MICHIGAN MATTERS. NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. Soldier and Companion Killed by a Bridge-Steamer Lost perior Allegan Man Elopes with Mother-in-Law-Fruit Boat Ashore, John Delater had his head cut off and John Manni was fatally injured by an accident on the Bridge street bridge in Grand Rapids. Both were meinbers of Company Second regiment, Michigan National Guard, and were returning from ritte practice at Berlin, riding 011 a Mugkegon interurban line combination baggage and passenger conch. The soldiers were sitting in the doorway of the baggage compartment, swinging their fect, when the car ran on to the bridge.
I- later's feet caught in the iron work of the bridge and the was suddenly jerked from the doorway and thrown beneath the wheels. of the car. lIe was decapitated. In falling he clutched at Mandi and partially dragged him from the car. Manni had one log broken and received other injuries that will be fatal.
Elopca with Mother-in-Law. Janies Allen, Allegan, was arrested as he stopped from a train at the Illinois Central depot in Chicago, charged. with eloping with his mother in-law. Dira. Mayme Johnson, the mother in-law in question, who accompanied him, took: a room at a nearby hotel and told the police that she would wait till Allen had obtained a divorce, when, she said, they will be married.
Mrs. Johnson is of about the same ago as her stepdaughter, whom he married after a brief courtship. When the couple left Allegan the wife swore out a warrant -for Allen, which caused his arrest. He says he will secure a divorce and marry Mrs. Johnson.
Allen was brought back to. Allegan by 'Sheriff Bensley. Boat Lost, Crew Saved, In a furious southwest gale, which Lake Superior, the steamer A. A. Parker, laden with iron ore, foundered four miles north of Grand Marais.
By heroic work the life saving crow. from. "the station at Grand Marais sared the entire crow of cighteen from the sinking ship, only to have their surf hoat imperiled, in the rising sea. For three hours excited citizens of Grand Marais watched the rescuers and seamen in life and death. struggle which ended only when tiro tugs saved the tossing surfbont and brought exhausted occupants safely into port.
Vein Jing Reen Reached. News was received that the vein at the Mariposa gold mine at Michipicoten had been struck at the 200-foot level and that quartz richer than anything on the surface has been taken out there. This, according, to mine experts, that will assures make the its com- owners wealthy. Sudicient paying quartz is now in sight to run a 50-stamp mill for many roars. Steamer Ashore at Holland.
The steamer Joe, bound from Saugatuck to Holland with cargo of fruit, broke down in the heavy sea and went ashore one and one half miles south of Holland. The life-saving crew rescued Captain Upham and the crew. The deck load of the steamer has washed off and the upper works broke up. Brief State Happenings. Greenville is going gunning to secure Howard City's table factory.
Charle3 F. Halsey has been appointed postmaster at Warren, vice G. W. Hoard, resigned. From all reports the potato crop in Sanilac County this year will be practically a complete failure.
Wisconsin capitalists hare purchased 3,000 acres of land i in Cheborgan County and will establish A cattle ranch. Belding business nien can sco. further ahead than the end their noses. They are improving the roads leading into the city from the farming. districts.
The calendar for the fall term of the Clinton Circuit Court contains the larg-! est number of criminal cases for many terms. There will be eight, seven of which are for violations of the liquor laws. William Hudson of Danby township is dead as the result of putting nails in his doing a job of shingling he followed the example of all carpenters and held the nails in his mouth. Shortly afterward his face began to swell, and within a he was dead. The nails had been finished in acid, and were poisonous, but the dealer from whom they were purchased forgot mention the fact until it was too late to sare Hudson's life.
Some land sharks in Chicago are reaping golden dollars by the sackful. The register of deeds of Newberry is receiving for record from all over the country deeds of lots and other property supposed to be situated at Deer Park, a longdeserted lumbering town on Lake Superior, thirty miles north of Newberry. All that remains of Deer Park is a life-saving station, a handful of fishermen and plenty of sea gulls. The soll is sandy and of no use for agricultural purposes. Fred Decker, farmer living near Shepardsville, was fined $20 at St.
Johns for selling milk. to the Shepardsville creamery from which the cream had been removed. The complaint was made under the statute applicable to such cases, and is the first case of its kind in that part of the State, although there have been many instances which escaped prosecution for lack of tangible evidence. In this case Cheesemaker Love, of Shepardsville, lay in ambush among the bushes near the farmer's house one mornIng and caught him in the act of removing the cream. The business of the register of deeds of Delta County has increaced so much the past few years that the Supervisors this fall consider the 'adrisn bility of separating this office from the county clerkship.
One man has heretofore held both positions. The cost of the inquest into the Grand Trunk' wreck. nt Durand was $366, and because of the foxiness of the Shiawassee County tomcials In holding 'it on one of the victims who was not a citizen of the United States, the State of: Michigan has to foot the bill instead of the county, as is usually the case. The fan strawberry crop in Michigan this year is larger than Rattlesnakes are very numerous in the vicinity of South Haven this- year. The Congregational Church Socicty of Johannesburg has recently laid the corver stone of a new church.
Union City is first with a football accident--Harry Stanton of the high school team has a broken shoulder. meet The in State the First I'resbyterian of synod 'Sault Ste. will Church Marie, beginning Oct. 13, 1903. St.
Ignace is hopeful of landing a big saw and planing mill and flooring plant which is looking around for a location. More farm machinery has been sold in Meromince County this summer than at previous time in the county's history. The plant of the Muskegon Crescent Manufacturing Company, destroyed by lightning, will not be rebuilt at that place. The peach crop in Oakland County this year is not large enough to provide the residents. with their usual supply for canning.
Jonathan Johnson, a prominent farmor near Union City, suffered the amputation of his right hand. Cause, blood poisoning. Munising men who have been prospecting lately say. that ducks are more plentiful around the small lakes in that vicinity than ever before known. Len WV.
Feighner, editor. of the Nashrille Very and postmaster at Nashville, is slowly recovering from an. operation for the relief of- appendicitis. The- Frederic Times is agitating for the election of a new railroad station in that village, and calls the present structure "a blot on the progress of the town." Myrtle. Bell of lanco*ck, overcome with shame because of her arrest for drunkenness, ripped the braid from her dress in her jail cell aud, using that as it rope, committed anicide by hanging.
Mrs. Lawrence Green of Salem township committed suicide by hanging. Despomlency over the suicide of her daughter, Drs. Slagel, who cut her throat two months ago, was the cause of the rash act. Midland boasts of one of the grentest bear trappers and hunters in the State.
Alvin Marsh, Al man now well along in years, has in his time killed 400 bears, most of thom in traps of his own malufacture. Farmers whose property is insured in the Ciinton County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. have been notified that toy must not smoke in their barns, on penalty of the cancellation of their insurance. A farmer at Cedar River witnessed a combat between one of his bully and huge bear. Bruin had entered the and a "battle royal" took place.
The farmer procured an ax and soon killthe bear. Smyrna claims to have the oldest postmaster in Michigan in point of continuous service: George was by President Grant in 1872, and has been handing out letters at the othce continuously ever since then. Since it got the railrond. Northport is fast putting on airs. It will hare electrie lights in short time, and at the seesion of will the ask Board that body to Supervisors allow it: next to become an incorporated rillage.
"It is hoped," says a correspondent in the Chesaning Argus, "that the county road commissioner will keep away from this locality this fall, as our roads are bad enough now." What a truthful commentary on the antiquated method. of "improving the roads" now employed. in Michigan. A big jail delivery was narrowly arerted at Flint by the timely discovery of all attempt on the part of half a dozen prisoners. among them MI.
M. Brown, sentenced to Jackson for ten years for breaking into freight car; Clarence Diamond, would-be train wrecker, and Melvin Bishop. horse thief, to dig their way the county jail. The prisoners had dug more than half way through the wall of the lower corridor when the plot was discovered and frustrated. that Ineasel did not in a cont plain, inore unpainted than $2.50, pine box the body of Prof.
Max Wright, instructor in modern languages in Leland Stanford University, and the son of wealthy par- The ents. was buried in Grand Rapids. simple burial WAS ordered by Prof. Wright. Ile believed that the present custom of lavish burials is barbarous aunt economically wrong and directed before donth that the $200 of Iris a inoncy funeral that or be dinarily would be spent for used for a public fountain as 4.
monument to his memory. Peter King. aged 23, an employe of the Traction Company, was electrocuted on Main street, Kalamazoo, in presence of a large crowd. He was attaching a feeder wire to insulate a cap on top of an iron pole, when he formed" a short circuit by grasping wire with his pincers and winding his leg aronnd the pole. Mire hundred and fifty volts were shot through his body.
King writhed convulsively and blue flames shot out from his body. The victim could not be taken from the polo until the curreat was shut off. King's home was in Iolland, where the body was taken. Fifty-five members of class A at the Cass school in Detroit have been on a strike and have sent a petition to the board of education asking the reinstatement of First Assistant Eugene C. Whitney, brother of Principal S.
E. Morey Whitney. The discharged assistant was found guilty by. the school girl board pupils com- and was mittee summarily discharged. One day the of familiarity with striking boys and girls formed a picket line about the school and forcibly compelled pupils to remain, away.
At night the pupils held meeting, which ended in riot, sixteen policemen and two sergeants being sent to the scene. Thomas S. Skinner, "a well-known. pioneer, met an accidental death near He his home in Fort Gratiot township. driving on the highway when from his horne buggy.
lie struck on his head and made a jump and threw him was killed instantly, The Iron County fair, which was to hare been held this month, has been postponed until the early part of November, when it will be held in connection with the annual meeting of the furmers' This was done on account of the backward season, which has to affected the growth of all crops up that way. HE 4 CITY 100 YEARS OLD. CHICAGO CELEBRATES A CENTURY'S GROWTH. Early Events in the City's History. and Its Progress During 100 Years Shown in the Festivities -Fiery Spectacle Opens Continuial, Chicago's centennial celebration was inaugurated Saturday night with a spectacle vividly.
recalling the great fire which destroyed the city in 1871. Linder the watchful eyes of firenion and police, 8,000 pounds of red fire was burned in the downtown district, brilliantly illuminating a large part of the city. Rain and lowering clouds heightening the somber settings of the scene of the mimic tragedy, and the flare. of flame, flashed up against the blackened sLy, an impressive. picture marking an epoch At in 8:15 Chicago's o'clock a life.
bomb was scut. 11p from the ('its Hall warning the firemen to prepare for the burning." The powder! was emptied 011 the street corneas, and one minute later another bomb gave the signal, which WAS followed by clouds of smoke and flame lifted skyward. For ten minutes the fires from twentyeight different points in State, Dearborn, Clark and LaSalle treets, botwern Randolph street and Jackson boulevard, beld the attention of the throng and gave a faint idea of the real spectacle of thirty-two years ago, which left the city in aches. While this illumination ivos the fenture tion, of an the event opening in the day of morning the celebrate without interest. It was the arrival of 200 representatives Gf nix tribes of American Indians.
Fantastically attired. in barbarie finery. the red men were vscorted to Lincoln Park, where they pitch- FIRST SETTLER'S CABIN. ed their touts for. the formation of 311 Indian village, which has been visited by thousands." During the afternoon 00,300 people visited the park and watched the descendants of the tribes which had inhabited this section during the early days, when Chicago was all infant.
From the entrance to their tepees the Indians ed wonderingly over the heads. of the curious throng toward the heart of. the great city which in 100 years had been thrice destroyed. yet had risen: 10 take its place among the great cities of the world. In the afternoon a party of Sac and Foxes left the park and was It WAS commercial in the and industrial business parade that the progress Chicago wag most strikingly told.
In a general way the procession of floats was after the fashion of the Mardi Gras festirals at New Orleans. It differed from that in that these were not allegories, but faithful representations of actual things, the past Indians. and present. With them First were of the all pioneer soldiery aud the early settlers. Log cabins like those of 1803 and later occupied places on the floats.
These made way for a representation of the bloody mas acre 1812, and this, in turn, was succeeded in line by a miniature reproduction of some of Chicago's early business houses. The famous political wigwam of 1841, the first postoffice, the original court FIRST COURTHOUSE, 1830. house and the Green Tree tavern had been chosen ns suitable incans of illustrating the pioneer city. Chicago during the rebellion was the patriotic theme of another float, and the vehicle had ns its escort the surviving members of the old Board of Trade Battery and other war veterans. Recollections of the great fire, too, were invoked.
"Chicago Rebuilt" was the picture closthe story of yesterday. ins, of To-day" unfolded itself with a representation of the World's lair, and this was followed by the erointion of industry--a series of floats, in which the city's commercial progress was portrayed. To give the parade a beautiful setting it -took place 'at night. Each float was equipped with a storage battery and was self illuminating. In addition to the electrie splendor.
calcium lights were used prodigally. The streets and avenues through which the pageant passed blaze of electric beauty. Flags and banners gave an opulence of color rarely even in the city.of famous street decorations. The automobile display was a feature. In the night parade 2.000 vehicles were in line.
Two days were deroted to races between electric and gasoline vehicles. were also introduced. Water sports, such as swimming and polo, were witnessed on an elaborate scale. A banquiet Mayors of American citing interested soine of the visitors. One hundred thousand dollars was expended and 300.000 visitors were in the 'The 'stock yards section of the city, had sometimes designated Packingtown.
day all its own, and 60.000 employes. took part in it. Cowboys from the West participated. There was lassoing, roping. throwing and binding of steers and other sports which have made the picturesque plainsmen unique among the craftsmen of the world.
As far as posxille. the unsightly features of the toir were eliminated, there being no desire to shock the senses of the spectators. There was a lavish display of flags and bunting, and music until the eye and ear wore surfeited. but there also were exhibits giving an educational CHICAGO IN 1830 FROM TIE LAKE. corted to the l'ublic Library building, where they aided in the dedication of 1 tablet commemorating the first and second Forts Dearborn, the former destroyed by their ancestors.
Inaugural of the Centennial. The centennial was formally inaugurated at 2 o'clock in the afternoon by the dedication the l'ublic Library building of the Fort Dearborn tablet. Charles A. Plamondon, chairman of the centennial executive, spoke the words opening. The dedicatory rites serred also for the remaining eight tablets.
The Fort Dearborn tablet will be permanent, the Klio Club announcing at the dedication that it would replace the temporary cast with one of bronze. The jnbilee lasted through Thursday night. Sunday was olle of religious observance, tho majority of Chicago churches recognizing the centennial by form of appropriate service. Monday was set aside for the historical side of the celebration. The Chicago Historical Society threw open its building at Dearborn avenue and Ontario street and in the evening gave A reception for which 2,000 invitations had been issued.
Games and dances also began at the Indian village, being. repeated each afternoon. The descendants of John Kinzie, Lieut. J. S.
Swearingen and Capt. John Whistler, held a reunion Tuesday afternoon. In the evening caine the centennial parade, which 118 the most impressive event of the jubilee. packers entertained the public on Wednosday and aquatic sports were begun in the afternoon at Lincoln Park. In the evening the Daughters of the American Revolution received at Memorial lIall.
Thursday was crowded with crents. The old rettlers held a reunion at Memorial Ilall in the afternoon, A banquet was given visiting Mayors at the Auditorium at 6 o'clock, "Golden Rule" Jones being among the speakers. At 8 m. Mayor Seth Low of New York p. spoke in the Auditorium Theater "Civic Life." CONDITION OF CROPS.
DAMAGE BY FROST HAS NOT BEEN SERIOUS. Government Report Says- Nearly All Corn Is fafe-Wet Weather in Northwest lampers Completion of the Spring Wheat Harvest. L. The weekly summary issued by the weather bureau says while the week has been abnormally cool, with general frosts throughout the central valleys and as far south as the northern portion of the central gulf States, the damage has not been serious, except in the extreme western portions of Kansas and Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and New England. The south Atlantic States have suffered from excessive moisture, while the heary rains of the previous week over the portions Missouri and northern, Mississippi valleys delaved thrashing of spring wheat and caused grain in shock to sprout.
Drought has been largely- reliered in the east Gulf States, but continues in the Ohio valley, Tennessee and in the coutral and western Gulf States. The Pacific coast States have experienced a very farorable wreck. Notwithstanding the occurrence. of light to heavy frosts generally throughout the belt, the corn crop has egcaped injury, except in the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska and In the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A large part the crop is now safe, but the bulk of the unmatured will re: quire from one to two weeks of farorable weather.
weather has been favorable for the completion of spring whent harvest on the north Pacific coast. In the Dakotas and Minnesota spring wheat in shock has been injured and thrashing deluyed by wet weather. Except in portions of the eastern districts of the cotton belt, where cotton picking has been interrunted by been rains, the weather conditions hare very favorable for gathering the crop, and this work has progressed rapidly. The prevalence of rust, shedding and boll worms is widespread, and the boll weeril in Texas continues destructive. The outlook for a crop is not promising.
Late tobacco has suffered from drought in Tennessee and Kentucky, and heavy rains in North Carolina, and frosts caused some injury in Kentucky. The bulk of the crop is now housed. The reports continue to. indicate extensive prevalence of blight and decay of potatoes. Plowing and seeding hare adranced satisfactorily except in the Ohio valley and Tennessee, where the soil has been too dry, and in the northern portion of the middle Atlantic States, where there has been too much rain.
Reports by States. Illinols-Light. to heavy frosts 17th and 1Sth, slightly damaging to vegetables; week closed warm and favorable: rainfall detiefent in south, well distributed in central and north and heavy ill places north, where grain in shock and stack was daulaged; corn practically unscathed buy frost; slight Injury ouly in lowlands; effects of frost beneficial, tending to hasten ripening; some corn cut; pasture excellent; some popies continue to drop; light crop est inferior tatoes rotting from excessive moisture; apquality. Indiana- -Warm Monday and Tuesday, general rain and cooler Wednesday and Thursday, clear and decidedly cold with frost in all sections Friday and Saturday; damage to corn and prospects for this crop greatly improved; cutting in progress, but much yet green; good crop of tomatoes promised, but ripening slowly; light crops of apples and potatoes; fall seediug progressing; conditions favorable. Ohio--Light frost general 18th and 10th, no material damage; drought continues south; much early corn cut in middle and south and some in north, but much late corn will require ten days to ripen; considerable wheat sown in north; seeding delayed by drought in south; tobacco fair; clover seed light to fair; potatoes decaying in northeast; pastures and gardens good in north, poor in south; apples continue dropping badly.
Excessive rains damaged beans and potatoes and retarded field work; early corn being. cut, but bulk of crop needs ten days good weather to fully mature; Dotato rot and blight general; buckwheat harvest slow; sugar Irrets fair; all grain in stack sprouting and damaged; quality of apples deteriorated. Wisconsin- Excessive. raln in western counties damaged grain in stack and shock and delayed threshing; frosts 17th and 18th damaged corn in exposed localities, but bulk of uninjured; some corn cut, but bulk of crop will require week or ten days to mature; potatoes rotting badly; tobacco practically all in shed, large crop of good quality; buckwheat harvested, good crop; apples light; cranberry picking under way, good crop. Missouri--Rainy weather first of week, with low temperature, retarded progress of late corn, but later weather conditious.
Ideal; 110 damage by frost; two-thirds of corn safe, and remainder will be safe in two to four weeks; cotton opening and picking begun, crop much below average; wheat sowing delayed by rains, but now progressing favorably; apple crop very light. Iowa--First half of week cold, wet and cloudy and last balf tine, ripening weather; reports ludicate the corn crop escaped serious damage by frost, even where temperature WAS lowest; corn harvesters at work in most advanced Gelds and belated portion of crop now maturing rapidly; potato and apple harvest in progress; fall plowlug well advanced; acreage more than usual, South Dakota--Cold and wet fore part of week causing injury to unthreshed grain; fair and warmer latter part, when threshing, haying and corn-cutting were resumed; frost ol1 the 10th killed foliage of most unmatured corn and damaged sowe flax and millet; reports indicate probably threefourths of corn soft or uninjured, but much of balance will likely be unsound. Nebraska -Cold week, with light frosts In extreme southeastern counties and heavy to killing in central and western; haying, threshing and sowing winter wheat progressing nicely; some wheat up well; corn in extreme southeastern counties uninjured by frost and damaged but slightly in a conState, but much damage In central and silerable a area in the eastern part of the western counties. corn and forage cutting continue; late corn damaged somewhat by frost in northwest, elsewhere It is maturing, but ripening is delayed by cool weather: plowing continues, ground in good condition, except in west, where too dry; wheat sowing general; pastures good; killIng frost in northwest destroyed gardens and damaged forage crops. Gov.
Bailey of Kansas has offered A reward of $100 each for the arrest and conviction of the parties who tried to wreck a Missouri Paci6c train at Nearman Aug. 22. Special Master Brock, in the suit of the Topeka Gas Company to restrain the city from enforcing its dollar gas ordinance, bus decided on all essential points 'In favor of the company. A report that the members of the crew of the battleship Kearsarge are on the verge of mutiny la officially denied. THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN ONE HUNDRED.
YEARS AGO. Women and children who had fed to Barracoa, Cuba, were daily harassed by brigands, who were under the direct command of Chereaux. The British consul, acting upon advice of his government, advertised that all vessels leaving New York for British territory should be prohibited from landing unless accompanied by a quarantine manifest on account of the prevalence of yellow ferer in that city. Robert Emmet was hanged in Dublin for high treason in conspiring the death of George III. and providing arms and money for the rebels.
FEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO. Under the existing tariff dour worth $5.50 a barrel in this country paid $3.15 duty in England, which, with the $1.25 freight, made it prohibitory at $0:00 per barrel and destroyed American trade. Ex-President Monroe "WAS gazetted, with a number of others, for the position: of postmaster at New York, which fact was considered a matter of disrespect, as he might have commanded almost any foreign post. According to a census report thero were only about 11,000 Jews in Great Britain and Ireland, from. to 000 in France, about 40,000 in Constantinople, and coly about 10,000 in Jerusalem.
FIFTY YEARS AGO. Andrew Norton, one of the most noted American theologians and religious writens, Gen. Pineda, at one time president of Nicaragua, died at Rivas. Over 1,200 people left New York City on the steamship Illinois and Star of the West for California, while thousands of other people flocked there from all over the country. Santa Anna ordered that every one in Mexico against, whom there WAS the slightest for suspicion be executed without warning, and another revolution threatened on account of these severe measures.
'The first telegraph line Tras established In California, from San Francisco to a point several miles inland. FORTY YEARS AGO. Secretary of Treasury Chase remored trade restrictions over certain States and districts where rebellion practically was Decision, Ohio, was which reached not to 8,000 order men short, as it was belicred number could be made up by volunteers. First news of actual operations of army around Chattanooga was received and severe fighting was reported. News was receired to the effect that Gen.
losecrans had been forced to fall back to Chattanooga. and that the loss in killed and for both sides on two previous days amounted to 30,000 men. The federal troops under Rosecrans had carried the campaign into Georgia and Gen. Burnsides was occupying northern Tennessee. THIRTY YEARS AGO, Was Black.
Friday in Wall street. and A great panic was started by failure of Jay Cooke Co. and two smaller Victoria C. Woodhull was re-elected president by Spiritualists in convention in Chicago. President Grant and Secretary of the Treasury Richardson met financiers in Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, to discuss panic, and it was suggested that entire treasury reserve be put at service of Wall street.
Three banks failed in New York and stocks went down from 2 to 16 per ent; every effort WA8 being. made to stop panic. Prof. Wise failed in alleged attempt to cross Atlantic in balloon. Heavy purchases of bonds by the government helped to calm the panic in Wall street; Chicago bankers arranged to protect each other.
News received in l'aris that Dr. Liringstone. the African explorer, was alive and well in the preceding July. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Morement for new bankruptcy law inaugurated in Washington, and opinions of all commercial bodies asked.
Premier Gladstone of England reached Copenhagen 011 yachting tour and dined with royal family; plans made to visit Czar. Marquis Tseng of China issued ultimatum to France regarding operations in Tonquin, learing to republic uo alternatire but to withdraw or fight. Premier William Smith of British Co lumbia at a banquet to Americans in Victoria predicted carly dissolution of the United. States. TEN YEARS AGO.
The centennial of the laying of the corner stone of the national capitol in Washington was celebrated. Rio Janeiro was' bombarded by Brazilian rebels and city was in state of panic. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in parliament of religions adrocated a universal church. Dunraven's cup challenger Valkyrie dropped anchor in New York harbor at'ter stormy voyage of thirty day's Atlantic. 15: L' insight into that marvelous system by which not an ounce of a steer -hair.
hide, hoof or horn-is allowed to go to waste. Short News Notes. Lightning split big smokestack. 265 feet high, at Armour's packing house: at Kansas City. It is reported that Grant G.
Gillett is preparing to leave. Mexico and go to New York City. Citizens of Knoxville, have secured 4111 injunction restraining a neighbor's dog from barking. Samuel L. Stevenson, recorder of deeds of Greensburg.
lost his life in the surf at Atlantic City, N. J. The salmon pack of the Pacitic coast this year will be very much below the average of the past fow years. Edgar A. Binsford committed suicide at Atlanta, Ga.
lIe was the son of James II. Binsford of Greenfield, Ind. W'eigel boat builders, of Roscoe, have tiled a petition in bank-. ruptcy, placing liabilities at $107,400 and assets at $89,700. The Hammond iron works of Warren were totally destroyed by fire, elltailing a loss of $75,000 and throwing 200 men out of employment.
Fred Bogart, a hostler of Freerille, N. 21 years old, is raving mad as the result of smoking forty: cigarettes a day for the past two years. Gov. Dockery of Missouri has decided to offer a reward of $500 for the apprehousion of D. J.
Kelley, legislative ngent of the baking powder trust. Gor. Dockery appointed John Kelly of St. Joseph to be judge of the Second district of Buchanan County, to succeed Judge Harry D. Rassett, recently deceased.
Rolla Ward, aged 10 years, was: run over by wagon loaded with agatite on which he had climbed for a ride in Wichita, and sustained injuries from which he died. Samuel P. Montgomery, a mining man of Joplin, has invented and patented a device that separates gold from gravel and dirt in placer without the aid of water. i A.
