Michigan State News

The transfer of May White, the sleeping school-teacher, from Munith to her home in Meadvflle has had no apparent effect on her condition. She has been in a trancelikc state for 140 days and has wasted away to a skeleton. Miss White is 19 years of age, and when awake weiglied 140 pounds and had excellent health. The long sleep came upon her without warning. Liquid nourishment was admlnistered, but of late she did not seem to hava the power to assimilate it The doctors were puzzled. tlealth in Michigan. Reports to the state board of health by sixty-four observers in different parts of the st te for the week ended October 24 indicated that diplitheria, pneumonía, scarlet fever and bronchitis inereas- 1. and inflamraation of the brain, puerperal fever, whoopinff cough, erysipelas and dysentery decreased in area of prevalence. Diphthcria was reported at forty-one places, scarlet fever at forty-one, typhoid fever at eighty-one and measles at three places. Stabbed Hls Wife'a 1'itranimir. A man named S. Cheesbro, living at Isabel la City, went home and found his chidren alone and his wife gone. He at once set out to find her, and did flnd her in company with a man named John McGuire. Cheesbro claimed McGuire assaulted him, whereupon he drew his kuife and disemboweled McGuire. Cheesbro was in jail. McGuire was fataüy injured. riiHniiacinta Elect Ofl=rr. The Michigan Pharmaceutieal asscioation has elected the following officers: H. G. Coleman, of Kalamazoo, president; Stanley E. I'arkill, of Owosso, L. Paule, of St. Ignace, and A. S. Parker, of Detroit, vice presidents; Mr. Parsons, of Detroit, secretary, and William Dupont, of Detroit, treasurer. Hmiir.iI Hlmaelf in the Hum.' John Nequist, of Whitehall, cotnmittcd suicide by hanging. He left the house before break f ast to milk hts cows, and when discovered was hanging by a rope from a raf ter in the barn. He was 35 years old and had a wife and three children. He was in poor health and became despondent Ate the Snlphar off Matchen. Rebecca Abbey, ajjed 23 ycars, died at Greenville from the efrecte of eating the sulphur off matches with suicida! iotent. eieral weeks ago her lover suddenly ceased his attentions, since which time the young woman had suffered from scvere melancholia. Short but iNcirix IlrriM. ' Flint mail carriers have formed a local branch of the national association. James Peters, a Grand Trunk brakeman, lost both legs by falling in front of turning wheels at Port Huron. Frank CrispeM, 15 years old, of Holland, was fatally woundeil by the accidental discharge of his brother'a gun. A medical comniission appointed by the liayVUy cöunty court, hasadjudged Henry Horlacher, murderer of Andrew Poulson, insane. Amos Edinore, aged 81 years, a Chicago fc West Michigan brakeman, was caught betwcen freight car bumpers at Holland and instantly killed. The earnings of Michigan railroads for the first six months of 1891 were $43,033,G16, against 542,785,583 for the psriod of 1S00. D. T. Smith'B sawmill at Romeo was burued to the groun-l. Origin of fire unknown. A bout thirty men were thrown out of employmenl. The steam barge Oscar Townsend caught fire near l'ort Huron by the explosión of a lamp and was entirely deBtroyed. She was owned by J. Root and was insured for $25, 0J0. Port Huron claims a gaiu in population of 2,000 in fifteon months. An industrial school for ludians will be established at Mount l'lcasant, Isabella county. Mr?. Wilüani A. UiiJTum, wlio had resided in Hranch county liftv-üve years, died suddenly at her home in Bethel township. ag-ed 80 year. Mrs. Eusioe Fritz, wlio has resided in Genesee county since 1857, died at her home in Flint, aged 85 years. Depnty farac narilens of Muskegon county will reeeive S15 and traveling expenses for eaeh conviotion in their line of offenscji. David Greenfield, of l!ay City, aged 17 years, was kuocked overboard by the boom of a sail anti vraa drowned in the river. Georse l.abadi, a 3-year-old, feil into a well at West Bay City and was dead when taken out. A Boston firm will erect a tannery in Cheboygan if they ean secure options to insure 20.00U conls of hemlock annually for five yeara. Thiovos walked Into Ván Jluuton's store at Woodburn in broad daylight and helped thcmselvcs to 8150 cash. James Andcison. for forty years a prominent merchant of Coldwator, died at the a'i' of ' i yeara Dr. Isaiah WUtfleld, a prominent homeopathie phyiician at (irand Rapids, died snddealy ol' heart disease. He was 56 yi'.ii'. J and leav.s a widow and four aduli children. Kalamazoo connty li:is heen redistricteil. 'J'Ik' city and township of Kalamazoo toaran the firs( district; the remaindcr ;f thi eotintj th sooond district A bUoV p .al hot, been tramping throiiffli Uc'.'omb countji and victimizing old getüerj to the tune of $4 each by repr..'M.ili:i : fo be an agf ent of the United Staten pensión ili'partment. O. E. Baker and A W. Ilixson, of Graml Ledge, were flned s.o each for riolating the licuor lavv. Hirry Snow, of Grand Ledge. ta I Mrs. l'eresa Milbourn, of Olivet, ■ 0 i h for similar offen--.