Michigan State News

The Detroit grain and produce quotationsare: Wheat- No. 1 White, 84@843cNo. 2 Red, 75@75%c. Roller process, 4.00@4.25; patents, $4.75@5.00. Corn- No. 2, 38%@39}c. Oats- No. 2, 30)c. Butter - Creamery, 18@2Oc. Cheese, 9@ 9}ic Eggg, 14ic. John Mace, a shoe-maker, died the other afternoon oí delirium tremens at Grand Rapids. Bay City ha9 organizad a new $100,000 savings bank, with W. O. Cliftfor cashier. Charles Beegle, of Big Creek township, Oscoda County, is one of the happiest mea in Michigan. The other day he went to the depot nearest nis home and there met nis sweetheart, who had traveled alone from Germany to meet her Charles, and in a few hours they were married. Rev. C. T. Allen, of Pontiac, in one day recently married four couples, baptized a child and conducted a funeral service. Tuscola County will produce more than an average erop of wheat this year. The boom company at Menominee is asorting as high as 4,000,000 feet of logs daily, and the milis are cutting them at the rate of 3,000,000 feet per day. Charlie Hubbarti, of Port Huron, aged eight years, while playing ball a few days ago was struck on the nose by a batted ball and gradually bied to death. The Bay View (Emmet County) Assembij will commence July 27 and continue ior two weeks. The assejnbly is an aggrogation of popular schools in art, music, cookery, elocution, a teacher's institute, minister's institute, children's meetings, Sunday-school normal classes, etc., eacú in charge of eminent specialists. Thesa schools are attended by hundreds of enthusiastic people and the department work is varied by daily ooncerta, lectures, enjoyable readings, evening concerta on the bay, etc. The railways have greatly reduced their fare during the assembly season. Full particulars will be furnished by applying to John M. Hall, the superintendent, at Flint. During the month of June diphtheria was reported at thirty-nine place9 in th State, scarlet fever at forty-two, typhoid fever at twelve, measles at thirty-six, and small-pox and typhus fever each at one place. The Becretary of State recently furnished the following statement of wheat acreage and yield : Area in wheat in the southern eounties, 1.414,830 acres; in the central counties, 203,719 acres, and in the northern counties, 34,994 acres. spondents estímate the yield per acre in the southern counties at 13 bushels, in the central couuties at 15 bushels, and in tha northern counties at 14% bushels. IÍ these estimates prove substantially accurate the total yield in the State will ba about 21,600.000 bushels. The Michigan Scoop Company of Battle Creek has recently sent bilis oí eoods to Christiania, Norway, Stockholm, Bweden and Copenhagen. A Swede working on the schooner P. & Gilmore at Marquette lost a hand the other morning by having a coal bucket lowered on it while unloadiog. Gold was found west of Ishpeming a few days ago on lands of the Lake Superior Iron Company. Specimens ghown are very rich, showing free gold in immense quantities. The big flnd had created intensa ezcitement throughout the mining districts. Seth Nickerson, of Cheboygan, feil into the river off a log-raft a few davs ago and was drowned. Miss Carrie Williams, of Detroit, nat begun a suit against Frank N. Tomlinson, photographer, for 10,000 damages. It is claimed that some time ago Miss Williams, who is well known as an amateur actres, sat for a vignette portrait to Mr. Tomlinson, and that afterwards he sold the negativo to the Acme chemical works. They used the picture on bottles of cosmeties. Mr. Tumlinson denies the charge that he sold the negativo. The Supremo Court has ordered the Board of Supervisors of Branch County to pay the account rendered by parties in Quincy for property destroyed by order ot the Board of Health of that township. Recent statistics show that there ara now in Detroit 85,959 families. Ou tha basis of 5.0(3 persons to each house tlus makes Detrolt's population 181,953. Mrs. William Simpel, of Port Sherman, Muskegon County, was taken with a fit the other morning, and falling witn her face in the soft sand in the yard sha smothered to death beiore she was discovered. She was seventeen years of age and married but three months. William H. Hendricks, an old and raspected citizen of L'Anse, Baraga County, shot himself dead a few days ago. No cause was assigned for the deed. During the past year 8, 193 persons hava lodged in Michigan jails. Reports to the State Board of Health by siity-four observers in different parts of the State for the week ended on the 9tii indicated that tonsilitis, inflammation of the kidneys, diarrhea, cholera infantum, cholera morbus, remittent fever and measles increased, and intermittent fever and rheumatism decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at serenteen places, scarlet fever at ten, typhoid lever at five and measles at nineteen places. Ampersee's mili at Kalamazoo was burned a few nights ago. The mili was not in use and was destroyed by an incendUry. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. Sneak-thieves raided the Chippewa House at Sault Ste. Maris the other night and secured $1,000 worth of property. Joseph Sieonss aged eighty years, feil from a wagon in Jaekson the other afternoon and broke his neck. He was a rag buyer and without relatives. Patrick J. Clair, who figured largely as a leader of a strike in Detroit last year, was arrested a few days agoand jailed for non-support of lus f amily. Sault Ste. Marie bas established a realestáte review, and will have an electrio street-raüway and sewerage system. Mrs. A Mallory, oí Moscovv, Hillsdala County, has lived on the farm which is now her home for exactly fiity years. Hon. Er win A. Hewitt, an old-time Democratie leader in Central Michigan, died at Augusta, Kalamazoo County, a few days ago, aged seventy-one years. Kern ing & Co. 's machine shop and foundry and d welling adjoining were de■troyed by fire recently. Loss. 13,580. Origin unknown.