Michigan State News

MICHIGAN STATE NEWS.

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Monroe's board of supervisors refused to appropriate the necessary funds for a telephone, but the county officers were bound to hello! and so bought one themselves.

Tecumseh has a new cold storage house capable of holding upward of 6,000,000 eggs. Now let the Michigan hen get down to business. 

A Kansas City house has ordered 200 mills of the Buchanan wild-mill company. They will find business brisk in breezy Kansas. 

Michigan grand loge, F. & A. M., held their annual session at East Saginaw with a large attendance.

Professor Agassiz has visited the Calumet and Hecla copper mine and pronounced the great subterranean fire under control. That ought to settle the disputed question at once. 

The evil effects of rum is clearly shown in the sad story of a St. Louis citizen who, a few years since, was the possessor of a happy home and $10,000 worth of property, but is now penniless, his wife in an insane asylum and his children in the state public school at Coldwater. Budge isn't a good companion.

Minden City's fire destroyed one store, one newspaper office—The Post-Reporer—and a dwelling. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,250.

Begole, Fox & Co., of which ex-Governor Begole was the head, have closed out their lumber business at Flint. They ran their mill at that point for twenty years, paying on an average $500 per week to their employees, and cutting a total of 150,000,000 feet of lumber and 20,000,000 shingles. 

A Jonesville man is boarding for twenty days at the bastile, because he embezzled $23 seven years ago. Swift and terrible are the judgments of the law in cases pertaining to the "gentleman's art."

For the first eleven months of 1887 Michigan railroads managed to rub along on earnings of $73,988,307.66.

Kalamazoo is building an abode for tramps, heated by steam and fitted up with downy beds for their reception. Considerate Kalamazoo. 

John A. Bailey, of Marquette, well and widely known as an expert government engineer, is dead. He superintended the construction of the famous Minot Ledge lighthouse on the Atlantic coast, and the Standard Rock lighthouse on Lake Superior, both being skilled feats of engineering. 

Muskegon believes herself to be entitled to a new passenger depot. Just what the Chicago & West Michigan people think about the matter hasn't been stated. 

St. Igance's $5,000 fire engine is said to be valueless so far as extinguishing fires is concerned. It is pretty enough to look at though. 

The upper tens of Muskegon are agitating a $15,000 club house. The club is a popular weapon of amusement, nowadays. 

The poorhouse authorities of Wayne county are exploring for gas. That's doubtless the most economical method of inflating the inmates yet devised. 

Northern Michigan may not be as blizzardy as Dakota, but she occasionally reports a case of some person being frozen to death. John Devlin, an Antrim county citizen, is one of the latest victims. 

Corrunna is said to be the smallest city in the state, but it is a right lively town, nevertheless. 

The boarding house of the Schoolcraft gentleman of leisure, with no visible means of support, was searched the other day, resulting in the discovery of a nice line of jewelry and articles of wearing apparel, that rightfully belonged to other parties. Appearances are frequently deceiving.

The application for an injunction to restrain the clerk of Washtenaw county from issuing the call for a local option election, has been overruled by Judge Kinne, and the election will be held. 

Two men were killed and several others seriously injured by a broken rail on a logging railroad near Otsego Lake. 

A Grand Rapids blaze used up about $6,000 worth of felt boot stock in rather quicker time than the wearer would have "huffed" it out. 

For services rendered in the local option campaign in St. Joseph county, Rev. S. C. Strickland, a Constantine parson, was presented a handsome gold watch. Devotion to principle is ofttimes made doubly dear, it seems, by a suitable reward. 

While sinking a well at the Borden Paper company's mill, at Otsego, tis claimed that a good vein of hard coal was struck at a depth of sixty feet. 

Alvin Calhoun, aged 85, died at his home near Centreville. He was a prominent citizen of St. Joseph county and a captain in the Blackhawk war. 

A Livingston county youth has had a troublesome time in his matrimonial endeavors. First, the county clerk wouldn't believe him of age, and as his father couldn't tel exactly about the date, the mother was called upon as a last resort, but she happened to know it was O.K. Then a sister hied away the marriage license, and the lovesick swain was again in hot water, but he finally went before the justice of peace, made oath respecting the last license, and was finally "jined" to the girl of his choice. 'Tis to be hoped that his troubles are ended. 

Port Huron has a musical society, 170 strong, that holds weekly meetings. What a noise there must be.

A portion of the Indian delegation from Emmet county that went to Washington to camp on the trail of a government appropriation, are reported to be dead broke and unable to return home. Their opinion of the Great Father is just now registered below zero. 

The Lansing Agricultural society, which represents the pumpkin and fatted calf of central Michigan, will be equipped with a grand stand before their next blowout, capable of seating 5,000 people. 

The Wolverine man who assaulted a 16-year-old girl and then skipped, is wanted by his bondsmen just $2,000 worth. 

A Plainswell man recently drew a five-ton load of wood into that town that measured six cords. Good sleighing tells the story. 

Up to this date the Potter and Miller evangelists had secured 650 converts at Flint, at a total cost of $250. Less than 40 cents per head is cheap work. 

Southwestern Michigan spiritualists will congregate at Paw Paw on Feb. 11, but the weather will doubtless be too frigid for the attendance of celestial visitants.

Grand Rapids is to have a big factory for the manufacture of paper boxes. Although a somewhat frail creation, the paper box maintains a conspicuous position in modern business circles.

A St. Clair sailor applied to the county clerk the other day for his "clearance papers." As he was after a matrimonial permit 't would not be strange if he were about to set sail on a long and stormy voyage. 

A Kalamazoo man is reported to be in durance vile at Marshall, because of a disinclination to properly recognize some of his stray descendants. 

'Tis claimed by those who ought to know, that $40,000,000 of personal property escapes taxation each year in Detroit. 

The city of Niles failed to pay for the water she used, and now the supply has been cut off by the water works company. But her fourteen saloons continue right along as thought nothing had happened.

The man who caught a 35 pound trout in Tawasbay is said to be perfectly truthful. Owing to the rarity of this quality in the fellow who relates fish stories, it is deemed worth of special mention in the case referred to. 

Homer horses are said to be dying with a disease that closely resembles diphtheria. 

A Lenawee county pedagogue has been given the grand bounce because of a too great fondness for kissing the large girls. 

Clark Early, a Fitchburg citizen, realizes the truth of the old saying about the little leak. He bought a barrel of crackers in Jackson, and the hole in the barre just fitted one in his sleigh-box. When he reached home the barrel was empty. 

The Soo will embark in the toothpick industry, not withstanding that some of her people have already had their eye-teeth cut. 

A Mt. Clemens lady has discontinued her local paper, as she finds it tame and spiritless after having read The Police Gazette. There's nothing so discriminating a the educational, literary taste.

Nearly $250,000 barrels of kerosene were inspected in the state the past year by Inspector Platt and his twenty-four deputies, for which they received in fees from $600 to $1,200 each. The Standard Oil company continues to furnish the most of the illuminator, as well as annually increase the amount of its spare change. 

The Cadillac bakers fired 121,000 loaves of bread at their customers in '87. What won't they be able to do when the loaves and fishes are on top for a presidential campaign!

An Imlay City man moved to Nebraskam but his dog became homesick and has returned to the land of his birth, unaided and alone. Blizzardy Nebraska was too much for him. 

Mrs. Stella M. Barnes, of Jackson, has recently fallen heir to a portion of the Chas. T. Havens' estate, that is expected to net her about $200,000. 

Mahlon Covert, who died at Leslie the other day, had been a resident of Ingham county for fifty-one years. Both himself and wife assisted in the organization of the Leslie Baptist church forty-eight years ago, she being the only surviving member of the devoted band of 1840. 

Three Jonesville blacksmiths claim to have set 156 horse shoes in a single day. They are all, doubtless, industrious citizens, but that doesn't debar them from being good story tellers. 

A Three Rivers man who had vainly endeavored to get rid of an obnoxious tenant, is said to have resorted to the torch in order to boost the o.t. And now the law steps in to ask the reason for such warm action. 

Some eight or ten Kalamazoo county farmers are extensively engaged in the sheep fattening industry. Wm. Stewart leads the list with 1,050 head the total number reaching nearly 6,000. 

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TO FILL MOFFATT'S SEAT. 

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ISHPEMING, Mich., Jan. 27.—In the Republican congressional convention here Thursday Henry W. Seymour was nominated on the 116th ballot. The deadlock existing at the close of the convention Wednesday lasted during the forenoon session, where Col. S. T. Osborn threw a portion of his vote to B. J. Brown, of Menominee. Brown kept gaining steadily during the afternoon session until the 18th ballot, when he received 45 votes, one less than required to nominate. At this point the Hubbell and Adams men forced an adjournment to 7:30 p.m., and nominated Henry W. Seymour, of Sault Ste. Marie, soon after the assembling of the evening session. Hubbell made a desperate fight, but the sentiment of the convention was unalterably against him. 

Henry W. Seymour has been a resident of Sault Ste. Marie for years. He has served several years in the state legislature as senator and representative from his district.

MARQUETTE, Mich., Jan. 27.—The Democratic congressional convention for the Eleventh district of Michigan met here Thursday, and after a short and harmonious session, nominated Bartley Breen, of Menominee, for member of congress. Breen had already received the Labor nomination, and is, therefore, the candidate of both the Labor and Democratic parties.

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Those Ohio Fine Workers.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 1.—The trial of Robert Montgomery for tally-sheet forgery began at 1 p.m. Monday. Judge Thurman, for the state, presented the case to the jury. After a brief statement he read the indictment, and then launched into an extended history of the case from and including the state election of 1885, which the forgeries sought to change. Judge Converse, for the defense, began at 2:30 p.m. He created a sensation when he stated that he would prove that Prosecutor Hulling went to Chicago and offered ex-convict Granville $1,000 for his evidence. He occupied an hour and a half. 

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Had to Have a Certificate.

DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 1.—An Eagle River, Keweenaw county, dispatch says that a strange wedding was held there recently. Col. William B. Wright, an old settler and well-known hotel man, was married again to the wife he married forty-eight years ago. The reason for his doing so was because he is the recipient of a large pension from the United States government, and, being likely to die at any hour, and knowing how difficult it would be for his wife to draw his pension without a marriage certificate, had a new ceremony performed. The original certificate had been lost. 

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Population of the United States

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The tribune published a carefully prepared estime of the probable population of the United States at the present time, and puts it at 62,522,597 persons. This figure is arrived at by allowing the ratio of deaths and births which past experience has revealed, and adding the excess of births and the influx by immigration during each year to the population given by the census of 1880, which was 50,156,788.

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Racine Women Beaten.

MADISON, Wis., Feb. 1.—The supreme court has reversed the order of Judge Winslow of the circuit court, of Racine county, in case of Mrs. Brown against the election inspectors of Racine, and remands the causes for further proceedings. This ruling denies Olympia Brown the ballot for other than school officers and practically ends the celebrated contest by the women of Racine for suffrage.

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A Michigan Man Appointed.

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 1—Frederick B. Dodge, of Michigan, has been appointed superintendent of the ninth division, railway mail service, with headquarters at Cleveland, to succeed John M. Baker, who has been appointed assistant superintendent in the general service.