Michigan Happenings

The Eirst M. E. ehóroh of Alma wffl bv icdiflce. .". ionzo Alger, aged 19, was drowned wLilc. bathing-at Plint Udward Buno, aged 14, wasJHrowned at Uladstone, while bathing. Chas. was drowned ín tha river at i[enominee while boating. Bay City wants to secure Rider & Hodges' iron works from Raeine, Wis. A'm. Barber, a farmer of LSummit, Jackson county, suieided by taking morpliine. o Mrs. Wüson DoujT-an, ayed 00 years. dropiied dead while engaged in prayer at Jonesville. Dennis JCane, proprietor of the Stargis Marble works, was killed by sunstroke at Kurr Üak. Turtle is a new imlustry about Eangor. They 10 cents per pouud at Chicago. Mrs. Mary Friedland, John and Victor Svvanson were injured in a runaway accident at Ma nistee. The 3-year-old child of William Couch came very near dying as the result of a massasauga's bite. Albert Monroe, a married man, dropped dead on the Street at Kalama7OO, while riding his bicycle. Michigan grand lodge. I. O. O. F., has chosen Lansing as the place for the next meeting, October 3. An oíd red mili built by the Paddocks over 50 years at Concord was burned by incendiaries. Loss $3,000. The Greek play, "Antigone," was successfully given by the sophomore I (ireek students at Olivet college. James Harrington, of Ishpeming, was insta ntly killed while helping to lower the Barnum mine smokestack. Dr. Samuel Bell has been appointed superintendent of the upper península insane asylum, which will open Sept. 1. Allie Hoppin, of Bang-or, says he saved his peach erop during the May frosts by building fires around his orchard. Abbie Moore securedajudgement for $4,500 against Kalamazoo for injuries received by stepping into a hole in the sidewalk. Chas. II. Springsteeu feil down a hatchway of the steamer City of Louisville at St. .loseph and died from the effects of the f ai). The new church of the Holy Cross, erected at Sagina w at a cost of ST5.000 by the Frenen Catholics, wasdedicated by Bishop luchter. Some unknown person scattered blue vitriol in various watering troughs for horses at Niles. The poison was discovered in time. Ed Downey, of Ovvosso, while atÍtempting- to board a freig-ht train at Mt. Pleasant, feil under the cars. His rig-ht foot was eut off. Hundreds of settlers have been attracted to Chippewa county as a result of her voters deciding to spend $100,000 in seeuring g-ood roads. Fire in the lumber yard of the J. E. Greüick company at Traverse City burned half a million feet of lamber and the doek. Loss 15,000. The well known black paeing1 horse, Ed Mack, was stolen from the stables at the Comstoek track, (rand Kapids. The animal is valued at S',000. Conrad Heinserling, near Carleton, lost his barn, four hortes, a large amount of hay and far:n machinery by sn incendiary fire. Loss S.'.Oüü. By the death of her grandmother , Mrs. Theodore Grinnell, of Port lluron, was left a fortune of gfiO.OOO. I Bhe has g'one to Maine to take I sion. John Claypool, sentenced from Detroit in 1S9.Í for tiveyears for burglary, was pardoned from Ja,ckson by (lov. Rich because he is dying of consumption. Win. Holmes, au underground worker in No. 3 shaft of the North Tamarack mine, at Calumet, was inBtantly killed by 800 feet down the shaft. The larg-est fire Three Eivers has had in years destroyed the two-story five-store block of Ihaac Xull. The loss is $12,500 on the and $11,000 on the con'tents. The East Shore Manufacturing plant at Manistee, which has been idle since ! 1892, has been sold to a syndioate, and i operations will begin as soon as proper maehinery can be put in. The Canadian patrol steamer Petrei captured the tug Grace Ruelle and I crew, of Detroit, and locUed the crew ■ up at Amherstburg on a charge of dumping garbage in Cauadian waters. ' State Game Warden Osborn reporta that May he and his deputies made 69 arresta, convioted 58 violators, collected fines and costs to the amount of 8682.60, and investig-ated 1M alleged violations. The State Medical society held its thirtieth annual meeting at liay City with 400 members in attendance. A reception was tendered the doctors at the residente of Hon. S. O. Fisher, at West Bay City. The state board of ag-riculture at its June deoided that eaeh student at Agricultural college must perform at least two and a half hours farm work each day. Many of the boys have shirked the manual labor heretofore, substituting laboratory ! and class work. 3 A dispatch frorn Chihuahua. Mexico, saya I'. E. Flowers and John T. Jieuton, tvvo wealthv young Americans from Michigan, left there on an overland trip to Hermosilla, across the Sierra Madre mountains. Mr. lieDton was kiJled by falhng over the side of a cliff. Detroit cigarmakersemployed in the open shops, to the number of :;.rj0 went out on strike. The object is to compel the employers to hire none but union labor in the manufacture of cig-ars. The strike affects all the larg-e cigar factories in the city vvith four exeeptions. The quartz recently found near Silver lake, north of Ishpeming-, assays 8"iO,000 to the ton. The specimens were taken out by a cook employed in the Dead Eiver Mili company s camp. After learning' the value of the quartz, the finder could not lócate the vein. Several parties are now out prospecttnff. The oonvíction of William Palmer convicted at Saginaw of killing hvbrother and sent to Jaekson for 2: years, was afflrmed by the snpreme court. , Dick Iïrotherson, of St. Jöseph, fel Irom a ladder, which stoo i on a scow into the eunal at BentoD Harbor vvhile' painting on the steanaer CUv of Louisville, and was drowne'i. _ After 75 men had been ekamiaed, a ]xiry was fiaally obtalned at Muskegon and the trial of Mrs. 1 lonrv i son on the charge of murueriug hei second husband. Aathan Doufflas has begun. Mrs. Harriett Evans, of Owosao, was put in jail at l.ansin for safe keeping. bhe was arrested after making severa ïneffeetual attempts to purcha.se po!:-on and confessed to the ofh'cers that sbe intended to commit suicide. A trame building adjoining Smith, Uaggett & Co.'s stave mili, at Ht. Louis, was burned, and only by the prompt work of the fire department was the mili saved. Three firemon were ïnjured by a falling roof. Bridgeport claims the oldest pensioner in the state in the person of Daniel Smith, born in 1?jo. Wheo over 50 he edisted and served in the Mexioan war, receiving the wounds for wlñeh tie now draws a pension. The famous Petoskey sea serpent now turns out to be a eëdar log whieh was partly butied in the sand. ïhis does not explain how a Detroit paper secured a very life-like picture of the monster "by an artist on the spot." A silver convention has been called for June 25 at Urand Kapids for the purpose of effecting an org-anization on the lines embodied in the American Bimetallic League. All silver clubs in the state are invited to send delegates. At dress parade at West Point military academy the standing in general merit of the Michig-an cadets was announced as follows: Two, Harry Burgess; three, J. A. Gurney; thirteen, N. K. Averill; eighteen, M. O. Bigelow thirty, M. F. Smith. During a thunder storm at Pa Pavv the house oí Sim Morton wa struck. The fluid passed throug-h bot , floors of the house and killed a do which was sleeping under a bed i which Mrs. Morton was lyin. sh was slightly sliocked. Mrs. ïïm. Emery, wife of a promi nent farmer near Curo, attempted su' cide by taking acid. A little son sa Mrs. Emery take the and when he was made to under-stand its effects he begged his mother to give him a dost ! so he might die with her. For over a year farmers about Allegan, have been losing horses cattle and sheep. Offieers have come to the conclusión that there is ai organized gang. Elmer Wells, a respected farmer, was apprehended near Paw Paw, and bound over. ötate halt Inspector HUI reports the following inspection of salt for May. Manistee county. 151,654 bbls; Mason i county, 71,030: Iiay county. 62,035; St. Clair county, 49,941; Sag-inaw county. 35,008; Iosco countv. 17.371; Midland county, 2,000. Total, 389,099. Commencement at Albion college will begin June 19. President L. R. Fiske will preach the baccalaureate sermón. There will be sermons by Rev. Ueorge Whituker, Detroit; Rev. E. 15. liancroft, Adrián, and Rev. J. P. McCarthy. Chancellor W. F. McDowell, of Denver university, will deliver the commencement day address. The officers elected by the Michigan W. C. T. U. in convention at Battle Creek were as follows: Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, of Portland, who had been ftlling the vacancy causea by the death of President Mrs. Mary Lathrop, was elected president: the" other oificers are: Mrs. Julia Parish. of Hay Ctty, i corresponding secretary; Mrs. Lizzie i Johnson, of J' lint, reeording secretary: ! Mrs. Jennie Voorheis, Ann Arbor, , treasurer. Harney Freeman and Will McGill, of Constantine, ajfed 15 years. were drowned in the mili pond wbilé bathing Friday nig-ht. William Lintz, while fishing, found theirclothes lying on the bauk of the bond, and went to the villag-e and gave the alarm. The oitizens made seareh and found the bodies in 30 feet of water. John Symons dove down and g-ot the bodies. They were exemplary young men and residents of Constantine, The salt-iifters of the State Lumber company, at Manistee, struck lor 81.35 per 10Ü barrels to $1.50. The demand was conueded and the men went back to work. A strike of the paukers for an advance of from 10 to 15 per cent followed, and the men are still out. Slt-workera at the Eureka Lumber company, at Manistee, have also struck, and it is expeeted that the strike will extend toall the salt plants in this región. Rev. Wm. McKnijjht, of Saginaw, is ag-ain on the warpath. It will be re; membered that he recently filed cerI tain charges against the mayor who sued Min for libel. This was dropped. The minister says thathe hasnot withdrawn the charges against the pólice department and still says that they are corrupt. One of the pólice conimissioners, he says, is a visitor at a disreputuble house and deputy sheriffs protect the houses. The Michigan Masonie Home will not be closed. Funds sufficient to pay the expenses of the institutioñ for at least three months have been received. The home will be maintained throug-h the year, and at the next j of the grand Lodge, another : eft'ort vvill be made to dónate the propsrty, worth $60,000. to the order at ! larg-e, on condition that its mainteninee be provided for. The home now has about 30 inmates, and aecommodations, ïf the funds were forthcoming, for doublé that number. The Michigan Histórica] and Pioneer 5ociety"s new offieers elected at the meeting at F,ansing are: President, Alplieus Felch, of Ann Arbor; secretary, George H. (reen, of Lansing: treasyrer, 15. K Davis. of Lansing; exïcutive committee. O. M. Harnes, of Lansing, Daniel Striker, of Hastings; Pheron F. Gidding-s, of Kalamazoo; historical committee, Michael Shoemaker, of Jaokson 11. H. Holt. of Muskeg-on, L, D. Watkins. of Man:hester, J. Wilkie Moore. of Detroit; j. J. Diekema. of Holland, and Cyruf 3. Luee, of Coldwater. Albert Monroe droppcd dead while iding a bicycle at Kalamaoo.