Michigan State News

The Detroit gram and produce quotationsare: Wheat- No. 1 White, 83(383 Vc; No. 2 Red, 87i@87%o. Flour- Roller process, 4.00@4.25; patenta, M.75@5.00. Rye - 59X@59ic. Corn - No. 2, 42@42ic. Oats- No. a, 30ío. Butter- Creamery 22Q 23a Cheese, 13@13ic. Eggs, 11(11. In order to pay a flue of üve dollars ior drunkenness a Port Huron man recently sold the stove out of nis sick wife's room. Charles Martin, aged twenty eightyears, lived with his family near Grand Rápida. Their relations were unhappy. The other night Mrs. Martin gave rat poison to their two cliildren end took a dose herself. The mother and one child wera dead and the other child was in a precarious condition. Thomas Hicks was killed at the Franklin mine, at Houghton the other afternoon by the explosión of powder. Charles Champion, son of Councilman Champion, of Detroit, hung nimself in his father 's barn a few days ago. Ho leaves a wife and three children. Cause, ill health. The recent great wind-storm at Marquette and vicinity did damage aggregating $20,000, and covered so large an area that no particular locality suffered greatly. Three Uves were lost and several persons seriously injured. The thirteenth annual convention of the State Firemen's Association was held a few days ago in Grand Rapids. At the annual meeting oí the Michigan Central Railroad Company recfintly in Detroit the folio wing directors were elected: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Wiüiam K. Vanderbilt, E. D. Worcester, Samuel F. Baker and Chauncey M. Depew, of New York; H. B. Ledyard and Ashley Pond, of Detroit; William L. Scott, of Erie, Pa., and John 'f. Farwell, of Chicago. The total earninRS oL the road last year were $12,295,827.73; expenses, t8, 404,679. 22. In pursuing burglars in Detroit the other morning the pólice found and captured nine tramps, all of whom were sentenced to the house of correction for thirty days each. W alter Cole pleaded guilty to perjury in Coldwater a few days ago and was sentenced to Jackson for seven years. He is the man that accused Mr. Thomas of trying to hire him to kiU old man Davis, upon whose life grave-yard insurauces were out. President Ledyard, ol the Michigan Central, met the Detroit merchants and manufacture a few days ago and refused to issue one-thousand-mile tickets to drummers at reduced rates, but offered to bring a test case before the courts under the Inter-State Commerce law. At Jackson a few days ago the jury in the case of Sarah McLean, charged with poisoning Mrs. Whiteman, brought in a verdict of not guilty. The Pinn colony at Ispheming numbera over eight hundred psople, and nearly all of them are educated, well behaved and valuable residents. Tha water is out of the Detroit mine at Negaunee, which was flooded three weeks ago, and operations have been resumed. The value of the mine has been increased by the flood, which has revealed the existence of deposits of ore hitherto unsuspected. The Prohibition State Committee had 113 speakers in the field at the last election and expended in the canvass H,637.9L The other afternoon, while Patrick Harvey, aged thirty-three years, was assisting to raise a house at Columbia, Tuscola County, one of the jackscrews slipped and the building feil, crushing Harvey. His injuries were fatal. The Detroit and Michigan stove faetones at Detroit closed down a few days ago for an indefinite period. The Peninsular fa tory would remain closed. This throws 2,800 men out of employment The lockout was the result of a communication from the Defense Association, but the managers refused to enter into any explanations. Operators in the counterfeit two-dollar bilis on the Dominion Bank of Canada have struck Detroit. Charles L. Knucker, an ex-policeman of Neffaunee, who shot John Koskey on nis own doorstep last winter and then ran away, returned to Negaunee recently and was arrested. Koskey is now at Calumet, a hopeless cripple. Including reports by regular observers and others diphtheria was reported present in Michigan in the month of April at twenty-five places, scarlet fever at thirtynine, typhoid fever at eight and measles at thirty-six places. James L. Harvy, a Grand Rapids carrier, was arrested the other day, charged with robbing the mails. Julius Nelson aged thirty-seven years, of Roseville, Macomb County, feil from his wagon in Detroit a few days ago and broke his skull, dying in a few minutes. A wagon wheel passed over his chest. Ha leaves a widow and three children. Report s to the State Board of Health by fifty-seven observers In different parts of the State for the week ended on the 7th indicated that influenza and bronchitis increased, and remittent fever, rheumatism, tonsilitis and diarrhea deoreasad in area of prevalence. Dipbtheria was reported at sixteen places, scarlet fever at nineteen, typhoii fever at four, and measles at twenty-five places. The supervisors of Clare County havo fixed the value of pine lands at $5 per acre and of stump lands at from tl to 12.50. Fred Sorenson, aged twenty-flve years, feil from a gang plank of a steamer at Manistee the other night, while loadingher with salt, and was drowned. Very Rev. Edward Jóos, oí Monroe, has been appointed administrator of the diocese of Detroit, vice Bishop Borgess, resigned. The contract for the construction of the new railroad from Lansing to Grand Rapids has been let, and the road is to be fiuished by November. The toboggan slide at Traverse City was totally wrecked by wind the other day. Hrs. Charles Rice, of Kalaunizoo, is a $30,000 heiress through the recent death of her uncle at London, Ont. Since the lst of February 475 cars of salt were shippad from Zilwauk.ee. Seventy-five cottages are being built at Bay View, near Petoskey, Emmet County, and the annual meeting, which in many features resembles the famous Chautauqua, will be more interesting than ever. Accommodations for flfteen hundred guests are being made. Thousands of acres of wood were destroyed by recent lorest lires near Marquette. The erop report for April shows severo drought in all parts of the State. On sandy soil wheat has made good growth, but on clay soil the growth has been unsatisfactory. In the southern tier of counties the condiüon is 87 as compared with average years. The central counties Show 94 condition, while the northern jcounties return 93. But little of the grain iwill be plowed up. There has been mar keted 54,881 bushels of wheat Clover is badly injured. It will in many sections be plowed up. Twenty-seven tramps were arrestad in one day recently, with still more of the same sort left.