Michigan State News

A few niirhis ugo üo lrjrress,a weHknown lakc beat. was im.luug for tha Oakland wh rf, uheuitwas noticod that the signáis f rom the pilot houso were aü awry. The orew was aw.ire that L. B. Goldsmith, the uoat's captain, who only lacked foríy-eight motiths of beinsr fourscore years oíd, wa at his p'me, whence flashed ths ra sleading lights. and whenca sounded the wrpnjf bells. O 10 if their number huir. o. t to the püot-noine to discover the causo, w!in he found tho oíd man sitting bolt upri;tat wti one hand grasping th3 be'l-rop6. Uie other a lamp, with his eyes fixeil Uward the port He spoke to him, an 1 "' re na; rvo ansvver. The sailor jiut his hand on th" c iptain and found that he was d ■ MffhilíHM lUuiiH. The Detroit gnun ainl produce quotations are: W'ho.it- No. 2 White, 76X@ 76Kc; No. 2 Red, 7íu4'(?sc. Flour- Roller process, t3.T"(.rf4.0(); patenta, 4.50@4.75. Corn- No. i, 45Jfu. (Jats- No. 8, 2,i}e. Butter- Creanicry, l4J6c. Cheese, 12@12íc. Eggs, 12íí1 'i :.;■. The shei-iff of Meoosla County booked only one charge in Ju v. A Jackson lirui shipped six of their wagons to Australia a few days ago. Charles Roje: s. of Detroit, was convii ted the other day of ent cura giri under fifteen yea s of age awa fro n horae for immoral purposs ni was se itence I to three years imprisonn ent It is thought the Juckson prison coal mines will not lat mora than six months. Another Na'.io.ial bank project is on fcot at Marquette J. D. Bastow, a wïalthy Peoría (111.) citiien, was found deri in a saloon in Detroit the other afiernoon. Ho had been drinking hará. O i the body a large number of valuable diamonds were found. Silas A. Ba nes, au old and resp3ctei Citizen of Charlotte, well known among the horsemen of the State, cl ie 1 the other morning, after a lingenngillness. The fine farm-house and extensive barns of Arthur C Porter, nine miles from Detroit, were burnei a few nights ago by an incendiary fire. Loss, $10,000; insuraace, f7,000. James Smith, whüe under the influence of liquor four weeks ago, married a sporting woman of Lake Linden, Houghton Connty. As soon as he carne to himself he separated from the woman. The act we ghed heavily upon him, hovvever, and he settlel the matter by blowing his brains out. ijmith was a prominent ligare in social circies, ani was accounted a ] rosperous business man. The other morning Mrs. John Brunger, of Charlotte, wa picking cucumbers when she st-imbled and feil upon a sharp-pointed knife sheheld in he ■ band, thrusting it into her brjast and ssvenng the pulmotiary artery, causing death in a few minutes. Mrs. S. C. Pelgrim, w fe of a prominent citiien of Kala-iiazoo, was drown"d in the west lak:: the other afternoon. It was at first thought to have bjen a case of accidental deatli, but on a slate at her home w.is found the words: "My bo.1y will be fMind in the west lake." In the boat were f umJ sevoral articles of wearingapparel. Leon Martin, a well-knowc Dítroit printer, feil dead in a restaurant in that city a few moraings ago. Georíe Max, an employé in a stave mili at Reesc, Tmcola Connty, had his hand bad.y laierateJ by a saw the other day. O :e of them had to be ampútate 1. Tiic Chicago & Northwestern railway, whose present terminus is at Ishpeming, will be extndel to Champion aad Republic, tapping a rtch ir on territjry. Two brothei-s, Stephen and Maitland Ferguson, of Momphis, Macomb county, were fooliug with a revolver a few days ago when it was aecidentiy discharged, strikin? Stiphen, agod twenty years, in the e!'t breast. It was doubtful if he recovero !. Ihe business men of Flushing, Genesee County, sustain a noan-day prayer meeting. Wayno County sailors and sol l;e:-s will picnic ,t Plymouth for thr--e days, cominen(.'in3r Sjptimber 21. Burgla:-s ente ed Zeigler's stora at Bay City a few nuhts ajo and secured a $100 note and í!):i.tí5 in inoney. Mrs. A. T. Prouty, sister of ex-Governor E. Ransom, and for nearly sixty years a resident of Kalamazoo, "died the other afternoon, aged eighty-ono years. A car loaded with logs jumped the track at Ludington the other morning, and while working to get the car on the track again it tipped and killed Brakeman James Carr. Deer are usually plentiful in the upper península. Patsey Earley, an attaché of the Arlington Hotel at Muskegon, dropped dead thé other morning, of apoplexy of the heart. He wís about twenty-eight years old and single. Olivet College has f35,000 added to her endowment fund from the will ol the late C B. Erwin, of New Britain, Conn. Bay County has organized a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animáis. Despite the many things that have combined to prevent a free morement of orp from the Lake Superior iron districts the shipments this season will be by far the largest ever made. It is probable tbat the mines oí theMarquette, Menominee, Goebic and Vermilion iron ranges will have snipped to Lake Michigan and Lake Eria pointe by the close of navigation nearly it not quite 4,5, 000 tons of ore. List season these minos attained an output of 3,562 015 tons. Reports to the State Board of Health by sixty-five observers in different parts of the State for the week ended on the SOth indicated that typho-malarial fever and remittent fever increased, and cholera inlantum, whooping-cougb, cholera morbus, erysipelas; pneumonía and puerperal fever decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtneria was reported at ten places, scarlet fever at nine, typhoid fever at twenty and measles at six places. A cigar faetory has commeneed onerations at Bay City. Two barns at Hastings, Barry County containing twenty Norman stallions, were destroyed by lightning the other night. AU the animáis perished, the loss exceed"ng 130,000. John Smith, aged fourten years was caught in the shafting at the works oí the Mvchisan Ma'.leable Iron Company in Detroit a few days ago and instantly killed. Both of nis legs were noarly torn Irom his body, anl his hcad and shoulders were battsred almost out of human semiDlance. Timothy O'Bricn, aged about nineteen joars, was shot in the leg the other night ty a woman namcd Annie Erickson 8he claimel that O'Brien hal been bothering her, and after repeated orJcrs to leave the premises she siiot ihi-ough the dcor with the result statod. The woman was arres ted. The extensión of ih Chicago & Northwestern rjflwayfrom lshpemiug to Michigamme w LI b i öegun imniüd at;lv