The State

David Morgan, proiident and general manager oí tlie Kepub.ie Iron conipany, and one of tbe ricbest men in the iron trade, died at Aovillo, N. C, a few days BgO. Mr. Morgan was boin in Swanze, Wales, in 1S19, and carne to Pennsylvania with - his parents when 17 years oíd. He began as a miner in the coal mines, then became ui operator and finally an extensivo employer in the coal and iron business in Ironton, Obio. He moved to Marquette in 1875 and has since given i.is entire time to his great mines in whicb he became stoekholder when the stock was almost valueless, sceing it go up to nearly $200 a share on a par valué oí 25. He leaves an only child, Mrs. Hannah Morgan Hebard i oí Fequaming, and several nephews and niecea, among the former W. D. Kees of Cleveland, secretary oí tue Republic iron compuny, and David I. Morgan of the Republic Mine. The remains werií interred at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Mr. Morgan's oíd home. A Pioneer Passed Away. Hon. George Redfield died at his home in Edwardsburg, Oct. 31, in his 92d year George Redfield was bom in Suffield, Conn., Oct. 26, 179 6, and went to Clifton Spring, N. Y., iu 1800, He was educated at the Middloburi, N. Y., academy, and was a tutor in planters' families from 182 to lS2ti. He carne to Michigan in 1831 to lócate 3,200 acres of land. He moved to Cass county iu 1835. He was a representa tive in the legislatura in 1841, senator in lt4 3-43-44, presidential elector in 1S44, state treasurer 184"), secretary of state 1850, and delégate to the constitutional convention lí5U. He was the fariner's friend and benefactor, bix children survive him. WOLVERIXE WHISPERI2ÍGS. John Fant, a Hülsdale pioneer, is dead. Natural gas is being piped from Port Huron to St. Clair. The Hon. E. Proinroy of Jones vilie is dead, aged 96 years. Tüe roller skating craze is being re vive J througbout the state. A business men's association has been organize in Sangatuck. The Hussel house at Big Rapids was desroyed by flre recently. Williani Ryan of Hudsou, drank carbolic acid for whisky. William is dead now. John 11. Bates, formerly of Kalamazooi comniitted suicide in Minneapolis the otlier day. Game Warden Sinith convicted twentynine violaturs last month and collected $200 in fines. Mrs. J. Marxhausen of Kast Kaginaw las fallen heir to an estáte ia England valued at $500,000. Genesee county settled with Mrs. May, of jail lock faine, for $500. Saginaw county paid her il, 552. Berrien Springs is going to have that raüroad from Buchanan to St. Joseph if S25,000 will secure it. Mrs. Jennie iátanton of Lapeer died in 3eekman's camp, near Hubbard Lake, of an over dose of morphine. Two Michigan Central freight engines collided at Chelsea the other day. Both engines and several cars were destroyed. Fanny Newman of Kalamazoo, sued Gusta v Slain, car inspector for the G. R. & . road, for slander. She has been awarded a verdict of $500. Ferrinton has organized a building and oan association. The annual meeting of the national range begins in Lansing Nov. 16th and ast for eight day. Representativos and exuibit from 33 states will be there. fhe president has pardoned Henry G. Curkendall, who was sent by the federal court at Grand Rapids to the Detroit house of correction on Oct. 9, 18.-5, for a erm of four years. Ue will be released as oon as the papers in the case arrive. Sheriff Monteith of Mackinae county is waging a vigorous warfare on disreputale places in that county. Four years ago H. J. Hdwitt, a business man at Nortj Bradley, wandered from lome while deranged. Nothing was heard of him until üctober 27, when his bones were found in the woods in Midland couny and identifled by papers found with the keleton, whicb were well proserved. The state board of forestry has been organized under the act passed by the last egislature, with the folio wing ofllcers: rrauklin Wells, Constantino, president; ienry Reynolds, agricultural college, ecretary; Col. W. B. McCreery, Flint, auditor; Charles W. Garfield, Grand Rapds, and Prof. W. J. Beal of the college irectors. Uov. Luce has issued a proclamation materially amendingthe quarautine upon attle coming to this state from Chicago. fo case of plouro pneumonía has been re orted in Chicago since July, and car oads of cattle coming through Cook coun,y without unloading, and cattle from the at stock show, may now enter Michigan 'rom Chicago. A reunión of old-tinie abolitionists was eld at the residence of Mrs. Ed. C'omtock ín Adrián the other night, in honor f Parker Pillsbury, one of the fathers f the anti-slavery movemont, who is ow en route home to Concord, N. H. ,enawee county was a main station on lie underground railroad, and many ioneers paid their rospects to the veteran. Joel Dietz, an advertising agent stoping temporarily in Hay City, acted trangely lor several days, and Ünally a octor was oalled to see him. When the octor entered Diotz's room, that indiidual fired several shots at the doctor, 'he doctor retreated and otUcera were ummoned. Dietz kept the doctor and íiicers at bay for some time, and íinallv aot himsalf, dyiug almost instantly. In order to prove the advantage of the ! military drill in the physicaldevelopment f the students at the Michigan military cademy, each boy is weighed and carelul measurements taken of his liight, chest nd arms at the time of his admission. 'his year, at the end of six weeks, a seend measurement was made with most atisfactory results, as there was found to ! ie an average increase of over six pounds or each cadet, and a grand aggregate ' ;ain of nearly S00 pounds of good healthy j one and muscle in this short time, and ' liis without one single case of siekneas. A crowd of men and boys gathered at ' he residence oí James Poet, in Komulus, who was recently married, for the purposo f "horning" the newly married couple nd after making all the racket they ' hought necessary tho crowd left Mr. ! 'oet's place, moved a short distance to a ouse occupied by Don Felton and wife j nd their six small children, and menced firinsj off their guns. This so ! rightened Mrs. Felton that she arose and ot a pistol to protcct the household with, nd in the excitement accideutally shot ïerself in the bowels. Her recovery is ery doubtful. Mrs. J. Kreutztnan, the Saginaw woman I who imagined that her stomnch was habited by asnake, died the other evening : after most excruciating torture. At the autopsy held the same evening by Dr. S. C. J. Ostrom and other physicians, the mystery was cleared away, and the idea that a inake, lizard or any other like reptile ensted in the woman's stomach was i proved to have been without foundation. The cause of death was enlargement of the heart and chionic inüammation of the stomach. To the latter may be ascribed Mrs. Kreut.mun's hallucination that her stomach contaiued some sort of reptile. The old Krie fc Kalamazoo rond from Palmyra to Adrián, which has been ill since 1S6S, has been torn up. H. K. Kennedy and his brother Will Jaokson boys, are reported shot at Sai Antonio, Texas. Will's injuries are sak to be fatal. Flora bidlack, aged 8, choked while eat ing an apple at Lake View. She ran into tLie house, gasped "apple," and died beforo aid could be rendercd. The second bids for the construction o new buildings at the agricultural college are all in excess of the atnouut appropri ated by the legislature. Col. McCreery and Henry Reynolds have been appointec a committee with power to accept the lowest bid if no better terms can ba ob tained. Charles L. Ortinan of Detroit has pur chased of Arthur Hill of Saginaw and W C. Busch of Jlarquette, two tracts of pine land on the Yellow Dog and Michigamme rivers, upper península. Estimated cu 30,000,000 foot. Consideration, $85,000. Caroline Faulner, a domestic of East Saginaw stolo $10,000 from her employer When accused of the theft ahe swallouec the ruoney and denied. The prosecuting attoruey administered an emetic and convicted Caroline. W. W. Phippen, the Grand Rapids botanical doctor, has been flned $51.22 and costs for cracticing medicine without license, and hu appeals to the circuit court. Mrs. L. A. R. Service oí Lansing, undertook to jump from a D. L. & N. train at Delta recently, acting upon the advice of the conductor. She made the jump, but feil heavily, and has been confined to her bed ever since. Suit will be brought against the railroad company. Parties on entering Phil Cross' saloon in Alpena the other day found him lying unconscious in a corner of the back room He was covered with blood. His skull was crusheri in below the brain cavity, apparently with some dull instrument. John O'Hara lay unconscious near the stove in the same room. There was a bullet in his brain. It entered the back of his right ear. Neither can recover. Nothing is positively known, but it is thought the case is one of robbery and murder. Whitney & ÍSaunders, arrested on complaint of Commandant Pierce for keeping a saloon nitliin one mile of the soldiers' home, in violation of the law passed by the last legislature, have been tried and acquitted. The defendants admitted al' facts charged and claimed that the law is unconstitutional, as under it the legisla, ture could prohibit liquor selling in the city as well as within the mile limit of the soldiers' home. The jury was convinced and rendered a verdict accordingly. It is probable another effort will be made or a second complaint to secure conviction for an appeal to a higher court. Look out for tbo oily-tODgued stranger3 who are goiug about the state obtaining signatures to petitions for the preservation of song birds. The fellowa are doing a land-office business, and the petitions turn up as notes in the hands of "innocent purchasers." In 1885 Wilhelm Borng tried to buy at private cash entry a piece of land in the Marquette district, but the land commUsioner decided that the land has been restore;! to the public domain only for preemption ar honiesteading. Borng appealed, and theactingsecretary of the interior decides that the appellant has no case, but as Borng's application was evidently made in good faith, and there is no adverse claim, the matter may go to the adjudicatory board and the title be confirmed in Borng. Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are provoked over incroase of $5S5,000 and $125,000 respectively in county taxes as arranged by supervisors on equalization. Amounts are deducted from farm townships. Mrs. John B. Packard, an estimable lady of East Saginaw, died suddenly of apoplexy the other night. Mrs. Calvin Pratt, pioneer of Branch county, aged }, died n Coldwater a few days ago. The state board of fund commissloners have been nuthorized to purchased Michi ;an war bonds, if obtainable at reasonable premium, with surplus in state treasury; also to buy governinent bonds when deemed advisable. Geo. W. Freeman, executive clerk of governor'g office, who has held othor state positious, resigns to accept the secretaryship of Anderson roadcart company. The Hon. Wm. Crosby of Emmet county, succeeds him. Mr. Crosby was formerly deputy secretary of state. At the annual meeting of the Women's Michigan Indian association, held in Detroit recently, the following ofllcers were chosen for the ensuing year: President Mrs. Edward B. Coolidge; vice-president Mrs. Morse Stuwart: corresponding secretary Mrs. Allert Miller; recording secretary Miss Fanny H. Wingert; rhairman of missionary committee Mrs. A. G. Lindsay. ! Graut Challender. who shot John Clay in a quarrel over a lease of land near Grand Ledge in May last, haa been convicteil of murder iu the seoond degree. Dr. Waite of Brighton, accused of causing the death of Ida M. Lee last spring, has been convicted of manslaughter. Waite's attorneys say they will move for a new trial. The Hon. Thomas M. Ferry of Benton Harbor is dead. He was an old citizen of Benton Harbor, prominent in local politics and United States consul at Santiago during Grant's administration. John Swantí of Maple Grove is the latest vic tini of ïhe Bohemias oat deals. John i must pay a note of Í1U0. The Widdicomb furniture company of Grand Hapids have provided a reading and smoking room for its employés. Saginaw county supervisors refuse to appropriate salaries for game wardens. Lake Shore, Fort Wayne and Michigan Central roadf, were blockaded six hours the other day by a smash-up on the latter road. Five cars destroyed. Geo. llauson struck a liig gas vei 18 feet down 4X miles from C.inton. It burned six hours and was smothered with difficulty. Boring continued. Track laying on the Grand Rapids, Lan ' sing & Detroit progressing at the rate Of % miles daily. Rails have nearly reached Thornapple river, where iron bridge is i ing constructed. Burglars took $180 from tho safe of the j Commercial milis in Constantiue the other day. Louis Gates proponed to Kliza Buchauan a pretty waitress in an Alma hotel. Eliza refused, and Louis tried to shoot her, for ' which act of iudecorum Louis gets flve years ín Jackson prison. Barnhart luuiber company of Duluth compo8ed largely of Grand Rapids men] receutly sold 71,000,000 fcet of standing pine on Brule river lands, twenty-five miles from Duluth and in Douglas aud Bayfield counties, to Rust-Uwen company i of Eau Clnir and Saginaw capitalists. Auditor General Apün has discharged löclerks from hisoliice, somo ully, others to be reinstated when the work of the ome ïoquires tbem. Seney lumberraen hare been hauling logs on runners for some time. The snow i is 15 inches decp. Smoking on tbe streets of Saugatuck bas been prohibited. A. Ü. Banks of Lausing is the man to whom you must write in order to get quarters for squads of grangers who wish to attend the meeting of the national grange. After 17 years' duty as president of the Marine City stave company, Hon. C. McElroy has retíred. At the time ot the death of George Dunham, the Fluhing farmer who was killed ly the tars at East Saginaw a few weeks afeo, bis fall farm work was uot done, and the otber day the neighbors turned in and helped Mrs Duuhain by husking her corn erop - 400 sho.'ks. Daniel McCoy of Grand Rapids bas purchased of the U. II. & I. railroad company about 50,000,000 feet of pin in Lake county J. A. Baeot, a well-to-do farmer of Hayes township, Charlevoix county, took Paris green with fatal results. Tbe state horticultural society and the Michigan beekeepers' association will come together and hold communion at East Saginaw Dec. (5, 7, S, 9 and 10. 4Mrs. Cabledish of Clay township, St. Clair county, is 103 years old. Oakland county men who bav attended the Michigan agricultural college will have a reunión at Pontiac December 30. The Knights of the Maccabees were crganized in this state in 18S1 and have paid ont $112,(100 for death claims aince that time. Kalamazoo had to seud to Winnipeg for its winter supply of potatoes. Herman Laudon, late ca. hier of tbe Michigan Central freight house in Kalamazoo, bas been appointed station agent of the Chicago, Kalamuzou & Saginaw railroad at Kalamazoo. May Allen Pierce, adopted daughter of Prof. W. Skinner of Boston, died in Jackson a few days ago. Miss Allen came from the east to assist Prof. Skinner in an entertainment soon to be given in Jack son by local talent. UETKOIT Jl.lKKKiS. Wheat, White f 78 (g 79 " Ked 77 @ 7?S Cobx, per bu 44 (g 44 W Oats, 9J @ 80 Barley, 1 40 1 45 Malt 90 (g 95 Timotht Sekd 2 05 @ 2 10 Clovek Sekd, per bag 3 fe5 (ft 4 05 Feed, per cwt 13 2. (13 50 Flouk- Michigan patent... 4 25 @ 4 50 Michigan roller 8 76 4 00 Minnesota patent.. 4 75 5 00 Minnesota bakers'. 4 00 M. 4 25 Michigan rye 3 00 @ 3 25 Applf.s. new, per bbl 1 75 (ai 2 U0 Ckaxheiihüs, per bu 2 CO (a Ü 25 QcixcES,per bbl 4 00 @ 4 5) Pears, per bu 1 00 Q 1 20 Bean-s, picked 2 35 (tó 2 40 " uupicked 1 ?5 (m 2 25 Beeswax 25 @ 80 Butteu 18 ( 19 Cheese, per 1b 13 M 12 Dkied A:':i.i, per lb 5 @ 6 Eggs, per doz 18 ( la Hoxey, per lb IS @ 20 Hops 32 @ 30 Hay, per ton, clover 7 00 (ts 8 00 " " timothy 10 50 ($1150 Malt, per bu 70 (g 75 Onions, per bbl 2 40 (g 2 50 Potatoes, per bu (30 (g 65 Poultkï- Chickens.per lb.. 9 M 10 Geese 8 @ 9 Turkeys 9 (ui 10 Ducksperlb ö (L 7 Pbovisions- Mess Pork 13 75. (iu 00 Family 14 50 (et 14 75 Extra mess beef 7 25 () 7 50 Lard 7 TU Dressed hogs. . 6 50 (o; 6 75 Hams 10 (i 11 Shoulders 7 (ié 1% Bacon 12 tj 12W Tallo w, per lb.. 3' 4 Hides- Green City per lb... 0 ( QU Country ,. 03 7 gured 7 s Balted 9 üheep skins, wool.. 50 @ 1 25 1.1VB STOCK. Cattle- Market steady shipping s teers, f2 W(gr 05; stockers and feeders quiet at $1 00(3; cows, bulls and mixed, $Ud) 50; through Texas cattle weak sales at il 5 11 50; lndians, $ B0@8 20; Western rangers, weak; natives and half-breeds, (2 5ü$ 3 ;.O; cows, $2 10@3 4J; wintered Texans, 12 5U(j2 bd. Hoos - Market steady, rough and mixed $4 20Ctó4 (iO; packing and shipping $4 30(0) J4 ft"; light, 4 4U(O;4 60; skips, 3@3 25. Siieep - Market unchanged; 1$2g4 25' western, $:S(u;3 50; Texans, Í2M3 25; lambs, 3 75(4 75. The Drover's Journal special cablegfram frora Londou reporta American cattle in light supply and prices steady. Choice American steer3 are quoted at $h;c estimated dead weight.