In The State

The report that Chas Gough, of Avoca, had been drowned at Ashtabula is untrue. It was Edward Gough, his brother. Gov. Ping-ree has appointed R. D. Bailey, of Gaylord, agent the state board of correetions and charities for Otsego county. The large barns on the old Fred Haas farm, north of Holly, burned yesterday. They were old landmarks, owned by Robert Hadden, of Battle Creek. Loss, $3,000. Gov. Pingree has ordered the transfer of Hugh V. O'Hara from the Wayne county asylum to the asylum for dangerous and criminal insane at Ionia. A national road parliament wiü be held at Omaha Oct. 8. Gov. Pingree will commission as delegates any Michigan citizens willing to pay their own expenses. Chief of Pólice Farrington, of Bay City, was asked by a certain old lady to post her son in the saloons there, and the offlcer nearly collapsed when told he was 70 years old. Joseph Cadotte, engineer at the Excelsior electric. works at Port Huron, had his leg broken and receiven internal injurise Wednesday night by the breaking of a steam pipe. O'Reilly Atkinson, of Port Huron, succeeds Alvah H. Sanborn in the secretary of state's office, and Miss Eüzabeth Schuster, of Ionia, succeeds Leo D. Wentworth. A trio of picture enlargement sharks have been working Mendon in good shape, getting a large amount of the farmers' money. They1 worked Athens and were rounded up there. A tumor was removed from the sixyear-old daughter of Robert Jaynes, of Brooklyn, and she died the next day. The tumor weighed 15 pounds and the growth was 18 months old.