Michigan Pickings

Manistee, Mich., Oct. 27. - A party of gold Standard advocates, consisting of Rufus F. Sprague, national Democratie candidate for governor; ex-Governor Thomas M. Waller, of Cönnecticut; Colonel John P. Irish, of California; ex-Representatlve Charles D. Halnes, of New York; Postmaster John J. Enright, of Detroit, and others have begun a tour of Michigan in a special train and accompanied by a big band of musie from Grand Rapids. Extremely large and enthusiastic meetings were held at Mackinaw City, Petoskey, Traverse City and this qlty. Hon. Edwin Willet Dead. Detroit, Oct. 26. - A private telegram from Monroe, Mich., announces the death Friday night of Hon. Edwin Willets, who was assistant secretary of agriculture under Secretary Busk, and who continued in that position under Secretary Morton until a few months since. The cause of death is not stated. Mr. Willets was 6fi years of age. He had been a resident of Michigan since 1S3S. He was a meinber of the 45th congress, was for 12 years a member of the state board of education, and been principal of the state normal school and president of the Michigan agricultural college. Riot at Mcnuiniiii'i', Mioh. Menominee, Mich., Oct. 24.- The trouble between the vesselmen and the union lumber shovers terminated in a riot Thursday afternoon. Two of the non-union men on the Hickox were assaulted and quite seriously injured. The non-union men have asked the city authorities for protection, and it is said several arrests wlll follow. Several of the Chicago boats have refused to pay the 50-cent scale demanded by the union men. The non-union men work for 30 cents an hour. Costly Fire in Lumber Piles." Saginaw, Mich., Oct. 26. - Fire broke out early last evening in the lumber piles on the mili plant premises of the Center Lumber company at Zilwaukee, six miles down the river. It spread Into a very large conflagration, which destroyed about 8.000,000 feet of lumber. The loss will approximate Í150,000, and is understood to befairly covered by Insurance. ' State Notes. Governor Northen, of Georgia, has established some fifty agencies in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin for the purpose of encouraging emigration to that state. Claude Putnam, 23 years old, accidentally shot himself while out hunting near Kingsley, Mich., the charge entering his abdomen. He died in a few hours. Miss Maud Hatfleld, 15 years old, was accidentally shot in the arm hy Frank Lewis at Kingsley, Mich. The llmb was amputated. The Long-Lochren pens' on case has been dlsmissed by the United Stateg supreme court. Judge Long drew a pension of Í72 a month, and the reduction of the rating to $50 per month was stubbornly rontested in the courts of the District of Columbia, and flnally carried to the supreiue court.