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4
Month
June
Year
1897
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Lansing, Mich., May 20.- At midnight, yesterday, amid great confusión, the Michigan legislature ceased transactir.g legislativa business after nearly flve months' session. Many of the so-called reform measures, fathered chiefly by the political friends of Governor Pingree, were left in committees, together with many bilis of a more local character. The final formal adjournment will be on Monday. Last night Governor Pingree sent a final message to both house?, urging the recall of the Merriman bill for increasing the taxation of railroad earnings and the passage of a substitute whieh shall be more adequate to accomplish the purpose intended. Aceompanying the message was an estímate of the state railroad commissioner, shov.-ing that the increase in taxes under the bill will be but $155,700. The governor also submitted a brief which tends to show that the act in question is illegal, being "an attempt to usurp the power of congress to regúlate and tax commerce among the states and with Canada." The goverr.or urged the passage of an act againEt which, at least, no legal objectior.s could be raised. The senate refused to take any action on the governor's message. Accordingly both houses adjöurned at midnight. Lansing, Mich., May 31.- The members of the legislature kept up until a late hour their revelry incident to the closing of the business Friday night. During the celebration a valuable portrait of General Lafayette, which hung on the senate walls, was greatly damaged, a couple of books havlng been thrown against the canvas, tearing it In two places. The elegant glass doors of the senate chamber were broken and the walnut desks were defaced with a carpenter's hammer. Comedian Comes Xear Death. Mcunt Clemens, Mich., May 29.- Robert Gaylor, the Irish comedian, was overeóme by gas at a bathhou.se ar.í was unconscious two hours beforo he eouid be moved. In spite of reooatsd warnings to guests at all th. bnlhhoupes not to turn on mineral water unless an attendant is present, many people suffer the penalty every season of t:ying to gratify their curiosjty. Gaylor had taken his bath and then turnad the faucet and allowed the clear mineral watei to run over his neck and chest, the result being that he almost lit his life. Had a Fight with a Porcupine. Niles, Mich., May 29. - Nolan TI. Breeee and Á. M. Perry, residing near this erty, had a desperate fight with a porcupine which they finally killed, and they now have the carcass on exhiblilon. The animal has been annoying farmers hereabouts for over a year and macy attempts were made to kili or capture it. Breece and Perry came on the porcupine accidentally and the n.rAmal gave them a great fight, inflloting severe wounds on both men. Xo one knows where the porcupine came from. Managrdto Sever His Windpipe. rquette, Mich., May 28.- William Fitzpatrlck, a section foreman for the D. S. S. and A. railroad, living in Au Train, thirty miles east of here, attempted stiicide. Fitzpatrick, who was bossing a gang on the tre.ck, walked away a short distance and pulled out his pocket knife and slashed himself seven times across the throat, the last time cutting the wind pipe.' He failed to kill himself outright, but he Is very low and his attempt has every chance of being successful. Horsewhipped a Minister. Metamora, Mich., June 2. - Rev. Dr. W. H. Flint was horsewhippod on Main Street by Arthur Brownell, who alleges that Dr. Flint made statements reflecting upon his character, resulting in divorce proceedings. Mrs. Brownell died before the matter came to trial. On her deathbed, it is said, Mrs. Brownell accused Dr. Flintof making these statements. Brownell attempted to have Flint contradict them, but the latter denied circulating them and refuséd to retract. May Be the Chieora. St. Joseph, Mich., May 31. - What may prove to furnish the location of the Chicora or some other steamboat was fcund twelve miles in the lake by the tug Sir Arthur. A spar in the water was struck. An attempt was made to pull it out, but it was so fast to sómething under the water that the attempt was fruitless. It was in 220 feet of water, was painted black and about forty feet long. An investigation wül be made. He'll Never Go Back to Detroit Detroit, June 2.- Charles H. Smith has returned to this country. On May 14, 1890, Smith, then a prominent business man of Detroit, mysteriously disappeared. His estáte was probated June 19, 1890, and he was declared legally dead. He is alive at New York. Financial reverses drove hira away from here and he sayg he will never oome back to Detroit Smith was formerly a member of the firm of Pingree & Smith. Plngrree Anks a Legal Opinión. Iansing, Mich., June 1. - Governor Pingree haa requested an opinión from Dean Hutchlns, of the law department of Michigan unrvereity, as to tha constitutionality of the Merriman bill to Increase taxs upon railroad earnings. The governor must sign or reject the bilí by June 5, and he is undecided what to do about it lts chief alleged defect is that it is in conflict wlth the interstate commerce law. Hurdered Man'i Body Identifled. Newport, Mich., June 1. - Theodore J. Moeller arrlved from Cincinnati Sunclay and iramediately positively identitled the body of the man found on the beach Friday as that of hls father-in-law, John Koller, the missing Cincinnati merchant. He will take the remains home. Moeller feels certain that Koller was murdered. Minister Angelí Goes to Washington. Ann Arbor, Mich., May 28.- President Angelí has left for Washington in obedience to a telegram recelved from the state dopartment. The summons was entircly unexpected, and its nature is unknown. It is rumored that Dr. Angelí will be ordered to depart for Turkey sooner than he expected, probably within a few days. Cowanlly Bturder in Michigan-. Marquette, Mich., June 1. - Richard Palmer applied to Alexander Boulton, an agod citizen of Newberry, Luce county, for employment, and being refused drew a dirk and stabbed Boulton, who died shortly after. Palmer had a hard reputation and recently served a jail term for wife beating. State Notes. Four years ago Mrs. Willlam Nunn, of Bay City, Mich., sent a letter to her son William, the musician and minstrel, who was then in Australia with a circus. A few days ago the letter was returned with twenty-six postmarks, yellow but still intact. It had been returned from Australia to London, via San Francisco and had traveled many thousand miles. Mrs. Nunn died two years ago. Reporta from several states indícate that the Detroit Republican League convention will be the most successful in the history of the league. Fred Kellogg, of Holland, Mich., a painter hy trade, has become totally blind as a result of having imbibed a half-pint of wood alcohol. Little 7-year-old Alberf Tankoviac, who disappeared at Cheybogan, Mich., two wetks ago, has been found dead twelve miles from home, horribly mutiated. One arm and leg is eaten off. He was carried away by a bear.

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