Michigan State News

The Detroit grain and produce quotations are: Wheat- No. 1 Wliite, 78%@'79c; No. 2 Sed, I 7714@771c. Flour- Roller process, $:!.75@4.00; patenta, $4.50(í í. 7.". Corn- No. 2, 44o. Oats- No. 2, 2í)c. Butter - Creamery, 24@2t5c. Cheese, 12@12lgo. Eggs, 18ia(fïl9c. ' The Chuboygan luraber cut for this season is estiraated at 107.000,000 feet. Pbilip Kuehn, an aged Germán, was seen vralklng home from Eepnblic the other night with two men named Boss and Fredlinghaus. His body was found in a deserted mine the noxt morning. His oompanions were arrested for murdering and robbing the old man. It is estimated that the yie!d of wheat in Michigan will reach 22,815,153 bushela Potatoes are about one-third oL a erop, and winter apples one-half an average erop. John Mills, aged sixty-six years, a farmer, of Bangor, Bay County, was thrown from his wagon recently and fatally injured. Michael Shallow was fatally injured by a fall of a seaiïold on which he was working in the Wyandotte ship-yard the other day. John A. Fletcher, of Sault Ste. Marie, feil over the side of a ferryboat while sailing down the river near his home the other night, and, notwithstanding all the efforts made to save him, was drowned. Senator Stockbridge has bought one hundred acres on Mackinac Island for ten thousand dollars and will establish a auramer residence there. The Iron Chief, Sunday, Lake, Phoenix, George Washington, West Presque Isle and Florence mining properties at Bessemer were recently attached by miners on account of wages. The claims against the first two companies were said to amount to $10.000. Charles H. Plummer, a wealthy lumberman of East Saginaw, offers to eaeh of the families of the pólice ofheers inurdered at the Haymarket, Chicago, forty acres of aa good beeoh and maple f arming land as there is in the State of Michigan, conditioned only on their occupying the same. He will also give to each family snffleient lumber to erect a residence. At the recent Baptist State couvention in Ealamazooa proposition to found a $20,000 Edward Olney Memorial Professorship was adopted, and $1,000 was raised on the spot Also $25,000 toward defraying ciirrent expenses for the next ttve years was asked and raised. Issac Thompson, a farmer living two miles east of lïomeo,was in the village a few days ago for the ftrst in fifteen years. Rev. Thomas P. Ryan, who was shot and killed by burglars near Walton, W. Ta., the other night, was brother to Rev. Edward W. Ryan, of Bay City. Augustus Tucker, an old man, of Coldwater, was recently sentenced to Ionia for nine months, and also to pay one hundred dollars riñe, for assault with intent to comrnit great bodily harm. The Alpha Oil Company of Detroit, with a capital of $0,000,000,' üavtng extensiye works in Canada, and owning a bank, a pipe-line, etc, collapsed recently. An immense amount of money was sunk in the scheme. John Evans was crushed to death the other day by the fall of a pile of lumber on the'dock at Menominee. Two car-loads of Texas steers escaped to the woods from Ishpeming recently, and thereby hangs a tale. The owner, who knew of no better way to reclaim his propi erty, went out and shot all of the herd that he could find. Then some friends of his, who thought the sport must be great because the game was, went out to shoot the rest of them for him. They found plenty of cattle and had bagged eight or ten before a farmer turned up with a club and , drove them away. They had been shooting creainery cowa Edward Maeon, a young colored boy, feil into the river from a row-boat at Port Huron the other day and was drowned. Napoleon Germán, aged sixty-four years, living near Belleville, feil while climbing upon a load of wood the other day, and the team started and drew the wheels over him, killing' him instantly. He had lived there lifty-three years, and leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. Mrs. George Whedon, of Coldwater, dropped dead of heart-disease a few afternoons ago. She was in apparent good health iu the morning. She was about forty-five years of age. Mrs. Alvin Porter, of Jackson. while lighting a gasoline stove the other day caughb her dress on fire and was burned to death. Emil Wagner, aged seventeen years, was working in Cleves & Son's foundry in Hancock the other day when the chain of the crane he was haudling aceidentally touched an electric light wire overhead, and tha shock killed Wagner instantly. Reports to the State Board of Health by fifty-one observers in different parts of tha State for the week ended October 22 indicated that remittent fever, typho-malerial fever, influenza, bronchitis and intermittent fever increased, and diarrhea, cholera morbus, consumption of the luugs and inflammation of the bowels decreasel in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at twenty-nine places, scarlet fever at seventeen, typhoid fever at twenty-three, measles at six places and small-pox at Detroit. Hanuah Tidder, aged nine years, was run over by a Central train and killed in Jackson recently. Burglars went through the hardware store of Buck &, Son, at Battle Creek, the other night and stole some revolvers. They also drüled into the safe and knocked off the combination dial and handle but could not open it Loss, $250. Detroit brewers have pledged flnancial aid to the snloou-keepers to contest the constitutionality of the new State liquor lawa Egbert C. Preston, of Detroit, sercetary of the Michigan Kire and Marine Insurance Company, died suddenly on a train on the Flint & Pere Marquette railway near East Saginaw a few days ago. He was nfty-two years old. Peter Dow, aged seventy years, ex-member of the Legislatnre and a prominent man in Oakland County, was killed a few days ago while hunting in Dakota. A Coldwater man was recently fined twenty-four dollars for oruelty to anímala Dempsey, Simpson & Co. 's saw and shingle mili at Manistee, together with two million feet of lumber, blacksmith shop, tenement houses, doek, etc, were consumed by fire a few nights ago. Loss, $100,000. The State Grand Lodge of Good Templara in session rucently at Ann Arbor installed offleers as follows: Chief Templar, Ebarte Saunders, of East Saginaw; Counselor, Albert Dodge, of Fowlerville; Vice Templar, Mra Davis; Secretary, John Evans, of Bellevue; Treasurer, P. ConneU, of Muskegon; Superintendent Juvenile Templara, Mrs. J. B. Knapp, of Ho wel I. Joel Deitz, an advertising agent, became suddenly insano tlie other night at Bay City and shot Dr. Baker twice, fire several times at otticer.s who attempted to arrest him, and then sent a bnllet through his own heart. The physician was not dangerously hurt Highlaud Park Hotel, neti' Detroit, was urned a few nights ago, -vith alosa of $50,000.