Telegraphic Tickings

The profits of the State fair at Grana Rapids last inonth was only 1,000. Ilrfi. Frank Divis poisoned lierseli aud six children, near Schuyler, Neb., and only one, child recovered. The farinhouse of A. L. Gordon, neai Alma, Neb., burned, consnming three children who had been lef t alone. A heavy explosión of gas oecurred in No. 2 slope of the Parnsh Coal Co., at Plymouth, Pa., by which three men lost their lives. ïhere is a rumor that the United States has made overUires to th,e government of Denmark, with the object of acquiring Greenland. A g-eneral strike is on among the miuers employed in the four mines of Simpson and Watkins, north of Scranton Pa. About 1,400 men are out and the strike may assume more senous propovtioas. Peter Wells, aged 85, and Vienno Bailéy, aged 30, botti well-known auc wealthy pioners near Anderson, Ind.. have experienced love's sweet d rearo and were married. It is claimed that they were lovers GO years ago. About 25 millers of Michigan met Bi Kalamazoo and diseussed ïneans of increasing exports, holding freight ratet down, and grading wheat uniformly They petitioned the government te make rcciprocity treaties to iucreaot the foi-eign trade. A Panhandle passenger train jumpod the traek on a down-grade, near Piqua. O., plowing up nearly 600 feet of track. wrecking the engine and baggag-e ca: and badly injurintr Engineer Carroll, Fireman Baird and Baggagemau MeGowan. All will recover. As a result of President Iglesias, of Costa Rica, C. A., declaring himseli dictator bioody riots have occcurred at various points, particularly at Santo Domingo where five men were killec and 30 seriously injured. Among 1 killed was Señor Zamora, one of tai j richest men in Costa Rica. The Calumet Light Guards' armoyr. I owned by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Co., is the largest company armory in the state, but it is worn with age Therefore President Agassiz, of th( mina company, has promised that íi new armory shall be built next spring. It will be of sandstone and will cost about $15,000. Fresideut McKinley hasnamed ThosScadden for register of the land office at Marquette, the position whiflh exRep. John Jones was after. A. W. Smith has been appcinted postmaster at Adrían, Ira H. Butterfield at the Agricaltural college, Wm. A. Leet ai, Ithc'.ca, ïhaddeus B. Bailey at Manchester, and Fred A. Woodruff at St, Joseph. Capt. J. N. Curnow, a mining expert of Vulcan, has loeated one of the rieh est iroa ore ñnds made in the uppei peninsula, near Michig-amme, upon property owned by the S. M. Stephenson Mining Co. The captain says the claim is worth millions of dollars. The company expects to begin working the mine at once and will expend thousands of dollars. The famous case of Henry C. Smith vs. the Lake Shore Railroad Co., involving the validity of act No. 90, passed by the legislatura of '91, compelling railroads to issue a l,ÜU0-milc ticket good for any member of B famüy and not transferable, for , 830, has at last been decided y the 'state sui preme court. The act has been sustained, the court deciding tliat thu legislature had the power to enact sueli a law. Simeón and Seth Kent, farmers neav Mason, quarrelled over business matters and Simeón seized a shotgun and fired both barrels point blank at his I brother. One charee . eatered feeth'a eje uuü tne ocner struclt him in tiie side. Iíis injuries left no hopes for his recoVery. Botli men have families. The trouble, it is said, is all over Sim Kent's wife with whom he has not lived for a year. He lays all his trouble to his brother Seth and is jealous of him.