Michigan Melange

Crystal Falls., MIch., July 26.- One of the most dastardly crimes ever commltted in the upper peninsular of Michigan was done within a mile of this city Friday evening. Miss Pearl Morrison, one of the most highly esteemed young ladies in the town, was foully murdered and her body outraged. Miss Morrison had spent the afternoon visiting frienda at the Great Western mine location, and left the residence of the Misses Brooks at about 5 o'clock to return home. The girl never reached there. Her father went in search of her Saturday morning, but could find no trace of her. Three large parties were organized after diriner, headed by Elie Massie, J. E. Bower and R. B. w'ebb, who started out to make a systematic search o fthe wodos on the east side of the river. Body of the Misging Girl Found. They had hardly entered upon their work when they were met by Miss Brooks, who reported that a tramp whom she had given supper to the evening before had returned to her house shortly after dinner Saturday and said he had found a dead girl in the woods, and guided her to the spot where the dead girl lay, and whom she found to be her friend and guest of the day before, Pearl Morrison. Miss Brooks shortly afterwards met one of the searching parties and took them to the place where the object of their search lay. The poor girl's face was badly battered and her throat showed the fineer marks of the fiend who strangled her. Dr. A. M. Darling was one of the flrst to examine the corpse and he found plenty of evidence to show that the murderer had satisfied his hellish lust after killing the poor girl. The Inevitable Talk of Lynching. The spot where the murder took place ia about a quarter of a mile from the main road to the mine, and about thirty feet from the Blaney Creek road. The brush was trampled down for gsveral feet around where the girl lay, showing that she had made a dt -peíate fight before she gave up her life. eral circumstances connected with the finding of the body by the tramp, who gave his name as Peter Bunce, and claims to hail from nowhere in particular, are very suspiciousand pcintstrcngly to him as the murderer. Should this prove to be the case the county will be spared the expense of a trial, as the citizens are worked up to such a pitch that a rope and convenient tree will mark the ending of the life of Peter Bunce. Two other trampa have been arrested by Sheriff Waite, but there is no evidence that they were connected with the crime. HEIRESS TO A LARGE FORTURE, Miss ftlamle Vpylsteke to Receive $750,. 000 from au Uncle in Paris. B?ntcn Harbor, Mich., July 22. - Miss Mamie Vuylsteke of this city has just been notified that she is heiress to a íortune of $750,000, which will be left to her by an aged uncle in Paris who is now nearing his last days on earth. The uncie has no nearer kin than his niece, Mis? Vuylsteke, and he has sent her word that he will make her the sole beneficiary of his large estáte and requesting her to to visit him in Paris at once if she desires to see him alive. Miss Vuylsteke will leave with her father and a lady friend for Paris in a few days. Miss Vuylsteke is1 the only daughter of Alphonzo Vuylsteke, a fruit package manufaeturer of this city. She is 20 years oíd and already has a fortune of $100.000 or more in her own name. With the added inheritanee to be left her by her uncle she wiir be the second wealthiest person in Berrien county. BOOM IN FURNITURE BUSINESS. Big Factories at Grand Rapirts Are Crowded with Orders. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 26. - Th fall furniture season "opening" is draw ing to a close, and in fig-uring up th resulta the manufacturers find that i has been the most satisfactory opening they have had since the spring of 1892 The number of buyers in the marke was 369, and the arrivals next week wil swell the total for the month to 400 or more. Conservative estimates place the increase of the business this season over that of July, 1S96, at 25 per cent. or better. Some of the manufacturers report orders booked already to an aggregate larger than the entire sales of last fall, and there are none that do not report an encouraging increase. All the factories here are running full time, and most of them with full forces of men. Street Kailwny Litigation it Sagtnaw. Saglnaw, Mich., July 23.- A new condition of affairs has cerne to light in Street car difficulties at this place. A writ of error f rom the United States supreme court has been served on City Attorney Beach in the case of the Union Street Railway company against the city, in which the supreme court of Michigan sustained the motion of the city council forfeiting the company's rights to city streets. The writ alleges that the company has been deprived of its constitutional rights. Legal minds at this place claim it is the beginning of a signal victory for the street railway company. Sturgis Alilerman ís Arrested. Sturgis, Mich., July 23. - Considerable excitement was created in this city by the arrest of Pred Matzdorf, alderman from the Third ward. The water board alleges Matzford has been using water without paying for it in his bakry and arrested him because he reused payment. Maízdorf claims his arrest is due to a fight in the city council. Matzdorf is chairman of the committee on streets and sidewalks, and the council recently stopped street work. He now claims if he cannot run the street work the water board cannot run the waterwoiks and will fight in the courts. Mail Tlii. -f Sentenced. Marquette, Mich., July 24.- Harry M. Masón was Thursday sentenced in the United States circuit court to a year and a half in the Detroit house of correction for robbing the United States mails. Masón is well connected, being a nephew of ex-Oovernor Rich of this state and having wealthy and influential ativea in Dixon, Hls. He was engaged as 3. mail clerk between Mackinaw and Houghton, and was caught by two decoy letters sent by postoffice inspectora The case against him was so clear that no defense was attempted, though he forced the government to prove lts case. Hls sentenee is ccnsidered light. Knlghts of Macrabefs AsKessments. Pcrt Huron, Mich., July 24.- The su,-reme tent, Knigths of the Maccabees, after a long discussion over the question of raising the assessment notes of oíd members 50 per cent, adopted a compromise. It provides for two extra assessments each year upon all members admitted prior to July 1, 1895, allowing such members, however, the privilege of Furrendering their membership certificates and obtaining another uponwhich the assessmetns wil] be the same as those of members joinlng slnce that date. Pardoned by Go vernor Pingree. Lansing, Mich., July 23. - On Wednesday Governor Pingree granted a pardon to William T. Evarts, who was aent from Flint April 19 to six months in the Genesee county jail for violating the liquor law. On the same day eommissions were issued to Dewitt C. Carr of Fowlerville and John McDonald of Yuba, as agents of the state board of corrections and charitles for Livingstone and Grand Traverse counties, respectively. Tragedy Kmls a Romance. Saginaw, Mich., July 21.- A young girl named Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton, 19 years old, drowned herself and her 13months' old babe Monday night in the Saginaw river. The bodies were disebverert late yesterday afternoon. Despondency eaused by her betrayal was the cause of the tragedy. The relative9 of the girl make threats of vengeance against her betrayer, whose identitycannot be learned. Sumiller Resort Hotel Burneil, Holland, Mich., July 26. - Jennison's Park hotel, a summer resort structure on Mattawa lake, was burned early Saturday morning. There were 100 guests in the building. There were several narrow escapes and few clothes saved. The loss on the buildings is about $25,000, with no insurance. Mrs. Frank Dean of Cincinnati lost several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry. Wants to Assess Stockholdcrs. Lansing, Mich., July 23.- Receiver May, of the Ingham County Savings bank, has asked the court for permission to assess stockholders of the bank 65 per cent. of their holdings for the benefit of the depositors. Permission will be granted. The receiver says that he will be unable to eollect more than $35,000 on asBets Usted at $154,000. A Disgrace to His Uncle. Marquette, Mich., July 2S. - HarryMaeon, of St. Ignace, a railway postal clerk, was yesterday morning sentenced in the United States district ccurt to one and a half years' imprisonment for robI bing the mails. He is a nephew of Governor Rich. Had a Pencliant for Veto. Decatur, Mich., July 26.- Mrs. Kate li. G-lasford, of Muskegron county, has the unique distir.ction of having had flve husbands, each of whom was a war veteran. She is a vell-perserved woman of 61 years and of exceedinly attractive appearanee. Three Yonng Men Drowned. Detroit, July 26. - Three Detroit young men -vere drowned yesterday afternoon by the capisizirg of a rowbcat cff Sugar island, near the mouth cf the Detroit river. The drcwned are William W. Shier, Frank E. Russen, Jr., ar.d Edwin Stubenstay. Droirued Herself and l!ali'. Saginaw, Mich., July 22.- Sarah E. Hamilton, 19 years old, drowned herself and her 13-months-old babe in the Saginaw river. Despondency, caused by her betrayal, was the cause. State Notes. The body of an unknown man' was found in the woods near Whitney, a small station in northern Michigan. It is believed that he was a victim of foul play. A justice at Plint, Mich., has decided that a bicycle is exempt property and cannot be replevined for debt. The defendant proved that the wheel was necessary to get him to and from work, and the other fellow had to pay the costs. Frank Chureh picked and marketed over 12,000 quarts of strawberries from three acres of ground near Albion.Mich. And there are many more left. Ely Chapman of Eaton county, Mich., was killed by lightning while stacking hay. Charles Carter, a farmer living in Fenton, Mich., committed suicide by hanging himsëlf. 111 health was the cause. Zena King of Fairland, Mich., kicked at a hog, missed it, and broke his leg against a post. While bathing in White's lake, near Niles, Mich., two Kalamo boys, Peter Manard and George Bradford, were drowned. Quail and partridges are said to be unusually thick throughout Michigan this year, and sportsmen are looking forward to plenty of sport this fall. In many parts of southwestern Michigan apple orchards which have been yearly ravaged by the canker worm are entirely free from the pest this season, with the result that in many localities a large erop of the fruit will be gathered for the flrst time in years. George Whittaker, a well-known [onia county farmer, was killed at Portland, Mich., by a falling timber. The lock-step has been abolished at :he Detroit house of correction, because it was thought to facilítate the spread of contagión. Governor Pingree regard9 the Dingley Dill duties on Iumber, hides and sugar as "unrepublican, unpatriotic and unfair." Otto Werner was crushed to death under a farmer's wagon at Jackson, Mich., while trying to climb upon a wheel.