Michigan Stats News

Vrom Btatistics ïssucd from the Btate I ilepartment it Ü sliown that the value. j of the whcat erop in Michigan tor 1890 i oost to produce $18,900,888 and tliat its value wae $16,728,806, or a:i actual loss of $l,471,.r):;.",. The total oost of the corn erop was 982; total ralue, $7,■;.i!. ii4,787. The cost of ;it erop v. lts value, on productioD of bree crops, 99,236,610. The value iay erop was 814,000,000: the cost Total value of all crops data available i - !".- 109, 81, hay being second 114,016,1 THE GRIP MICRO3E. i -iicTctiiry of theStste Board of iiwilth ] Indfl ihv hiihc of the J'!.ti;llt'. At the meeting of the Btate board of healtb in Lansing Or. II. 1!. Baker, for many years seen tary of the board, announeed that he had worked out the cause of la grippe. "The genus of inHu. Miza." said the doctor, "are generally present, but there must bc certain eoiDcident meteoro] ogical tonditious to irrita te the throatand air passage mffleiently to let the germ galn an entrance to the body. These meteorological conditions at present are the excessive prevalenee of north and northeast winds and the excessive amount of ozone in the air." Dr. Avery was reelected president of the board and Dr. Baker was reelcctod secretary. Hnalth in Michigan. Reporta to the state board of health by fifty-four observen in different parts of the state for the week rnded April 18 indicated that typho-malarlal fever, inflammation of the brain, diphtheria, remittent tevor and diarrhea increased, and inflammation of the bowels, whooping cough and typhoid fever decreascd in area of prevalencc. Diphtheria was reported at, fonrteen places, scarlct fever at thirty-two, typhoid fever at tour and measte at thirty-nine places. Dealli of ï)r. iïarrows Dr. John Mannlng Baxrows died at biabóme in Ülivette after an illnossof but three days. Dr. liarrows, who had almost completed dis 85th year, was one of the most noted scholars Michigan ever prodneed. He was one of the founders of the Olivette college and for more than twenty-flve years filled the chair of natural suience in that institution. I njiistly ImprUoued Tor Years. In 1853 James Hitchcock, of Mason, i-i.iiv ii .-il of killing a m-ighborand genteneed to Ufe i i ient Two of the u H the Wal bis deathbed that he ha i tat Hitchkilled his victiin ín seb 1 1 : i oc d, and ha;. m'. -lal ■ for $'-',00:'. isonment Short. but .misv it.'n. These are twenlv-six I'nitcil States pensionersin JaclcBon prisoo. Blanche Davidson, of Reed City, aged 87 years, cominitted suicide by shooting tierself through the head witii :i revolver. The (irand 'I'runk ferry boat, with two trainloads of westbound passen'gers on boa r I . was stuclt in the ice at l'ort Huron for twenty-four hours. Jackson wil] plant 113 acres to celery this season. A Jackson man hit on an original plan. He was married the other day, and instead of passing cigars around he gave bread tickets to his friends. The merchants of Vcrmontville have determined that the burned furniture factory must be rebuilt. and will raise a bonus if ïipcossarv. Christian Miller, a veteran of the Mexican war, was buricd at Holland. A yonng daughter of P. T. Cole, of Bay City, feil toto a cistern aïid was drowncd Joseph Woodlanil. who took up a tract of land in I'airtield in 1889, died of the grip. apcil 88 The 4-year-old sou of CharleB 1'. Varney. of Bay City, burned ltself to death by playing with matches. Col. Lndlow, government engineer, made soundlnga of the channel, finding the water let ween Latees Michigan and Muskegan from fourteen to eighteen feet deep. Mary Douglass, 1 1 years old, of Bay City, was taken with au epileptic fit while attending to hor kitchen duties and spilied a kettle of hot water over herself, nfllctiag fatal burns. Three minera' houses at 'I'amarack City, Houghton county, rere burned. Loss, SU, ooo; fti.iuo Insurance, Chauney Ilolcomb, aged 60 years, a pioneer of Lapser, dropped dead of heart diaease. Henrv I'. Beebe, the last of three brothers. who wcre pioneers of Richmond, died at his home in that vjjlage. Prof. M. 10. Wordsworth. principal of the mining sebbol at Houghton, has been reeiected state geolofrlst for the coming two years. Joseph 6t (nge, an old resident of Negaunee, feil against a stove while warming hanself, and died from his injuries in two daya The hum of $30,000, from theestate of ex-President Killmore, has fallen into tl)o hands of Mrs. Adolphus ÍStitcher, of Perry, a distant relative of the man of history. Milton II. Butler, a farmer chicado business man. died at Mount ('Ie mens, aged 00 years. The 3-year-old daughtër of ('harles Cousineau. of I.ong K:t[iils, feil ,nto a tub of boiling lye and died in a short time. lugust Wolf. charged with cutting tiust Smith's head IT with an ax at Bruce's Cross-ing. was arrssted at Wausau. Wis., and placed in jail at Kessemer. Frank Douovan. of (iladstone, will pay S100 for Information as to the whercabouts of lii-, father. The missing man was 60 years of ajra and left his hom? in Kseanaba, three yenrs ago.