State News

State News.

- Calhoun county will have a new jail at Marshall, to cost not over $30,000.

 -James Reid of Amber station, Mason county, died of trichina, from eating raw pork. 

--John Clancy has been arrested at Jackson for killing a farmer named Scanlan, near Grand Rapids, last fall.

 E. O. Nellson of Muskegon recently got rid of a tape worm 150 feet long. He had borne the affliction three years.

 -A 400 pound meteoric stone fell upon the farm of Andrew G. Kilpatrick Woodland, Barry county, a few ago. 

- Rensselaer McCutcheon of Albion and father of Judge McCutcheon Charlotte suicided on Sunday by strangulation by strangulation. 

- In Otsego county last winter: 57,000,000 feet of logs were put into  Au Sable river, and Brantford and Ostego lakes. 

- Ira Conklin, of Charlotte aged 16, committed suicide Sunday evening by shooting himself in the head with a shot sun.

 -Dr. Campbell of Charlotte has invented a railroad velocipede with which he has ridden 12 miles in 37 minutes on an average railroad. 

- Chided by her mother for marrying without a legal separation from her first husband, Mary Vreeland of near St. Johns, suicided with strychnine.

 - James Wiley and Mrs. Sarah Wiley were married at Bellevue on Friday. The bride was wife of Mr. Wiley's brother and a sister of Mr. Wiley's first wife.

 -Temperance lecturer M.J. Fanning attempted to whip a Grand Haven editor for alleged untruthful criticisms and got the worst of it decidedly. 

- Albert C. Shaw of Reed city, an attorney, shot himself through the heart Tuesday. He had been arrested on a charge of forgery but had therefore had borne a good character. 

- C. F. Bingham, day operator and freight clerk of the Chicago and Grand Trunk road at Lansing was arrested Monday charged with opening the depot safe and abstracting $36.

 -Burglars broke into the Paw Paw post office Friday night, drilled the safe door, put in a heavy charge of powder, blew the safe open and obtained about $1,000 in money and stamps.

 -A youth named Cleve of Cooper, Kalamazoo county, played circus in his father'a barn by hanging himself up. A horse in the barn did not approve of the exhibition, and kicked the performer so badly that he will probably die.

 - A married woman, whose husband works on the railroad, spent $7 for whisky last week- money that her husband had left for provisions. On his return he found her drunk and has notified the saloonists not to sell her any more liquor. - Battle Creek Moon.

 -The jury stood four for conviction and two for acquittal in the trial of Kate Burke charged with slandering the Rev. Father Van der Bom, pastor of St.Mary's church, at  East Saginaw in imputing to him adultery with Mrs. Wm. Colford and fornication with defendant Burke.

 -Dr. Campbell left in the News office the other day some new potatoes alleged to have been grown this year by Mr. Tryon of Alaideon. They were planted the first of January. In a warm sandbank have been large enough to for several days.- Ingham County News.

 - George Budwit was taken from Jackson prison Wednesday and returned to Howell, having been granted a new trial. He was convicted in 1879 of murder and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. The grounds on which the new trial is granted are that the officer in charge of the jury remained in the room with them while making up the verdict. 

-John N. Ingersoll, the veteran editor of the Shiawassee American, it is thought, must pass the remainder of his life in total blindness. He is suffering from contraction of the pupil of the eye, and the virulence of the disease and his age, 63 years, caused Dr. Frothingham of the university, after a careful examination, to give him slight hope of recovery. 

-On Friday forenoon a fire commenced in the laundry of the Potter house and consumed both that edifice and the Williams hotel building, with a early all the structures for half a block around. The walls of the Potter house fell in. The Baptist church was badly scorched. Help was summoned by telegraph from the fire departments of Kalamazoo, Marshall, Albion, Charlotte, and Jackson. The total loss is about $60,00, Insurance $22,600.