Michigan State News

The Detroit grain and produce quotations are: Wheat- No. 1 White, T5í@i-5Jío; No. 3 Red, 743@74%c. Flour- Roller process, Í4.OO@4.36; patent, J4.75ai5 OJ. Corn- 'o. 2, 41Ji@4!3c. tOats- No. 2, 31c. Butter - Creamery, 18@20c. Cheese, 9@ 9)4c. Eggs, 18c-. The entire property of the Coldwater Road Cart Company and the Coldwater Manufacturing Company at Coldwater were destroyed by üre a few days a?o. Loss, Í25,jbo. Cooley & CampbeU's planing mï. and lumber yards at Port Hurón, several small houses belonging to the Harrison estáte, W. R. Mulford's furniture f actory, a building oecupied by R Cassler, builder, Forrester & Vincent's elevator ana ao ad'jacent tenement were burned the other day. Loss, $25,000; insuranc3 less than Í1.000. The Southern Michigan Medical Associatlon at its recent meeting in Adrián elected oñlcers for the ensuing year as follows: President, Dr. Wood, of Quinoy; VicoPresident, Dr. North, of Tecumseh; Secretary, Dr. Waelen, of HillsdalJ; Treasurer, Dr. Wordan, of A ir. uu. The teu-year-old daughter of Albert Zube, of Portsmouth, Bay County, feil from a wagon in the hay field the other day and was run over and killed. Herman F. Rodiger, a business man of Kalaiui'zoo of many years standing, aged sixty-two years, died the other night from the eftecta of a stroke of paralysis. He leaves a widow and one son. The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association at it9 recent session in Petoskey was dissolved and reorganized, the officers elected being A. Bassett, Detroit, President; Guy M. Harwood, First Vice-Preident; A. Lyman, Secoud Vice-President; H. W. Heppart, Third Vice-President; S. Parkill, Secretary j TV'iUiaco Dupow, Treasucr. Nicholas Sand, aged twenty-three years, employed at the Pullman car -shops in Detroit, drank freely of ice water the other day and died of sun-stroke and the water combined. A few days a?o, in the woods on the road between re Chenev and Fletcher, Kalkaska County, the remains of a human being were found partially devoured and wholly unrecognizable. An inquast was being held when a y oung man named Davis, who had been drawn by curioëity to pay a second visit to the spot where the corpse was found, dashed among the jurors wlth badly tattered clothing, a bloody club and a solution of the mystery. The unknown man had been killed by fltld-rats. Ths young man had himseif Deen attacked by them, and had to fi?ht for his Ufe. Samuel Tyrrell was killed at Lapeer a few days ago by being aecldentally trugk in the back with a falling timber. He w3 aged twenty-two years and unmarried. Bemand J. -Michenfelder, son qf a wealthy Detroit brewer, died the otjier morning from hydrophobia. He w9 bitten by a pet dog a few weeks ago. Mrs. Mary Hern, aged sixty years, was killed at a railroad street Crossing in Detroit a few days ago. Stie was jp inteut on driving her geese across the traok that the d 1 not hear or paid no attentioa to either the noise of the locomolive, or th whistle, or the bell. Captain W. H. Thompson, of the steam er M.nesota, died of apoplexy at Escanaba a few days ago. Assays of the quartz found on the gold prospect of the Lake Superior Iron Compan3-, west of Ishpemiog, ffave Ï13 in gold from twelve ouncs of ro, or t3",000 gold to the ton. Minars have ïrQeJ a vain two tiundred 'eet on tho surfacé. A storehouse was beins built to hold the roek. Captain Levi Johnson, of Bay City, lata member of the One Hanétrsd an4 Second United Statas C. t., and betora the War a slave, recently visited hls sister at West Union, W. Va. He had not 88n her for forty years, both sjipposinj lach otijer dead. Captain Joljnon is sixty-one years of ge, well tui hsutf. The official premium list of tha thirtymnth anaual State fair, to bo held in Jack son September 12-?8, is out and shows premiums offered on seventy olasjes. Tbo rules rehuiré th.at of these the efitries in live stock, poultry and farm implements shall be o the bands of tho secretary, J. C. Sterling, of Monroe, on v bef ore September 1; enfríes qí machlnery by September 15, and applicationa for spaoe by September 17. Tüe secretary will be in Juckson after September 8. Fred Romer'9 son, J. P. Romer, of Bay City, was taken with cra.mps while bathiug at Oak Grove reoently and was orownod. W. J. Cunningham and wife and James Duffy anJ wife, while rowiog on the rivejr at Mount Clemens the other afterngOu were run down by a lighter in tow of the barge Ruby, and Mr. Cunningham was drowned. F. Tuscany, engineer of the Ruby, resoued the lad 03, and Duffy swam ashore. The body was reeovered. Another rich coal mine has been opened at Jackson. Reports to the State Board of Health by fifty-seven observers in different parts of the State for the week ended on the lötO. indicated that diarrhea, erysipslas, consumption of the lungs, intermittent fever, bronchitis and dysentery increased, and pneumonía, measles and Influenza decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtlieria was reported at ten places, scarlet fever at uine.typhoid lever atseven and measlès at twelve places. County Surveyor Henry Udell, a prominent citizen of Itaoistee, was killed by the cars 'ie other night. Pink-eyd is report.;! Oom soms parts of Inffham and Eatoa counties. Vincent J. Scott, a well-known banker of Detroit, died in that city a few days ago. Ingham County intends to have a grand union of veterans the thiri week in August. The trustees of the Michigan miaing school at Houghton bave decided to accept the site offered for the school by Goodell and Van Order, in East Houghton. AG. iH Post has been organized at Farwell, Clara County. A servant girl in Detroit started her flra with kerosene a few days ago and burned up 11,300 worth of property. A salt vein was struck in A. G. Butler's test well at Frankfort, Benzie County, tha other day at a depth of 1,410 f eet It yieldedabouttwenty per cent. of salt. Drillinff would be pushid uri til the rock salt bed was reached.