Michigan State News

The Detroit, grain and producá quotationsare: Wheat- No. 1 White, 83}@88o No. 2 Eed, 3í@83!íe. Flour- Roller process, M.00@t25; patent, M.Ï5(()5 0. Kye- 59V@:'9'íc. Corn- No. 2, D%@41c. Oats- No. 2, 81c. Butter- Creamery, 22 26c. Cheese, 13@15c. Eggs, U}tf@12e. The Sheep-Breeders' Association of Macomb County will hold Ita annual shearing festival at Romeo on May 6. Mrs. Sally Dean, aged niuety years, and one of the most respected women of Brighton, Livingston County, was burned to death the other afternoon by her clotbing catching fire from the stove while her grand-daughter, vvith whom she lived, was gone on an errand. She belonged to a long-lived iamily. Her mother lived to be one hundred and six years, and her fathei died aged ninety-seven years. A disastrous sleat-storm passed over the Northern Península the other night. A tramp is traveling through Michigan begging two cents from every person he meets in order, as he says, to buy a postage-stamp t-o send a letter to his wife. The hardware store of James R. Moreland, at Romeo, Macomb County, was burned early a few mornings ago. Loss, ÍIO.OOO; Insurance, 16,003. In Kalamazoo a few days ago Michael Riley was fatally gored by his buil. A fire the other day at Brockway Center, Bt, Clair County, destroyed $10,000 worth of property in the business portion of the village. The losers were : Peter Hickey, agricultural implemeDt store; M. T. Grandy, several small buildings; James Wallace, harness-shop. The official canvass of the recent vote in the Gogebic country makes the majority against prohibition 2, 155. Attorney Clute, sent there by the Prohibition State Central Committee to investígate the charges of fraud, found no evidence of fraud and gave up the search. The Schroeder Hotel at Milwaukee Junction was burned the other night Loss t3,000 on the building. The boarders lost tbeir effects. The output of iron ore in the Marquette range for 1887 is placed at 2,105,000, or 500,003 tons over last season's product. Caroful inspection of these detailed figure3 leads old nwning men to believo that they are conservative and that the probable amount of ore shipped will be 2,250,000 tons. The Lake Superior mine will snip 300,000 tons; Cleveland, R;public and Champion 250,030 tons each, and Lake Angeliue and Iron Cliff companies' mines, 200,000 tons each. Thecitizens of Livingston County voted at the rec3nt eleetiOL, bonds for the erection of suitable couuty buildings. Deacon Converse has given a ciiurch to the Second Baptist society of Grand Rapids, on thecondition that the building shall always be used as a churoh and shall not be sold or mortgaged. John K. Dewey, aged ninety-two years, who had lived in Waterford township, Oakland County, for fifty-six years, died a few days ago. He had been a Masón ever since ISIS. The Sam MitcheH iron mine at NfJgaunee was recently so!d for t22",00U to the Lackawanna Coal and Iron Company of New York. The ore will be shipped to Erie for smelting. Paul Redding, of Traverse City, had all the fingers of his left hanl taken off whiie atwork in the hame factory there. William Madeiord redfcivd injuries recently írom a premature explosión in the Milwaukee mine at Negaunae from which he died in two hours. Six hundreil and sixty-four erop reports from 747 townships in the State report the waeat fields looking "bare and brown," but express the hopo that the roots have not been hurt by the unfavorable March weather. The other evening, Cara, the two-yearold daughter of John Parrnenter, of Charlotte, was drownel by falling into a cislern while the family were receiving guests at the wedding of a brother. Aents for the French Government have lately purchased a large number of horses from the farmers in the vicinity of Kalamazoo. Over one hundred tons of coal were stolen from one sehooner at Sheboygwn last winter. A deaf mute aged twolve years, named Davison, was struck by a train at Battle Creek a few days ago and fatally hurt. Charles F. Abbott, insane and very deaf, was run over the other night at Kalamaïoo by a westrbound Michigan Central freight and rastantly killed. Abbott was formerly ono of the most prominent minir.gprospjctors of Colorado. The Newaygo Manufacturing Company was shut down the other day by an attachment of a New York bank for 110,000. The shat-down threw 150 men out of cmployment. The first State encampment of the Knights of Pythias will commence at Kalamazoo June té and last one week. Reports to the State Board of Health by forty-eight observers in different parts of the State, for the week ended on the 16th indicated that pneumonía, inflammation of the kidneys, scarlet fever, consumption of the lungs and remittent fever increased, and intermittent fever decreased in area of prevalenee. Diphtheria was reported ateight places, searlet fever at fourteen, typhoid fever at three, and measles at fourteen places. An epitaph, of which the following is said to be a copy, is cut on the stone over a Cornish miner's grave at Calumet: " Him can not come to we, But us shall surely go to he." W. A. Heartt's flour, {saw and shingle mili at Wan jame ga, Tuscola County, with 1,500,000 feet of lumber, was destroyed by an incendiary flre the other night. Loss, 0,000; no insurance. John Lodholtz, aged fif t,v years, a farmer living four miles south of Paris, Mecosta County, committed suicide by hanging the other morning while the family were at church. J. T. Hurst, of Wyandotte, Wayne County, recently purchased the lumber plant of Thomas McGraw & Co., of Bay City, together with 100,000,000 feet oi standing pine, for $400,000. At Kalamazoo recently a west-bound freight-train on the Michigan Central ran over Charles F. Abbott, an insane man and very deaf, killing him instantly. Abbott was formerly one of the most prominent minera oí Colorado, the discoverer and part owner of several valuable mines. Clark H. Thomas was arrested at Coldwater a few days ago, for attempting to kill Charles Davis. Thomas holds a policy of f2,000 on Davis' life in a raveyard insurance company, and is alleged to have conspired with Walter C. Cole to put Davis out of the way and divided the insurance. Boston creditors closed the Newaygo Furniture Company's works a few days ,ago for }5),000, throwing 250 men out of employmeot. The same creditors closed the Newaygo Manufacturing Company recently. There was not a wheel turning in the villago. Both companies werejndebted heavily to their employés. Burglars took 5ÍX) worth of jewelry from the house of Xboms fi-.vallow in Detroit the other night.