Michigan Mention

Striking Minors Becoming D'gsatisfied. The strike of the miners of Ishpeming and Xegaunee is stül on. but the enthusiasra of the men is fast dwindling away. Instead of about 2.000 men partieipating inthedaily marches less than 500 now appear. The men are beginning to feel that their leaders are too head strong and there are said to be sorae who think they have been deceived by . the leaders as to the prospects of help f rom outside sources. Many families are said to be sufferiDg now. The strike is a loss in wages to the workingmen of the county of about $10,000 per day. Public sympathy is now not I with the strike movement. The mining companies have offered an advance of from 10 to 25 per cent over the old wages which. considering the price at which their ore was sold for this season's delivery, is fair and is so looked upon. Many miners are leaving, probably 700 havinrf gone. Kor a time men were not permitted by the union to leave town to seek emplovment elsewhere, but this has been changed. Symptoms of internal dissensions in the union are fast to the surface. Many who were promised support on condition that they appear daily in the marching column, and attend thaark meetings, are in want of relief. Coad and Wasley, the president and secretary, have quarreled on account of the flexible disposition of the latter, who was willing to concede a little. Many of the men say that the reign of terror for which some of the leaders have been responsible, could be shattered in a day by anyone from the ranks who would daré propose a return to the mines under the conditions oifered by the companies. Ciever Attempt of 13 Prlsoners to Escape One of the most wonderful attempts at escape from prison ever known in Michigan was that at the Wayne coun y jail at Detroit. Thirteen men had dug a tunnel five feet deep and 17 feet long, leadins from one of the cells in ward I, to the outer wall of the jail building, before being áiscovered. Several tons of earth had to be removed 'rom the tunnel and disposed of in the ward, to say nothing of a few stones that weigh between 200 and 300 pounds each. liesides digging this tunnel a seciion of floor fiagging, lüx'27 inches in si,:e, was removed in one of the cells, about a footof hard concrete was dug through, and a stone foundation, three feet in thickness, was pierced. In addition to this bricks had been out of the partition walls between the cells, in spaces large enough to permit the body of a man to pass. Ünly one laver of brick was left in each partition, and each prisoner. at a given signal, could have connected his cell with the adjoining one, so that every man would have had a clear way to the eell from which the tunnel was dug. The plot was discovered only M honrs before the time set for the escape. Eleven Sulviithm'.stH Arrestnd at Pontiac. There was great excitement in Pontiac when the marshal and pólice arl the entire corps of the salvation tirmy. il men and women, near their barracks on l'ike street and ed them in the Oakland coünty jail over Sun.lay. because they had dared venturo nearei than 50 feet to the line of Sayinaw street. the principal business street of the town. The church ) eople of the town held an inlignation meeting and protested strongïy against the action of the iuthoi-ities. The members of the salvation army held services in the jaii ï'hey say they will bring actiou for false imprisonment. rh'iiupgon Has a Mnrcier anti a Illg Fire. The Lumbering town of Thompson was greatly vrrought up by a drunken murder and the burning of several buildings. The town was full of lumbermen and Alex St. Mary and J. Lafelle imbibed very freely. Hot words led to blows and St. Mary drew a knife md gave Lavelle a wound that caused him to di op dead. St. Mary was at once taken to jail. The greatest excitement prevailed, and it was during this commotion that someone set fire to the town. which lias but little fire protection, and three buildings were soon in ashes. Klchlssn 1-lquor Dcal.T Meet at Detroit. The Michigan Liquor Dealders' Protective association. sent GOO. delégales to the third aunual convention, at Detroit, from its 50 councils. Mayor Pingree made a weleoining address. The treasurer's reportedshowed receipts of (25,608 and disbursements $34,971, .eaving a balace of S73S. Offlce.rs elected: 1 'resident, Chas. A. Kelley, of ■rainl Rpids; vice-president, Jotin F. I' ■lonoy, of Sault Ste. Marie: treasarer, James Wells, of Bay City. The onvention goes to Port JJuron next fear. Two Hoy Fatally Hurueil. Fire caught in a bed at John Anderlon's boarding house at Menominee, dnd his two boys. aged 5 and 7. were fetally burned. The father was hurt .vhile trying to rescue them, and the nother liad a leg broken by jumping 'rora a window with her babe. Martin Herb, a peddler, suicided by ïanging himself at Saginaw because ie had been swindled in a horse trade. Dave McEwen shot Chas. H. Bamsay vith a load of birdsjiot, at Ludington. It is said that last winter Kainsay went ,o McKwen's house while he was away md attempted to assault Mis. McEwen. The latter kept the informaion from her husband. bat he learned f it at last and the is the reult. Kamsey will recover. Samuel Soderberg-, the treasurer of Vluskegon county who was reported to lave skippod with his lady c-lerk, has eturned to Muskegon and states that ie had been on a vlsit to Chicago. He lenies that he was ever short in his iccounts and says that his lady clerk ïas been visiting in Traverse City.