Michigan News Items

b Petöskey farmers wHl establish a co-operative creamery to cost $4,000. The barn of Daniel Zeiger, three miles north of Three Oaks, burned with a loss of $2,000. Congressman Todd is harvesting the erop from about 1,008 acres of peppermint near Kalamazoo. Romeo decided by a big majority to issue 813,000 worth of bonds for an electric lighting outfit. Ernest Kanageiser, aged 24 of Jackson, was instantly killed while trying to steal a ride on a train. A traction engine owned by Pearl Price ran through a bridge near Mt. Morris and was wrecked. üeorge Humphrey, aged 11, was crushed to death while playing about a railroad turn-table at Oxford. About 5,000 people attended the reunión of soldiers and sailors of Michigan, Ohioand Indiana at Montgomery. The F. & P. M. railroad has purchased the Monroe & Toledo railroad, which giyes it an independent line into Toledo. Minnie Case, aged 20 caused the arrest of her mother, Mrs. Ezra Case, and Abner Smith, at Owosso, on the charge of adultery. The Michigan Forester, official organ of the Michigan I. O. F., has been sold by C. E. Patterson to C. F. B. Stowell, of Mayville. Fully 3,000 children participated in the Jackson county Sunday school Rally ay parade ia spite yf unfavorablü weather. Mrs Ben Hankins, aged 50, and very deaf, was struck by a O. R. & I. train at Pellston, and her head was severed from her body. The Calumet & Hecla mining company, wishing to keep covvs off the streets of Calumet gives free pasturage to every employé. Willie Bierwaltes, aged 15, was found han ging by the neck f rom a rope attached to a hook in the meat market of A. C. Latson on Genesee avenue, Saginaw, where he was employed. It is thought to have been an accident, although it may be a case of suicide. Heavy fighting hasoecurred betvveen the Kurds and Armenians on the frontier, near Tabreez. The commander of the cavalry of the Kurds was killed, according to the report, and hls son narrowlv escaped. The losses of the Kurds are variously estimated at from 300 to 600 killed and woundcd. Th Arinenians cluan lo have lost only 20. O. J. Hassevoort, Of Holland, hd domestic troubles and took morphine, but the doctors saved him. Then ho took paris green and died. Application has been made in the Berrii;n circuit court íor a receiver to close up the affairs of the Benton Harbor & Eastern Electric Railway Co. Threo Ilivers has voted to bond foi 850,000 for new county buildings in case the t. Joseph supervisors caá be induced to remove the county seat from Centerville. The house occupied by John Tolan at Saginaw was destroyed by fire. Mrs. ïolan was alone with her younft son and they had to crawl thi-ouffh a window to escape. Albert Graves' barns, near Ypsilanti, with the contenta, including three years' crops oí wheat, valuable livestock, farming implements, etc, weve totally destroyed by fire. The Soldiers' and Sailors' association of St. Clair, Macomb and Sanilac counties held a two-days' encampment nt Yale with 500 veterans and several thousand visitors in attendance. Leroy Larue, aged 18, was founJ dead in bed at Jackson. He was in good health at midnight when a wakened by a violent storm, and went about the house closiug the windows. The strike at Pingree & Smith's shoe factory in Detroit, has ended and the employés went to work again just two weeks after they walked out. The tevms oí settlement were not made known. It is reported that a little child, near Deep River, Arenac county, has been torn to pieees by a bear, in the berry patches in that vicinity, nothing being íound but a few shreds of its clothes. George Dewars, employed on John Manning's farm in Blumfield township, Saginaw county, was instantly killed by being caught in a steam hay press. Iüs head and neck were frightfully crusbed. Allison Avey, who eloped with Mrs. C. W. England f rom Westerville, O., and was caught at Howell, pleadetl guilty to a charge of adultery and was sentenced to serve 90 days in the county jail. Mrs. Charles E. Lockwood sulclded at Holly with carbolic acid. She had been in yery poor health for several years and had no hopes of ever becoming well. She leaves a husband and five small children. Rosa Goins, a young colorea womar. near Benton Harbor, was shot twice in the leg while out walking alone. ïhe would-be murderer fired seven shots at her froin behind a Uumpof bushes and then escaped in the darkness. Farmer Black, living on the Flint river near Saginaw, fired in the air to fiighten a potato thief. The fellow returned the compliment, hitting Black in the leg, and then carried away all the potatoes he wanted. The board of state auditors have allowed 83,000 to Mrs. Margaret Himes for the loss of her son, a member of the M. N. G. , who was killed by a falling tree while on duty during the miners' strike at Ishpeming two years ago. The mining companies about Hancock have not received their usual supply of coal ovving to the coal minéis' strike, and have been buying up all the hardwood in sight and are employing several hundred men to get it out and haul it. Minnie Frederick, aged 19, a pretty and accomplished girl of Nilea, made au attempt at suïcide by taking carbolic acid, because her parents refused to allow her to have gentlemen company. lier life was saved after several hours hard work. The State Teachers' associatlon will hold the annual meeting at Lansing, Dec. 28. The county school coinmissioners' section will meet Dec. 27. A new departure will be the substitution of a banquet and social sessiou or one of the evening lectures. Wayne county's Sunday school RaJJy day has iucreased continually in interested and in the size of the turn-out. This year's Rally day at Detroit, was a huge successand Belle Isle wascrowded almost to its limit by the children and their parents and f riends. Anna Teets, a 12-year-old girl of Mantón, was waylaid whUe in the woods after cows and horribly outraged, by a man vvho made his escape, while the girl was left in an unconseious condition. Judd Huff, a farmer, was arrested on suspicion. Jobn Snyder, aged 23, while bathing in Corey lake, near Jones, were drowned. An effort was made by Deibert Sickles to save him, but just as the drowning man was raised to the surface the boat capsized and Sickles also came near being drowned. The annual picnic of the farmer's clubs of Washtenaw, Livingston and Oakland counties, at Whitmore lake, was attendcd bv 20,000 people. The state legislature was censured for the failure to tax corporations, and the senate for opposing measures advocated by Gov. I'ingree. Commander Willis, of the Michigan naval brigade; F. W. VVheeler, the Bay City shipbuilder, and other Michigan men interested, made a trip to the Charlestown navy yard to arrange for brintf the U. S. cru ser Yantic to Detroit to be used as a training ship for the Michigan naval reserves. James Hay, an inmate of the asylum for insaue crimináis at Ionia, was found stiff in death hanging from a transom by a rope improvised from his bedding. He was last sent from Saginaw to Jackson in May for burglary, and was transferred to the asylum July 30. He has no known relatives. The destruction of the basket factory at Ludington, together with the warehonses containing several thousand baskets, has created po Httle anxiety among the fruit mei} who íear a basket famine. Nearly all other factories are short on baskets, under the belief that the erop of fruit -would, be kuiuü. Eight-year-old Joseph Eakwright, ol Bailey, was adjudged insane, and committed to the Traverse City asylum. He is probably the youngest patiënt evef sent to an asylum in Michigan. Coldwatcr adopted the plan of working lts city jail guests in the gravel pits or ureaking stone, each wearing a ball anJ chain. After a week of it the last Uobo slipped off the ball and chain and disappeared, and the tramp fraternity row give CoUlwater the go by. D. D. Robinson, of Niles, has just celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. He has been blaeksmithing ever since he v-as 17, and he can wield the hammer with as much vigor as any inan of 40. He says he will never retire as long as there is strength in his arm. A steamboat Queen of the Lakes will be running on Graud river from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven tlüs fall, if a plan of the Grand Rapids board of trade goes throug-h. The government has reached Laraont, clearing the channel of sandbars and other impediments, and navigation is open to that point. A printing press was found in a barn at Grand Kapids by the secret service officers upon which a choice line of counterfeit bilis had been printed. The counterfeiters are in custody at La Porte, Ind., but the head of the gang-, Martin Misner, is a Grand Rapids man and made his home the base of operations. James Welch, a disspated but usually good-natured farmer near Hudson, was arrested on a charge of slabbing his wife in the neek and face with a jackknife and of shooting at his step-son, Clyde Manning, who took his mother's part and who made complaint against VVelch. A quarrel over property led up to the stabbing. John Pyle, formerly a well-known carpenter and contractor of Kalamazoo, was found dead in his room at the Kalamazoo house. He is supposed to have committed suicide. He had been drinlñng. He has a wife and son and three daughters in Battle Creek and a son in Chicago, but has not lived witb his family for several years. The body of a man, terribly mangled, was found on the G. R. & I. tracks two miles south of Grand Rapids. It was later identified as that of Joseph Marvin. He and James Heath feil into the hands of a of trainps while stealing a ride on a f reight, and they were robbed and thrown from the train. Heath was only slightly injured. Supt A. G. Murray, of the state public school at Coldwater, has resigned, he says, to take a position with a manufacturing concern at Cortland, N. Y. It is understood, however, that too much interference with the manaffernent of the school by the board was the real cause of his resignation. He makes the fifth superintendent who has served a term of only two years. Railroad Commissioner Wesselius made the statement that Gov. Pingree will cali a special session of the lature to be held soon after the holidays to secure the passage of legislation in line" with the governor's views. Gov. Pingree says he hasn't said a word to anybody about calling an extra session of the legislature and wants to know "who is governor of this state, anyway." The steamer City of Alpen a of the Detroit & Cleveland line collided with and sank the sail yacht Hattie V, of Alpen'a, in Thunder bay. The boat vvas manned by John Weber, her owner, and John C. Comfort, cashier of the Alpena National bank. Both men were soon picked up by a boat from the City of Alpena, which had been lowered to their rescue ately. The yacht sank at once in 50 feet of water and will be a total loss. She was valued at $1,000. It is expected that work will be commenced witliin a month on the industrial co-operative scheme at the deserted old town of Lincoln, near Ludington, which was once the county seat of Mason county. The development company, which is composed of Chicago people, intends starting an industrial college, with a co-operative fruit and vegetable garden, a dairy and a cheese factory, poultry farm and canning and pickling factory. Later they will erect a hotel to be used a "sailor's snug harbor" in winter, and as a low priced resort for poor Chicago working woraen iu the summer. Things were twisted around and mixed up in great shape by a cycloue about Warren. It cut a swath five miles long, and many chimneys, windinills, hay stacks, sheds and roofs were blovvn to pieces. John Engel's new house was laid flat Every piece oí corn in the path is down and good for nothing but fodder. At Center Line, three miles south, the storm tore one of the chimneys írom the Catholic church and uprooted or smash ed every tree in John Speiler's large orchard. At Mrs. A. Peter's farm the barn doors were blown open and a doublebuggy was carried about 10 rods and wrecked. The Corporation of Brown university at Providence, R. I. , voted to request President Andrews to withdraw his resignation. The trustees came down f rom their "high horse" and declared that they made a mistake in their previous action censuring President Andrews for expressing his views on certain political questions. It is not likely that Prof. Andrews will withdraw his resignation. Mrs. John Drew, the veteran actress, died at Lorchmont, N. Y. She was one of the very iew of the stars remaining of the past generation - "the grandest galaxy that has ever illuminated the American dramatic firmament." She was contemporaneous and appeared upon the stage in leading parts with the eider Booth and Forrest, wlth Macready, Edwin Itooth and Florence, of those who have passed away, and with Jefferson and Couldock, who still survive. Mrs. Drew was born in Liondon, 3an. 10, 1820, and six years later made her sUge debut.