Michigan State News

In tiií suit brought by the State of Michigan to recover 12,000 acres of land granted the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad Judge l'eck has ruled in iavor of the State. The case undoubtedly will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. Similar cases agsinst the Jackson, Jansing & Sagina w and the Grand Rápida & Indiana railroads are now pending which involve the ownership of nearly 130,000 aores of valuable land. Judge Peck also decided in favor of the State in the suit brought against E. W. Sparrow and the Michigan Land & Lumber Company. This involves the ownership of 16,000 acres claimed by Sparrow under legislativo grants. REFUSES TO EAT. Holzay, the Hlffhwayman, Fel by Injectliiff Milk Thruuifli His Nostrils. Highwayman Holzhay, now confined in the State prison at Marquette, is kept alive by forcé alone. Last spring three fingers were shot from his right hand by Warden Tompkins while Holzhay was in arraed rebellion to authorlty. Si nee then he has sulked. For three weeks he has fasted, touch ing no food whatever. He i.s now kept alive byaquart of milk dailv, which is injected through hi.s nostrils by the prison physician. This has been done for nearly a month. Healtli in Michigan. Reports to the State Board of Health by sixty-five observers in different parts of the State for the week ended July 2S indicatod that inflaramation of the brain.typUo-raalarial fever,membranous croup, whooping cough and scarlet fever increasud, and typhoid feve, puerperal fever and diphtheria decreased in area of prevalence. Diphtheria was reported at seventoen places, scarlet fever at twenty-two, typhoid fever at fifteen and measles at twentyeight places. Will Not Ñama i Mtt Ticket. After a lengthy debate the Patrons of Husbandry in convention recently at Lansing appointed a committea of five to decide with the executive board the form of independent political aotion the order shall take, and they reached the conclusión that no State ticket would be placed in the field, but that, as an order, they would nomínate full Legisl itive and Consrressional tickets. Killed I)V Train. J. M. Taylor, relief agent at Hallston, and .Miss Mlnnie Gogarn left Hallston for MunUiDfr the other night on a railroad trloyole. They had acoomplished all but :i mile of the distance, when au offloial'a special on the South Shore roid struck thera. Miss Gogarn was Instan tly killed and Taylor badly injured. Denth of Tv l'ioneeri. Robert Wagífett, a prominent farmer, living near Coldwxter, died of hoart disease the othcr night. He carne here in the thirties. Eli Culver, aged 75 years, also died of Btomaob trouble. He carne to Branoh County in 1835, cleared up a farm and went to Coldwater in "(i, where he was in business for a time. l'opulüt on f [Vllohlyaa Cities. The population of the seTen largest cities of Miohiifttn as asoertained by tho late census may now be said to be as followa in round numbers: Detroit, a07,000; Grand Itapids. üi.000; Saginaw, 54,000; Bay City, 89,000; Mnskugon, 34,000; Jackson, '22,000; Kalamazoo, 18,000. Short but Newsy !ti in. John Klson, a Efnlander, wa-;drowned in the river at Ironwood recently while in bathing1. The South Ottawa and West Allegan Agrieiiltural Sooiety'8 fair grounds at Holland werp sol, i recently for ST.OOO. Near Lincoln Lako pecently the 7year-old dauefhter of Peter Olsen while pickintr berries waa bitten by a snake and died after ton minutes of agonv. Her mother, wlio was with her, couïd afford no reliif. Drowninjj accidents throughout the State average throp a day at present. Reading1 has a gúrl 17 yoars oíd who has been married four years. A younir man aamed Hodge, whose home is at Hartlund. wasdrowned while bathing in Wiman lake, nine milos from Milford. recently. Sydney Tucker, a well-known lumberman and resident of Flint, died the other morning of heart fallare, aged 53 years. He leaves a wifo and three daughters. He has been a resident of Fl nt twenty years. A C. Munson, of Howell, has been chosen for appointment as a cadet in West Point. He is 19 years of age. A flre in T. D. Stimson's lower mili yard at Muskegon recently causedaloss of $2,000. Charles Johnson, 24 years oíd, employed as a teamster at Stimson's camp, a few miles from Big Rapids, was instantly killed the other day by a tree falling on him. The hoop-miil of the Anchor Manufacturing Company at Delray was burned a few nights ago, causing a losa of $35,000; insured for 820,000. Hiram Frank, vice-president of the Frank Revolving Glass Burner Company of Detroit, was found dead in his bedroom in Xew York the other uight, the resiüt of an ovordose of chloroform. J. C. Lord, who shot and killed E. .1. Forguson noar Farwoll, mistakinj; him for a beai1 in a berry swamp, was recently exonerated by tlie coroner and his j"ryA wator-spout tormed on the bay off Bsoanaba the other day, lasting fifteen minutes. It was 200 feet in diameter at its base, extended into the clouds and made a noise audible at a distance of two miles. Judee Brevoort and Lavvyer A. H. McDermott. of Detroit, met in the city hall recently and engaged in a roughnd-tumble fight over something tnat took place in a political convention fourteen ye;irs ago.