The State

At the anmuü of the W. C. T. U. iu Coldwater the resulutions adoptod were a declaraÜon oi principies stating that they rel.v upon a faith in Cïod and Jesus: that past experience has taught them not to put faith in the promises of any party which ïnaki's the sai'cty of the homo second to other questlons ; that they petition congress to BUbmlt a constitutional amendment for prohlbitlon in the Nation; that they petition the next legislature to enacta law providing Bevere penaltlea for inticing women of any ace from their homos for inmoral purposes; that the íiííe of consent be raised to 18 ycars ; that i lie legislature be petitioned for a law pmhihitiug the sale of "cigarettes and tobacco" to minors; that women usetheri_'ht of suffrage at school meetings and petition fur tliat ■ rifrht where they haven't it; that the legal test of franchise shouldnot rest on basis of sex ; that the practice of using picturee of nude women on the bill boards for advertisiug purposes should be protested against and that the press be asked to imite in denoundng the "pernicious practic-o:" aint that every effort be madethrough various agences afforded to keep the youug from going astray. A resolution was passed favoring a memorial to the legislatura to prohibit saloons within a mile of Michigan university. A resolvitton regarding the action of the M. E. general conference was adopted. It said that as christian women the unión note the action with surprise and regretas unjnst to the largo and most üevoted majority of its iiicinbcrship. They trust that the question wil) be so met iu the councils of the church during the next foiir years as to undo a tvrongunworthyof. thisgreatdenomination. A f mul to be known as the "rescuefund," IiavitiLT for its object the closing of the upper península deng of infamy, wa started. A New Catholic Bishop. The Kt. kes-. John Folcy of Baltimore has been appointed to sueceed Gaspar H. Borgeaa as bishop of the Detroit diocese. Kev. J )r. John S. Foley is an American b.v birth and a brother of the late Bishop Foley of Chicago. The two were together as studente ;it the American college in Home, crhere they attracted much attention from the ]ope. Dr. Poley is In charge of St. Muilias clumh in Baltimore and stands very high among the clergy of the east. Durinf; the recent plenary council at Baltimore he was ono of the chancellors of that body. He is an eloquent man and has a magnetism vhich makes him popular whereever knmvn. Iu conneetion with his rhurch at Baltimore he founded St. Martin's school lor young ladies and St. Martin's maleacadcmy. both of which are very successful. WOLVËRINE WHI8PEEINGS. The thirteenth unnual reunión of thï Loom is Battery wag held In Coldyajtex May 2:!. .'t." veterans answering to thL ryll cali. The following oftlcers were electod tor the ensuing year: President, T. J. Harrig, Adrián; vice-president, F. JD.Cut: í ri f-r. Troy; secrétary and treasurcr, Ja. ï. Headle. Detroit: captain, P. M. Buell, Unon City; orator, H.N. Norrington, West BayCity: historian, Jas. T. Beadie, Detroit. Next reunión at Coldvvater, May 2a, iv-Ü. Sergt. Qonger will establish a sígnal service station at Battle Creek ibout July 1. Henr.v. the 'Jví years oíd son of Mrs. Wuulerpfeifer. was struck by a passenger Irain on the Michigan Central railroad in Kalamazoo the other morning and instantl.v killed. The woinan's husband was drowned two years ago, and she is in poor circumttanoeg, wlth tour more small children. John Corrigan, a Chicago k Grand Trunk engineer, dropped dead near his. home op Hall street, Uattle Creek, the other day. He was unmarried, aged about 31 years, and had been troubled with heartdlsease, Willi.im Rush of Pontiac has been senenoed to Jaekson prison for three years and four months for horso-stealin-. Win. Hathaway claimed Í900 damages bv falliiiií through a bridge in the township of Niles, on a road leading from Niles to I3uchahan. The matter was referred to the taipayare of the township, and by a vote of 7 to 10 the claim was allowed. The wife of John Alian, captain of the barge Keindeer, feil from the ladder as she WOB climbing aboard at I3ay City and was irowned. Louis Lay gets a judgment of JS.800 (lamages against the city of Adrián for injuries received by falling through a broken bridge. Allegan has raised a cash bonus of $1.000, and the streets are to bo lighted by the Edison system of electric ligliting. As the 10-year-old daughter of the postinaster at Wales, St. Clair county, was wati-liing a game of ball, a "foul tip" ball struik her on the jaw, breaking it and knocking out several teeth. The April term of the supremo eourt adoumed 98, The O-years-old son of Columbus Phoenix of Port Huron was gored in the mouth by a cow, the hom coming out at the eye. However, it is thought tho lad will reoover. The Jdiicsvilie ootton milis will soon bo removed to Des Moines, Iowa. Jay Hubbell and Thomas L. Chadtiournc of Houghton have been given a verdict of (808.61 in a suit at Pontiac, for attorney fees, from the estáte of Charles Palmer. ' The farmers' loan and trust company of New York advertises that it will seü'the Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin railroad August g The salo is on a mortgage. VVeather observations are taken under the direction of tho state weather service at the Pontiac. Kahimnzin aiul Tmv-iirafl ii+ir state as.vlums, the state school at Coldwatei-, house of correction at Ionia, the Adrián college, Komeo liiprti school, Saginaw City high school and Olivet college. The Methodist Protestant conference, In session at Adrián, voted against the resolution Heenging ivomen to preach. The Michigan stove company of Detroit lia estobliBhed a branch office at London Eng. ' A .vouug ma named Wilson has been leid for trial at Cassopolis, charged with the murder of a man named Akin. Dr Harria. Cus Harris and ChaFles Copley whom WilMiucharged witU the prima, were discharged. A Cadlllad man has been senteneed to 80 nays In }aü for disturbing the sajvatiou uriii.v. Nlne veterans in the state soldiers' homo are so badly paralyzed that they can only move about by ineans of wheeled chairs. The project of building a narrow gauge road from Allegan to South Haven is again being agitated. Rosa Dletz and Frank Markle, whoeloped B short time ago. are in Jall at Ionia. Frank M!' ;i puir of horses from Rosa's father before he took the girl. At the annual convention of the W C T U. of Michigan, held in Coldwater, tho following offleers were elected for the ensuhiK yv.n--. President, Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, Jackson; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Emma A. Wheeler, Grand Rapids; recordïng secretary, Mrs. C. H. Johnson, Flinttreasurer, Mrs. Fannie E. Holden, Reed City. Mrs. David Preston of Detroit was i elected delegate-at-large to the national ' BOnventlon, and Mrs. Andrews of Three Rivera alternato. The organization is in a flounshing condition. there being 450 uuions at the present time. The amount of money oxpended for temporauce work was $16 OOÓ Severa) wccks ago a Polish woman's house in Alpcna. w;is set 011 tire bv a pass ing locomotivo and all tho furn'ituro and one child burned. She sued for damaires and reoovered $192 in the circuit court but thc railroad company carried it up to the Buprcini; court. A few days ago a letter carne addressed to Geo. L. Maltz, which containcd a oheck for $200 for this woman from Gen. H. A. Alger's private íund, to lii.-lp her in this hour of Deed. The democratie state convoutiou for the iioiiuiiation of stato oftkers will be held in Detroit .lil. l'.i. The Ciucinnati, Jackson & Mackinac rail road compsny has decided not to extend its line through to Saugatuck this summer. Saín V. Bennett, a well-known younif man oí Lansing, Who has been an cmplove : of the state huuseof representatives duriiiK the several sessions of the legislatura, and I Who has niany friends throughout the state has boen sent to the Detroit house of eorrectiou. Whisky dii] it. Work on tho new Masonie home at Grand Rapids will soon be commenced. The national eommissioner of agriculture, in his report on the wages for farm labor Baya the result of the investigation is almost Idéntica! with that of three years ago. Michigan is the Uth of tho states in the amoutit paid laboren pr nonlh with board, bei mr exoeeded by Caliíornia, Colorado, Nevada. Oivgoii, MaBsachusetts, ('nnecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska in the order naincd. The average wages without board in Michigan is $25.30, and wiih board $17. In 18T8 it was 123.88 without and 112.76 with board, and in 1889 without board it was $31. UI and with board (30.03. The average day wages in harvest in Michigan are il. 80 without and #1.40 with board. There are 154,00H farms in Michigan, 188,697 of which are cultivatLd bv fchelr workers. Lieut. Fred Shubel, Jr., of Lansing. has been appointed adjutant of the first regi ment M. S. T. Half faro on all roads to the military en eampment of the Sons of Veterans at Owosso June ñ, 0, 7, 8. Thomas Wright, the Simday-sehool missionary, says that two ncw missionaries have oommeneed to labor in uorthern Michigan, and one of them wrltes of organizing a Simday-school where there has been no religious service of any kind for over a year, though the place is on a railroad. In two other settlements not on a railroad hefound the same condition of tilinga had existed tor over three years. Sabbadta are spent i in lishing and hunting. A fainily was found in which were tliree rirls above ten ycars of age who had never before heard a sermón or attended a Sunday-school. More missionaries are noeded for the service. C. H. Hackley has given Muskegon $100,000 for a public library. The collector at Port Hurón has issued ' an order prohlMting (.'anadian inusicians from supplying imisic on (hts side of the river for public and private entertainments. The Met In iel st Protestant conference in session at Adrián adopted a resolution ! nouncing its unalterable opposition to any ! form of Uquor license, high or low, ; demniiifi any olergyman signing a petition for a license to sell. A clausc of theresolutlon c:ndMnnir:gthu use of tobáceo provoked an anlmated dlscussion, a larpe proportion of the clergy nsing the weed. Westminster, ! Md., was selected as the place of holding the next conference Heed Kichardsun, a leailingïfarmer of Alpena county, 1(1 miles from Alpena, was working in the lield with a roller, when the j pole broke and he feil under the roller and ! was killed. He was a pioneer of the county and highly respected, All woik at the Detroit mine near Ishpeming has been suspended. The Detroit is one of the big mines of the district. A wooden-ware íactory will soon be added to Lansing"s industries. George Corwin, the oldest resident of Genesee county. died at his home near Swiirtz Creek a few days ago. The railroad Dlileage in the Upper Península has ncarly doubled in the past iive yeárs. The animal reunión of theSeventh Michigan Infantry will be held at Jonesville June 20 and 7. Mrs. Gen. Baxter and Gen. WUson will be present. The G. A. R. Post andW. K. C. are making preparations for the event and wil' heartüy welcome all who como. A new hospital to cost $40,000 3 beipg built at Mauistee. The changes which have been made lu the license laivs has practically caused prohibition in inany of the smaller towns. Senator Palmer says he will not servo as chairman of the repnbllcan state central oommittee. James K. Perrimau, convicted of bigamv at Grand ltapids, has been sentenced to livo yeara in Jaokson. There la a rase of eviction at Hudson, equaling the experienoea of the 1 risli peasantr.v. After devoting 18 yeara to clearing aud Improving a tract of swamp. Stephen Thurston returned tlicother night to find his goods set i the road by the sherift's forcé. He had failed to meet his inortgage. Jamos B, I.imlsay, a resident of Litchfleld, Hillsdala county, sinee 1836, i dead. Many farmers in tlio Sufrfnaw vallcy are plovviiif.' up wheat aiid planting potatoes. The third anuual bánquet of tho Central Michigan alumni association of Michigan university was held in Battle Creek May 5. The state convent ion of Michigan división of the Travelers' Protective association was held in Battle Creek May 25 with a good atteudance of delegates. The new offleers are: President. A. F. Peake of Jacksoni president, L. J. Allen of Battle Creek; secretary and treasurer, L. M. Mills of Crand liapids. George Owens of Grand Rápida is i'luiipman of the board of directors. Ex-Presideut C. S. Kelsey gave them a reception in the evonlng. Linden Tree, the Arabian horso glven to President Graat by the Sultan of Turkey, has been at Senator Palmer's stables 'in Detroit for several days, en route to Nebraska. E. C. Newell & Co's planing mili and curtam roller factory in East Saginaw, was destroyed by fire the other morning. The new land office building at Grayling is rapidly approachiog completion. The Episcopal diocese of western Michigan will meet in convention in Grand Rap ids June 5-7. The last issue of the Farmers' Review, says: "No improvement is noticeable in the eondition of winter wheat in Michigan ; meadows and pastures are late, but improved in eondition; fruit prospects are good, especlally in apples. In St. Joseph eounty they are poor from numerous hard frosts, while in Wayne eounty the prospect is poor for peaches. Mis. Isabella G. D. Stewart, founder of the Home of the Friendless in Detroit and prominently identified with eveiy charitable work in that city for the past 25 years, died at the Oakland house, St. Clair, a few davs ago. Michigan wul send 3fi delegates to the St Louis conventioii, headed by I. M. Weston. Congressman Fisher has inforined Chairman Mills that the free list must be extended in bchalf of Michigan, interests. The (í. A. H. of Genesee countv huye a big time at Fliiit July 4. Bleven draggists of Muskegon are charged with retaUIng alcoholic drinks. Gladstone is booming and real estáte is advanclng in iirice. A new roller mili is in successful operation at Sheridan. 4Holluud City lias oue of the guns of the oíd Loomis battery. AnsonL. Crawford, aCídillae merchant who was boardod ii jajl jn Grand Rápida for somo timo tú s.iti.-if.y 4 rlairn held bv J. , Lamb. has brought syit there for $10.000 damages. Walter Wright, a lOyearold Jackson bov, was shot in the grolD by another boy who was trying to kill a Engllsh gparrow. William Roblnson of Bear Lake is in the ! toils for inarrving Ethel Wilson, who is under ni years of age. The prospecte for fruit, for all kinds of grata and for grass in Oceana county, was ' never as good. Ked Jaokel has a population of 2,500, and not achurch in whlon the English lanifuage ' is spokrii. 8. M. ('ramlall of Slieridan has brought BUlI against the Toledo, Saginaw and Muskeffon railroad for the non-payment of a deot Á party oí men froni Marlette raidod an ' ludían camp near that place, and rmssly maltreated some of the squaws. The residente of Mrs. J. L. Freemaa of Verinontville was struek bv lightning the other da.v and burned to the ground, the mates barely escaplngwlth their lives. The oíd settiers of Ooeana oounty hold a reeeption in Pentwuter June 7. The Loon Lake división of the Detroit, Bay City & Alpena railroad has been i ing a piece of land owned by ida M. Pratl without getting her permission, and she 3 making a light about it. The eompany had U) gfit out an injunction to keep her'from liavinu' tlje track torn up. AnAu Train man claims bfl has found over 5(1 dead deor in the woods since thc suow went off, which had been killed bv wolves. Before adjouruingthe Methodist aut conference in session at Adrián sidered its actlon uu the queation of ■ ing women to preach and voted to liceuse them. Michigan ex-prisoners of war win hold their reunión at lthaca on Wednésday and 'l'lunsday, June 'JU and 21. All ex-prisouers ' m the state are cordiallv invited to attend 1 The place can be reaehed by the Toledo, ! Ann Arbor &N01U11111 Michigan from the east and north, also the Detroit. I-ansing & Northern froni the south and west. A gen I eral good time is expected, biu the ratlons of "eorn and buggy beans" will be dispensed with.