News Of The State

Lansing. Mich.. Dec. 9.- The State Associations of Farmers' clubs met here Mqnday. Governor Rich made the address oL welcome and discussed the several state institutions at some length. He is of the opinión that the present convict contract labor system is the most profltahle of any yet devised, and operates with less injury. The state grange also holds its annual session the present week, and it and the farmers' clubs will make recommendations for economy in state institutions, reductions of salaries, and adherence to business principies. Appropriations for new state institutions by the next legislature are opposed. FUN FOR THE JUNIORS. Have a Senior to Make Sport f at Their j Annual Banquet. Alblon, Mich., Dec. 10.- The annual junior banquet was held Tuesday night. The seniors learned the time, but could not learn the location. Nevertheless they determined on heroic measures. Several seniors tied andgaggedtwo juniors in their rooms in a fraternity house, leaving one hand free. One junior broke a looking glass within reach, sawed the ropes and liberated himself and companion. They raised a wlndow and jumped to the wing below, from there to the ground and ran, pursued by the seniors. One feil and was captured. The other reached the banquet rooms and gave the alarm. A rescuing party soon released the captured juior. The seniors, beins in the minority, had locked themselvea in a house. The door was broken and the chief senior, a prominent fraternity and newspaper man, was conducted to the banquet. There, tied to a high chair, his face grotesquely blackened, and arrayed in a suit of many colors, he served as a center-piece for the jubilant Júniora and their admiring ladies. MICHIGAN LABOR FEDERATION. Enactment of Certain Laws Demanded - Klection of Oíticers. Lanslnpr, Mich.. Dec. 5.- The Michigan State Federation of Labor Thursday demanded the enaetment of laws making it a misdemeanor for employers to coerce employés by threatening to either curtail or suspend operations unless a certain candida te is elected; also to reduce the comp?tition of convlct --vith free labor to the minimum. A committee was appointed to confer ■vith the State Wheelmen's league with a view to securing a law requiring that convicts be employed on roads as far as possible. Resolutions demanding free text books and favoring government ownership of railroad and telegraph lines, postal savings banks, the issuing of all money by the government direct, and making use and occupancy t,he solé basis of ownership of lands, were indorsed. Ofrlcers were elected as follows: President, Harry C. Barter, Detroit; vice presidents, George H. Canfield of Lansing, Mrs. Mary L. Doe of Bay City, and John A. Barron of Port Hurón; secretary and treasurer, William Crewe, Grand Rapids. MICHIGAN FARMERS' CLUB. Certain Lawi They Want tlie Legislatura to Knuct. Lansing, Mich., Dec. 10.- The State Association of Farmers' clubs Tuesday elected J. T. Daniels of Clinton president, and F. D. Wells of Monroe secretary and treasurer, and appointed a committee to urge the next legislature to enact laws embodying the following principies: That county officials be paid salaries and the fee system be abolished, it being made a criminal offense for such officials to accept fees or other perqui.sites: that no state institutions be established by the next legislatura, and there be a weeding out of unprofltabte institutions and unbuslness-like methods: that prisonsbe made self-supporting; that the state university be given only the one-sixth mili tax; that no changes be made in road laws that wül increase the cost of maintaining roads; that a more economical system of collecting taxes on non-resident's property be adopted; that a more equitable distribution of taxation upon real and personal property and corporate and prívate capital be secured. The Mably & Co. Failure. Detroit, Dec. 5. - Important steps were taken n a hearing before the circuit court Thursday evening towaids settlements of creditor flrms against Mabley & Co., the embarrassed clothing company. The plan includes the purchase of the store by W. S. Peck & Co. of Syraeuse, N. Y.. the principal creditors for $160,000. subject to the appeal I now pending upon a question of permitting replevins. The plan is agreeable to neaiiy every creditor. Fotind the Missing Body. South Haven, Mich., Dec. 7. -The body of Rose Goins, the colored cabin raaid whose whereabouts have been persistently sought since the burning of the steamer City of Kalamazoo Monday morning, was found by dragging the river Friday morning. The town and surrounding country had been thoroughly searched as she was said to have been seen on the doek after the flre broke out. Farmers Evicted by High Water, Menominee. Mich., Dec. 5. - Reporta were received last evening to the effect that the water is still rising in the Menominee river above the ice gorge which has formed for eighteen miles above the head of Grand Rapirts. It ia stated that at several farms the people are fleeing for their lives. Barns and cellars are overflowed and rnucta fodder and provisions destroyed. Upper Peninsular Legislators Confcr. Ishpeming, Mich., Dec. 10.- The Upper peninsular representatives-elect to the state legislature held a meeting at the Nelson House here Tuesday evening. Those present were Representatives Billings of Marquette, Connors of Chlppewa, pullison and Smith of Houghton, Fuller of Delta and Chamberlain of Gogebic. The object of the meeting was to discuss the organization of the house and mattere pertalning to the Upper península generally. It is understood that the representatives will not oppose Governor Pingree exrept in cases where thcy deern this absoluetly necessary to good legislation. Bench Show at Grand Knpids. Grand Rapids, Mlch., Dec. 10.- The second annual dog show, under the auspices of the "Butterfly" Bench association, opened Tuesday afternoon, with 303 entries, divided into eighty classes. The exhibits are of a much higher class than last year, including some of the flnest dogs In the country. The show of St. Bernards, setters, spaniels and terriërs is pronounced the best ever seen in the west. The "Butterflies" are twelve young ladies, who support a free ward in one of the city hospitals. Wants Those Votes Counted. I.ansing, Mich., Dec. 10.- Fred A. Baker, chairman of the fusión state committee, has applied to thesupreme court for a niandamus to compel the state board of canvassers to credit Charles R. Slight, candidate for governor, with all the votes apparently cast for him, but not credited because of misspelling. ringreo Will Have no "Flapdoodle." Lansing, Mich. Dec. 7.- Considerable disappointment and chaagrin is feit by the people of this city because of the refusal of Governor-elect Pingree to permit any demonstration Jan. 1, arrangements for which had been going on for several weeks. He says he wants no such "flapdoodle." Bay City Pipe riant Burnrd. Bay City, Mich., Dec. 9.- The Michigan Pipe company's entire plant, covering about four acres, was destroyed by fire at 1L:3O o'clock last night. The loss on the plant is $75,000, and on the contents $25,000; insurance on plant$35,000. Ordercd to Sell the Stock. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 7. - Judge Donovan in the circuit court Saturday granted an order authorizing the receiver to sell the Mably & Co. stock in bulk to W. II. l'eck & Co. of Rochester for $160,000. '_ Allcged Crook Escapes from Jall. Bay City. Mich., Dec. 8. - William Monks, aged 17, who was awaiting trial foraiding in the forgery operations of his brother Richard, who was arrested in New York last week, esoaped from the county jail last cvening. State Notes. ' Charles Bayless, manager of the Street car system at Mount Clemens, Mich., killed himself by shooting at the Avery House. Unhappy relations wlth hls wlíe are assigned. He carne from Muncie, Ind., and has relatives Uve at Bessemer, Mich. Frank and George Kingston were convlctèd in the United States court at Grand Rapids, Mich., of counterfeiting. They are brothers, 33 and 28 years oíd respectively, and their father Avas a pioneer of Ionia, where their mother lives. The announcement is made at Jackson, Mich., that Milford Harmon, únele of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and Miss Jessie Pringle, eldest daughter of Eugene Pringle, will be married Dec. 23, and spend their Christmas with the president and family in Washington. Anna E. Coleman, of Nobel Centre, Mich., has left for Cuba to enlist as a nurse in the rebel army. Samuel Carpenter, an 18-year-old Ithica, Mich., youth, is dead from excessive cigarette. smoking. Owing to Governor-Elect Pingree's dislike for notoriety, the proposed public inauguration of the new Michigan state officials Jan. 1 has been abandoned. Farmers living east of Niles, Mich., are considrably excited over the discovery of iron ore on "William Cameron's farm. Specimens have been sent awy for examination, and real estáte has taken a boom. It is said that because he did not understand how to mark his ballot properly a saloon keeper of Milán, Mich., voted a Prohlbition ticket.