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A THRILLING RESCUE WAS VERY SUCCESSUL A Century of Cures Lndj Thomas IN EVERY CORNER THE CLOBE Still and Sparkling SOLD EVERYWHERE DISTRIBUTING AGENTS OR DETROIT OBJECTS TO CRUISERS ratio adjourned Wind Biblical Institute Being Held MODELS is conclusion Mr The works at Dowagiac in majority of our Jlr Waterman SHOT HIS niEAD STB IKE Oil SO STRIKE in this Rninsford 1 hip witb Ills place of residence is a it it ested uro CHTZEXS PROTEST in in elc 0000 Rttrni merit is Oatmeal Mt mu wor with election neighborhood are no resting at all hazards and have them the canvassing committee to the and morning his cows of which of all the schooner to make this on the north Chicago last 1 ler crew of The institute months Scott's ew November 15 The re met with a setback this assembled to begin its sheriff announced that Merritt Torts are holding a biblical will continue for three all of whom ministry and parts of the Magan tic Ad Tho steamer Monteagle aground on the rocks above Meacn is in bad condition and the efforts of the tug to pull her off have resulted in tearing 1 tiles in her bottom The Swain Wrecking Co of Detroit received orders to send the tug avorite to her assistance The I'avorite lelt Cheboygan at 31 o'clock night before last and will be at work at the grounded vessel to day stewiv Cobbed 1 5 (Special) Notice from which is shown the on the southerly end of has been moved 170 in attendance themselves for the various Elder Durland and LUOAMl AM) CVIP OH COJIJIERCE 1)1 November 15 and merchants Petoskey Mich November (Special) John Small an old and well known citizen of Petoskey was shot and almost instantly killed while deer hunting near Clarion last night or years he has been in the haoit ot hunting with an Indiana friend and this fall was out on his annual hunt While he was coming through the brush his friend shot him mistaking him for a deer Harry Hiester a young deer hunter shot himself through the hand Creek Mich November East largely attended meeting of work was held and the Wolverine Co organized with the Bryce II Every dav increases the popularity and sale of caktihus LITTLE LIVK PILLS Battle Creek Mich November Adventists here that There are are fitting missionary work in wnr have1 charge of the institute work ventist college is having the largest attend ance this winter ever known in the history of the college winter Dr Chap Lansihg Mich November 15 Candidates forithe various positions connected with the legislature are almost as numerous as the sands of the seashore and every legislator elect who show up at the capitol is quick ly hunted out an1 made to feel the pres sure of the applicants for jobs The legis lature has a dozen or so jobs to deal out and it is safe to say there are hundreds of applicants for them Sand Arrived I'nvtou Martini letcher herd Aunt Ruth ouvmgc Mackinaw City Helena 1 a I'avorite a 1 nilu i ort Colbome Um I general stimulates the appetite enriches the blood overcomes wasting and gives strength to all who take it Coughs Colds Sore Throat Bron chitis Weak Lungs Emaciation Con sumption Blood Diseases and all orms of Wasting for pamphlet ree Scotti Bowne NY All Druggist 50c and Si Totegtant Episcopal the eldeily men In Lansing Mich November 15 The growth of judicial business in several of the interior counties of the state has become so great that in all probability the legislature will be called upon to create several new ju dicial districts this winter Calhoun county Is now capable of keeping one circuit judge busy and the same is true of Ingham coun ty Each of these counties will ask the legislature to constitute them separate ju dicial districts or else to so arrange the districts that two judges may be elected from each One of the most popular plans suggested is to annex Eaton county to the Ingham and I ivingsten district and provide for the election of another judge to share the bench with Judge Person This plan would however necessitate the adoption of a constitutional amendment but it has become apparent that something must be done to lighten the burdens resting upon the judge the attempt Mr Cn prominent in the village Louse Milwaukee November 15 The schooners Wing and San Diego in tow of the steamer Johnides broke loose Wednesday night and were adrift They were about forty miles off this port when they broke we The hides went to Milwaukee lor fuel yesterday morning and will go in search of The lest svhonprs The vessels all belong to the Parker it Millen fleet of Detroit and Hie two relxvxiera are eh valued at S1SOOO They are loaded with hard coal from Buffalo for Chicago force pro ducinQ' Simply because there never came out of the rround a water at once so delicious su effect ice and so pure Beware of imitations Send for pamphlets They Have Been Convicted fi Telegraph Operator Killed Lakeview Mich November (Special) Hall telegraph operator on the town line lake branch of the Detroit Lan sing Northern Bailroad was instantly killed at 4 to day the result ot at tempting to board a freight train moving at the rate of fifteen miles an hour He was a member of the Knights of the Mac cabees and leaves a widow Homer Mich November About the most encouraging returns that Postmaster Aldrich of Homer received on election were from his farm the following when it was learned mat one had three good healthy calves are as lively as crickets Battle night a ingmen operative Association following officers President ic nrpuipnt 1 Miller: secretary Rounds The object of the association is to acquire lands at some point to be selected in Michigan and build homes for the mem bers to operate factories to insure its members against want or tear of want to provide educational and recreative facili ties of a high order and to maintain har monious business and social relations on the basis of co operation The shares in the association will be $200 each Bay City Mich counting committee afternoon when it work The the clerks of Pinconning Merritt Ports mouth and Williams townships refused to surrender the ballot boxes unless served with a notice from the Probate Court The sheriff was given instructions to go and get tne uoxes ready for morrow ESHlps I'OHl'EDO BOATS AM) KAMS SHOULD BE BUILT expenditure reduce her Hudson A notable of Miss Bertha Day to Boyce of the Peninsular Paper Co Ypsilanti at the home of the father in Pittsford this afternoon Bev A Bupert of De troit officiated riends were present from Detroit Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Toledo and other cities Mr and Mrs Boyce left for the west on the fast mail at 7 The bride is a graduate of the Normal and an organist of brilliant ability Mich November society event was the marriage Will Pay Dollar for Dollar Lansing Mich November Hon Ther on Giddings state instirance commis sioner went to Washington to day to settle up the affairs of the National City bank of Marshall which became insolvent last year Mr Giddings is receiver for the bank which he says will pay lOo cents on the dollar and per cent interest on all claims ago as I did not believe one week ago one (luv XX VA a vAiy uvui mai inis dock js great word of God the omnipotent law judge Only a short time ago In my beautiful city' Detroit I was called upon late at night to visit one of the hospitals where a man from the country lay dying As 1 walked into the ward where he lay and saw his face 1 knew that he was soon to pass across the dark river I talked to him and he said he was anxious to believe The spirit of God directed me to the Bible and I rad who believe shall be saved' The letters seemed to stand out In letters of fire and I said man believe and he did believe must find out how to get people to read about the Bible In Philadelphia they established little reading rooms all over the city where men couldi meet and warm their meals find one day an Irishman said to one of his friends from the Emerald Isle do bate the devil' said the second Irishman what it is meant for and sure enough It The last enrollment showed there were 758 delegates from Kent county and 73 from the state at large or total of 15'6' dele gates enrolled It was estimated that there were 30ti not enrolled Of this num ber 103 were ministers 154 and the remainder were scholars teach ers etc Tnere were 42 Alethodjsts 332 Baptists 258 Congregationallsts 15 Pres byterians 102 Beformed church 43 Church of Christ 20 Evangelical 17 United Breth ren 7 Protestant Episcopnls 6 Lutherans 5 Catholics The remainder of the delegates failed to indicate their denominations if ty three counties were represented Resolutions were adopted returning thanks to the people of Grand Bapids the press of the state and others for courtesies extended A resolution was also adopted referring to the death recently of Henry Densmore of Greenville Montcalm Co Mr Densmore was a member of the American Sunday School Union He came to Michi gan in 1830 entered Sunday school work at the age of 16 years and for twenty five years was a missionary of the American Sunday School Union He organized 450 Sunday' schools with 126u0 officers and scholars and distributed over $500) worth of books 2500 bibles and testaments and visited 5000 families He collected over $250o0 and traveled over 200 OvO miles This resolution was adopted by a rising vote The last address was delivered by' Bev II Morey of Ypsilanti his topic being rne tioiy bpint tn out a orit mares were listened to witn tion the delegates With and prayer the convention meet in Detroit next year Of Rheumatism Gout Gravel and all forms of Kidney and Bladder Trouble established the name of the famous old New Hampshire Spring in all New England so permanently that time can never efface it TWO ORT HOLD OUT 1111 'peculating on Tlint WrecLnge East Tawas Mich Novembr The mere fact of a piece of life prevrror having been found ou die beach with two or three initials on it docs not to the minds of many lakiSfaring meu here fertile the identity of the wreckage Capt Cok of the Pauly says boats often earrv life preservers wfih formerly belonged to other craft ort Huron Mich November 15 It is thought here that the wreckage at 'Itiwas comes from thctugWtVilci and Acme sunk on Saginaw tay about a year ago iTovelaad November Capt Mack thinks that the wreckage that came asliore at T'uwas is from 1 is schooner Ironsides which foundered near Presque Ue a few weeks ago Illi AIM IX AD THE enrw or the rnnx i boy Jlni I His iiiil Morris Mich November (Spe John Emery of this place had four fingers of his lift hand badly lacerated by falling on a saw In tan mllL It la feared he will lose his hand Northville Mich November 15 The Argo millpond near the lint ere Marquette depot at Northville has been for years the one blot upon this beautiful village and the eyesore to its inhabitants Plans and talks for its removal have for years been innumerable but now at last a new scheme has been presented The council has taken action and a way for its removal seems assured Lansing Mich November Although Henry Call of this city had passed the three score and ten mile post of his life and had been twice married ho left on Tuesday' for the state of New ork where he expected to again enter the matri monial state A dispatch was received here this morning stating that the old gentleman had met his death at a Bing hamton hotel last night from gas suffocation and it is presumed that he blew out the gas Washington November given that the structure rear light of the range Noebish Island St river to a point on the westerly prolongation of the range line 675 feet in the rear of the front light and the light exhibited therefrom as heretofore Benton Harbor Mich Property' owners are protesting loudly against letting the Big our Co lay tracks through the heart of our city fearing great damages to the thousands of people that now daily traverse the streets the tracks are to cross There are objections raised fearing that a right of way to build tracks south of the canal would give them a monopoly of the lake and river embarrassing the prospects of Other terminal lines coming to the lake The matter Is to be placed before the city' coun cil for consideration Decade of Prosperity Never dreamed of by anybody in the history of mineral waters Port Austin Mich November The village blacksmith of Grindstone City by the name of Campbell tried awful hard to leave this world by taking' piris green He lost two of his children lust fall and savs ttreir death end poverty caused him to make JCIHI AXTELOlT TIUIEK MEV DllOWXEn' There will irst come The details can be learned CIEVEIAXD eland November Duluth only offered 8C for wheat tonnage and ore cargoes at the bead of Iake Superior were scarce 'Che Nesboto Illi November 6th and Port Huron Mich November 15 Henry Cumphrey and Charles King the two al leged smugglers arrested yesterday' were arraigned before United States Commis sioner Harris to day and bound over for examination under $4000 bonds which they' are unable to furnish This afternoon the police made a third 'arrest in the case he being Joseph Kerwin of Sarnia supposed to be one of the leaders of the gang and the man who ferried the contraband stuff across the river He was arrested as he stepped off the ferryboat on this side and lodged in the county jail Cumphrey and King the two arrested yesterday have very little means and if guilty are only' tools used by more prominent persons to do the heavy work i rand Haven Mich November During a heavy SHithweatern gale Antelope of Chicago iu attempting liar bar eapsirei! and went to pieces eliore The Antelope loft South iileht livlit bound for Mtreketron three men Cant John Lareon anil his brother ami a Swede known as were drowned They nil lived at Whitehall Mich The disaster was sotuiek that the life savers could nothing The schooner went to pieces and the wrecks ce soon be gan to come ashore The Ant elope was 16 years old and measured only 32 tons 'The beach is being patrolrel by the life saving crew for the bodies huts up to noon none had been found His re wrapt atten song service to sociation of Street Kailway Employes local committee and the ofiicials of Union Street Bailway' Co to settle difficulties between the coninanv and employes proved a dismal failure George XX Weadock appeared as attorney for the local union and the attorney Durand was also present The conference came to an abrupt conclu sion Tlie press was excluded and President Mahon said: "We wanted 'art investigation at which reporters might be present and also asked that a stenographer be em ployed but the committee re fused and expressed a desire to have all the proceedings of the conference kept se cret" The special agent or was pres ent and identified the three discharged men about whom the trouble has arisen but the men claim that they did not recog nize their accuser As President Mahon and the local committee refused to pledge them selves to secrecy the result of the meet ing was fruitless and the grave question of whether a strike shall be ordered is under consideration stating that nau labor and onment Man at Hillsdale Hillsdale Mich November An uncle of A Hurlburt the young man who committed suicide at the Keifer House in this city Tuesday nigh arrived from Berea last night He at once recog nized the body as his nephew and stated that he was A Hurlburt of Berea where his home is He stated that the y'Oung man had been at work near Dover Lenawee Co the past summer He had been engaged to a young lady at Berea and last August he went down there to see her She refused to have anything more to do with him and Hurlburt left and came back to his work at Dover About ten days ago Hurlburt was at his brother in in Lenawee county and at that time he had quite considerable money After death but five cents and a package of cigarettes were found on him His uncle thinks "he had become moody and over his love affairs and in a nt ot aesnonnenev took ins litre body was taken to Berea for burial this afternoon Thousands of physicians drink and 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Of this wc have the proof over their own signatures Thousands upon thousands of our most intelligent and refined drink it with the utmost regularity WHY country that could nci ommoda our four large battleships which are now under Course of construction In his paper on in America an I Lwis Nixon explained how it vii nun me uiiicrenee Americans and Englls center hoard started Nixon said: cup have fostered out kept alive an lnt rest i BEAU ADMinAT MEADE WJ MOKE AT RESEXT It was only a few years ago that works of art were found only on the walls of the wealthy Prices were absolutely prohibitive to the middle classes and these less favored were obliged to be content with the cheap and gaudy chromos which flooded the coun try With the general march forward came Improved processes which made it possible to execute equal and even better voik than was formerly' done and at about one fourth the cost Recently excellent por traits in India ink and crayon life size can be had for from $10 to $15 we speak of the very best work and not the inferior trash which is generally upon the public The beautiful water color portraits have been higher but also reduced from former ra js We know that there is probably not one famllv which reads The ree Press but has photographs Of friends and relatives of some of which at least life size reproduc tions would be greatly tieasuied We also know that by' the majority ot these an ex pense of even $l'i cannot be thought or Af ter considerable negotiation the A Kern Picture Co of Chicago 111 one of the largest of the nrst elass establishments In the world employing a large corps of high salaried artists and putting out only the best work was induced to contract to fur nish us with a limited number during a limited time at art almost nominal price in exchange for advertising It is their pol iev when the advertising has been done mid a number of their por traits are in loeal honip inHkuic their idtxh veil known to begin a eanvaw Only a small part ot our subscribers can with the number we command be no discrimination whatevir from our ad erasing columns Battle Creek Mich November The writers for the of To the Bdifor of The Detroit ree Press: To every pure minded man the present exhibitions and proceedings at the various caucuses and in connection matters generally In this must be abhorrent There can be no wonder that best citizens stay away from the primaries and take little interest in politic Most of them when asked what party do you belong? are startled at the idea of to anything made up of the elements which constitute the political party of the day whether democratic Kepubncnu Populist or whatever be its That the incentive to join it be a part of and ex orehe a share of its jmiwo or iniluence almost uni versally is the Staining of an othce either for self or friend and the time to act with any rea sonable hope of success is as at the time of holding such caucus The man who lias no wish for otlice 110 case of friendship which de mands work and influence Jr olllee stays away and the large majority of our best citizens is: composed of such men The result is our men who should control such matters are not' called upon to' do public duty are not nominated for and elected to otiico The caucuses are at tended by the worst element no lawful system of bolding the same controls them fraud corrup tion and rioting prevail and the result is not the expression of that element to which any careful judicious man would wish to intrust his personal affairs What will change this condition? The question has many times been asked and various projects have been tried with poor success To my mind the way is simple and easy The voters must be induced to take part in the selection of candidates Every man is jealous of his right to vote and willingly incommodes himself to go and register preparatory to exercising that right Let us then adopt a system for the selection cf can didates to be voted for which will offer the like inducement to the elector to attend at the proMr place and his duty If lie will attend the meetings held to select candidates he certainly will then feel the necessary interest to induce him to take part in their selection Izt every elec tion be preceded by a general registration Ac a proper time before registration let the law pro vide for the presentation of names of those who shall stand as candidates lor othce in a manner something as follows: Any number of resident qualified elev lots not less than ten in each dis trict over which the jurisdiction of the othce re ferred to shall extend may bv warning over their bienatuius name the persons whom thev wish to candidates for election tn such oilice ROYAL "SAUD DRESSING ALWAYS RESH ANO INVITING Never separates never spoils Send Postal with vour address to the HORTON CATO MB CO DETROIT MltH and obtain handsome Book tree HOW TO MAKE Safe can derive'! from public service Worso than that when she lies at the wharves of the city she must pay the same rate per day as the foreign vessel that lies next tn ner mill is subject to no such nher papers were read as follows: ent sunns ot XV Sampson Babies nnd rapidly growing children derive more benefit from Scott's Emulsion than all the rest of the food they eat Its nourishing powers are felt almost immedi ately Babies and children thrive on Emulsion when no other form of food is assimilated Ludlnxton Micb November 15 Tills lorereoo while a turions southwest storm was ragins the srbooner ITentlce Boy Capt Biles ot tried to enter the harbor Tremendous wares rolling thirty feet high threw her away out of bor course anl he dashed north of the pier with full sills spread Under the iower of the hurricane she was rushing upon an old crib of that stamls north rf the pier half wty to shore when the life saving crew shot a line to' her which was caught by the crew and fastened The next lurch of the schooner te the pile the other end was fastened lo and Ssay she went again Another line was thrown caught and fastened on the vessel and was made fist to two piles The hard wort nt the life savers anisl the schooner just in time to prevent her ua going to pieces OU the old crib Other lines mre put out and In half an hour after she struck she was safely riding In deep water and this after ai'on was brought into the harbor safe anil sound No sooner bad the life savers finished this job than the selKoner Austin Capt Cassady came ri ng rolling in the mad sea toward the pier She reenied practically helpless before the high waves rnd crashed with great force on the south side of tne extreme end of the pier her quarter deck smash ing in the south side of the new fogixs bouse being i rented there by the government The life savers won there when she struck The erew were on fjie rilling ready to jump and one of them was thrown the shock clear up onto the roof of the foghouse end slid tack onto tim lioat Another ot the was thrown through the broken side of 5t be bousend fell inside where the workmen were engaged in plastering The life savers hastily threw a line and in three minutes the big schooner was held firmly up to the pkr But she was still rearing and plung ing and the soil was washing over her and the fog horn mse The life savers held firm to tiieir duly ami with' one arm around the railing they the other to grab the sailors as the great waves washed them from the deck In tills way every man was taken off safely and none hurt except tlie one who was thrown into the foghorn house He is now at a Imtel receiving medical treatment and trenight is doing well He is a (Scandinavian and goes by the name of rank After the crew wore all off Cipt Tufft of the life savers cut the rope and let the bouncr plunge toward the beach as she was badly breaking where she was She went upon the ixacii sud was scuttled in four feet of water Grand Rapids Mich November 15 (Spe James A Mead a popular young business num nepbew and adopted son of the Iat Mai A 15 Watson died this even ing at tlf family residence He leaves a widow and a little daughter number will be greatly increased an nually jn the future by reason of the im migration headed southward Already many northern and western people have become convinced that the upiper southern states oiler great attractions to those seek ing small farms homes business locations etc and are taking advantage of the op portunity We are offering farms convenient to eastern markets at prices which be duplicated elsewhere Our special list of Valley Maryland and West Virginia properties! Is now ready for tree aistribntlon Western people ean take half rate excursions to the Shenandoah Val ley over the Baltimore (hio Railroad from Chicago rit Louis Cincinnati and all points in Ohio Indiana sivl lima vetober 2d ytn December 4th Come and see the country We yon locate Address or call on ards and and Immigration Agent LL Baltimore Md Tien Tsin November Chinese reports' received here from Port Arthur say that the Japanese have not yet captured Tolien Wan It is stated that two forts there are still holding out against 'the Japanese and that in spite of the desperate fighting which has taken place the assaults of the enemy have been repulsed rom the same source it is stated that the Japanese are far from Port Arthur whose defenses have been greatlv strengthened and it is likely that the place will offer a determined re sistance to the Japanese It is also re ported that a portion of Gen army has recaptured Kin Chow and that the Japanese have been driven out of Motien on the road to Pekin by the Chinese who afterwards pursued them for several miles Gen Nieh reports that he was attacked at Malien Lung on November 11 by the Japanese troops and that he succeeded In repulsing them The Chinese general adds that the Japanese made a second attack upon the positions he occupied on November 12 but it appears the Japan ese were again repulsed and the Chinese pursued them towards ungh Wang which Gen Nieh expected to reach soon after sending his report The similarity between this reported defeat of the Japanese ami the defeat they have said to have sus tained at Motien on the road to Pekin would make it appear that the two engage ments may be identical The present whereabouts of the Chinese army which was defeated at Kiu Lien Cheng is unknown here Col Von Henne km has been given supreme command of the Chinese navy gards Cure mid by Hlchborn chief constructor navy United States Triple Cruisers Columbia and Minneupuli (b Melville engineer in chief i mien states navy lllchbone said "stitch in time that saves iilue JHtAVi: MOBK I LUDINGTON Saginaw Mich November 15 The conference this afternoon between President Mahon of the Amalgamated As the the the its too cumbersome it prai se that will reform our is it not eertainlT mure i xu ivagant to run our governmental tnan it coma ie with in rPhia nta and only sujrEiescive: but it may nsihh 4if run PAmlrm Imrio to give us sonic reformatory IririslKt ion II UM Al November 15 The steamer Citv of Berlin came wt of ilrnkvb yesterday and went to Buffalo drydock TIio crew ot the sunken sA mmr John Staw ar rived here yesterday from the Sauit GrovPr is to be sold by the united bUtes marshal at Charlevoix A powerful new tug to bo called the Zenith is being built lor Heath at Benton fhe sclM oner Senator has been placed bv XV Norton for heat to Buffalo and loaded yesterday The steamer Pastal I' Pratt and consorts Annie 51 Ash and Helvetia are laying up at Milwaukee "ent into the Detroit yesterday for examination nnd any repairs that may be necessary Bdnr I'lint was from Ear oint at clock yesterday by the tug Home Rulo and departed for Toledo steamer Africa seems to be all rightChlislp Toronto savs she left larry sound 1 uesday noon for Inlet The steamer Cumberland and consorts were re Bland in the Sauit river Wed night and left at yesterday rams was ut slightly damneedtr aciMent at ilscoda nnd after being pumoed a fond be but six inches per i 1'1 "kJ cr of coilnr has been reloaded and she will be taken to Port Huron for repairs Bonds to the amount nt will be issued bj the American Steel Barge Co of West Su ts The bonds will be MOvu each and secured by the armers' Isxui A Trust co of New York They will be dated January 1 to run thirty year ''UJosepblue Struck an old pile near the Vindinill lighthouse Wednesday afternoon and grounded In ten leet of water The tug Miner went to release her but it was fenred that Jf she Mas pulled off She would tip over ami sink as she was full of water The Miner eaiue back and the scow Newell Hubbard went to the Josephine and will lash tut to her after which the tug will pull her Boston November Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Cliureli To was the lopic which occupied the at tention uf the morning session of the Epis copal church congress to day After devo Lionu exercises lusbop Jjawr tfueed as ibe first speaker ot jimonla m'1 rate wlu prctably tonnage0 will ta Hgbt brings of Milwaukee Sc 'V for Cleveland to Milwaukee Escanaba to Ohio i rts Hmry Johnson rWt It went to the Un to Uy and allot Ivy Charter to Till fijr 'orn hBr Duncan Kraiy 'Volf barley! Th at Ruffalo parley jo Port Huronw Ketcham Elnnui 'VaTt5: Ashland Lskw ood Park Charles Manitowoc 55c Majestic dt the Chicao eh reroL1 Most tached lanai freights ungL Clause at Grand Haven Mich November (Special) The scbu4ier Alert of Grand Haven while trying make the piers went on the beach but was not injured In any way The wind is heavy southwest and the sea is run Eng high The following are wtndbound: Wiscon in Pity of Milwaukee Atlanta rank Woods ins Haucnek and IJzzio Walsh schovuers Indian 13H OiDdor Nellie Hammond church to day the church cot were none such is a sign of a revival of a religious life that is a gift tn the churchMany women have joined these? orders' and when woman after woman declares she has a call fur Vocation of this kind we must accept it as a fact This session of rhn Kplscnpal church congress was largely attended The topic for the to relieve tin poor without pauperizing creator unusual interest smd those who spokp on Denver Col November 15 A 1 though many detectives are wm king upon tlie Mazket street strangling cases the mur derer is still at large and the tgi ror stricken female denizens of the row to which his operations have far been con lined are making preparations to Several jiavo already 11 1 the city Itfch ard Demany mfstrep Juia Tapper was the first victim is under $5 WO bail on suspicion The police hold the theory that he murdered Lena Tapper then killed Marie Contassnit because she could give damagimr testimony against him and finally strangled Kiku oyama in order to avert suspicion from himself and yachtsmen tn such ciforts as will al ways insure our keeping the tun on thi side of the stand winch writing sliall be nutbenticated by the stg ui iure or earn noron and verillrd bv the oath of one or more of said IH'rsons as to the gcnuiiaues of such signature A suilieient time to be fixed bv law before regis try tlou day such writing shall be IiIckI with a board of proper caiivasers such board to select from said lists tiie names of the candidates pro posed not exceeding two representing each po litical party aud having the highest number of votes for the particular candidacy Lists of the nanus selected shall by said board of can usscrs be prepared and printed after tlie manner now in ogue for printing election ballots and a Mifiiclent number of lists supplied to earn board of registration Upon appearing for regis tration eah elector after registering snail le turuKhed one of said lists ami it shall ho his duly to designate thereon the persons he wishes nominated for each onie named and present the same to the Ixjard to be deposited in ballot boxes piovided tor that purpose Jnimechatelv after the dose of registration such votes shall be canvassed and the persons receiving the greatest number i hereof not exceeding one representative for each political party for the particular othce named shall be recommended as the lawful nom inee to bo voted for nt Hie ensuing election and the printed election ballots provided for by law shrU be made accordingly It is certain ttuit the usual Irregularities frauds rascality and corrup tion which have hitherto run rampant would by a system like this be to a degree avoided if not wholly so I make this suggestion not as called for by any one set of party manipulators but by all of them and with a view of a ixwsible reforma tion of the present system The improved man ner of conducting our elections under the recently adopted rules is a just cause of congratulation to all The system 1 suggest joints in the samedircc tlon It may be said ir is cumbersome and expensive win mi irwrui ticnble? Can any expel! politics be extravagance? mm machinerv as proper men and mot! nuiiH lend to in attempt on the part 1 nwc I New York November The second gen eral meeting of the Society of Naval Archi tects and Marine Engineers nut to day in tlie rooms ot the American Society of Me chanical Engineers Clement A Grlscom was elected president and Washington I Clapp secretary and treasurer The following vice presidents were elected Charles II Cramp hillip Hlchborn Charles Loring (retired) Richard TV Meade Geo Mel ville Goo Quintard Irving Scott rancis A Walker Wm II Webb and Theo ilson A number of papers were read upon subjects of na tional interest One of them entitled Suggestions of Experience in Connection with the Naval Construction of the Past Ten was by Richard Meade rear admiral "If I had my ay he said a single cruiser should be added to the navy until at least twenty battleships 100 torpedo boats and a number of rams were ready for service The vessels least satisfactory to the prac tical men of our profession are the Cilum Alinneapolis Detroit and Cincinnati Majestic and Teutonic can laugh at them for speed As to fighting 1 doubt the superiority of the Columbia over the Arneri faj1 Mntr New York suitably opinion In the main to day Is that an efficient fleet for modern warfare should be composed of the following component parts: Armored ships for coast defense armored ships for harbor defense armored cruisers The battering and torpedo outfit being of the heaviest and all vessels built to ram when necessary of the rapid type of cruisers for commerce destroyers 1 know none that better fulfill my idea than the ocean liners Lucania and Campania These ships in my judgment are the commerce destroyers of the In conclusion Admiral Meade called at tention to the present war between Japan and China pointing out the fact that China with a fine fleet and Incompetent personnel was defeated by Japan with an inferior fleet but a trained personnel If we are io have a policy let us have one for sake that will outlast the brief space of a pi i siueuuiu leriu In a paper on obstacles building and owning in thia countrv Dickie of San rancisco said: order that the United States may partici pate in ocean commerce to the extent ot her own imports and exports there must be first a patriotic ambition throughout the country to carry the products ot mir industry under our own flag second wise national laws to protect ami foster our merchant marine third state amt munici pal laws on the part of sea girt stales and maritime cities epeoui aging snipbuilding and ship owning within their borders The British government fosters maritime exhi bitions Naval maneuvers are carried on rfll the traditions of the' naval mercantile fleets ot England and are made a part of the education of the youth How remark able the contrast betweenthcir intense loy alty to the maritime interests of their coun try on the part of the British and the hope less apathy prevailing among us even in seaport towns At the launch of the bat tleship Oregon in San rancisco no gov ernment ship was there to represent the navy Not a gun was heard to herald the event Tlie build rs to make a decent show' bad to go round and beg the English merchant ships to diess UP fot the occa sion a large number of tnose inter eted in shipping mtv claim that as foreign commerce can only be prosecuted In direct competition ith all the world American ships built of pi elected material and with protected labor an In vested capital so far in excess of their com petitors that even with other things equal the contest is too one sided for any hope of success We are apt to condemn such a presentation of the subject as unpatriotic but it is business truth Me must either build ships for the ship on ner at the same price as that paid foi similar ship with which he competes or else give him the privilege of buying his ship where his com petitor buys his to the struggle an equal one and as with material and labor at present rates it is impossible to meet the European price for a rehant ship and it being the will of th people that ship building should have a like protection with engine building or bridge building the tree purchase of ships abroad would be as unjust to the ship builder as the free pur chase of eneines would be to the engine builder It therefore that the American ship builder should from the public purse be placed on an equal footing with hi foreign competitor Th help to the ship owner is a small matter in itseit but it is the missing link need to com plete a great chain of commercial enter prise Tile laws relating lo flouting prop erty differ in the various satoar 1 states constitution of the state of Califor nia provides that all property real or per Mmers who work in the No 3 shaft of the Tamarack mine at Calumet must have an exceedingly pleasant time of it The temperature there registers feO degrees all the time Rev Steffens president of the VV estern theological Seminary at Holland has received a call to the chair of a sem inary at Dubuque la but has not as yet accepted Henry La tshaw a Cass countv farmer engaged a hired man and loaned liim a pair of trousers There was $40 in bills in one of the pockets and Latshaw is now minus money man and trousers Northville Republicans are likely to get a little sore at the way some of the county oilice plums are to be dealt out The North ville end of the town puts up the Republi can votes and the lvinouth end of the town takes the fruit Another arrest has been made at Colon in connection with the murder of George Johnson some time ago The person is Mrs Swartz mother of the Swartz boys with whom Johnson had quarreled shortly before the murder occurred The board of education of Bay City will permit the public school children to make a free will offering of clothing groceries provisions etc the day before Thanksgiv ing for the needy children of the city This practice haa been followed for three yeais Dr AV Munhall who conducted revival meetings in Bay City for three weeks last winter beginning in January has been en gaged to hold a series of similar meetings in sfivtnflw tha nnminn mAn attacked that city two years ago with marked success The Round Oak stove will soon use electricity as motive power The dynamos will be located at a water power five miles away the current to be carried by heavy copper wires to the plant where it will also be used as a commer cial lighting circuit Last summer Bev Goodwin of St Episcopal church at Ypsilanti was appointed chaplain in the United States navy He went on a cruise on the cruiser Columbia but has returned to Ypsilanti to resume his church work having resigned his position In the navy Some time ago a citizen of St James Manitou Co died and in his will provided that each of the district schools in the countv be furnished with a school library from estate The libraries have been made up by Supt of uofic Instruction and shipped to the islands A wagon load or rnore of elk horns have been unearthed by a farmer near Northville while plowing up some new ground where they had evidently been shed by the ani mals a century or so ago an ie trees near the spot to indicate a place and the oldest inhabitant has ollection of ever hearing of an elk vicinity 3T13DAY MB 1 a Bay City Mich November A party wa's held last evening at the residence of William Hammond in West Bay City His niece Miss Kate and his daughter Mina attended During the after noon a coal stove was put up to warm the house for company The flue it seems was filled with bricks and soot and prevented i tne coal gas irom esxapreis was forced back into the house The chimney was cleaned as was supposed and the fire again started The family retired as usual and this morning the neighbors found the women suffering from the effects ot coal gas Miss was lifeless and Mina nearly so The other members of the fami ly were soon resuscitated Miss who was 21 years of age was to have been married next week and the party was one given to her friends in celebration of the approaching event nt Its Application to bv iTienrau of 1 uno cloned postmaster Aleonaf conference of pastors of the lanf ChUfCh heW at atAGrandaran( opera house Havfinntt cfnclnn managed by John Sprin Lake Iron ut Mill be started next week and will employ directly and about W0 Co hewJen rotlice at Drake Lapeer nS 1 Thursday ordered moved one carion? m'leS SOUth lts Present lo Yovember payments for fruit nnd labor at the Benton Harbor canning fac tories amounted to nearly $15000 The plants have closed for the season Mrs A Rude died of pneumonia Tnes re aut re er in Batavia towirehip Branch Co She was 3 years old and lived the county for forty years or more nrhthvnke was on the President of the Aorthulle water board last week when his for non payment of vater tax He had forgotten ail about it convention of the Albion District Min isterial Association at Homer after a two days session closed on Thursdav The meeting was a grand success in every way an Auken of Grand Rapids has purchased 640 acres of land near Diamond Pf in Cass county and will plant one of the largest peach orchards in the state xreheuCalllOTet Hecla will have a coal bill this winter that would make most of us look tired They expect to use HOoot) tons of coal and have laid that amount in Miners who work in the No ITactical uxporl' nrp ii this and other cilies evening were Robert Treat ton and Itev Georue Nelson York The appointed speak rs were I sonal found within the ataly vti a cei tain date of each year must taxed on its actual value Ht the time Whil" snip prop erty may not Ire actually within the state the evi'Iencv of its ownership living found in the custom liotire it is taxed according ly or instance a vessel owned and regis tered in aan rancisco and valued at saw has to pay the sam city county and state t' as a building oh Market street valued at (he same amount Apart from the load thus imposed on ship owner there 1 the manifest inju tice ot such a method of taxation The vessel thug taxed can receive no benefit whatever from the liteh in time should be gone about for larger and more nuincruus dry ended Mr Hlchborn's address lit vrec Mich November 15 The headquarters of the Seventh Day Advent ists in this city is being flooded with letters and telegrams from all parts of the world imprisonment of members UieJlcS1 for working on Sun fire re ZV i ioiser formerly of this Qasei Switzerland one Marvel ln Jai1 ln Tennessee two in itaba StnVeiral are under arrest in Man statbt sParch received a vuiici jl tn terv 1 1 16 JUbt been convicted for Sunday sentenced to sixty days inipris Emulsion CHI KCII THE DETROIT REE in George Gould crai Yt Duncan UUUI and consort hlcb 1KVR flrul Vu Devereaux Wilhelm () Iron Duke IronSor "iib and dtedee toHoirer Anctrela: 1 1 41 JCLihS UL JeVIltU PfillT November loxco 5 rver io itzgerald 9:15 r0 Nichol 12:30 Laagell 1 oster (sailed) 1:15: consorts 2:30 Macy Wilson nown Wiiuim rau or Micuiuj eaux 11 nkl ronsort ln: Dever TUB SAULT Uhlc6 leh November (Special Bacon While "ov S' umbia TH 1 tiSc laraua 6:10 Servla 1 oster I0ZPri James Jdowatt 9:25 dS A' Shenan Mahoning Buiri 'Uor Schoolcraft Marv vkr George Nester 3:50 Sitka Yukon 5 15 AMaStC BattI Water 14 feet 1 imlies WELLAND CANAL At'ornl oia Pueblo eargo Lewiston Superior to Oswego bar southwest strong SAND BEA (tf Leach Mich November 15 (Special) MflD nl rotaft: Miami AIlIl Jones Huberts Straits 'Jemplar India Johnson Shop Barometer very low gauges THE STliAITS Ml'h November Dwn Mohawk Washbum 7:10 A rel 11 oo Dilip Ketcham and consorts Jt IvIBKlPfl Bilbbury fXA 4A uaiuc Colgate and consorts Lan eji AHfira ldnri uasr tints 4(V nA? ut tne west and con AVflhelm nnd wwtRxTt a targes 7 ra WO A A Turner and Wl aud ft2o Maritnna 0 45 A ust ra 5 AiauiDestor Port Huron Jnhnwn Pabst 5:45 Minch 1:30 SeguinKetcham and Rhodes plThen Richest 1J ood i 2 A.