People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — STATE OF MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

NEWS NUGCETS FROM ALL PARTS OF WOLVERIN EDOM. Political, Religious, Legislative and Every Sort of Happenings t'p to Day of Goins to Press —Seven Daya’ History. Kalamazoo.—-The Ancient Order of United Workmen grand lodge of Michigan held Its nineteenth annual session In this city last week. Detroit was chosen as the place of meeting next year. The total number of benefits in force Is 22,652. During the year 1,859 certificates wore issued and 1,495 were canceled from death and annulment. The expense rate on each SIOO disbursed was $4.24. Menominee.—John Martin, a teamster, was found dead by the roadside. It Is " ''able that he fell off the top of the " ' and under the horses. ~~yinaw.—Mrs. Edgar, wife of a Flint St Marquette conductor, committed suicide by shooting herself through the head. She left a note to her father, G. J. Walker of Grand Rr-giids, saying that her husband was so jealous that life was miserable. The Michigan grand lodge, Ancle”! Order of United Workmen, elected officers as follows: Past grand master Workman, Louis H. Peek, Detroit: grand master workman, Theodore E. Bissell, West Bay City; grand foreman, Charles Colling, Alpena; grand overseer, J. M. Hartnett, Escanfiba; grand recorder, W. Warne Wilson, Detroit; grand receiver, 'John C. Ellsworth, Fowlerville: grand guide, James A. Lombard. Grand Rapids; grand watchman, William Cochran, St. Johns; grand medical examiner, Robert E. Jamieson, Detroit. J. F. C. Pollings of Detroit is reappointed deputy grand master workman. Menominee. —An Issue of 5 per cent twenty year city bonds t-o the amount of $47,500 was sold to N. W. Harris & Co., of Chicago at $2,700 premium. Harrison.—For more than a year Clare county has been flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. George Fitzgibbons, David Ireland and Frank Thorpe, living in a log hut twelve miles from here, have been arrested. They claimed to be loggers, but In the hut were found molds in which bogus dollars had been on«t. Union City.—Edward IT. Crosics, who was attacked by Policeman James Dav.is while walking with He latter’s | sister, shot Davis, probably f itslly. I The defense in the MPcnn.r murder trial at Coldwater began Introducing evidence. Miss Mabel Hall, of Chicago, addressed the Berrien County Sunday School Association at Buchanan. The G. A. R., of Kalamazoo, opened a fine art and industrial exposition. Battle Creek. —The seven t'-day adventists’ conference listened to a st”Mstical report by the secret a rv, showing the membership to he 42,773 and t'*e number of ministers 515. Tfiey are supnorted by tithes, the aroou”t. collected the last year being over S3OO 000. Signs of the Times, printed at Oakland, Cal., was made the general missionary paper. Detroit.—Mrs. Horace Rope and Wi’liam Brosseau, her accomplice, have been both held for the murd - of Dr. Pope, the husband of the former. Three young lads, Fred and Will F’dridge and Fred Connel, each about 17 years of age, were arrested at lonia on a charge of assault and battery. The complainant is a teacher named George H. Barr, of the Prairie Creek school in lonia Township, a; 1 ho capo into court with a pair of eyes that were worse than a total eclipse. He bad had trouble since bis appointment last fall. Last week be was threatened with being thrown through the window by Fred Eldridge, and the next morning the trouble came to a climax when I. teacher told the scholars that if he went through the window it would be is a corpse. “Dead it is, then,” was the reply of a pupil, and a free fig' t I followed. Sticks of wood, the stove j poker, and a chair played a prominent part. Barr got the worst of the deal and had the three boys arrested. It seems there has been trouble brewing for some time. It is alleged that one | of the trustees of the school has been : retting the boys on with promises of treats and seeing them through if Boy got into trouble. The State convention of the Prohibi-

tion party was held at Lansing last week. Myron H. Walker of Grand Rapids was nominated for Justice of the Supreme Court and Noah W. Cheever, of Ypsilanti, and Deleva n B. Reed, Fillsdale, for regents of the University. The principal object of the convention, however, was for a reorganization of t'e State committee. It was complained that Charles P. Russell, of Detroit, who has been chairman of the committee for the last eight years, was not sufficiently vigorous, and had not made prominent other rpforms sought by the party besides prohibition. It was claimed that if free silver and other planks of the platform had been made more prominent the necessity for the Populist party would not have existed, and it would never have been born. Michael J. Fanning, of Jackson, was chosen to succeed Mr. Russell, and an entire new committee was selected. Overtures from the Populists for a -pooling of issues were rejected by the radical wing, and all the reforms de•sanded by *he party will be made prominent from the platform and the party literature. John Martin, a teamster engaged in hauling cedar posts near Faithorn Junction, was found dead by the road side last week with his head cut in several places. His team and load were found near by and it Is probable that he fell off the load and und :■ the horses and sleigh. lie was 40 years old and unmarried. Gov. Rich, upon recommendation ol the pardon bearpi, issued a pardon for Harold O. Henderson, convicted of burglary and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. Henderson is a civil engineer, a graduate of Yale, and nas wealthy parents in California who have not heard of the son's disgrace. Henderson, while calling upon a married woman, was attacked by her husband and, In his attempt to escape, jumped through a window. He had in his possession the woman's watch and the hus--1 end had him arrested for burglary. 1 or fear of blasting the wife’s reputal'v 1, Henderson would not explain his pr- sence in the house and was r..nvicted. He has served two yeais 01 term.