State News

—Albion claims 3,000 population.
—Lake Superior copper mines paid over $650,000 dividends in March.
—Andrew Ferguson of Grand Rapids, aged 70, fell dead on the street, Monday.
—Jas. Meesick of Saginaw City died on the street Monday from bleeding at the lungs.
—Alpena has shipped 6,000,000 feet of lumber and ten or more cargoes of railroad ties this spring.
—The famous Rev. J. W. Reid of Greenville has gone into the agricultural implement trade.
—A public-spirited Jackson man asks the city to let him fence in one of the streets for a cow pasture.
—An accidental shot at the hands of his brother killed a ten year old son of T. W. Hayward of Evart.
—Policeman Phillips of Kalamazoo was stabbed three times but not dangerously by a drunken rough.
—Stock-house of Kalamazoo paper mill company burned on Tuesday. Loss $17,000. Insurance $10,500.
—Michigan men are in luck. Edgar M. Marble has been confirmed commissioner of patents to take effect to-morrow.
—Cadillac has work for 200 more men, but no houses for them to live in. New houses are filled faster than they can be built.
—George Hayden, a Cassopolis pioneer morphed himself to death. Age 60, and addicted to excessive use of liquor.
—The will of the late Gov. Wm. A. Howard bequeaths $25,000 to charitable institutions, and the remaining $150,000 to his family.
—A Swede laborer of Big Rapids has been bequeathed by an aunt in Sweden $30,000 in money, two ocean vessels, and a homestead.
—Eugene Hale of Maine, who has charge of the estate of his late father-in-law, Senator Chandler, will soon visit Michigan.
—A Detroit dentist gave a free tooth-pulling, and pulled two hundred and twenty-nine teeth, using seven hundred gallons of gas to quiet the patients.
—John W. Hopkins, the Corunna doctor accused of making an outrageous assault on a young girl, has been sent to the house of correction for 90 days.
—The union-school furniture company of Battle Creek shipped 1,000 desks and seats to Chicago for furnishing the West Side high-school building in that city.
—Aloni Seaman, a prominent farmer of Dearborn, near Detroit, has been sued by Althea Moody, who charges him with slander and wants $3,000 damages.
—The Roscommon County Jail loan, which was voted on at the last general election, was carried by 130 majority and immediate steps are to be taken to erect a good, substantial building.
—The official count of the vote on the proposition to amend the constitution so as to allow the governor a salary of $3,000 shows that in 69 counties there were 48,186 votes for it to 89,113 against it.
—In the case of Dr. Yuill of Ovid, suspected of wife poisoning, the report of the chemist appointed to examine the stomach declares that no poison was found. The case will probably be dismissed.
—The Ionia Sentinel says the demand for houses is growing in that city, and that no sooner does a man hint that he thinks of building a tenement house than it is spoken for before he can complete his plans.
—Ernest Bromley of Jackson was splitting wood so near a clothes line the other day that his ax became entangled, and in the downward movement struck his forehead above the eye, cleaving the flesh to the bone.
—Last week, a surprise party surprised Mrs. Joseph Earle, aged 50 years, at Lawrence, Van Buren county; and the poor woman surprised the surprisers by having a paralytic stroke which broke up the festivities.
—One of the rag assorters at the Kalamazoo paper mill, one week ago, found in a vest pocket the remains of a mutilated $5 national bank bill, one-third of which was gone. This was sent to Washington and a new $5 bill was returned by the treasurer.
—Deputy United States Marshal Wells has levied on the St. Louis jail and the village park to satisfy a judgment against that village in favor of the Babcock manufacturing company in the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Michigan.
—Mrs. Martha Pugsley of Battle Creek, has commenced proceedings against Henry H. Brown, of the same place, for $25,000 damages for assaulting and battering her husband, J. W. Pugsley, and thereby permanently injuring both his physical and mental health.
—Not long ago a Mr. Holcomb, of Penfield, Calhoun county, sold his farm for $10,000 and purchased a fine home in Galesburg, and a few days later caught cold and died of lung fever. He was 75 years old, wealthy, and was just retiring to enjoy his hard-earned wealth.
—The Grand Rapids Leader has lost none of its vitriol since an April frost blighted greenbackism generally. It speaks of the “associated pirates” who issue national-bank currency, not remembering or not caring that Henry S. Smith, the greenback candidate for governor and the only mayor whom the party has re-elected this year, holds on with a tight grip to his $5,500 of national bank stock.