Michigan State News

In Detroit late the other niht Nelson te shot Miss Ida Corneau In the head -andthen puta bullet into hisownskull. Brule, who íes tlie son of the postmastor at Lake Linden, tn the upper pnnlnsula, met Miss Cornean last summer while she was visitins friends at Lake Linden, and ome time iater the.v became engaed. Brule arrived ia Detroit some time agro, intendingto remaiu until after the niarriage. A few days ago, hovtever, she learned that he was a marriod man and ref used to have any thing further to do with hiin. On the night of the crime they met on the streek After walking a short distance he threw nis arm around hor and kissed her and then drew a revolver and shot her la the ear. She feil to the sldewalk, and thtnttng he uad killed her, he placed the revolver to his own head and fired. Tlie woman's injuries were not considered dangerous, but Brule wou:d probably dio. DAMON AND PYTHIAS. A Very Pre'ty Romance from tho Nouthcrn Part of the State. Johu Wlbson, In ISii;!, lived In tlie southern part of tlie State, and bis nearestfriend was Williua Simpson. Bimpaon had ayoung wife and several chüdren, while Wilson was unmarried. A draft was ordered and Simpson was caught. He could uot ufford a substitute, and hls wife, fearing for bil saiet.v, became seriously il I. Simpson was almost distracted and soug-ht Wilson for advice as to what he should do. Wilson quickly made up his mind, and proposod that he would assume hisfriend's name and take hls place in the ranks and Simpson . could take liis wife and f amily and lócate elsewhere. After considerable urging Simpson acceded and Wilson went to the front. He -erved fïülantly throuirhout the war and ■ ipou his return took up his residence in Petoskey. The facts were ftrst made known the other day bySimpsoii. who was ■yisiting there. l'avor I'iihlir Srlioo'-. Dr. John Foley, Biehop of tbc ('atholio ■diocese of Michigan, in an interview in Detroit recvMitly Kaki he was emphatically in favor of the public-school MHtein as at present eoustitiited, and that there was no cuestión iu his mind of the duty of the State in the , remises, which was to foster non-Rectariaii schools aud colleges, For this purpose the State laya taxes, aud he said it was incnmbent on all Catholics as ood citizena to b ar Ui. ir share of the burden; that the public Hohool system was an Important feature of public pr press and civilizatioii and ought unquostionftbly to be maintained. Ninular Wreek. A reuiarkable railroad accident occurred at Marquette the other nicht on the South Shore road. A heavy ireifrht-train loaded with mlnlng maohlnery pulled out on the pur track with two enpriues. Four cara ere left on the spur. The train got part way up the hill and broke in two. The rain flew back, and, the brakenian being unable to stop it, crashed iuto the cara on the spur and drove them over a bi bulkhead clean across the street into Frazer'a block, knockinir in the whole front No Hvob were lost. Ilfiiltli in Michigan. Eeports to the State Board of Health by forty-nine observers in different parts of the State for the week ending on the 9th ndicated that inflammation of the kidneys, pleuritis, influenza, consuraption of the :ungs, bronchitis, erysipelas, tonsilitis and iiphtheria increased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at twelve places, searlet (ever at eighteen, typhoid fever at seven, uicaslra at six and xmull pox at flve placea Klelftlgftn'a l.uiiiher i'i-otlurt. Dnrïn 1888 Michipran produced 4,293,180,014 feet of luinher aud 2, KM .01,000 shingles. At the close of the seasou there was on hand 1,463,220,000 feet of lumber and ;:,952,000 fihingles. The lumber product exceeded thatof the year 1887 by 1:..,(HXI,(MK) feet and in shinjrlcs the increase was 168,000,000. Short but NewHy [tont. The State of Michigan owns just one plece of statuary, the bust of Judge Campbell In the law liurary of the capítol. During the past twentv years 18,433 divorces were granted in this State. Eleven new doctors were recently given diplomas from the Detroit Colloge of Medicine and Surgery. William A. Elliott has been fined flfty dollars and ooKts in Detroit tor oouductlng a lottery. The Detroit Board of Educatioa calis for $422,848 for the coming year. Mrs. L. J. Orcutt, aged sixty-three years, was found dead in bed the other morning at Battle Creek. Heart disease. Fred Lewis, who thought he could whlp an old toll-gate keeper near Detroit for trying to collect toll, had to pay forty dollars or slxty days iu prinon for his fnn. Charles Avery, a niillwright, dropped dead of heart disease at Cedar Lake a few days ago. A five-year-old daughter of Frank Curtís ■was killed by a log recently at Cass City. John Andersou, a merchant tailor of Jackson. lUowned himself recently while drunk. Eobert M. Uulison, of Flushing, was recently scntenced to ninety days iinprisonment for printing obscene matter. The Mackiuaw Indian agency has been abolishcd by Congresa. A llvery stable and some smaller buildings were burned at Champion the other afterooon'. William Sanborn, aged Revcnty years, was Tdlled by a falling tree near Sutton's Bay a few days ago. James McBiide's barn, near Corunna, was burned the other night. Incendiary. Edward Hall, a farmer of Denmark, feil down in a fit iii ais ceilar recently in whieh water a toot deep was standing, and drowned beforo help arrived. Margaret McKtnnry has sued Druggist Shaw, in Detroit, for $5,000 damages because she alienes sulphale of zinc was put up for her instead of Epsorn salta. Charles Talmer, of Detroit, who was con rlcted of assaulting Mrs. Pierson, of Livonia, was sentenced to twenty years in the State's prtson the other morning. August Tonto, who murdered an old lady named Stochala, was convicted of murder in the flrst degree at Lauring a few days ago. Ex-Senator J. W. Babcock died at Cros■well the other morning, aged forty years. He was one oL the leading lawyers there. By the explosión of the boiler in Wamer's saw-mill at Wayne, reoently, tho engineer, Martin Westfall, was instantly killed. The loss to the building was f 10,000. Mrs. Adele Campau-Thompson has secured a divorco from her husband, W. G. Thompson, ex-mayor of Detroit. Isaac Garthe, a Northport lad, stuck th end of a dynamite cartridge into a stove the other day to see if it would go off. It went, and so did two of his fincers.