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April
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1897
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Lansing, Mich., March 26.- There tvas wild talk and loud words in the state senate. The He was passed and the governor of the state was denounced as a demagogue. The bill of Covell which requires the governor to raake appointments during the sessions of the legislature so that they may be acted upon by the senate was under consideration. At the close the bil! was agreed to in committee of the whole and immediately passed by a vote of 18 to 9. Governor Pingree has said that he wili veto it. Lansing. Mich.. March 27.- The long fight between the state fish commission and the commercial fishermen ever pend:ng lesislation has ended with a compromise bill. This bilí provides a license fee of $75 per year for tugs with steam hoists, $10 for pound or trap nets, J5 for seines and gobble nets and for sail boats. No white fish or trout weighing less than two pounds are to be taken, and the close season is to be from Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, except in Lake Erie. where it is to begin and end two weeks later. The bill making it a misdemeanor for a person to unlawfully use or wear a badge of the Grand Army or Loyal Legión was vetoed by Governor Pingree. Lansing, Mich., March 29. - Governor Pingree has affixed his official signature to the bill providing a bounty of 1 cent per pound on beet sugar. The law will go into effect sixty days after adjournment of the legislature. The house in committee of the whole agreed to a bill prohibiting the shooting of prairie chickens, quail, and partridges for a period of five years. A bill providing for the conspicuous labeling of imitaticn food products was passed. Lansing, Mich., March 31.- The house antagonized the baking powder manufacturers by agreeing in committee of the whole to the Goodell bill, which divides baking powder into three classes, cream of tartar, phosphate and alum, and provides that packages shall be so labeled a= well as marked conspicuously with the name of the manufacturer. No variety is to contain more than 20 per cent. of starch. MICHIGAN WILL COMPETE. Track Manager Hill Will Seud a Team to Chicago. Ann Arbor, Mich., March 30.- Outdoor base ball practice was resumed here after a lapse of a week. A large number of new men came out for the first time, and the work was hard and fast. Especial attention is being paid to the batting. Track Manager Hill announced Tuesday that, as the board of control had not looked with much favor on Illinois' protest against Miehigan's competing in the Coliseum games, he would probably send a team to the Chicago meet unless the other western colleges dropped out. Elbel's fine work Saturday night in equaling the world's record for the forty-yard dash - 4 3-5 seconds- has broughthim into much prominence and it is thought he will develop into a wonderful sprinter. He Invented the Monitor. Detroit, March 26. - Dr. Theodore Burr, who died here Wednesday, aged 81, was an inventor of note, but, like many another who sought to lighten the labors of humanity, he did not benefit pecuniarily from his ideas. ín 1861 he presented plans to the government for the construction of an iron gunboat. The plans were adopted, except that the doublé turrets were built by the advice of Captain John Ericsson, to whom the entire invention was credited. The boat was called the Monitor, and the only recognition of Dr. Burr was by the presentation to him of the first greenback ever printed. This was only one of several inventions by him. Mieliígan Silver Men Banquet. Detroit, March 26.- The first annual banquet of the Mohawk Bimetallic club, a new silver orgranization incorporated just a month ago, was held ac the Hotel Cadallic last night. More than 400 persons enjoyed the function, including many from out of the city. At the speaker's table as guests of honor sat Georse Fred Williams, of Boston, and ex-Representative Charles A. Towne, of Duluth. The decorations of the banquet room were yellow and white, significant of the fundamental theory of the organization. Mayor Makps au Agsigninent. Houghton, Mich., March 31. - Richard M. Hoar, mayorof Houghton, andaleading merchant, has assigned to William A. Dunn. Mr. Hoar has been in the general merchandise business in this city for the past twenty-five years. Owing to inability to collect outstanding accounts he was compelled to make an assignment. tus principal creditors are in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit, besides a few large ones in Houghton. Ilis liabilities are $59,000; assets about $25,000. Close of tlie Detroit Bike Race. Detroit, Maren 29. - A big crowd saw the close of the six-day bicycle race in the Auditorium Saturday. Dench. the Pittsburg l'oy, won. It was decided to wind up the race in thirty-three instead of thirty-isx hours. The record made by Harry Wooc at Cleveland was 728% miles in thirtysix hours. Dench completed 737% miles in ihirty-three hours: Waller, 737 miles 9 laps: Miller, 722 miles, 3 laps; Gimm 624 miles. 3 laps: Gardiner, 341 mile3. ïouus Woman Bui-ned to Death. Huron, Mich., Match 27.- Ethel Wills formerly of Janesville. Wis., wasburnec to death yesterday at the home of John I... Pyle while the family was absent Her mina had not been firm for severa months, but it was thought she hac fully recovered. Her body was founc in the kitchen horribly burned. State Note. The men who were seen to go through the ice at Traverse City, Mich., were Torn Chezick and Wencel Kahout Kahout's body has been recovered. George Schlustrum, a. cigarmaker o Sycamore, Hls., committed suicide by swallowing two ounces of laudanum. The residence of C. H. Dick in Bed ford Park, Evansville, Ind., was ale stroyed by fire. Los3 about $7,000; Insurance, $2,900. Anten Christensen, oí Michigan, was ;ed at New York charged with having swindled the Ridgeway (Mich.) i inery company out of $40,000. A Michigan man has patented a pump iy which water is raised automatically vhen the oattle approach the trough. Superintendent Colé, of Negaunee, Mich., has received orders to close down he Sunday Lake mine at Wakefield. The Sunday Lake is a high grade Besemer mine, employing about 150 men. The prospect is that there will be no avigation at Mackinaw, Mich., earlier han April 10. Scott Sevoll, a prominent and wealthy itizen of Charlotte, Mich., committed uicide by shooting. Father Anthony Bogacki, the hero of he Polish riot in the warring church cor.gregation at Bay City, Mich., who vas aecused of shcoting one of the rioters, has resigned.

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