Michigan State News

There arrived at a hotel in Detroit the otber night a couple from Chicago who registered as N. J. Anderson and bride, and whose impedimenta included an ordinary and a ladies' bicycle. The pair went down to breakfast the next morning arrayed in the nattiest bicycle attire, and Anderson confided to the clerk that they had just been raarried in Chicago and were going to wheel from there to New York city for a honeymoon trip. They left for the east, and startod on a rattling gait for their 700-mile trip. Anderson is a smooth-faced young fellow and his bride a pretty blonde. .MiHnm-irirs feo Japan nn1 'hina. Eev. Albertos Pietera, of Holland, and Miss Kmraa Kollen, of Overisel, were mari-icd theother eveninjr. They will soon leave for Nagasaki, Japan, where they will enter the mission field and take charge of the Steele academy. Miss Lizzie Cappon, daughter of exMayor Isaac Cappon, of the same city, and Miss Nellie Zuemer, of Orange City, Ia., will rieeompany them as missionaries to 'Amoy, China. They are all graduates from Hope college. Health In Michigan. Reports to the state board of health by sixty-one observers in different parts of the state for the week Mideel July 18, indicated that typho-malanal fever, inflammation of the bowels. diarrhea and cholera morbus increased, and inflaramation of the brain, pneumonía and measles decreased is area of prevalencc. IMphtheria was reportet' at twentyeight places, scarlet fever at thirty-six, typhoid fever at aixteen and measles at twehty-one places. Two MUlion Peoplc. The census office has issued a bulletin givinfi the population of Michigan by minor civil divisions. The complete population of the state is 2,093,880. an increase owr 1880 ol 456,9.")-;. I ivc new counties were formcd during the decade. Fifteen counties in the state show decreases, most of which are small; while fourteen show increases of more than 100 percent., and thirty-eight more than 50 per cent. Sniricatod in the rit. Peter Pascoe, Jr. , son of Superintendent Peter I'ascoe of the Republic iron mine, and James Dower, Jr., were suffocated by smoke by a fire in the mine. Young Paseoe had descended into the mine to ascertain the extent of the fire raging and was overeóme by smoke. James Dower descended into the smoking shaft to rescue Pascoe and lost his life in trj'ing to save him. The damage to the mine was over Y100,000. Killed in :. l-nze Flght. James McCorinick died at Crystal Falls from injuries received in a prize fight with William Daniels, of Rhinelander. The fight was ten rounds with light glovi's. In the seventh round McCormick appearel dazed and feil unconscious onder a terrifio blow from Daniels, dying a few houra later. Daniels and his two seeonds. Frank Krouletti and .John Daley, were arrested on a charge of murder. Yimiiials Joln the C'hurch. Thirty-two convicts at the state prison in Jaekson were confirmed as members of the Catholic church, Iiishop Foley officiating. He was assisted by the local priests. Among those confirmed were two murderers, six men imprisoned for criminal assault, four for manslaughter, two for murderous assault, eight for larceny, eight burglars and one horse thief. Short i'iit Newüf Items. The June earnings of the West Michigan railroad were 44,000 more in 1891 than in 1890. Abraham Smolke, of Mackinac island, who was bom in 1791 and was a prominent Detroiter early in the present century, died at the island recently. Bray & Chster, of Oshkosh, Wis., have bought a tract of land in the upper península for 8400,000. The national convention of union ex-prisoners of war will be held in Detroit on Wednesday, August 5. Cutworms were reported to be chewing every stalk of corn in sight in many counties of the state. A Detroit manufacturing firm will make steel wagon wheels with hollow felloes and spokes. The badly decoinposed body of W. H. Fairchild, who escaped from a working gang and attendant, was found in the harbor at Gladstone. The Kalamazoo asylum board has decided to build a cottage for male patients at the Fair Oaks farm. The United States Baking Company, a syndicate owning a large number of similar concerns, has purchased the Musl-egon cracker factory and business. The barn of Isaac Rupright near Coldwater was burned by sparks from a steam thrasher. The Michigan state assembly. Knight of Labor, will meet in convention at Lansing August 4. The Michigan Hankers' association in session at Marquette elected George H. Russel, of the State savings bank at Detroit, as president. Some pople in Ironton have a peculiar method of stopping cow.s from running at large. These people fill potatoes with ara nio and leave them where the bovines ma.y easily find them. The box factory business in Bay county is pieking up, orders flowing jn from Illinois, ühio, Indiana and MisBouri. Robert P. üurling, of Marine City, dropped dead of heart disease. Ue settled in Marine City in 1861 and was 77 years old. S. & V. Jones' grain barn at Hamburg was struck by lightning and deStroyed. The baru was insured, but it required the liveliest kind of wo-k to save $350 in greenbacks which had been h.id for safe keeping in an oat bin in the barn. liy persistently pouring on water the money was saved, although Oie ïap#r wrapper was badly ctiarred,