Michigan State News

Mrs. Sarah Madison made application upon the county superintendent for the poor at Grand Rapids and told a pathetic story. When her husband died in 1886 she was compeHed to seok work with her six children. One day her daughter Lillie was kidnaped by a oouple in a carnaje. Mrs. Madison spent her money in trying to find her child, but to no avail. Meanwhile her other five children died. The other day in a hotel she heard a man speaking about a certain Lillie Madison, who was adopted by William Freeman. She found that thjs was her daughter, and she asked for moncy to go ana meet her child. Lillie had been kept by the ' conple who had kidnaped her, and made to beg1, until both of them went to prison ior murder. Then the child was sent to the Coldwater state school, where Freeman adopted her. Fighenuen ürowned. A party of four men went fishing from Holland in two small boats in a storm that was raging. The boats have been found capsized. The boats were frail concerns, and it was supposed that all the occupants were drowned, as none of them had returned to their homes. The names of the lost are: Charles Petrie, raarried; Jean McKay, single; J. C. Shafer, married; lrwin Thakes, single. Thakes was the only support of his father and mother. Petrie and McKay were brothers-inlaw, as were also Shafer and Thakes. Big Cloudburst Near Kalamazoo. A tremendous cloudburst struck Bear Lake. The villag-e is situated on the northern slope of a large hill and down this hill the water began to rush at a terrific rate, sooa rising to a depth of three feet in the streets. liimediately after a clap of thunder a great sheet of water descended. It burst in windows and flooded houses, the mud and water being four feet deep. No lives were lost but trees, sidewalks and fences were destroyed, and the tirst floor of every house was a place of mud and mire. State Board of Heulth. From various portions of the state the reports of fifty-six observers for the week ended March 27 show that pneumonía, rheumatism and influenza increased and remittent fever decreased in area of prevalence. Scarlet fever was reported at fifty-four places, measles at nineteen, diphtheria at thirty-two. typhoid fever at fourteen places and smallpox at Crystal Falls, Ishpeming, Kalamazoo and Menominee. Susplcion i'oiiits to the Mother. The 4-year-old son of Thomas W. Daly was kidnaped in Detroit. Recentlv Dalv secured a decree of divorce from his wife and secured possession of their only child, the court holding that his wife was an improper person to rear it. She then vowed she would not be separated from the boy, and it was thougM she carried off the child. Attempted Suïcide. Mrs. Hattie Heinly, of Kalamazoo, attempted suicide by an ounce of laudanum. She wasdeserted by her husband a month ago, and said she wasweary of life because of poverty. She had been corapelled to sell her clotheb to keep from starviug, and had n. money to pay her rent. Short But Newsy Items. The residence of C. A. Hammond, cashier of the First national bank at Traverse City, was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, $2,500. The G riffin Car VVheel company at Detroit served notice upon all employetthat they must submit to a ten per cent. reduction in waffes and five days work. Nicholas Scanlan, postmaster at La mont, was under arrest for alleged embezzlement. He was appointed about six months ago. A rink, hall or auditorium with a seatinf? capaclty of 5,000, is to be built on the Epworth League park grounds near Ludington. George Hesselgroye, of Muskegon, took carbolic acid and died in great agony. Counterfeit silver dollars are being circulated through Michigan. They are a trifle light, but otherwise are clever imitations. The dressmakers are the latest victinis of the traveling swindler in western Michigan. lie has a patent "dress plaiter" and in nearly every town he succeeded in selling the "exclusive right'' to each and every dressmaker. James Edward Dalliba died at Marquette, aged 73. He was a well-known attorney, railroad official and politician. M. B. Davis, of Detroit, is one of a syndicate which has purchased a California estáte for 15,000,000. A joint convention of the Baptist Sunday school workers and Young People's unión from southwestern Michigan was held in Kalamazoo. Mrs. B. F. Worden, of Sherwood, was looking tor egga in a straw stack and reached her hand in a nest. Soon after one of her flngers beffan to pain her, and she died the following nlght It was suppoaed that a snake bit her finger. Bartholomew Scanlan, ag'ed 65 years, was arrested at Flint, charged with a criminal assault upon Bessia Kosier, a child of 8 years. While Georfje Robinson was at work sawing wood upon the farm of James Oldfleld at Mount Morris bis arm came in contact with the buzz saw and was eut off. o Charles Monfoncon, a lad of 14 years, met a fearful death in the yards oí the Detroit Pressed Brick company at Detroit He was playing about the mathinery when he was caught in a revolvinp shaft. Johnny Hancock, of Muskegon, has (jone to che reform school. He didn't bellere in going to school or obliging his parents, and therefore did not hesi tate to take money from the mission box in St. Luke's clmrch.