State News Notes

De Hoy Wat Sells De Goods, Scu." The sixth annua'l meeting oí the lichigan Knights of the Grip as leid at Grand Kapids, with a large at.eudance. The business houses vvere íandsoinely decorated with banners and bunting in honor of the visitors and bands were at the depots to greet j hem as they arrived. and committees veré there to escort thetn tothe hotels. Reports read at the business session howed that the knights now number ,549, a gain of 5:iJ during the year; the death beneíit fund receipts were H,öOO, and expenditnres. $4,000: general íund receipts, Sl,8'J0.83, and disbursements, .$1,615.87. A banquet in Lockerby liall was attendcd by nearly 1,000 persons. At the Second day's session the proposed change in the the assessment from $1 to $2 was pigeon-holed Resoutions were adopted favoring 5.00U mile interchangeable books. The parade turned out well and was applauded all along the line. The elt.'Ction of ofticers was spirited: President, Maj. R. VV. Jacklin, Detroit; vice-preside.nts, one from each congressional district, A. S. Degolia, Detroit; M. J. Moore, Jackson; L. 1). Dickinson, Hillsdale: Grant S. Hennett, Kulamazoo; Jerry Woltman, Grand tlaven; D. C. Slaght, Flint; Frank Mosher, Port Huron; George W. Shftw, Saginaw; J. H. Cummings, Muskegon; J. J. Evans, Hay City; Soott VVoodward, Traverse City; Otto H. Degenes, Marquette; secretary, G. F. Owens, Grand Rapids; treasurer, J. J. Frost, Lansing; directors, Saml. Simons, Kaginaw: -.J'. Hamill. Jackson;. F. M. Tyler, Grand Rapids, John R. Owen, Detroit. Better Protection for Game anü l'isli. About thirty sportsmen f rom various sections of the state attended the meeting at Lansing at which the organization of the Michigan State Fish and Game Protection League, was perfected. President Judge John J. Speed, of Detroit presided. As the result of the session, the bilis will be prepared and presented to the legislature prohibiting all spring shooting; making a uniform open season for deer in both penínsulas from Oct. 10 to Nov, 1; making the open season for grouse, quail and partridge from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1; prohibiting the killing of rabbits; save in the month of October, and prohibiting the use of ferrets in hunting rabbits; making violations of the game laws circuit court ottenses, prohibiting shooting from sail or steamboats or naphtha launches; providing a penalty for killing more than two deer a season by any one person and prohibiting the shipment of deer unaccompanied by the person vvho killed them; fixingthe open season for trout from May 15 to September 15; providing that bass shall be taken only by hook and line; requiring the meshes of nets to be large enough to permit the escape of under-sized fish; prohibiting spearing in inland waters; prohibiting the selling of brook trout or grayling; prohibiting the use of nets in St. Clair river and calling for the repeal of all local fish laws. Boy lïlew IÏW Hsacl Off; Fatlier a Mantee. llenrv CJillespie, a farmer residingat Tompkin's Center, went to Jackson with some friends to purchase a eofh'n for his 14-year-old son, Guy Gillespie, and became a raving maniac. His Bilifering was frightful, it requiring sereral strong men and two physieians to hold him. Grief over the shocking death of the son is the cause of Mr. Gillespie's inKüTiit.v. The voutli was DreparÜJCf to go out and borrowed an olei shotgun at a neighbor's. He lpaded the gun in the kitchen, bade lus mother an afEectionate grood-bye and went outs'de, whi'ri' ;ni instant later the g-un was dkcharged and blew the whole top of his heail ofE. Wieldcr of the Birch. The forty-fourth annual of the Michigan state Teachers' associatidn was held in Representative hall at Lansing-. l'resiilent (ïrawn's address dwelt upon the need of more strict compulsory education laws. and the need of the provisión of free text books, etc., by every school district in the state so that education may be free. He said 174,361 ehildren of ao-e, in Mic-bian alone, are (rrowing up in ignoranöe and these wfll some day be a menace to our fi'ee institutions. Jinlge Grant discussed the question '! Our Public Schools Prepare for Citizenship." Numeroua other addrcsses were made, one by Kep.-elect Donovan of Bay county. Want Mlchlgiiii toAnnel Maeklnac [slaaOCol. .1. tí. Rogeïs, of Orchard Lake Military aeademy. has a plan for the 't annexing oí Mackinao island to the state of Michigan, to be used as a militarv and naval camp for the state troops. The scheme is t obtain the transfer of the island from the l'nited States to the Btate. The oolonel speaks of a precedent in the transfer of Batoc Rouge, La., and lias little doubt as to the ultímate suecess of the plan. H lias been said iy Snrgeon-Oeneral Hammond of the nrin.v tiiat I is one of the healthiesi spot, in the country, and it would make an deal place for the state troops, arranged with fortiflcations. etc. , as it is. Several military o state are interest in the project II-s IIt;:lil Cul )!T bj An Klcvillor. Wüliam Morgan, a carpenter at the Morton heuse. Grand Rapids, was inbtantly killed in a new freight elerator. 11e was on the elevator and started it upward, put his head out and was caught by the Boor above and decapitateil. He leaves a wif.' and si ehildren.