Michigan State News

The P'itroit grain and produoe qnotations are: Whent- Xo. 1 White, TtP-"' i N"2 Bed, 73%@73i3tt Flower- ïtoiler proueBB $3.7&@4.00; patente, $4.25@4.60. Corn- No. 2. 43e, Oats- Xo. 2, 27c. Butter - Creaniery, L'l irJöo. Cheese. 1 t-V" 1 -"■■. Eggs, l(i('li;i.ji-. Near Garflold the otner day the barn aud outbu ldings on the farm of K. A. Jackson were destroye.l by tire, wth live horses and 350 bushels of grain. Loss, i'S OJO. Honiesteaders are rushing into the wilderness near Baraga at a rapid rate to take up pine and farmmg lands recently taken away from a railroad company by a ruling of the Interior Department. The lands compr.se 258,000 acres of unselected and unimproved mineral, pine, hardwood and farming lands. John Fererich, of Chicago, aged flfteen years, visiting relatives at Jickso i, ttempted to bo.ird a moving train the otlier morning, and slipped under the cars, oot;.i legs being tut off. He would probably a.e The Wheeling iron mine, near Nog u was sold the other day to Chicago a ö Grand Rapids parties, the parchas di i ■ boing $00,000. The Wheeling adjo.ns the Milwaukje mine on the west. Recent developments by the purchasmg partlei proved it to be one of the richest hematite aines en this range, and a strong rival of he old Milwaukee, of wliich it is virtualy a part. Calvin H. Carter, president of the D roit & Lake Superior Mining Company, ied suddnly at Waterbury, Conn., a few ays asro. Ironwooc!, one of th? largest and most rosperous towns on the Gogebic iron ange, was the peine of a most disastrous onflagratiOn the other day, noarly all of he business portion of the town being reuced to ashes. The loss was estimated t Í3O0.O0O. The fire originated from a deectivs chimney in a restaurant on the main business street. Baker & Ferry's shingle mili in Cheboy?an was burned the other evening. Loss, 3,000; no insurance. The mili was not unning and the fire was set by an inen 1 iar j A Duiuth, South Shore & Atlantic train f sixty-iive cars laden with ore got away rom the trainmen the other night at Maruette and ran dowu the gra.le at a high ate for four miles. At the scale track ust west of th3 city the cars erashed into i side-tiack full of empty ore flats, and .fty oars were piled thirty feet high. Billy Mahone, the conductor, was missing, nd tnere was no doubt but he was under he wreek. Burglars the other night stole sixty dolars from the house of Mrs. Susan Anger n Bay Ctty. ( J. Howard Rose, who had been identified vith newspapers at Detroit, Búllalo and Cansas City, died at Lamont, Ottawa County, a few days ago. George A. McConnell was found hanging n the garret of his father's rasidence at Ludington, Mason County, a few mornngs ago. He was supposed to have committed suicide while insane. Idi SL Peterson was convicted at Menominee the other day of having killed her ïusband with an axe in a shanty at Pernns last March. She would be sentenced o imprisonment for life. She had been wice tried. Henry Udell, a farme:-, living near Marhall, feil from a windmill derr.ck a few, iays ago and broke his neck. "Billy" McLem, a notoriou3 desperado, who broke jail at St. Ignace a few veeks ago, was recently capture 1 at Sault Ste. Marie. He had been staying on the Canadian side, but ventured over to the American Sault to get a drink, when the offleers p unce.i upon him. The roof of a chamber in the South Jackson mine at Nigaunee coilüpsed the other night, k.lling one man anJ seriously inuring another. Louis Talenhoff, age l thirly-tive years cotnmitted suicide by hanging in Bay City he other evening. Lewis Gosslies, of West Branch, Ogeman County. feil from his buggy a few days ago and broke his neci. General C. J. Roche, of Grand Rapids diocese, has resigne!, and has been appointed dean at Bay City and pastor at St. John's Church at Essexville. Thesix-year-olddaughter of Charles Belanger, of Hancock, was run over by a ;rain the other evening and had both lega crushed so that they had to be amputated. James Dolan and William Banks, of Wyandotte, got drunk and teil asleep on the Lake Shore tracks near Detroit a few days ago and both were killed by a train. A tramp entered the house of Charles McGrath, of Paris, Mecosta County, the other evening and stoie $3)0. Myrtle Eüchards, seventeen years old, employed by McGrath, discovered the theft and, arming herself vvitta a pitihfork, she pur sued the tramp and compelled him to surrender his booty. Reporte to the State Board of Health by torty-five observere in different parts of the State for the week ended on the 17th indicated that influenza, intermittent fever, Sonsilitis, cholera morbus and puerperal fever increased, and remittent fever, diarrhea, consumption of the lungs and inflammation of the bowels increased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at twenty-two places, scarlet fever at nine, typhoid fever at twenty-six, measles at flve places and small-pox at Detroit J. V. Lisee & Co., a Detroit shoedealer, faüed recently for $40,000. The first convention ;of the W. C. T. U. in the Upper Península was held at Escanaba recently. Fred Calkins, of Calkinsville, Isabella County, undertook to sell liquor a few days ago without a license. He was arrested by a United States offieer and paid the price of 450 drinks at ten cents each. ' The Michigan Baptist Association held its annual meeting at Kochester, Oakland" County, recently. ■ In reply to inquiries Attorney-General Taggart states that clergymen and ministers need not pay twenty-five cents to county clerks when filing certificates of marriage. One full and explicit affldavit and license, for which the clerk receives ñf ty cents, wül Buffice for both contracting parties. These documents may be made out by any authorIzed person, but connty clerks should be very caref ui to learn the authorlty of such deputies and to issue licenses only to those who have full knowledge of f acts to be set forth in the affidavit Governor Luce has pardoned William Witham, a Genesee County farmer, who was sentenced for life in February, 1880, but whose sentence was commuted so as to terminate January 1, 1888, by Governor Begole. Witham, who is now seventy-eight years old, was a wealthy farmer, who killed neighbor because the latter was trespassIng on his lands. The pardon was recommended by the Board of Pardons. Flower day was observed at the Juukson prison recently, and each cell was decoraDed with a boufiiet to which was attached a verse of the Soripture. This was the work of the W. C. T. U., and is an annual ocDurrence. Dr. Andrews' drug store at Leroy, Osceola County. wan destroyed by fire the other norning. Logg. 'J 700: insurance. Y500.