Review Of Trade

Dun's siiys: It is no longer aquestion whether business tmproves. Not ror u long time have report from all parts of the country been so unlformlv favorable. The daily average of bank clearlngu in Junéis 21.8 per cent larger than lut year. though 114 per cent less thau In löil. The most potent intluenee has been the recelpt of more favorable adviies resarding growing i-rops Labor troublCH are setting out of the way. wages in muny establishments are rlsmtf, and with the iron industry just now leading. tliere is general improvement in manufactures. The monetarv romlition also helps. The time urawi near when. with good crops exports will bringgold hlther. and thouïh foreigo operations in utooka and bonds have been Insfenitlcani this week the effect of prevloua transactiona has not been exhausted. The' diminished receipts of mono.v from the Interior indícate betï,;r business, espetually at the west. and the volume 01 commercial lo.ids steadlly rises and la uuw fair for this snason even in a good year. The federal jury at Duluth in the Sl,250,OOOdamigflsuitof Alfred Merritt vs. John I). Rockftfeller, the Standard du kinjf, returned a verdict of $940,000 ayains Rockefeller. Merritt alleged tliat Rockefeller and his ag-ents defiaiuled liiin to the extent of (f),L'50,000 u a Mesaba mine ileal. L!y the last will of Henry Phillips, Ir., secretary of tlie American Philosophifttl society, mx soliolar.ships in the IJniveralty of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, are established, each worth $L'0(). These are to be g-iven to the students nrho Will study tireek and Latin onefourtli oí the time they are in college. Renton TTarbor ministers have combined against the Sunday Mnrning News as ''a needless encroachment on the Lord'sday." They will publish no notices in the paper. The Grand River I. O. O. F. picnic association, comprising the eounties of Katon, Ionia'. Clinton, Ing-ham and Shiawassee will holdtheir ñfth annual picnic on the Keven islands at Grand Ledge, July 18. lCarl Lambrechfs residence at Bay City was partially destroyed by fire. The family was attending an entertainment and left a lighted lamp on the org-an, and it is thought the fire originated from that. The common oouncil of Jackson decided to cali a special election on July 8 to vote on the proposition to bond the city for 50,000 to provide additional fire protection for large manufactories in the suburbs. Louis Dawes, an injaate of the Soldiers' Home at Grand Ka-iids, was found dying in an alley in 'that city minus nis pension money which he had received that day. It is thought he was drugged and robbed. The tvvo-year-old child of William I Rumsey, at Owosso, was attacked by a game rooster, which fastened its spurs in his temple, knocked him down, tore his face and would probably have killed him had not help arrived. Fifteen Eastern capitallsts and lumber buyers at Menominee several days looking over the stock of the largest concerns. They represent that this is the best market to procure large quantiües of fine grades in lumber. A disastrous conflagration raged several hours in the lumber yard of Henry Stephens & Co., at St Helen. The loss will rcach $25,001). A üre engine sent 65 miles, from Bay City, worked all night. The town narrowly escaped. Ex-Superintendent VV. R. Bryan has begun suit for 80,000 daraages against the board of education of L'tica. Each rnemberis sued individually for$10,000 Kryan claims an illegal dismissal from service and defamation of character. The chamber suit manufacturera of the country met at Grand Rapids and recommended that the price of goods be placed up at not less than 10 per cent profit on the actual gross cost based upon a system adopted at the meeting. J. H. Johnson's elevator at Metamora, was destroyed by fire entailing a loss of 312,000. The entire town had a narrow escape. The insurance was !S3.500. M. X. Kelley had 900 bushels of wheat stored in the building. Mr. Johnson will rebuild. The Ohio Southern railroad haspractically decided to extend its line from Lima. O., to Adrián where it will connect vvith the Wabash and thus gain the shortest roufe by 20 miles between Cincinnati and Detroit. Senator lirice, of Ohio, is back ot the project. W. P. Kibbe, sentenced to ninety days in the county jail at Ilarbor Springs for petty larceny, and another prisoner, made their escape by sawing a hole through the door. A silver table knife was made iuto a saw. Kibbie was recaptured at Ayer. Kctween 4,00p anxl 5,000 people celebrated the opeping day of the new electric ligiit plant and glove and mitten factory. A wheelmen's tournament was held, with about 100 wheels in line. In the evening the electric light company gave a fine display, followed by a firemen's dance. Joseph Strobel, Charles W. Cannon and Eudebe Croze have been arrested d.arged with keeping saloons open at lioughton on Sunday. The Law and Order league has succeeded in elosing saloons Sundays in Calumet, Laurium, Ked Jacket, Lake Linden and South Linden, and has now begun operations at Houghton. The regents of the University made the lollowing appointments in the homeopathie college: Dr. Leseure, Detroit, surgvry; Dr. C. R. Long, Ionia, therapeuties; Dr. Copeland. Bay City, ophthlamology; Dr. Milner, (rand Rapids, materia medica. No action was taken on the removal of the college to Detroit. Mrs. C. Grove and Mrs. William Osborne attempted to cross the D. & M. tracks near Pewamo in front of the through freight. The eugine struck the rear end of the carriage, throwing the ladies down the embankment. Mrs. Grove died a few moments after the accident. Mrs. Osborne is in a very critical condition. A M. C. train struck a rig containing Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cousino, at acrossing near Monroe. The oecupants of the rig were thrown about 40 feet and the buggy was splintered. The norse escaped unhurt. Mrs. Cousino sustained probable fatal internal injuries, íind a triple fracture of her arm. Mr. Cousino was algo badly injured internally. and his recovery is doubtful. They are eaeh nearly 70 years oíd. When Will Davidson, clerk in the county treasurer's ónice at Bay City lighteel the gas in the vault, an explosión followed. One of the windows w:is blown out. Davidson was burned about the head and hands, and Deputy 1). Hawkins lost his hair and mustache, besides being burned on the face and hands. Register of Deeds Lew Andrews was burned on the hand. The papers in the vault were scorched. A leaking gas jet eaused the trouble. Fred Píate, a colored man from liattle Creek, made a balloon ascensión at MarcelluB. He hung on the bar u-hen the balloon rose, but after it had gone to a little hight the gas began to escape. He could not use the parachute, as the distanee was not great enough for it to spead bofore reaching the ground, so he dropped into a clump of trees. He caught hold of a limb, but it broke with his weight and he feil some distanee to the giound. He was terribly injured and died two hours later. Fire started in the stock barn of F. E. Tallmadge, the well-known horseman of Saginaw, and spread with great rapidity. There were 12 horses in the stal Is, of which eight were resL-ued. The four burned were the stal lion Panama, valued at $5,000, having a record of 2:21 V Pnneh, a trotting golding, worth $4:0: Standard, brood mare. $100, and a trotting gelding for which Mr. Tallmadge had refnsed S2."0 during the day. The barn and contents was insured for 81,000. The ñames eaught on barns adjoining, and spread until five others were consumed with a total loss of 52,000. Menominee paper ...ills are rushed.