Michigan State News

The Detroit gram and produce quotation are: WheatNo. 1 White, 78X@ T8)ic; No. 2Red,74)@74}íc. Flour- Roller proces, 3.75g4.00; patent, $4.50@4.75. Corn- No. 2, 45c. Oat- No. 2, %c. Butter- Creamery, 24O26c. Cheese, 10gnc. Eggs, 12X@13c. Burglars effected an entrance to the grncery of Thomas Lewis. . Jackson, the other night and carried off considerable tobáceo, ci(?ar8 and other stnall articles. There ii a stroet in Mío, Oscoda County, which is occupied entirjjy by Smithj, Meivin Runchey was írowñeda few days ago at Fiva Lakes, near Gaylorá, Otsego County. His body was recovered. He leaves a widow andtwo chlldren. At the recent annual convention of tb Knights of Maccabees of the State, at Grand Rapids, J. S. Ayer, of Port Huron, was elected Great Commander. Captain Lilliberg, of East Tawas, a few nights ago kept nis saloon opjn aftqr hours, for which he han led over a fine ot twenty-flve dollars. A drunken Finn named Polias ran tbrough the streets of Lake Linden a few nights ago with a buteher knife, attacking every body. Une wotnan, two men and i boy were badly cut bafora the brute waè captured. Charles K. Carpen ter, onn of the raot prominent citizens of Oakland County, died recently at his home In Orion after a short illness. He was about seveotyflre years old and was fcr four year3 president of th P. O. & P. A. railroad. Robert Hood, of Marlette, aged eighteon yearg, went to sleep under a tree reoentlv. Test, his younger brot'ber, who waa Mnt toawaken him, put a blank cartrldge in q old gun and placed lt close to Robert Th gun had been loaded, and the sleeping tnan's head was blo wn off. The clothing and tailorlng establishment of John F. Widoe & Son, in Whitehall, was closed by the sheriff a few days af o. Liabllities f rom $10,000 to H3,000: asseti, (9,000. A new mail route has been established between Hastings and Baniield, in Barry County. Duncan Smith was instantly killed recently at Old Munising, Schoolcraft County. Two buckets, balancing each other on a wire cable, hung from the old furnaca. Smith wanted a strand from the wire rope, and loosened the lower bucket, when the other came down and crushed his head to a pulp. The first clover-seed of the season brought four dollars per bushei at Lansing the other day. George Eichborn's residence, in West Bay City, was burglarized the other night of 1800 in cash and papers valued at $3,000. The papers were found the next day In a freight car. Charles Race, of Manistee, a painter, shot hlmself through the temple the otüer af ternoon while delirious with fever, causing instant death. ine otüer morníng two burglars entered the house of Mrs. John Beetree, at Muikegon, and compelled her, at the point of a revolver, to hand over thlfty-two dollar in cash. They then tied her to the bedpost and lef t. A fire a few days ago damageJ th$ building and stock of F. Topaliska, at Mar quette. Loss, 10,000; iDsurance, f9,000. A successful attempt to put out the nrs in the Calumet and Heola miueiat Houjlton with carbonic acid gas was made a few days ago. The gang of roughs who plundered aad maltreated the passengers on the Jfcursion steamer Alaska, near Detroit, the other night, will be prosecuted uuder tmit section of the United States statutes which makes robbery on the high seas a capital offense. The Michigan Gold Company will proceed with the work of developing the Gingrass gold mine. Frank P. Mills, superintendent, will set twenty miners at work immediately. Litigation has arisen from claimants wno own rival leases. At Negaunee the other morning a bloodtbirsty Hungarian attaeked John Mulvey with a loaded gun. Mrs. Mulvey rushed in and seized the man around the walst, and shegotthe gun, when he struck her with an axe. Bho was not f atally injured. The largest loai of hay ever drawn to Lansing was on exhibition the other day. It weigheJ 5,3S0 pounds. Henry Vowles was killed instantly in Detroit a íew days ago by having his head crushed between the floor and shaft of J. W. Fules & Co. 's elevator. The State Business Men's convention will occur at Flint September 6. The convention will be banqueted by the local merchants' union. The recent big Free Methodist camp. meeting in Castleton township, Barry County, attracted large crowdsdaily. Keports to the State Board of Health by sixty-three observers in different parts oí the State for the week ended on the 13tn indicated that erysipelas, typho-malarial ie ver and whooping-cough increased, and remittent fever, rtieumatism, consumption of the lungs and inflammation of the bo wels decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at seventeen places, scarlet fever at eleven, typhoid fever at cighteen and measles at four places. The largest raft of pine Iog3 ever towed in the world reached Bay City the other day from Au Train in tow of the tugs Gladiator and Mocking Bird. It contained eight million feet and was valued at $100,000. Purvis D. Kenny, a switchman, wa3 run over by a freight car at Detroit the other day and injured so that be soon after died. The third horrible mining accident within ten days took place at the Superior mine at Ishpeonng a few days ago. A gang of timbermen vvere at work under ground testing the roof with hammers. They thought it safe, but it suddenly feil upon them, killing Magnus Anderson, a single m-in, aged twenty-eight years, and Andrevv Sundblad, a married man of thirty-flva years. John Maroney was badly hurt, but would recover. A. W. Mark, of the State hatchery, who was with the commission examining the condition of plants made by the State in various lakes and rivers, found in Pleasant lake a few days ago, near Three Rivers, a specimen whitefish twenty-six inches long and weighing five and one-half pounds. It was fat and plump as any ever caught in the great, lakes, and this is considered proof that whiteflsh will thrive in inland waters. The second trial of Dr. Weir, at East Tawas, resulted the other day in a verdict of notguilty. Th? jury in the first trial disagreed. Dr. Weir. of Au Sable and Oscoda, was accused of killing Mabel Clark, a patiënt at a private hospital he conducted. He fled to Canada, and aftera long wait was extradited. Sheriff Lynch, of Alpena, who ws shot by one of the Cleveland fur robbers while arresting them recently, died of nis injuries at Detroit a few days ago. He was the second offleer killed by this gang while resisting arrest. Three of the robbers- Morman, Ccuihlan and Harrington- are in jail at Cleveland. The Jackson barbera recently divided eighty-six dollars in the treasury and dis bandud their Protective Union.