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4 I'rejgCgKI G3jc PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 23 Tins PAPER IIAbTBE LARGEST CIK CL'LATJOX IN THE STATE 1HI bAJLl 1 lUK iKhsft Will be found on sale at the following newsstands: Tremont House new stand Chicago III Palmer House iewi stand Chicago Ill Urand Pacific Hotel news aland Chicago Ill Aitor Hou new a tan a New York Ercntand Bro 3 Vulon Square York JR Hawley 104 Vine street Cincinnati senles Ar Wales 3 Euclid avenueCleveland Van Epps A Co Cleveland JEbbUt House newsstand Washington Ayres 31 hineapoli Minn IcoleU Houe news stand Minneapolis Minn Windsor Hotel new stand Denver col Johno Duluth Minn Bonder Loo Angele Cal Palace Hotel news stand Mn rancisco Cal Scott San rancisco Cal buckwoith R4 Church Mrcet Nasnvtlle Tenn Wharton Bro 5 CurondeleUt Orleans La Parkalow Bros rali road news agents Omaha Xeb EEMOCICAXIC NOMINATION'S or Justice of the Supreme Court (eight Lt VI GRIIN 1 or Justice of the bupreme Court (ten chakles camp 1 or Xegejuti of the CHRISTIAN VANDERVZEN RUUS SPRAGUE Tax Circuit Judges Third Judicial GEORGE GARTNER HENRY BREVOOPT CORNELIUS KHLLY GEORGES HOSMER CITY TICKJUT or GEORGK 8 SWIT or Councilman to fin ANTHONY 1'ETZ or School GEORGE STEWART JOHN A WILLIAM VOIGT JR HORACE DICKINSON HERSCHEL WHITAKER CORNELIUS The pee Press is indebted to Secretary of State taun for a copy of the Michigan manual for the years 1887 8 prepared and published by that courteous official It is larger by a few pages thau the manual for 18b5 but the arrangement is substantially the same The American Grocer puts the annual ex penditures for liquor in the United States at J7000(X)0'iO Tlie New York Tribune put it at $800000000 some time since and Neal Dow added $100000000 to it making it $900000000 Neither statement is accompanied by the data from which it is made up but on general principles all should expect the Grocer to be the nearest correct There is one thing that should be taken into consideration by the Presiden in deciding whether he will call an extra session or not After the 4th of next month Congressmen and Senators under a law of their own enactment will have to pay railroad fare when they travel They can no longer go to AV ashing ton and then draw their mileage This consideration no doubt will check some what their ardent desire for an extra session and the President ought to make a note of it Among the excellent nominations made by tho Democrats throughout tho State this spring for Circuit Judges is that of Hon Turnbull of Alpena who has been noni inated in the Twenty sixth Circuit lie is one of the prominent lawyers of the State and a ripe and good one too As a lawyer and legislator bis record is honorable and meri torious He lias been a useful man to his sec tion of the State and we have no doubt he will be cordially supported by the people of his circuit for tho position for which he has been nominated It is not often that so perplexing a problem is found in municipal government as that pre sented by the troubles in the Polish settlement Two hostile factions have boon eyeing each other for months ready to do violence when opportunity offers and though there is tem porary quiet after such an outbreak as that of Sunday another may be looked for at any time The arrest and punishment of a few ringleaders is good as far as it goes but so long as the hostility remains nothing short of locking the people up by hundreds will ab solutely secure the public peace That of course cannot be done As tne quarrel is a religious one it does seem as if the authorities iu the church to which both factions owe al legiance might do something to settle it William Henry Smith made a pool showing iu the British House of Commons in his appeal for urgency iu the consideration of the gov ernment's coercive measure for Ireland His reference to the course Gladstone bad taken with a coercion measure would have been more to the point if he had followed it up by showing what an utter failure coercion was except as a means of aggravating the troubles Air Morley gave utterance to some tailing truths in his speech on the question Tho condition of Ireland is not such as to ex cuse the government for a resort to force in the interest of the landlords much less to justify it orce will not allay discontent nor is it made more palatable by the sugges tion that it will be followed by measures in the interest of the tenants It is the voice of the millions of the Irish which should be first heard The effect of Monday anti prohibi tion meeting in this city will be distinctly felt throughout the entire State It will strengthen everywhere the intelligent opnosition to the amendment upon grounds of public policy There has always been since prohibition was first heard of a persistent effort on the part of its advocates to weaken this intelligent oppo sition by identifying it with opposition of those engaged in the liquor traffic To a considera ble extent too the effort has succeeded Cit izens who have no interest whatever in the liquor traffic but who are opposed to prohibi tion because they believe it wrong in principle or worse than ineffective in practice have hesitated about proclaiming their opposition or Toting as they think rather than incur the abuse of their prohibitionist neighbors and friends The Detroit meeting ought to en courage such It was a thoughtful earnest philosophic protest against prohibition by men who cannot even by the most rabid prohibi tionists be accused of holding their views in subordination either to self interest or the liquor interest It was pretty definitely understood that Judge Cooley Colonel Morrison and General Brueg of Alabama would constitute three of the members of tho Inter State Railway Com mission and the official announcement of their appointment will therefore occasion no sus prise Tho qualifications of each of these KCUllemen aro undoubted and the choice of the President will be heart ily applauded Ju lge Cooley mid Colonel ilorrison are mao of national reputa UW While General Bragg Is less widely known his standing in his State is of the highest and the work in which le has there engaged has been of a character to adminbly fit him for his new position Tie to appuiutetes whose norngg have not QEZW33M rows THE LEGISLATURE A PI05TSR GOSE SERVICES IN MEMORY THE LATE GEN ROBERTSON BE LIVELY A STITCH IN TIME HIS TROUBLE ENDED Senate inti STATE DENTAL SOCIETY The Thirty third Annual Meetiug I5c K80CKED OUT A strong delegation of citizens from Grand Rapids had a hearing to day before the Senate Committee on Cities and Villages The citizens differed upon the question of the collection of taxes and retention of them to the City Treas a matter of conflict between certain of the municipal boards The Detroit Lansing Northern Railroad a road wholly within the State of Michigan is under the provisions of the act for all freight which it accepts consigned to points beyond the State or tor all passengers ticketed for points without the State and so of all that comes into the State consigned over it to destination The provisions of the act about is merely a repetition of the common law doc trine with penalties added There came down upon the Legislature to day a cohort of railroad lawyers They came by in vitation the joint Committee on Railroads of the two houses having requested their views upon certain bills bearing upon railroad meth ods and now pending in either Mouse Mr Pond speaking of section 3 said if the provisions of section were strictly complied with section 3 was largely surplusage The railroad company could make higher rates on amounts less than car loads than by car loads A railroad company might make rates by train loads say upon salt or upon lumber There were many that differed with him on this point but still he believed that a certain number of cars might be called a train load and upon the article salt say from Saginaw Le given a lower rats than a cay load lot The result sought to be accomplished by the Inter State Commerce bill is a popular and iu one sense a simple one Railroads do not ob ject to it Mr Reagan of Texas desired to reach certain results in his bill and Mr Cul lom of Illinois sought to have his bill reach certain other results bill passed the House passed the Senate and a con ference commit tee of the two Hooses undertook to harmonize the bills or rather the authors of the different bills sought to outwit each other the result is there are many inconsistencies in the act The primary purpose of the act is clear it is to prevent discrimination to make equit able rates and to adhere to them But the lang uage of the act is in parts conflicting: the phraseology is not well chosen the act in fact regulates all traffic carried outoi the State or ail traffic carried into the State Coming back to section 2 of the act Mr Pond said it was taken almost literally from English enactments The trouble with reference to its application in tho Inter htate Commerce act iu this country grows out of the fact that none of tlie English laws provided for the publication of the rales The definition of did not seem lo him a difficult one Any service rendered while the rates remained unchanged was within the meaning of the act Senator Sharp offered a resolution which was adopted calling upon the superintendents of the various insane asylums to furnish lists con taining the full name and age date when re ceived tho county and the weekly charge made for the support of each patient who is a charge to the State also the same tacts ith regard to patients who are a charge upon the counties and those who aro at private charges The resolu tion was adopted The twollouses met in jointconvention to day to listen to eulogies upon the late Gen John Robertson There were many that remembered that the lamented gentleman had attended such joint gatherings of the Legislature for many sessions President of the benate Mouroe pre sided Copie ot all the published orks of Gen Robertson were placed upon the desk and irianv flowers sent from the Agricultural College tilled tho atmosphere of the House with rare perfume The Best Piaster bman Weed and Beliadoma ilac Ashley Pond Give an Exposition of the Law as He Views It THE INTER STATE COMMERCE LAW THE CHIE TOPIC DIsCUsslON rank Warren oluwati Dead Coldwater March rank Warren proprietor of the Southern Michigan Hotel died this afternoon of diabetes aged 57 years He had teen unwell a Jong time but seri ously ill onlv a week He had been here fifty five years He leaves a widow son and daugh ter uneral Thursday at 2 A Cohort of Railroad Lawyers Swoop Down on the Senate Mr ond had thought that many articles might be classified by themselves to accom plish certain results for example the article ot salt lie had however been advised that it was not practicable because all connecting rail roads must acquiesce in tills classification The classes of freights might be changed from time to time as are the rates but the commissioner had no authority to change the classification Omaha than from Omaha And the proportion that the Michigan Central receives of the through rate doe not limit the rate which it may make on shipments originating in Chicago or elsewhere on its own road Lawyers Mr Pond said were inclined to think that the lan guage of the act did not admit of this construc tion: railroad managers were clear that the Reagan construction would result in stopping through business An explanation of the pooling business was given by Mr Pond If the rate from Chicago to the seaboard is lower than the proportional rate from BL Louis to the seaboard then naturally all the business from Omaha Kansas City and other places in that section and everything would go to Chicago If on the other hand the St Louis rate to the seaboard was less than the Chicago rate all business would drift St Louis ward To regulate this matter and keep up a just proportion a pool was formed by the rail roads as a simple method ot avoiding the temp tation to cut rates A rate stable and uni form was not only adopted but a tonnage di vision was made which was strictly adhered to In effect the work of the pool was equalizing the business between the various roads and pro tecting their customers by placing all upon a like basis Disorder which Affect the Kidney A re among the most formidable known Dial fr ies disease gravel and other coc plaints of the urinary organs are not ordinarily cured In severe cases but they may bo averted br timely medication A useful stimulant of urinary glands has ever been found in Hostet Stomach Bitters a medicine which notoalf affords the requisite stimulus when they come inactive hut increase their vigor aad CTetlve power By increasing the activity of the kidneysand bladder this medicine has the addi tional effect of expelling from the blood impuri ties which It is tne peculiar office of those organ to eliminate and pass oft The Bitters is aLo 3 purifier andstreugthenerof the bowel an larlg orautof the stomach and a inatcbles remedy tor biliousness and fever and ague it counter i cis a leutl ncv to premature decay and a'Atau 3 aud comforts aged and infirm circumstances and a phrase used in section 2 had caused an infinite amount of discussion the Senators in consider ing the bill had disagreed about it and the Rep resentatives in Congress had disagreed Mr Pond said: These terms have been frequently construed by the English courts It Is held by those courts that the circumstances are substan tially the same unless they differ in some re spects that offset the cost ot doing the business Railroad managers were not so full of the devil as to be anxious to favor one man against an other but they base sometimes been driven to it by circuins'ances As illustrating the decis ions referred to Mr Pond said In England two certain coal shippers came into conflict One had side tracks and had his cars shunted upon bis own track the other had his coal shoveled from cars the cars standing on the railroad track There was a better rate given to the man who had his own side track and English courts had held it lo be just because it was cheaper and more convenient for the rail road company to make its deliveries to him than to the other shipper nt Jacktoii Jacksox March 22 The new Presbyterian Chapel Was formally dedicated to day in the presence of a large congregation The exercises begun at 2 Rev Van derhart gave an historical sketch of the society in this city Rev A Barr ot Detroit deliv ered the dedicatory address and Rev Marsh gave the dedicatory' prayer The church was built at an expense ot $7700 which is all paid but $600 Hound Over lor Trial Owosso March Leo Brewer of whom mention has been made heretofore in connection witb the Lynda Brooks case of se duction which finally resulted in her" death was brought before ustic Taylor for examina tion and Monday was bound over for trial at the next term of court Representative Wood of Gratiot in anticipa tion of the taking up of the new bill to locate Alma Village in Arcada Township detaching a portion of it from Pine River Township is securing personal pledges from members of the House to stand by him regard less of what may be advanced upon the ques tion Some of the members whom he ap proached respectfully and delicately but quite properly declined to bind themselves in advance to action which might prove to be against their consciences or their sworn duties as representa tives ot the people Representative Perkins presented tho report of the Commit tee on isheries to the House to day It recommends an appropriation of $27 102 for current expenses of the ish Commis sion for the two current years and a special ap propriation for certain permanent improve ments These special appropriations include $100 tor the Detroit station $175 tor the Petos key station $110 for the Glenwood station $4 500 for the aris station and $150 tor the exam ination of waters The report and accompany ing bill were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means Houso" manuscript authorizing ranken muth Blumtield and Buena Vista to Saginaw County to borrow money fordeepening Cheboy guning Creek House manuscript reviewing charter of Bay City benate file No 134 amending the school law of Jackson House tile No 109 amending act relative to the appointment of a btate live stock sanitary commission and State veterinarian APPROVED The Governor notified his approval of the act amending the law relative to the establishment of an asylum for insane criminals joint resolu tion for a patent to Higgins of Spring wells Adjourned Douse of Representatives In answer to questions whether the classifica tion could be changed Mr Pond said: may be a change in classes and such changes would necessarily alter the rates and so require a change of the schedules A man engaged in any particular manufacturing business being the only man in the place who is in that line of business his manufactures might be nut in a ciass by themselves if practicable and a very low rate given them But If the company makes this particular classification it is bound to keep the rates so that it shall not discriminate against manufacturers of the same article in another place on its road In other words there can be no discrimination against House file 188 defining limits jurisdiction and powers of Circuit Cour ts House file 189 authorizing Central Michigan Agricultural Society to convey real estate House file 1115 amending public school laws House file 198 changing the names of the family of Mrs Buck of Muskegon to Clark House file 199 amending law relative to du plicate taxes in villages House tile 197 relative to the compensation of the architect secretary and treasurer of the Upper Peninsula prison lost reconsidered and tabled House file 204 amending law relative to the supportof minors whose father is living House tile 201 amending act for incorporation of mutual tire insurance companies House file 200 amending section 5898 Howell relative to commissioners on claims House file 18L to provide for blowers in estab lishments where emery wheels are used Laid on the table to be perfected! House tile 112 for laying out altering or dis continuing highways House file 103 for tne formation of a corpor ation of ICO or more qualified pnarmacists for the purpose of improving the science and art of pharmacy Senate file 32 to provide for the correction of frauds and mistakes in tho return and canvass of votes House file 77 amending the game laws so as to prohibit the shooting of deer except between November 1 and December 1 to lorbid the use of dogs in hunting deer and to interdict spring shooting of duck and water fowl House flic 200 tor the organization of corpo rations for buying and selling brood animals House file 171 for the punishment of crimes committed by persons serving sentence in any of the penal institutions APriiovn The Governor noted his approval of the acts authorizing the Ingham Agricultural Society to sell real estate: amending the act relative to the Court "of Kalamazoo amending the act relating to a municipal court in Grand Rap ids authorizing the publication at the State expense ot the proceedings of the Association Adjourned and universally respected resident of and Oakland County lor more than a of a century Benjamin Williams brother Alfred williams eame to in 1837 where they continued Lansing March The delega tions of lawyers and citizens of Muskegon were to nave had a hearing to day on the question of extending the limits of that city but were dis appointed The question involved is of a constitutional Muskegon City is a rep resentative district by itself the rest of Muske gon County comprising a second district It is forbidden by the Constitution to change the limits of a representative district except in the year succeeding a census taken either by the authority of the btate or the United States The Board of Supervisors of Muskegon County neglected to rearrange their districts in 18bo as was then their privilege If it is now competent to fix anew the boundaries of the two Representative districts which Muskegon is entitled to and the Supervisors change them in such a way as to permit an extension of the limits of Muskegon the committee will not object to making a favor able report upon the bill The question is a new one and the lawyers are not agreed up it been at alt canvassed in advance by the general public are like General Bragg men who stand high iu their respective States Mr Schoonmaker a strong lawyer has been Attorney General of New York and Colonel Walker has made a brilliant record in Ver mont "With a commission of the high char acter and ability of the one chosen tho Inter state Commerce law will have a trial under the best auspices and with such a commission suggestions of the highest value iu respect to the law and its workings will be made to Con gress The second section is complicated in phrase ology It has been greatly discussed and opinions have been given of its manning Mr Pond thought it simple enough if taken in con nection with section of the same act The paragraph which contains the meat of the whole act is that which declares that the rates must be established and forbid any variation from the rates in force for the time being The rates es tablished must be adhered to if this is done therecan bo no discrimination The bill of Senator Roof known in railroad circles as the Gruler bill was first taken up This bill is intended to regulate the manage ment of freight transportation companies and to prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers It is in effect an application of the Inter State Commerce bill to the railroads and steamboats and vessels of tho State of Michigan It applies to water transportation as well as to land transportation Atler this bill had been read attention was diverted to tho Inter State Commerce law and George Jerome who had suggested the classification of ali the bills upon the same general topic gave way to Ashley Pond who by request gave an exposition ot the Inter State Commerce law as he viewed it Said Mr Pond partly in response to questions: The programme observed in tho joint conven tion over which President Monroe presided was first a prayer by Rev Mr BeaL My God to and Is Well With My were sung by the Lansing Choir Then followed the reading of a biographical sketch by Kepresentativo Buies and eulogies by Senators Deyo Beymour Giddings Palmer and President Monroe and by Representatives Manly Hill and Thompson The resolutions were sympathetic and appre ciative outlining the public services of Gen Robertson iu a faithful manner YUSE LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS '1 he Recent ire at Howell Caused by Spon taneous Combustion bnloou Keepers Jot at the Bottom of It Howell March 22 Detective Pat of Detroit lias been here investigating the causa of the recent disastrous fire which was laid at the doors of the saloonists That theory has been exploded by the investigations made Detectire says the fire was caused by spontaneous combustion caused by old rags which had lain on the door There were four or five barrels of oil at the distance ot ten feet from the furnace wnieh was used for heating the bnilding In another direction in the cellar is where the oil tanks stood one containing about one barrel ot oil and the other about half that quantity The floors were saturated with oil from leakage and overflow of the cans while being drawn This is where the fire was first discovered The explosion is accounted for by the fact that there was a can of about tn enty pounds ot gunjowder in the store These are tne facts as related by Mr and he thinks they are correct the abroga is the true rem be found in an Owosso March Benjamin Williams aged one of Michigan's pioneers died this morning afttr an illness of over a year Mr Williams wa born in Concord in IblO was the son of Maj Oliver Williams a well known Detroit quarter I and his i Owosso extended improvements which ha I been begun (Under their direction in the' fall of 1835 In 183S illiams married Miss Sophia A Smith of Canandaigua His first dwell ing house was erected in Owosso near the pres ent residence ot his late brother A Williams Soon alter the commencement of the California gold excitement the brothers A and migrated thither where they operated success fully In and made a tour for dis covery of gold and silver mines in Honduras and Central America Mr Willtamshas alwaysact ed with the Democratic party sincecastlng of his first vote in 1832 He has frequently served the party as delegate to State conventions and other similar way but never had au political aspira tions Was once May or of Owosso He leaves a large estate probably amounting to half a mil lion He leaves a widow and three sons Chas and James A doing business in Owosso and Williams Jr of Denver CoL Mr Pond went over the short haul and the long haul question A great amount of the inter State commerce was done between distant points say between Omaha and New York In certain cases the Michigan Central has received more as its proportion of a through rate for hauling shipments originating in Chicago con signed to New York thau for shipments origin ating in Omaha and consigned to the same place In both cases the Michigan Central has hauled the shipment the same distance Reagan holds that the Michigan Central cannot in uchacase take more for the Chicago ship ment than it can for the Omaha shipment Mr Cullom says that for the purpose of getting tho shipment from Omaha the several roads trans porting tbp shipment must he considered as one road and all the wt forbids is that a greater rate shall not be charged from points east of rouble nt Grand Rapids Betwceu the Union and the Clothing Mer William Rutter Ion nd Dead in Ills Bed at Lansing Lansing March Rutter of Detroit was found lying dead In his room at the Lansing House this morning He came hero Saturday nnd has acted strangely since his arrival It is thought he committed suicide by taking mor phine A jury was summoned aud the inquest adjourned until riday Edward Rutter came to Detroit four years ago from Circleville where he is respectablv connec'ed With his wife he settled at 168 Woodward avenuy and engaged in various em ployments losing each position obtained through ills appetite for drink As a means of support Mrs Rutter engaged in dressmaking and Rutter went on the road as an agent tor a window shade firm in Maine Letters tound on his person show that he was the frequent reci pient of financial aid from friends in Circleville He had evidently grown despondent over the struggle he seems to have had to conquer his appetite and took the desperate step as the only means of relief Grand Rapids March There is great trouble among the tailors ot this city and the prospect of a general strike is imminent One year ago a scale of prices was agreed upon be tween the Union aud a larger portion of tho clothing merchants The agreement was to extend only one year and the time having expired a new scale ot prices was made out and submitted to the proprietors by a delegation of workers This scale was much larger than tho merchants thought they could pay and unl versally notified th committee that thev should for their rights No action was taken on either side for arbitration This fore noon the Union held a meeting and the committee said that they had no success in secur ing the signatures of inerehanls to the schedule and many ere loud in their demands for a strike at once This forenoon nearly all the tailors were idle and met together to further tljoir plans for tho luture They claim their present schedule is not any higher in the Jong run than heretofore but tho merchants claim it is and that they will not submit The matter was Anally settled by instructing the Secretary to send a statement ot the case to the National Union at Detroit and to await orders from it iu regard to a strike When the committee reassembled in tne afternoon Mr Pond said that it was not wise in his judgment for the Michigan Legislature to Inflict upon the State any enactments having the restrictive bearing upon railroads of the Inter State Commerce law He said the result would be to place Michigan shippers and manu facturers at a disadvantage and indirectly build up manufactures and business in neigh ring States As an instance he said sucn a bill applied by the State to Michigan railroads would for one thing impede the wason factory at Jackson and benefit the wagon factories at Toledo and South Bond The Ohio railroads are unrestricted in their own State and so are those of Indiana and Jackson wagons could not be sold in either State in competition with factories unhampered by restrictions pro posed by tlie Gruler bill Mr Pond further said that if the bill passed it would be binding upon the State for two years Noone Knew precisely how the Inter State Commerce bill would be construed It was certain to come before Con gress again directly for amendment with a probability that important changes would be made in it No Michigan law could now be framed which would be in accord witn it Upon tnese grounds he urged that Michigan rest satis fied for the present and await developments To the Editor of The Detroit ree Press: In your issue of to aay you give a table showing the totnl revenue received by ilia li ferent cities of Michigan to Le There are some phases of this question tfl which you did not refer and they involve questions which I desire sotU if possible or instance when Tub hke Press enma I bad in my hand a paper containing au addresi by Dr Talmage ou this subjects from which I qiiote the following: Gather up the money that the working cluws have hi ent for rum during the last thirty sear and I will build for every working man a house and lay out lor him a garden and clotne hw eons in broadcloth nnd his daughters in silks nnd stand at his front door a prancing spaa of Lavs and secure him a policy of life insur ance so that the present Lome may be well maintained after he is dead i be most jeris tent most overpowering eomv of the working classes is intoxicating liquor it Js the anaren 1st ot centuries and has i oycutted and Is now Loyeottlng the body and mind and soutof Amer ican labor It Is to it a worse foe than mon opoly and worse than associated capital is Tannage right or is tie wronl If right bow much cf this enormous revenue really comes from the laboring man It is an easy matter for the saloon keeper to pay the reve nue if some one supplies him witii the money with which to do it Will you please give us your candid opinion upon this question! It no unimportant question I see you quote Owosso as receiving $4650 There are lour teen saloon keepers here I believe Are these saloon keepers so generous as to Le willing to pay this enormous tax without ever receiving a cent from anybody witb which to pay it! While I am cn this economic question I want to ask your opinion of another phase of it 1 saw in a table compiled by a Major Cotton publubel in the Voice ot New York the statement that if the money invested in liquor manufacture in this State were distributed generally through out the other manufacturing industries of tbj State it would support more than two and one half times as many laborers as it now does the value of the product would be in creased more than sixty two per cent and wages in proportion to the product would I increased over twelve per cent and that if this money were invested otherwise would give employment to over 40000 men Instead of 15000 as it now does These are significant statements what do you think of them! Are they true or not true In your opinion 1 IVe are also told with a great show of reason that for every dollar taken by these cities for revenue ttxa counties and State pays out $2 on account of theexistenceof theliquortraffid There is still another featuie to which our attention has leen called That is the fact that this revenue is paid irto the ty treas uries while the expenses of the State and counties made by the existence of the whisty traffic are paid by the eopie generally Tbs effect of which is that the country taxpayer helping to pay the expenses of citv govern meats Not being farmers I do not know tbs people in the ties should complain tut tberi is certainly a great injustice in collecting a tax to meet the expenses of the whisky trade and tben putting it into tha city treasuries improve city property and leaving country i otln to meet tbe expenses of the whisky traffic iu the Lest way they can If these objections can met successfully I shall be pleased to vote against the amend ment at least so far as economic questions are Cuncertied Hoping that you will kindly give us tb benefit of your views on this quest io a I am Yours truly CITIZEh Owosso March 20 1887 Ann Arbor March The Michigan State Dental Society began its thirty second annual meeting here to day ith about seventy five members in attendance It is expected that the arrivals to morrow will swell the number in at tendance to 200 The meetings are held at the Dental College building President Lloyd Davis of Eaton Rapids presided at the opening session this afternoon McGregor of Port Huron tno Secretary was present and Hie trim figure of Treasurer II Lathrop of Detroit was visible among the delegate" After organ izing the dentists visited the operating room of the college and witnessed the large class of students manipulating the teeth of tlie patients will be read before the society by Prof Vaucluui on alivary Analysis Or Dorrance on A Long ou and Riophyou cation of the Lse ot the a number of other paper will also bo presented The State Hoard ol Examiners iu Dentistry are also in ession and require every applicant to fill a tooth with gold Bronchial Troches for coughs and colds: "I do not see how it tor a public man to be himself in winter without this admi rable Rev Devens Pocasset Mass Our esteemed correspondent at Owosso whose letter will be found in another column presents some alleged facts as to the liquor traffic upon which be asks our candid opinion He shall have it As to the Talmage statement it may or may not Le true we have no means of know ing and we do not believe the reverend author of it had It is likely enough that it is true just as it is true that the money the orking classes have spent for tobacco in the last thir ty years would buy them the things that Tal mage enumerates It is true possibly just as it is true that the money spent by any class in the community in excess of its real needs perhaps for things that injure rather than would if It had been put into the sav ings bank have grown to a sum sufficient to pay the national deLt or to buy every head of a family a farm The other statement from the New York Voice is probably untrue Certainly there is no foundation for it in the Michigan census There is nothing in that document to show the amount of money invested in or to show that we have any such as an industry in tbe State As a matter of fact we have no distil leries in Michigan and according to the United States revenue report only eleven rec tifiers aud fifty four wholesalers The same authority gives the retail dealers ia the State at 6080 while the census gives the traders and dealers in wines and liquors at 17L The breweries employed in 1881 627 hands aud the capital invested was $2198933 witban an nual wage account of $335587 We incline therefore to the opinion that the statement in the Voice is preposterous like Neal guess that only a million worth of drink is annually consumed in Maine But suppose that both statements were ab solutely and incontrovertibly true what tben? Does it follow that we should give up the tax ation of the liquor traffic? Not at alt It would follow if the abandonment of the tax or the substitution of prohibition therefor meant the saving to the working classes of the sum now spent in drink or the investment in some other fashion of the money now invested in the manufacture of liquors etc Notorious ly neither means anything of the sort and though our correspondent apparently intends an inference to be drawn that prohibition will stop the expenditure of the money for liquor he does not take the responsi bility of asserting or predicting that such will be the result This is a point that a great many advocates of prohibition miss either thoughtlessly or inten tionally They can see very plainly that tbe traffic in ardent spirits entails great expense upon the people and that the tax is a poor re turn therefor But they cannot see or in many cases will that the traffic under prohibition entails the same expense or very nearly without any return whatever It is quite true that under a tax system the saloon keeper gets the money with which he pays his tax from the people aud largely no doubt from the working classes But under prohi bition ho also gets bis money from the people and largely from the working in many instances getting more money for an in ferior article And what he gets he keeps the public gets nothing back Prohibition has been in fores in some of the States for more than thirty years it was in force in Michigan for twenty Let Mr Tal mape point out tbe charmed spot where the workingmen relieved by prohibition from the expensxof the drink habit are indulging in the luxuries whereof he speaks so unctuously Is it in Maine? There has been no such report from that State On tbe contrary the report is of workingmen leaving because of hard times IVe have a distinct recollection in this city of quite a small army of ship carpenters as intelligent and thrifty a class of working men as there leaving that prohibitory State and seeking employment iu Michigan where we have a tax law Does our corre spondent think tnese men left behind them the luxuries to which Talmage refers! There is force in the final suggestion of our correspondent as to the attitude of the coun try taxpayer Tbe Michigan tax law do seem to discriminate against him in that the bulk of the tax is paid to the cities and vil lages The discrimination is however much more apparent than real The burdens im posed by the liquor traffic fall much more heavily in proportion on cities and villages than on townships But even if this were not so how will it help the rural population to abolish the tax? The country certainly will get no more because the cities and villages get nothing Conceding for the sake of argument that the country is not fairly treated in the mat ter neither prohibition nor tion of the tax edy That is to amendment to the tax law apportioning tbe tax properly It has been argued more than once that it should go into the county treasury: and though there is something to be said against that proposition as well as for it it would lie a far wiser and more appropriate remedy for the alleged grievance of the coun try taxpayer than the adoption of the prohib itory amendment would be In the light of these suggestions we trust that our correspondent will see his way clear to vote against the amendment as he mates he will if his objections are met Ore Shippers for an Exception ally Busy Season Ishpeming March Ore ship pers are preparing for an exceptionally busy season and lake shipping will begin just as soon as boats can get through the canal wnieh will be some time in May The railroads carrying ore from the miues to the docks are preparing for the transportation of more ore than ever before Ths Chicago ct Northwest ern which supplies the Escanaba dock" has had built a number ol twenty two ton gondola cars in place of the old nine ton cars formerly used on all lines for ore transportation and will run ore trama both night and day to accounuo date the mines The old Marquette Houghton A Ontonagon Line now a part of tlie Duluth South Shore A Atlantic system will also run night trains The rail freights will re main tbe same oh last vear but tho two lines named will carry 500010 tons more than last season anil that at an averaee charge ot fifty cents per ton means $250000 increased revenue The Marquette range which last year shipped by lake ld36f90 tons of ore will send out 2O00 000 tons this season and the Menominee range which was credited with nearly 900000 tons in 18S6 will not fall tir short ot 1250000 tons this season The prospect of such an immense in crease of bueiueas has caused a great business boom signed as aberratioa is as i signed as the cause ot suicide a Several weeks ago John Brandt and red were prouzt before Justice A Yerrinn? ending guilt were sentenced to turiyJdru dar imprisonment in the jail at Ithaci 7 U' der ot Kalamazoo has fust ceivcd news that her brother j7vJ HichnrZ? was drowned in the River BiltxMu on the nn ern coast ot train Mr cirno two years aco laM October to make around the world Mrs Higley and pected to join him this summer iEn mV m1 faendeePly f01t hU Mrs Elizabeth Root widow of Tracer Loot formerly Abstracter ot Deeds asks for injunction against Register of Deeds Keim? Ann Arbor asking that he be restrained ftSf keeping the abstract book of Capt in his office whie the Captain is In Lsno rhe bill for injunction sets forth that the are kept in a room wanned bv tbe counts that the maps are attached to walls owned a tbe county A well known citizen of Adrian had an er celled horse The animal however did not er" HCtly please bis owner aud when he strnek professional horse trader with what seemed be a superior equine he gladly gar uDsift? which seemed to him to be tto difference in salue of the two horses He led his purchu home proudly but the following morning wkv? he found it dead in his barn he commenced tn give himself a series of mental kicks which hr continued since A arrant was issued by United States sbal alters of Grand Rapids Monday mow' ing for the arrest ot Needham of mol bardston formerly Postmaster charged whs appropriating $00 or $StX of the money ord funds to his own rise He was appointed to tG no "'hen h0 hd vk lated the rules of the office he was removed ter paying the amount claimed The vov ment how ever was not satisfied with that nine punishment and ordered nis immediate I nite States Attorney God in left fOr luesday forenoon to conduct the examination held before Commissioner Williams of lohuu One of tho most audacious attempts at fail Hvery that wus ever made in Kalamazoo made by trank ilson who was sentenced four years iu the tate at Jackson be Judge Mills He procured one of tbeMeJ knives with which the prisoners are allowed hi eat their meals He managed to cut several notches in It making a saw With this he hd been at work tor same days sawing otf tbe from ono of tho windows When discovered br 1 urnkey Downey he had managed to ever or of the bars and was sawing into a second one which ho had nearly succeeded in cuttinemtwm It is thought that several of the prisoners Led something to do with the work A young man going home Sunday afterntx a front the North I resbyturian Church found at the corner of Prank and Rose streets two younr men Ring in the gutter covered with mud I whisky bottle between th nt told tbe store their shame and atliiction they were ded drunk He went and notified uoliee head quarters and when Policeman Laiub and Clerk Bert Loy arrived on the scene were not there but they wm booh found in a barn near by They were taken to jail followed by a big crowd ana when tho mud and otL tilth of the gutter was removed were found to be Pert Watson aged 12 years and Grows Hobbs aged 19 The latter was complete paralyzed by drink and the former very Uly They didn't want their names to appear In print be find it in our heart to lilam them but yonng men who will get drunk and lie down In a gutter on Sunday ought to Hand newspaper publicity without mazoo Telegraph There is a 17 year old girl in Jackson who if her story can be relied upon Is morphine proof Her naino is Anna Littlenood aud she lives with her parents Sunday evening she pur chased a ten cent package of the drug about eight grains and says she mixed tills with little water amt drank ti mixture Monday a physician was called in to attend her but sb did not seem very slcK nor were the pupils of her eyes much effected st peculiarity in eflectof tlie drug The attending physician gave bar the cus lomary treatment and in a few hours eh was about as well as ever The physician has the empty hottie in which the drug was pur chased nnd tlie druggist's assertion that he sold the girl eight grains of morphine but he can hardly believe tbe girl's story so slight weie tbe evidences of the poison The girl says that a year ago she purchased fifteen worth ot morphine and took it in tlie same manner tot without killing her Elie thinks she Is tn hard luck not to be able to poison herself Her lot is that of a domestic Why she should wish to commit suicide is unknown but she taynahe will try it again State Items Kalamazoo letter carriers nave donned new helmets The Glasby mill at St Louis is cutting 25000 feet of IrmLer a day The Mining Journal thinks Tim Nester will be the next Mayor of Marquette Kalamazoo manufacture over 30090 sleighs and wheeled vehicles last year The Ionia Mail says Detroit parties contemp late starting a capsule factory there Prof Geo Catton of the Kalkaska schools has been engaged for another year The police business at Port Huron is dull Last month it cost $700 to arrest seven drunken men The Driving Park Association at Portland will as eoou as weather permits build a fine race track Joe Blackburn who stole $13 50 from Mrs Schaible in Ann Arbor last baturday was sent to Ionia for ninety days Tuesday The jury in the case of Ixiuis Wirg man who committed suicide at Jackson Sun day was that he came to his death by his own hand There are now thirty ninepeople in tho asy lum for the Insane from Kalamazoo ounty Ihe Increase the past two years has beta un precedented Melvin Bishop fell from the top of a freight on Monday night ana was killed He was 25 years old a ci carmaker and mother resides in Grand Rapids Mrs Reiser wife of Rev Mr Belser pastor of the Lutheran Charcn in Ann Arbor die i Monday night or consumption bhe was the mother of County Treasurer red Belser and was very highly respected Prohibitory amendment meeting are being held every night in the week in the various school houses town halls and churches in every part of Kalkaska County by eent out under ie aueplces of Kalx ka held its first village election Mon day Two tickets were in the Held and a The latter ticket headed by Chas iSweet of the Kalkasklau for Presi dent was elected by a small majority 1 rank McCauley a calker employed at Wheeler's shipyard at West Bay city one day last week caikrii ltW feet of Norway deck which is considered tbe largest work ever done in any yard in the city or in fact in theSaginaw alley Aid Giaister of Lansing committed suicide fuesday morning by snooting himself with a Winchester rifle He had the contract for the wark on the Detroit City Hail the Michi gnn State Capitol nnd the new government build ing O'tunu OnL He was 60 joars old and MARCH 23 1887.