State News Notes

Mrs. Mary T. Latlirap De:ul. Mrs. Mary ï. Lathrap, wife of Dr. C. C. Lathrap, died at the family residence, at Jackson, of general neuralgia, aged f6 years and eight months. she had been ill uiauy months and suffered intensely. but her end was i pcaceful. Ma,ry Torrens Lathrap ras bom on a fanr twelve milos from Jackson. April 2", 1KÍ8. ;■ her childhood was speul amid the hardablt potneer lite. She was educated at Mnrwhere she lived during her girlhoort i Mary Torrens taught in the public-. ■ Detroit from 1802 until tKtí.i. when she u.. Dr. L&thrap. and they removed to Jttf Dr. Lathrap ucing a member of the .. ehurch. his wife uniled with that chuts... She feit that lite would be a failure unless she could preach the gospel. Her ability was soon recognized aud the quarterly conference of the Methodist chureh granted her a lteense to preaeh and she bec-ame prominent as a lecturer. She oïjanized tlie Ladies' Aid Society of the First It E. chureh in 1.SB8. and was always a leadinworker in the Woman's Foreign Missionary fety. For many years she was a conference secretary. In 1881 she was elected president of the state W. C T U..aposition Bhe has fllled since with remarkable success. Mrs. Lathrap has always feit deep interest in her own sex. and through her tnfluence was secured the establishment of the state industrial school for girls at Adrián. Through her teinperanoe and evangelistio work Mrs. Lathrap has becoine widely known. Thousands have been converted under her teachings, and her unwavering üdelity to all that was good aod noble has enaeared her to the hearts of man and woman all over our broad country Tbe memory of her gifts and graces will ever be dear to all. The T., A. A. & Ni H. to be Sold. In the U S. District eourt at Cleveland, the beginning of the end of the financial dilticulties of the T., A. A. & N. M. Railroad eompany was inaugurated. A motion for the sale of the road for the benefit of all the interested parties was made before Judge Kicks by Attorney Clarence Hrown, of Toledo. The making of this motion was acquiesced in by all the attorneys present represeuting the different interests. Jtondholdcrc representing about 90 per eent on the bonded indebtedness of $7,000,000 have agreed upon a plan of reorganization, and this move was in conformity with the plan of the bondholders' committee. The road will be bid in by the bondholders' coinmittee for the benefit of the holders' agreement. The reorganization plan also contemplates the issuance of $14.:j"0,000 of stock and bonds. The Ashleys are not represented in this deal. Liquor Causes a Youog Man'n Suicide. E. J. Twiss, aged-4. sonof Alderman John Twiss, of Port Huron, eomrnitted suicide at Anu Arbor by taking six grains of morphine. Young Twiss was a member of last year"s senior law class of the University. and while there becarne addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors. Since last June he has been living in Port Huron, but a few days ago went to Ann Arbor for a visit, stopping with his old landlady, Mrs. Hirsch. For several days he had been drinking hard, and it is thonght he took his life while recovering his head K2.-.,4)O(i Klre at Hay City. There was a 135,000 fire in the Baumgarten block at Liay City, lluvck & Uitchie, drugerists, were the hèaviest losers, lt is supposed to have originated in a furnace and spread throughout the basement before it was discovered. Scveral people had apartments in the secoud story and these escaped with barely tlieir clothing. Huyck & Kitchie's drug stock was a total loss; Kuumgarten Ürothers' stock of groceries was badly tlamag-ed by water. War Flags for Michigan Regiment. Arrangements are being made for a rally of old soldiers to be held at Lansing during the month of March. The occasion will be one of particular interest to survivors of the Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth regiments of Michigan infantry, as on the day to be selected the colors of these regiments, which were lost during the war, will be returned.