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0 S0 o' ft 1 ri Ri as sr xn Ite cartr 4 bad the one to Special nteytteh in The Detroit ree Press Grand Rapids December On Wednes day William Ia wson young while 15 (W 21 0 4000 4 shutter and was 3 enough! 2 Weeks 3 3 A 8500 ire Lexington Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Lkxington December Tha large frame paint and carriage shop owned by Brown caught fire from a defective chimney at 10 this morning The building was com pletely ruined insured for $500 they canhere procure the fee simple to land as good as any in the world and which only needs labor and industry to be made to" yield bountifully We offer then the suggestion that citizens in different States and we should like to see Michigan take the lead in the matter who are familiar with the circnmstanees of the people organize associations for the purpose of procuring locations for colonies and that the formation of these in Ireland ba encouraged There are tens of thousands of acres oCgood land in Michigan which can be had on reason able terms and the area of the United States is great enough and broad enough to give homes to all who may come Work of this' kind if done thoroughly and systematically if not done in this manner it had better not be done at all would afford to all the peo ple of Ireland who are willing to avail tbem selves of it the opportunity to materially inv prove their present condition to place them? selves beyond all danger of want and to give their children and children tq the remotest generation a heritage in a free joua A SURPRISING DOG Some Bare Instances of Canine Intelli gence A gentleman residing on Third street in the ifth Ward has a pure brown Irish water spaniel with brown eyes and tong ears the true blooded race type that exhibits a surprising degree of intelli gence In the first place the animal exhibits a sensible knowledge of time and never fails to awaken her master at 6 'of clock in the morning urthermore the days in the week are apparently as well fixed to the! memory of as in those of any properly educated person On Sundays when the master puts on his coat and takes his 1 his walk and cannot be kept back if by chance he leaves'his cane the dog notices it' and goes back finds and returns with it and this whether it has been left purposely accidentally forgotten either in leaving the house or at places at which the gentleman calls At meal time or at such hours as he is expected upon being told to If the boss is coming? the intelligent animal goes out upon the street and takes observations Upon beholding her master she reports the fact by setting up a joyous barking She makes herself extremely useful also by bringing in firewood qhd volunteers for this doty whenever the sound of the ax is heard in the woodshed At command she is by no means lazy in carrying in the wherewithal to replenish the kitehen stove The favorite food of is sardines and she has been taught to fit at table and is exceedingly well mannered there never offering to eat from what is set before her on a plate until all the members of the family have left Then she will eat as daintily as you please the portion that has been assigned her In catching a bail however swiftly thrown no pro fessional base ball player can excel'' her A princi pal amusement of playing with a brightly colored rubber of the Kind that has a whistle attached to" it She 'will fondle it with great affection and manipulate ic with great ingenuity tor the purpose of hearing the whistle If from any cause the whistle will not sound "Neb Lumbering at Clare The lumber logging interest of this section is progressing well The various camps are well filled ana doing good work Some idea of the expense of logging may ba had from thefactthat in the thirty camps about heresomething like 1000 tons of imported hay50000 bushels of oats or an equivalent thereto is used every It costs $22 per ton for hay present which would make the ex The ihirtv camps named contain aSdare a sht worth going some distance Bobbery and Dastardly Attempt at Murder Special Itspruch to The Detroit ree Press Tecumseh December 13 A dastardly at tempt att murder was made in this village last evening Dr Hanse a well known dentist here wasgoing home about 9 :30 and his route led past new warehouse in front of which stood several freight cars on a side track While passing along on the side walk he was knocked down by two unknown An and his pockets rifled of about $30 About an hour afterwards he was found near the main track with his right hand on the rail the thumb and forefinger having been taken off by the night passenger train He was taken hokne unconscious This morning he recovered consciousness and states that two men un known to him came up behind him and struck II ft $2 70 I 1 Month 8 00 I 5 4 50 1 3 oool a er i General Items A Crites a prominent citizen of Little Traverse was arrested on the 10th inst charged with furnishing intoxicating liquor to Indians Saginaw News: Much rain has filled the swamps a little snow will make good sleigh ing The skid ways are full of logs men and teams are impatient for the hauling to com mence Petoskey City Record Who says that this country is not developing with lightning like rapidity! The school tax of this district alone amounts to more than the entire tax of the town last year Ionia National reeman and Hayes'mills at' Muir have shut down for the season: having finished sawing the stock of logs in their booms The warm weather for the past few weeks has been worth thousands of dollars to those mill men who had large stocks of logs in their booms late in the fall Lansing Republican: Rev Clark Rector of St Episcopal Church daring the past three years has accepted a call from the Episcopal Church at Lexington Sanilac Co jand will remove to his new charge next week Mr Clark and family have many friends in Lansing who wish them prosperity and happiness in their new home Christmas have received the Christmas do tion A3 Young Journal wtucb tag tensive table of contents character has three fctiryrtg embroidery etc AM The price 13 office After a season of howling the students retired 'A The Battle Creek Water Worts A mwinynfa committeeof Aidermen to confer with Mr rost of Philadelphia in ref erence to water works for Battle Creek took place at the Potter House riday evening The meeting' was private but it is learned that Mr rost and his agent propose to give Battle Creek water works with no expense if the public do not demand stock They ask the right of way through the city and propose to buy out Henry Willis who has already com menced a work of the kind They will if the right of way be immediately granted give bonds to have the work completed by June 1 next i THE GAS METER The gas meter is a distinct creaturtf: and species It cannot be acclimated it is as cun ning and false in England or rance as it is in the United States It inherits its instincts from long and takes to lying as pointers to pointing or a duck to the water An English gentleman flattering himself that his nationality is candid and truthful above its fellows imagined that after two'br three State Grange The State Grange closed its session at a late hour ridav night after having accomplished JfSuut ol "legislative work for the or urine session very little was dcSwMchwould'beof Tsdav evening! the at which speeches were prominent grangers and Barnes A Grover Brigs ana of Lansing After the dose of the public meeting the fifth degree was conferred session the 5 Committee on Transportation and Bailroads madea reciting some of the wrongs of the transpcrta tion svstem and recommending the after a don were unanimously passed by a rism Er the Michigan State Grange that the ay ot ref oroung the abuses in freight transportation ness of the whole country ts subject hav a commission appointed by 3tmoTi'nz shall beta ascertain the actual cost of moving Jles of freight from ntto various through lines of qilroad a cwj tk with tha authorities of the several States in terested to establish rates of freight on the basis of the actual cost of transport al ion: urther that the Executive ot the State Grange be and it is hereby instructed to prepareblank petitions praying Congress to en forward the same to tbesub raeTuirougnouttbe State for signa StateGrange reeommendsto all its member and to all the members of subor dinate granges throughout tne State to tnMe the support of the candidate for Congrsofo thr re spective parties conditioned on a pledge that it elected they wfll support such a and Rtsolred That this action by it is not actuated by railroad interests of the country bat by a convic tion that all corporations as well as lzen3 BhoiiM enbmit to the control of impartial laws students Making Horae of Themselves Edouard Remen vi and his troupe gave a con cert at UniversiCv'Hall riday evening before a large audience' At the close of the perform ance tbe students about fifty of them the horses from before the vehicle tn the party were to ride to their bcteL Then mounting Remenvi on their shoulders they carried him to the carriage where he was joined bv his associates Affixing a rape to the carriage pole the students dragged their load through the streets of Ann Arbor to the Greeorv House with hideous yells and bolster A Brakeman Maimed Specia 1 Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press ICalamazoo December IS Charles Tobias a brakeman on the Lake Shore Michigan Southern Railroad while coupling cars at Abronia to night was run over and lost a foot A Peculiar Chancery Case Thursday a peculiar case was decided in chancery in the Calhoun Circuit as follows: Some years ago a man named Culkins executed a mortgage in the sum of $1000 to Charles Cameron which instrument was duly received kt the office and entered on the en try book of mortgages but not spread on the records In the meantime the mortgagee Mr Cameron died when attention was called to the unrecorded document by the heirs of the Cameron estate and on the ground that the document in question was a forger toe mortgagor had an injunction served upon tbe heirs of the' Cameron estate SubsequentlyMr Culkins had another mortgage executed to another party for a like amount hence the suit which was decided in favor of the heirs of ttie Cameron estate The subsequent mort gagee not finding any liens on record supposed the property clear of all incumbrances Re sult original mortgage though not spread on the records is valid' Subsequent mortgagee loses $1000 and mortgagor loses his land Thorewas nearly three tons of the a as it was valued at about $5000 one half would bring a man liberal pay for four work 1 The Manner In Which Denny Driscoll Enn His Prisoner In Saturday evening Gspt Myler receive! adiswwz efrirg for the arrest of a man named cl son on suspicion that he had stolen a lo: of A silver watch and two waxch uards fro Sc: Stewart of Deerfield Jlich addinz that was on his way to this city by way of the Li: Shore A Michigan Southern Rtilroad Patrolman Dennis Driscoll was sent to the at Che foot of Third street to make the arrec when Johnson jumped from the tram spotted iris matt and permitted him to walk cu: Jefferson avenue As Johnson turned ut the nueTriSColl perrniUel him to go on unis i him closely however byway of Wc bridge street to Woodward avenue Kea avenue the spotted man turned to the ferry a za at which Driscoll "bein then but a short from the Central Police Station stopped nr gress and with but little trouble escorted hint to ne Station where' he was searched Tn ruse: clothes were found on the prisoner's back ano his pockets were found the missing wauh ard tv: watch guards People Saving Banks Dlscnssed A meeting was held Saturday at the hall tc Detroit Typographical Union at which se tbe societies were represented Tiw object of the meeting was to discuss the suoyc: people's banks as a means of accumulating it: loaning money to workingmen The benefits resulting from the establishmez: penny savings tanks and other popular ings institutions were fully plated the The chief benefit ar a from popular savings banks as apphed working classes was said to be that them to become manufacturers and xi well as consumers and it is looked 1" as the dawn of that day which s3tisf effectively shall solve the labor and Iem After a very general and harmonies a committee was appointed to coliec: information possible on the subject it at 'another meeting to be held at th next Saturday evening by influence and example be taught to speak the truth Several years ago therefore he procured one "and devoted himself to incul cating into his youthful mind the policy of speaking the truth hoping by slow degrees to raise it to a higher moral plane He argued to it that at present mankind hated the gas meter and all its works that the whole race of gas meters were proscribed and hunted as enemies of the human race and that there could be no love between them so long as the gas meter continued to be utterly untrustworthy that man would gladly Truths a pet and companion ofjft as he had done of the dog but that so treacherous an animal could not be kindly treated nor per mitted to share tbe confidence of theifamily He took special pains to make it fed that be was a good friend to it and pitied rather than hated its infirmities He used to visit it every day to see how it was getting along and if it was conscientiously trying to live a life of virtue and veracity Sometimes he took his children with him and in the hopes of mak ing it feel the power and the beauty 'of inno cence and simplicity of heart allowed them to fondle and play with it He thought that this might tame its native wildness and make it ashamed of its knavery At length after several years of patience and devotion born only of enthusiasm he be came convinced of success and felt that if he could only secure the propagation of this ana improved breed of gasmeter he would be reckoned among the benefactors of the age He sat down and wrote out a long description of his process for the London Timpg He sent an account of it to Darwin and to Huxley also They both re plied with exclamations of surprise and won der Prof Huxley being of a more skeptical temperament was utterly incred ulous The gas meter he said was the one notorious ex 'tamp near Ashland and chopping a tree ception to we general taw ot moaiucauoii ana development of species It hat never fjeeii known to change its morals which were the same yesterday to day and forever' A gas meter at the poles would lie agas meter would not tell the truth at the equator: a gas meter was a dishonest and treacherous brute on every parallel of latitude intervening But Mr Dar win was in his form of expression at least more charitable He said he never entirely abandoned hope of gas meter although it had been of the most stubborn facts he had encounter in his investigations of his great doctrine of the domestication of species or an inborn and steady habit of lying he sup posed it had not its equal in the world al though an American friend had given him some data in regard to the species known to science as Louisiana wjjich if true placed in jeopardy the gas claim to absolute superiority He had not yet ex amined this new American phenomenon but had requested specimens to be forwarded to him for examination However if the Eng lishmans claim to having converted the gas meter had any foundation in fact hh would undoubtedly be awarded high rank in the British Scientific Association He congratu lated him He was at once honest and modest enough to say that such a success far eclipsed his own little triumphs The English gentleman naturally felt! quite elated and began to dream gorgeous dreams of fame Before sending his article to the newspaper however it suddenly occurred to him that it would be better to give his new discovery one final and supreme test Up to this point the cunning little beast had never been left to its own responsibility Is had been under his constant supervision its virtue was of that kind which the poet Milton little of After much de bate with himself and dread of risking his cherished dreams by so hazardous an expert meat he courageously closed his house and took his family a three journey on the continent He returned and in much excite ment as might easily be conjectured entered his house He went on tip toe to the base ment threw open the looked One glance The fraudulent and meter had been diligently making up for lest time by registering in the three months the whole amount of the excess which it Had kept back during all the years he had been watch ing and educating it by his utter' failure he turned away feeling consoled only by the thought that his rash boastfulness did not get into print The gas meter it is well known loves' to hide itself in the darkest and most obscure nooks of the house It burrows under the front steps or seeks the gloomiest corner of the cellar or nestles out of sight on a shelf in the most inconvenient and inaccessible holes under the stairs or in some odd and unvisited closet? When these retreats are impossible it builds by excretion or other process a wooden shell into which it withdraws itself and carries on its nefarious labor or the gas meter loves i darkness rather than light and is most active in its career of vice between the going down and uprising of the sun An American gen tleman studying these peculiarities resolved to try an experiment with one One day he boldly seuedit cut its gullet through whieh Coldwater Charles Hurley has been convicted in the Branch County Circuit Court of assault with intent to commit rape Tbe offense was com mitted last spring a colored girl named raze being assaulted The prisoner will be sen tenced Tuesday There are but forty eight inmates the Branch County Poor House five of them are insano 'and three idiotic Only" two tramps have been kept over night at the poor house since October which shows a great falling off tom is reached at a depth of sixteen hardly room for a man to stand Them mixed some with clay and the apex ed cone (tbe shape of the hole is a below the surface of the water a distance from it Nevertheless visited yestertlar there was no waer and the sand seemed so closely pa vent the entrance of any mT ve izitd tag illustration of the tremendo vi fir ploded nitro glycerine is that nezHr the island Mr Duff on coming oa ri air after the shock had been expert felt saud fall on his clothes vther from ox Island report the same seems to be no reason to doubt that he 4 can from the island ortunately so far as coolib ascertained Saturday no one was injigei bvtb explosion and the damage to dweihres tj have been confined to broken pane of s'as a folieo chimneys and pictures and the eapzaiL a stove less steady than others It is now believed by some who have invest that a large amount of the nitro g'rce taken from the building and tbe remainder xp! by some one at present unknown wno thus effectually covered his tracks One reas vanced in support of this theory is that for 4 nights previous to riday a light was seea 3 Island in the vicuifty of the magazine and is that those best acquainted wi are confident that bad the whole amoinz iz'a building been exploded the island would have stripped of every tree and far greater damaj from abroad who visit us for purpose of inspecting our municipal institutions and be coming informed to the extent and charac ter of our population business facilities and local The description does not apply to any qf the guests whose coming was at the bottom of the junketing bills These were very estimable gentlemen no doubt and may have been distinguished officials and citi zens But they did not here to ex amine pur institutions or learn about the character or extent of our population The latter they could learn from the Police Court reports and the census without a jour ney and if they had wanted to know about the former for any practical business pur pose they would have sent a small committee to look the matter upand report What they really came for was to have a time which means on such occasions a considerable consumption of spirits and or perhaps to play base ball after the manner of boyish city fathers when they go away from home They felt perhaps that they were representing their respective cities officially and they may have learned some interesting facts about the management of fire depart ments police and houses of correction But the main purpose was as already stated good and the city fathers of Detroit showed that they so understood it by giving them one though they were mistaken in sup posing they could do it at public expense The ree Press feels at liberty to speak thus freely in respect to the junketing bills having paid its share of them not because they were properly incurred but to aid in sav ing the city from harsh criticism The whole Imsiness is wrong in theory and in' practice If any one municipality in the country wants to find out anything about the institutions of another the proper method is to send one or more agents to get the information in a busi ness like way just as the managers of a manu facturing or other corporation would do The ideatliat city officials or city councils are elected to represent the citizens in interchang ing or base ball matches with the of ficials of other cities is thoroughly antiquated and ought to be abandoned at once and for ever We trust that if there ever is any change in the law regulating the disbursement of public money in Detroit for purposes of celebration or entertainment the change will be so made" as effectually to prevent any ex penditure in accordance with this antiquated theory of municipal business Concerning the regret of the committee that persons who have low salaries and who prac tically serve the city for nothing should alone expenses of proceedings taken in the in terest of and for the the entire pub there are just two suggestions to be made The first is that there is no law which compels any body to serve the city for a low salary or practically for nothing And the second is that the public never asked for never had any interest in and never received any benefit from' tbe so pathetically re ferred to RELIE OR IRELAND The sore distress of Ireland touches the heart and has prompted active measures for relief We have no doubt that with the feeling which has been aroused the aid which the United States will extend to the sufferers on the Green Isle will be only limited by the necessi ties of the case With our land teeming with plenty we could hardly permit the people of any country or clime wh were in pressing need and whose condition was made known to us to go without succor much less can we do so when the country is one which has given us her fairest sons and daughters which has furnished much of the leaven "'that 'has made the United States great and prosperous There areto day in the United States more people of Irish birth and descent than there are in Ireland The absolute number of per sons of Irish birth in the United States ex ceeds two millions and it is safe to say that nearly three times that number are of Irish descent in no very remote degree while the entire population of Ireland is less than five and bne half millions To a large portion of our population the woes of Ireland appeal therefore with peculiar force while there are none in whom the instincts of a common hu manity are planted who can listen to their re cital unmoved When the gaunt destroyer Want threatens a land the first thing to be done is to beat him back By food supplies or the money with which to purchase them his advances with the terrible ravages they occasion can be checked It is then very properly regarded as the first work of the hour to render as sistance of this nature But this at best will only afford temporary relief The dreadful enemy will still menace the homes of tens of thousands and at the first future opportunity no matter by what means afforded will seize and overpower his victims It is of import ance but little less vital than the present relief of the famished ones that present measures be taken for the emancipation of the people or Ireland from the inexorable hand of privation which is never out of sight and which con stantly threatens untold destruction by its re lentless grasp What measure of permanent improvement would be afforded by the amelioration of the political condition of the people is a question well worthy of consideration and has deep in terest to Irish and other citizens of tbe United States but the application of this possible partial solution of the Irish problem is one which the people of the United States much as they may desire it cannot effect But there lies at tho hands of the people of the United States in conjunction with those of Ire land a much more efficient remedy one which is certain of application and sure in its results It is a remedy too which from its very nature will conduce most rapidly to the curing of political ills and which will in time by its own operation extort beneficent legislation in be half of Ireland It is needless to say that we refer to (immi gration Ireland contains a population de pendent upon agriculture much larger than the soil is sufficient except in favor able crop years and then the margin is very small The situation would be better if all the owners of the soil lived upon their land and used the profits which accrue to them in rents in expenditures among tha people But a large portion of them live in England and this constitutes a constant drain of Ireland's resources without any return whatever There is no doubt the masses of the people of Ireland would be infinitely better off in a Country where the ownership of the soil would be where they could have sufficient land to cultivate without possible risk of not raising enough for their own where 'the entire fruits of their labors would be theirs' to en joy With proper measures on the part of their fellow countrymen and others interested in tha United States they can here have all vantages or an expenditure Nctts ccrresBOndencft of rAz lAr Invited Ail fr isiness news letters cr telc'jrapliic dispatches must be addressed to The Detboit bei Parse Letters and packages should be properly sealed ar full postag paid to insure their delivery Rejected communications will net be umess so requested and postage stamps be fur nfshecL names are invariably required not necessarily for publication but as a gnaranter of good faith Anonymous communication: will lie rejected i The Cincinnati Gazette is evidently inclined to murderous views It gravely affirms that are already too people in the There has been of late an infinite deal of speculation in the press as to a phenomenon known to the itinerant showman and bis vic tims as the The explana tions of the alleged mystery are very learned and interesting especially the latest which describes the brain of the chicken as duplicate and the front half thereof as removable with out the destruction of vitality or the doing of any serious injury to tho fowl beyond the ruin of the perceptive faculties This is a very en tertaining theory andweir worth the study of experimenters who are prepared to dine off their failures but it "may be as well to under stand that the of commerce is ubt made on any such theory He is a fraud pure and simple and his headless appearance is produced by clipping his comb and bill and the of his neck £ha temperance advocates in South Carolina are getting in their work "quietly but very skillfully They have just secured the intro duction of a bill into the State Legislature which prohibits the sale of any medicine the ingredients of which are not brought to the at tention of the purchaser either by label or otherwise On its face the measure is intended 7 to reach the quack nostrums and patent med icines but when it is considered that the enormous consumption of intoxicating drinks and especially of the beverages known as is mainly medicinal the true pose of the proposed measure will be easily di vined Should it become a law the vender of ardent spirits appealed to by an ailing South Carolinian for a glass of will be compelled at the risk of fine and imprison ment to declare what the medicine is com posed of And as not more than one vender in a in South Carolina has the slight est idea what his decoctions are made ofninety nine per cent will quit the business in disgust THE LAST THE JUNKETING BILLS The junketing bills have been paid as The ree Press said they would be upon proper application to the public for contributions It isa pity that in collecting money and pay ing the bills the committee of the Council could not have acquired a better notion than seem to have of the principle involved The scolding which they visit upon those who Criticised and condemned the payment of this nnlawftil claim out of the city treasury is not only in bad taste' if they regret as they pro fess the of the affair but shows a gross misapprehension of some 'distinctionswhich ought to be clearly apprehended by gentlemen holding important public offices Thotpbjection made in this case was not to 1 paying bills because they were bills which no minicinality ought under any circumstances to contrast but this particular municipality of Detroit had no legal right or power to contract or pay them No other ob jection was necessary because this covered tho whole ground The broad objection might have been made however and is worth making now when the committee urge that should have the power to incur and pay such expenses i A To the payment of tho proper cost of receiv ing and appropriately entertaining thePresx deut of the United States or any other distin guished guest of tho city there is no serious objection though the exercise of that par ticular kind of hospitality is not one of the purposes for which municipal corporations are created Tne traditions are in its favor how ever and a majority of our public spirited citizens we have no doubt concur with the committee in recommending an annual appropriation for such purposes But when ll ifc comes to extending the principle so as to ui elude payment for junketing excursions which can only properly classed as municipal or for an interchange of the puerih ties known as base ball matches no' self re specti ng taxpayer or citizen will assent to any appropriation The accounts first objected to as illegal were of this character and might very appropriately have been objected to on that ground even if there had been a fund from which they could have been paid with out violation of law The facts cannot be dis rruised by any lumping of the accounts under the general head of expenses of the Presi i flential reception Though the items of the accounts now finally settled have en carefully kept from the the verv concealment has apprised the public of their true character and any attempt to secure legislation which will authorize the mu nicipal government to incur and pay such bills will be met with serious determined and sue It is mere twaddle to talk as the committee docs about officials and citizens no further recollection of what happened jis symptoms are favorable this afternoon A citizens meeting was held this afternoonhich was largely attended and a reward of $500 was pledged for tbe arrest of the would be MjsawKirw dead ar alivaf Died from the Effects of Accidental XmpaTe will carry the ball to termZTZ plain manner ask him to cure tbe def'Jj a The wareoaly afewof the this animal betraying a degree of uncommon She does a great is the wonder and admiration of ad th neighborhood Indeed they quit regarding and regard her a capable of performing any trick whirr shown THE OX I3LAHDSpLQSlny The Extraordinary AVorkofNitro Early on Sauirday Thomas Dunbar Duff of Anderdcm visited ox Island careful examination of what was ft explosion of riday bight No trace tho bmlding containing the explore xn structure sixteen feet wide by twen long and although a minute search any bits of tin in which the glycerin iie not a particle was found The island cribed as presenting a most extraordinarr ance The structure containing the nitro was on the west side of th from that part to the east side the grx rather abruptly till it meets th rirep wason this rise that the tremendous for 3 to spend itself with greatest effect quenee the ground is torn andrent into tss miniature valleys and quantities 41:1 other material were removed Ixw ty 3i the island escapedirt Mr Duff says that si 1 difficult to cover with hand a space that it had not been disturbed Lar uprooted others had their limbs torn aa7 were twisted into positions and shapes startling idea of the great violence of th 1 Where the house stood there remains bu: almost round at the top sixty feet jn A Sult for Damages Suit was brought in a court riday at Hersey against the lint Pere Marquette Railway Company for cattle killed upon tbe road Action was fcnnally commenced by the serving of a 'smntnon on the conductor of a passenger train to appear at said court in answer to the action week Saturday De cember 20 Thetsritwjas brtHight by James McKinstry a farmer of this place He pro poses to make a test case of the matter and five other suits of a like character Thieves In Calhoun County A band of thieves are operating in the Town ships of Battle Creek and Emmett Calhoun County armers not only lose their chickens and tools but whole wagon loads of wheat are abstracted from their granaries George An drus was the last sufferer A vigilance committee for mutual protection The Grave Robbers Identl fled The two men who were arrested Jllchl for grave robbery gave rheir Jameson and Wilson and beyond siring rt mation were exceedingly reticent excited the suspicion of the sheriff County who os soon as they were in the jail at Pontiac began work wlth establishing their identity a result mos e'' because they were identified beyond tt parties haring the wagon load of dea their Saturday the to n5e'LtfS identifiedas James McGuire and 11101135743 both readents of this city McGuins is who was arrested about a year ago 8 robbing graves at Woodmere Cemeisn and was acquitted' Eagan was discs the service of Undertaker Sexton to weeks ago 7 Visit? ea Patriotic Soctai axu a tertainment has been arranged day evening to be given at the Cen Church chapel It is called a riot and among the tableaux entitled phricaii3s and Go" and A squad of the Detroit Light nj be the military tableaux and the chP rated and mHltary red ladies participating will be fancifully white and blue and a delightful pared After the tableaux supper vu by the ladies A Very Big Club rf In the mafi riday there was co flee from airbury DL a for Ts south of Chicago a club of SM re Wxxxlt bke Press Many S00? this one is tne ceiveu every ku has come in thus far tms fiUBSCKITXON EATSS fatable in advance carrier per month 85 p2r year' Pwtegd paid 10 xj Pr yar or ul 2 BO by niall per year postage 4 00 MRiee itruvr oc unuu wnea prac may bo made either by draft ex press ppstoffice order or in registered letters at wishing their address changed must give their od as Well as their new aodrex wrte plainly namo and postoffiee also the edl twn whether Daily Tri Weekiy or Weekly Address THE DETBOIT REE PKESS CO KATES ADVERTISING PI3PLATED AOVEBTISZMZWTS pna INCH IN nirrT Days 3 200 4 240 One Tear S72 00 "Where cuts are inserted they must be atx umr not mounted on wood LocaLon irstar Second Page irst day SOc per Lnp each subsequent day lc: irst column first per inch Want column 6th page fi3 per: hue Deaths 25 cents Marriages 25 cent THE WEEKLY REE PRESS 1 May be procured of all newsdealers in the United States and the Dominion of Canada Price 5 cent percopy Wkkxit ree Press: Beading notices set in nonpareil tpye leaded 43 cent a line displayed advertisements 25 cents a line or 3 per incli each insertion Liberal dis counts on long time advertisements mg way of the tree In falling he struck square! upon a sharp splinter of a stump' which penetrated his abdomen some ten inch es Hafwas last night taken to his home at Alpine where he died The the late Dr Barnard died to day Elijah Bowman was arrested in Allegan and brought here today to answer to a charge of forging a bill of sale to a large quantity of grain machinery and other articles Deserted and Suicide Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Port Huron December A woman giv ing her name as Mrs Lawrence Saunders boarding with Mrs Nichols corner of Bond ariB Huron streets committed suicide at 7 ociock to night by taking strychnine A few moments before she died she said her husband Lttwrence Saunders ran away with another woman leaving her entirely destitute He' is living in St Thomas Ont She was quite young and the landlady supposed her to be a single girl until she made the statement Run Over by a reight Train Special Dispatch to The Detroit ree Press Charlottk December While William ord jrfarmer living near Eaton Rapids was returning home from Charlotte this' afternoon his team became frightened at the cars and ran in front of a freight train The engine jttruck them killing one horse throwing ord some distance and probably fatally injuring him it drewite daflv supplies from tbe warns staunched foe gaping wqund ead pq with a pine qnicfeIy 5 first placed his gas meter uv the woodshed 150 feet away frora any pcssitehtj of its deriving sustenanco from the parent pipe and determined to starve it into subnus even though be was forced so use kero all through his house At the beginning of the following month his gas bill was larger than it had ever been before Either (he gas meter had found it? way to the President 's office in revenge had informed him of its jfl fiyer ment or at night it had secretly re turned to its old haunts and gone about its work like some setting hens on an empty nest er its instincts for lying are too deeply seatedfii be eradicated by any known means Prob ably the latter is the true explanation or this gentleman then took an ax and cut the gas meter into two dozen pieces It sur vived the mutilation like a turtle or a snake the gas bin still camo in of the same rise every month He boiled the pieces at a temperature of 375 degrees ahrenheit but with just as 'littlq effect He reported his experiments to the President of the gas company Tbe latter was intensely interested and replied for fidelity to duty and a passionate devotion to 'the interests of those it serves he knew no 'noble martyr or splendid soldier in history ronrw worthy of honor than the despised and humble gas Then he calculated the interest for thirty years on the value of the meter and added both to the consumers bill Generally however the gas companies aa adiamed of their bumble ally spy andemissary or although those companies are generations of education the gas mtqp mighty ijspousfole or the production and rapid in crease of this detestable ana aemorauzing species df animal they repudiate them in public and while charging the con sumer for the use of their sneaking tattle tale jsl ways jspeak of it to him as gas me 5 MICHIGAN SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 14 tEEtered at the at' Detroit second clae matter' vWn wwy 1 ii i i 1 1 1 imhii 1 1 i ii nt ui i 4 7 rt pETKOi a i acre less in 5 4 jpensepersMatm about $22000 for bay alone.