pacific express robbery seyeral years ago and arrested at the instance of Dectective P. O'Neil of Detroit, has been captured in Chicago for the robbery of Clark & Gillner's store in GrassLake a short time ago. An accident occurred on the "Soo" road near the new town of Gladstone the other day. A work train in backing down struck a car and derailed the train. The conductor and a brakeman were killed, and several other train men were seriously injured. Dennis Donahue, a freight brakeman on the Michigan Central, was stabbed in a frightful manner by a tramp whora he was trying to put off his train. Donahu6 was taken to Albion where the wound was dressed, aftcr which he was taken to his home in Jackson. Standard Iife insurance association of Bay City and old peoples' Iife of Jacksou have notified State Insurance Commissioner Kaymond that they will comply with the law relative to graveyard insurance. 'TÍ8 believed all others will die or leave the state. Many bave already. W. H. Fielding of Jackson, 81 years old. was induced to go to Montcalm county a year agoto live with hisson-in-law, Henry Kittley. Last week Kittley returned the old man to Jackson and left him there penniless, and theauthoritiesprovided the deserted father with accommodations at the poorhouse. Levi M. Brott, a convict in the Jackson prison, wanted a pardon, and 80 he faigned paralysis and pretended to be getting deaf and blind. He was in a fair way to succeed until Dr. Williams remarked in his presence tbat he would cut his skull open to learn the nature of his malady. Levi rapidly recovered. Nehemiali O. Sargent wants a divorce from Nancy Ruffner-Shoemaker-Sargent on the ground that she induced him to marry her at Grand Rapids when he was 17 years old by stating that she was 1H, when she was 37, and the widow of WmShoemaker, wbich Sargent believet to be false. He is now 18. Miss Alma Evans, daughter of Mrs. S. H. Evans, who died in Milán a few days ago of niilk poisoning shortly after the death of her son from the same cause, has since died. Mr. Evans, who is the only survivor of the family, will probably not recover. Dr. Vaughn will examine the daughter's stomach for tyrotoxieon. Marquette, Houghton and Ontonagon land grant restored to public domain amounts to 258,000 acres, lying in Marquette, iron,Baraga,Houghton and Ontonagon counties. Land will be open for homestead and pre-emption entries commencing Oct. 10, with a recognized prior claim for actual settlers on the lands since Aug. 15. The state board of auditors bas awarded the contract for making and binding the records of resident and resident mortgages, which the new law provides for, to the Richinond, Backus company of Detroit. The contract amounts to between $6,000 and $7,000. Kalamazoo, Detroit and Lansing firms were bidders. The obiect of the law and these books is to uncover concealed mortgages so they can be taxed. Richard Reed, a farmer of Redford. Wayne county, was bitten by a favorito horse, which shortly afterward died under circumstances indicating that he was a sufferer from hydrophobia. Mr. Reed has gone to Paris for treatment by Pasteur, 'earing that he may be amicted with the dread disease. Detroit physicians are experimenting with the "after brain" of tbe horse upon rabbits and dogs, and will cable the result to Pasteur. Dorrence Williams died in Battle Creek over 40 years ago and the remains were buried in Üakhill cenietery. The remains were disinterred a few days ago and the skull was found turned on one sido and lying in the corner. Both bony hands were clinched against it. The body was turned over. The knees were pressed to the chin. The position of the body told of terrible desperation and gave reason to believe that Williams was buried alive. Capt. Clement W. Stone, son of Dr. J. A. B. Stone and brother of James H. Stone of the Detroit Tribune, died suddenly at his home in Kalamazoo on the 3d nst., after a long illness, aged 47 years. jn the war he was captain of Sixth Michigan heavy aruuery, under Col. (Jurtenius. and after the war engaged In business at Mobile with a brother, and later for three years conducted the Daily TeJegraph of Kalamazoo, with his brother Horatio, now deceased. While a resident of Roscommon eounty he was active in politics and was elected to the legislature. Richard Rose, a well known farmer and bee culturist of Kast Saginaw, has just been through a singular experience. As he was taking up a hi ve of honey recently he was stung on the end of the middle llnger oí the ngbt band. In a few minutes he became insensible, while nis finger and arm swelled up to enormous size. His condition appeared to closely resemble catalepsy, and during the succeeding 'M hours all eSorts to restore him to con sciousness pro ved futile. At the end of the time nientioned he regainod his senses and about the same time the swelling began to subside and soon entirely disappeared. Ue feels peculiar in the band and arm, but otherwise does not mind his experience. He had been stunt; many times before, and experienced little tro u ble, The New York Sun bas the following item of interest to Michigan readers: Charles E. Coon, the ex-Assistant Secretary of Treasury, has just reached Bremen, whither he sailed somedays ago in the interests of Steve Dorsey's scheme for consolidating fourtecn of the iron mines iu the Kake Superior región. Mr. Coon has gone abroad, it is said, to place a million or so of the syndicate's bonds Briefly, the scbeme is to bring fourteen mines under one head, and to tnarkel the Besseiner output in the eastern markets. The cbief obstacle to this at present is the high freight rates on the fakes. The ore has never been able to get I further east than Cleveland because of these high charges. The syndicate nieans to have its own teamers running to the lake ports, and Buft'alo will be made the the eostorn distributing point. Mr. Coon holds that place for the present.