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THE DETROIT REE PRESiS: TUESDAY DECEMBER 14 1S8G mu hi iimimhiiiiihiiui i nil iil rnw mni ton in i PUBLISHED DAILV TERIIS OP THE KEE REBS IT dIIlV cl PRESS lodrllveredLy can far: in rroJl and In nil towns tl rotlgfaArt the htote every day tn the year for Inx: HIT 11 4BESS Scents ser copy mall postage free tn the United Stater and Canada: 4 Y(svnipiIr weekl One YearS700 1 1 (seven papers ver week) One Jlonth BO fCNDli'One Year IV'iEKLY One Year Transient postage Sand 12 ages 1 cent: 16 pages? cents 1 skrtraxcss Dratts ks Express JIoxzt OanrBS sxd Post omejs OrpersSuoclb ps Made THE DETROIT REE COMPANY PuLlIgliers Detroit Mich i ulephonf TiuaiuEK'tj I'urinrrs Department 844 7 31tr I iMcing (one ring Jeb Oy cc 432 Detroit Office 50 C2 and S4 Larned street west euden Office: 825Strand VA sbinzt on Office Near York avenue Central Eastern A cent LYNN 23 Row New York City On lilastGHHfrt United fiatos Exchange 9 St nmd Cliarlug Cro London England TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 14 HUH JIAS TUB bARCEST C1B CD AT 1 0 IN th hTATli GLit CJKCUIATJON The circulation of Ttik Dailt Detroit rei Pi ess for the wck ending December II 1 336 was as follows: 2U 7S5! Moo lay 1 Tuesday 7 At neadiLy 1 ri 1 7 Th rsdtt 2 Svl' Jll riday baiurtluy a I)3'211 Total Daily 1ft GS King Kalakatia celebrates bis birthday by getting drunk and pardoning murderers on condition that they leave the country If ho would reverse the proposition by getting mur derers drunk and pardoning himself on condi tion tint he leave the country it would be a big thing for the land of Kamehameha If tho bill which recently passed the House of Representatives extending the free mail de livery system becomes a law the Michigan cities which will be benefited aro Ann Arbortdrian lint Saginaw City Port Huron Coldwater Muskegon and Manistee' The Iroj osition is to base free delivery on the postal revenues Some pnragrapher has started an item on the rounds to the effect that Senator Edmunds Las constructed a flno toboggan slide In commenting upon it there is some difference of opinion us to whether the Vermont Senatorwill or ill not let Jimmy Blaine slide There can be none however over the fact that ac customed though Blaine fa to the severity of Maine winters ho would find it remarkably cool if he dropped around Judge Kelley of Pennsylvania wants to be counted out of the selfish band of Republican protectionists who would let the sugar plantc of Louisiana slide la order to save the tariff taxon other commodities Tho Judge al ti ough he has been dubbed fa hon est in his protectionist views and on principle tugar is as much entitled to protection as iron It fa the interest of the great mass of consum ers which ought to be regarded not those of a select few and the trouble with our tariff legislation is that the interests of the latter are consulted It fa said that the act of Congress fixing the order of Presidential succession in the event of a vacancy' in tho offices of President and Vice President has ledsoiuo of the wives of the Sen ators who have heretofore contested viva ciously if not vigorously tho right of wives of members of the Cabinet to social precedence to concede the point One of the ladies how ever suggested that if the Senate made the concession why should not the Supreme Court for the same reason she added not heirs to the It runy be that the raising of tho social question anew may lead to a battle royal between the ladies of the Cabinet and the ladies of the Supremo Court a to pi ecedehce Senator Van Wyck the erratic Republican Senator from Nebraska has endeared himself to all urban sufferers by hisnssaulton the bob tail street car nuisance lie has offered a reso lution calling for an inquiry of the Metropoli tan Street Railroad Company He proposes bi compel the company to place upon their ears conductoi's lie said that as it is every person who rides is bis or her own conductor and in order to have the opportunity of riding the passengers were compelled to contribute a service to the company in addition to the service rendered the company The Sena tor thinks the abuse lias gone long enough and should be stopped If our Aidermen would only take a similar attitude another relic of barbarism might disappear from tho streets of Detroit The personal observations of Judge Kelley the South lead him to a different conclusion as to the wages pai labor in that section from that which James Blaine arrived at on tho strength of his unaided imagination and which he stated ith flourishes of random rhetoric in his speeches in Pennsylvania dur ing th late campaign in that State The Now York Times sjieaking of the differences net ween the fact of Kelley and the fiction of Blaine caustically suggests that Mi Blaine will in time learn that it is better to know less than it ds to know so manj things that are not Mr Blaine we fear is past the age of learning anything Al though Le is apt to receive an emphatic eye opener in 1SS8 it is doubtful if this will pre vent him from putting in an appearance in the ring of Presidential candidates in 1S92 The New York AVorld notes the fact that if tho provisions of the Electoral Count bill as it passed tho House had been the law in 1877 Samuel Tilden would have secured the Presidency tn which he was elected This statement would be equally true of the provis ions of the bill os it originally passed tho Senate There has not indeed been any method which has received or could receive serious consideration at the hands of Congress as forming tho basis of permanent legislation which if in force iu 1877 would not have giv en Tilden his scat The absurd claim that the president of the Senate can count' the votes according to his own sweet will has no advo cates to speak of now that there is no imme diate partisan necessity for putting it for ward and there is hardly a Republican who would have the gall to ask the two Houses of Congress to assent to it The Supremo Court of the United States is said to be the only court of final jurisdiction in the country where tho work of deciding the cava fa first done by all the imlges and for thfa reason ibis claimed that it Is the hardest worked tribunal in the land In the Supreme Court of the United States the judges go over till the cases consult over each and the Chief Justice does cut designate who is to writs the opinion until after an agreement is reached in tho consultation room Tien the opinion fa Landed in it runs the gauntlet of general criticism It is possible that if tba practice which prevails in the State courts were followed of dividing the work among the judges when the cases are argued discussing the opinions in the full liench before they are promulgated the Supreme Court of the United States might keep up more closely with its business with out detracting from the strength of the opinions At the election in Nebraska polls for popu lar preference for United States Senator were opened The Van Wyck men generally voted but the anti Van Wyck Republicans as a rule abstained from expressing their preference Van Wyck received a total vote of 46110 about one third of the whole number cast and Lis friends claim that this shows be is by all odds the strongest man with the people The straight Republicans claim that they will have a majority on joint ballot in the legisla ture over both Van Wyck Republicans and Democrats The Van Wyck men claim that a majority the Republican members of tho legislature will support him Dr Miller of the Omaha Herald puts the straight Repub lican strength at 45 Van Wyck Republicans at 36 straight Democrats 15 Van VJyck Democrats 12 and 25 uncertain The Doctor docs not think Van Wyck can get enough of those counted as uncertain to elect him The fight will be an interesting one civil sEifvici tueohetic AND Commenting on tho civil service portion of the President's message the New York Even ing Post says: is all excellent It calls for only one word of criticism Which is that the reform as now embodied in the law will never bo ftiily and heartily accepted by the people and politicians until its principles are upheld in dealing with appointments which the law does not cover As long as these ore made to any considerable extent on the spoils theory the law will continue to be treated by politicians with more or less approval and ac ceptance on tho part of the public as some thing fanciful and transitory and the system of appointment for fitness will never take root in American political This is unquestionably the theory In substance it is the true The true theoretic way to establish a civil ser vice on the sound basis of fitness is of course to abandon finally and firmly the basis As a theory it is alisolutely irrefu table Unfortunately however we have had some experience in this country with irre futable theories and it has not been alto gether a favorable experience Theoretically the way to stop the sale of intoxicating drink is to prohibit it but we all know how far short that theory has come of practical suc cess Horace theory of resumption way to resume is to was as sound as it was simple Rut it could not be made to work Scores of similar theories beautifully simple and iu contest illy sound have failed iu the eame way Our experience with them has been very much like that of the Tennesee attorney who demonstrated to liis client that under the laws of that State he coul not possibly be putin jail for the offense herewith he was charged The argument was irresistible But as the client looked through the grating which separated him from his logical lawyer answered ing all of which here I am on that precise But it is unnecessary to go outside for illus tration of the practical weakness of the mug wump civil service theory Short as the time has been during which the attempt lias been made to curry the reform into effect it has been quite long enough to demonstrate the essential weakness of tho theory or if any thing is true of that effort this is true: Just so far os the practice has been conformed to the theory the reform has lost its hold in every State in the Union in deference to the underlying or what was as sumed to be such of civil service reform Re publicans to whom the civil service rales did not apply Lave been retained in office under President administration With scarcely a single exception they were appointed under the system not for fitness but for personal service to tho Re publican party Some of these no doubt wero faithful public servants and Lad ac quired by long service an accurate knowl edge of their duties but they were not re tained on this account They were retained rs already intimated In the assumed interest of a reformed civil service to the end that the reform might be male more acceptable to the public Removal it was assumed ex cept upon some such ground as i would make enemies for the reform retention would make friends for it Has that been the result? Every intelligent observer knows that it has not The who wanted no office have been pleased but no converts have been made from the Republican ranks On the contrary the keeping of their party friends in office under an opposition administration has teen a dis tinct grievance to the Republicans It has de prived them of partisan aids whoso value was well known and in every case where an official has been retained they have been fur nished with the basis for a sneer at every removal The Republican attitude to day to wards civil service reform and towards the President who has been we believe honestly endeavoring to establish it is decidedly more hostile than it was before the President was inaugurated And it is far more hostile we Im' not the slightest doubt than it would have been if the President bad as rapidly as time and the law permitted removed every Republican of fice holder whose tenure was not covered by the civil service rules How bus it been with the Democrats? Has the effort to carry out tho spirit of the reform strencthened itwith the own party? To this the an swer must also be in the negative The staucti friends of the reform who were its friends on principle and who wanted no office for themselves or their friends are its stanch friends still But there are thousands of Democrats who wero predisposed in favor of the reform and who might have been made its friends by a wise and politic application of its principles who have been hopelessly alienated from its support and who denounce it us a huiubug It is impossible to ignore this last mentioned fact or to underrate its significance or its bear ing upon the future of the reform It is con ceded by the most nrdent and devoted even of the tkedretic upholders of the reform tuit It must have the support of the peonle or of a party or it is lost It is conceded indeed in tbo criticism which suggest these considerations Is it not then worth while to make soma sacrifice in order to iie cure that support? Is it not worth while td sacrifice even the theory if we can secure thereby a practical gain There is no need tor any great sacrifice There is no need indeed for real sacrifice at alh There is no violation of the principle which underlies the civil service reform in re moving every Republican officeholder above the grades covered by the rules who owes Lis position to his partisanship Neither is there any violation of that principle in filling the vacant places ith Democrats provided only that they be selected for fitness and for friend liness to the reform not merely for partisan ship And even if there were a technical vio lation of the principle it would not only be justifiable but commendable or only in thfa way or in some equivalent way which tends to make friends instead of enemies for the reform can the principle ever be estab lished BY DIRECT BOUNTIES Among the means which Senator Sherman one of the foremost representatives of the protectionist policy and sentiment would take to reduce the revenues to a point not greatly beyond the public needs is the placing of sugar on the free list Tills measure if adopted would lessen the revenues by up wards of $50000000 annually It would however place the sugar planters of Louisi ana wholly at the mercy of foreign competi a very bad thing according to the protectionist and to keep them from making a fuss at their sacrifice to meet the inexorable demand for revenue reduction Senator Sherman would give a national bounty of two cents per pound for each pound Of sugar raised in this country This would be equivalent on the average product of Louisiana to between $4000000 and $5000 000 annually By paying this sum the people could have free sugar and the great principle of would be practically upheld But why does Senator Sherman stop at su gar? Why not with other industries carry out the idea of protection in the form of boun ties? There fa a duty now of $17 per ton on steel rails Our imports of steel rails are now small in quantity but tho use of them in the country is largo not admit steel rails free of duty and give a bounty direct from the Treasury of $17 per ton to the homo manu facturer? The output tfio coming year will be 1500000 tons and a $17 bounty thereon would be $25500000 Why not have this di rectly paid out of the Treasury? The manu facturers could not then fear competition with steel rails the product of pauper labor any more than they do now They would have to sell to consumers as cheaply as tho pauper made rails could lie sold but they would have on every ton the $17 direct bounty to play upon just as they have now tho indirect bounty which tho tariff of $17 affords them Then there is the manufacture ot cotton goods The value at the place of export of the cotton goods imported iuto the United States during the fiscal year ended Juno 30 1S85 was upwards of £27000000 the duty paid thereon nearly $11000000 Why not provide by law that cotton goods shall be admitted free of dutj but that a specific sum equivalent towhat the duty would be shall be given one very spool of thread on every pound of cotton yaru on every yard of fabric on every other manufactured product of cotton turned out iu the United States to the home manufacturers direct from the Treasury? This would effectively bar the door against foreign competition as the present tariff does and the jieoplo would know pre cisely what price they paid for Earthenware glass and glassware iron and all forms of steel as well as rails rice salt woolen goods and a host of other articles might bo dealt with in a similar manner Protect the home manufacturer or producer by the payment of a direct bounty and admit tho foreign article free There is no reason why the manufacturers and producers of these thiugs should bo placed on a different footing from the sugar planters of Louisiana If it is a good thing for to take the form of a direct bounty iu one case it is in the other The bounty system is the true logic of pro tection But Mr Shermau or any man who ventured to suggest that it be made uniform in its application or that it should be directly applied in the interest of home manufacturers or producers generally would be scouted at Its application however would very soon show the people that a tariff was a tax and a very heavy tax upon their earnings and energy It would soon deplete tho Treasury leaving no room for complaint because of a surplus or for discussion as to the best means of disposing of it Statesmen would have to rack their brains in search of methods by which to raise money with which to pay the bounties to protected industries The cost of protection would be seen and realized and the people would quickly overthrow the policy and condemn the originators of it et the people who would make short work of a party which came forward as the pro poser of a direct bounty protective scheme of general application suffer the continuance in our tariff system of features which are as op pressive to them and which cost them as much rs would be the case if the money taken from the pockets of consumers by the excessive war tariff were absolutely and directly ap propriated from the Treasury How long will they continue to endure excessive taxation with its accompaniment of legalized robbery under the name of protection DEATH GOVEBSOJt CT OS WELL The death of Honorable Charles Cres well removes one of the most popular execu tive officers of Michigan's more recent histo ry He was a courteous gentleman whose administration of his office reflected credit on himself and the State Ho was the last of a Jong line of Governors nominated Without hot fights in convention and wlioo canvasses were not warm and spirited With Ins suc cessor David Jerome began a series of spirited contests in convention and at tho polls His death leaves but five living ex Governors of Michigan Alpheus elch 1840 7 Aus tin Blair ISG1 5 Henry Baldwin 1809 73 David Jerome 1881 3 and Josiah YV Hc gole 1883 5 Governor Croswell was Chief Executive from 1877 to 1881 but he did ether eminent service to the State Ho was State Senator for three tu rns 1SG3 9 and President pro tempore of that body all that time He was President of the Constitutional Conven tion in 1867 In 1872 he was elected to the State Legfalaturo and was chosen Speaker hfa retirement from the chair he has lived very quietly at his home in Adrian There now survive twelve ex Presi dent pro Mi of the uate and eleven ex Spc tei of tho Hojse There survives but one man Byron Stout who has held both positions The Conduct of Public Affairs Intelligence whether it is in handling tools running machinery keeping selling muslin carrying on wholesale trade or di recting the operations of a factory or a rail road ilnds a common ground of agreement as to the principles and methodson which public affairs are to be conducted There is not one policy for the man ho handles a trowel or a Diane and another for the man who handles a yard stick or a pen York imes A IVron to the People No Democratic Representative can right fully vote against a motion to consider a bill to reduce the needless and burdensome war taxes at the beginning of a session of Con gress They may properly and will inevita bly be differences as to the details of such a bill But to refuse it consideration is to do a meat wrong to the people Y'ork World A Tariff Keform Platform Keep the tax on whisky and tobacco Re duce the customs duties on the more important necessaries of life sugar salt clothing and the like and remove or reduce the duties on articles used bj our manufacturers in rhe shape of raw materials thereby aiding manu facturers and laboring men anil all consumers Courier Tax Durden Should be Talceu Oil Not Shifted There ought to be no hesitation in choosing between tax reduction that would reducetoxa tion and tax reduction that would only shift the burden bv making it payable in the firat instance at the factory or the store instead of at the Custom Record It Will Serve Lite Public "Welfare If certain manufacturers subsidized by ex cessive duties ranging from fifty to eighty per cent cannot stand a reduction it will serve the public welfare for them to engage in some business which does not require the savage taxation of the masses for the advantage of a rapacious Tribune An Awful Test for Ueporter lilainc Reporter Blaine will never appreciate the true glory uf local journalism until he is put to reporting society Then wish be was a cowboy away out on the confines of Now Mexico with a job of rounding up cuttle or deep down in a coni mine digging coal at fifty cents a tun Herald Tlio Surplus Iands of tlie Indians Whatever plan may lx? adopted the reports of the year make it clear that tho disposal of the surplus lands of the Indians for their best interest is ono of the most important subjects that can come lief ore Congress this winter York Sun AOTHEH CHEAP TEEATEB Merrill Hall Lensed lor ive Years by Sack ett VI mains file Museuin Jlanngers Sackett 58 Wiggins the well known amuse ment caterers have completed tbeir arrange ments for entering the Detroit field and will open a first class dime museum and theater on Christmas day They have leased Merrill Hall and the two stores at 78 an I 80 Wood ward avenue which form part of the Merrill block and will immediately commence the work of putting the premises in shape for their intended new use The stores will be converted into a museum and will be connected with the hall by a stairway The hall will be changed into a pretty and cosy httle theater The lease made by Sackett Wiggins runs for five years During the first year it is expected the premises above mentioned will meet the needs of the firm but after that time the en tire Merrill block will be handed over to them and the museum conducted on a grain I scale The theater will lie lowered to the ground and provided with two galleries while a large and commodious hall of curiosities will be con structed of the remainder of tue space Sack ett Wiggins are just completing a magnifi cent new theater at Minneapolis which is said to be as far ahead of in its costly and elegant appoint men ts as is ahead of the other Detroit theaters and the firm will bring some of their enterprise to Detroit L00AD BEEVIUEB Detroit Commandery is malting elaborate preparations to visit Jackson on January 12 Chas Gould a 9 yenr old incorrigable was locked up in the Central Station yesteiday He lives at 308 East ort street The Triangle drug store made famous bv the Alles murder has been sol I by Brittle to Chas Roache of St Louis 'Mo Mar Hendricks aged 16 is charged with being a disorderly person add languishes in the Central Station She claims to live aE 114 Hastings street Walter Warner who claims to live at 7S High street east was arrested Inst night on a warrant charging him with obtaining goods under false pretenses The Detroit Musical Society will hold its regular weekly rehearsal in Merrill Hall next Monday after which efforts will be made to secure the Chamber of Comiuereo Hall tor the use Otto Kirchner attorney for tho street car employes who desire to sustain the street car licensing ordinance informs his clients that the ordinance is invalid but that for $50 he could draw one that would hold water The Committee on Markets is in no hurry to report on the petition uf the market butch ers for the extension of the Central Market building Aid Sweeney says the butchers endeavored to bulldoze the committee which the latter submit to At to session of the Board of Alder men Aid Kaiser will offer the following resolution calling for the repeal of tho law creating a board of health in Detroit aud ask ing for the appointment by tne Mayor sub ject to confirmation by the Common Council of a health officer whose duty it shall be to execute all sanitary regulations iu the city EX GOV OR OS WELL DEAD The Career of one of Tuichi Most Re spected and Honored Citizens Drought to an End A BRIE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH EVENTUL LIE ADRTAN J'ecember 13 Ex Gov Charles Croswell died at his residence in this city this morning after a brief illness He had been con fined to his bed tut a few days but continually grew weaker and Sunday his case was hopeless Ho has ever teen regarded as one of orr ablest and worthiest citizens and fcr several years past Las been the President of the Lensweo County Savings Bank Ke has withoutdonbt as sumed too many responsibilities and has worked himself to death The sad event is keenly felt by all classes of citizens and there is universal sorrow in the city where he has so long been held in the highest esteem and respect for his high worth as a man and a citizen A bar meeting was held at the Court House this afternoon and passed resolutions ot regret JU I' vin7Yi CHABLES CROSWKLT lion Chas Croswell was born at Nowburg Grange Co October 31 1825 He was the only son of John and Sallie (Hioks) Cros well His father was of Scotch Irish descent and his ancestors on his side re ot Knickerbocker descent When but 7 years of ace his father was accidentally drowned in the Hudson River and within threo months preced ing that event his mother aud only sister id died thus leaving him tho sole surviving mem ber of tho family without fortune or means Upon the death ot his father lie went to live with au uncle who in 1N37 emigrated with him to Adrian Mich At years of ago lie com menced to learn the carpenter's trade and worked nt it very diligently for tour years maintaining himself an I devoting his spare lime to reading and the acquirement of knowl edge In 18 Id lie began the study of law and was appointed Deputy Clerk of Lonaweo County the duties of which olllce he performed for four years hen he was elected Register of Deeds and was re elected in In lb5t he took part in tho first movements for the forma tion of tho Republican party and was a mem ber and Secretary of tho coin ention held at Jackson in that year which put in the field the first Republican Statc ticket in Michigan In 1855 he formed a law partnership with Judge Cooley which continued until tho removal to Ann Arbor LStJg Mr Croswell was appointed City Attorney of Adrian and was also elected Mayor of the city in the spring ot tho same year In the fall of 1SG2 he was chosen to represent Lenawee County in tho State Senate where the compliment of Chair man of the Committee on tho Judiciary was paid him He was re elected to the Senate in Ibdt aud again in 18CG In IsilT he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention and was chosen its presiding officer In lShbhe was chosen au elector on the llepu bliean 1 tial ticket: in 1872 he was elected a Representa tive to the Ijegislrture from lenaweo and was chosen Speaker of the House In ISfG ho was elected Governor of Michigan and was renominated and re elected in 187b He Las been icc married and fa survived by his second wife and a son and two daughters by his tirrt wife who died in IStlb Gov Croswell was a men of broad culture and in intellectual ability had few superiors in the State He was an eloquent anil polished speaker and strong in argument In his personal inter course he as always courteous affable and pleasant and no person ever knew him to to rude or harsh WAS HE MURDERED The rtemnins of Ji Kennedy ound JBnrh 1:1 the Woods Clias Harvey and Ills Asso ciates will be Arretted Ost ODA December To day the crowd of officers who have been searching for a number of days for the remains of Joe Kcnn dy who it is supposed was murdered about three months ago by Chas Harvey and wife and Thos and Mattie Smith inniatesot Har house of ill fame near Tawos City found the remains buried in the woods near house The whole crowd are a hard gang and old ofleuders Their arrest on the charge of murder will immediately follow liarvey wile lias been connected with a number of mur ders previous to tiffs She has confessed the crime but lays it on Harvey Should Dr be brought buck and confined in the Ta was jail it will hold the hardest crowd ever within its walls aud any man could make his escajMi out of it in' two hours if left alone WIDOWED WIPE AND WEDDED MAID Charles Brown Drops Dead hile Dancing at His Wedding Near Munisteo Suiurd Right MAbTsTE December 13 On Saturday evening the friends of Dwight Sibley assembled at his residence in the Town ship of Manistee to witness the marriage of his daughter to Charles Brown a young man about 23 years old Some two hours after the cere mony the people engaged in dancing and while the bridegroom was dancing ho fell to the floor dead He wks an exemplaiy young man of good health and during the pa summer had i een discharging liie arduous duties of nrakeman on a logging lailroad It is supposed he died ot heart disease He Las relatives residing iu Jackson County Light Infantry lection NO VESSELS NEEDED The annual election of officers ot the Light Infantry occurred last night when the follow ing were chosen to serve during the ensuing year: Captain Chas Dupont irst Lieuten ant Geo Corns Second Lieutenant Henry Lothrop President Ralph Phelps Jr Secretary Harry Starker Treasurer red Harvey Directors Mahon Geo Green' Syd Grilim Harry Chipman Wm Smith Jr Chas A Curs carton Q'uarternmster rank Buda His torian Herrick The company Lins decided to give a ball to the ladies who aeristed in the making the re cent fair the success it was The proposition to take a trip South next spring was informally discussed and definite action postponed until the next meeting Detroit Will lie Keprexented Beginning on May 23 next and eliding on the 30th a national miiitia encampment will be held at Washington at which prizes aggre gating $26500 will be given for excellence in drill There is a movement on foot to secure the representation of Detroit by a battalion consisting of from four to seven companies Prizes amounting to $10500 will bedfrtriLate among five companies of infantry as follows $5 GOO to the first 82500 to the second $1500 to tbo third $1000 to fourth aud $300 to the fifth Politics Are Lively Over the River Great interest is felt in both Windsor and Detroit over tho meetings to day and to morrow to be addressed Ly the giants of the Reform and Conservative lAirties To day is Lil era! day Sir Eiward lake and the Hon Wilfred Laurier cddrcesiug both afternoon and evening meetiags To morrow Sir John 2Lacdouald Hou Thompson Hon George oster and Hon Thomas White will suc uk at 7:33 ni All tho umetiugs will be held at the Essex Music ine bronzes for (Air (itts Wrgut Kay Co jewcl rs Ilonin and oj Uciars One of the lg Upper Peninsula Mines Will snip Ore to Uli vetarff by All in 11 Jtoilti Negaunee December One of tho big mines of tills district fa making arramro meiits to ship ore by all rail route to Cleveland during tLe winter About 300 tons dally will be seat forward TLe rate fasunposed to be a little over $3 a ton but the mine 1 in such a cndi tioti that shipments can ix made profitable even with freights nt that ligvre numter of mines in the Gogebic district will ship by rail to Chi cago but this Is the first instance of rail ship ments to Cleveland Meets Wlih avor tn tb Ipper insula MauqULTTK December Pub lic opinion here and throughout the Peninsula generally is in favor of the action of Congress in forfeiting tho immense land grant of the Onton agon Ernie Railroad Company Thu com I any made au attempt to hold the land by building twenty two miles ot road over snow hanks and in the winter The land grantsof tre Hongiiton Ontonagon Rai iruau Com any aud or the Lake Superior Ship Caaal Jt Raili oitd Company will be examined into by Congress this winter Oppositlun to Watkins GH tXD Radius December 13 The nnnonneement Of the probable appointment of Chas Watkins Warden of the Ionia on is meeting opposition here by lea ling Repub licans who deciare they will circulate a petition tor fits removal Watkins lias been at work here opposing chances for tLe Senaiur tin they don't pro ose to iiave iifru inter fering witu ailaiix lu re hich don't aitect lirn Gov Lm will be muted to aupoint Cant Geo Judd a one armed si lier Manistee December David "Ward of Detroit ou Saturday sold to Kibbee Son of Albany lobuoeo feet ci corx pine lumber log run at 827 per at cue of the mllfa at this jkiru With the rxeeutbn made 1 rt ummcr lq Mr 117 is the largest rice get at tLfapoitiur BAY CITY BADNESS AaViikbana Man Rlllx iinself at a Ilotel Another Keturus Home After an at sence of Several Week am! Suicides Bay City December Tho Bay Cities aro somewhat agitated tc dny over two suleldes that were discovered yesterday and to day The first wjis that of an unknown nan iu a room at the Callaghan House on Linn street West Bay City lie was called to breakfast about fl o'clock responded but did not get up At 2 o'clock the chambermaid when entering the room dicov ered that he was dead He had cut an artery in Jett elbow joint with small pen knife and had bled to death He had taken especial pains to accomplish sclf straction wituout sothu the bed clothing irpet or surroundingturu ture having nilowcl the blood to flow into hit overshoe' When lound he was lying upon his back eyes open teeth tizhtlv closed and hu right arm striking attitude The hand held the open knite1 lie was middle aged man comparatively well dressed Cards were found in his fpse son that would indlcatehe Lad re cently teen in Kost Saginaw No reason fa assigned for the deed This mornlug the lea I body of II Lynch was found in bed at the boarding Louse kept by his wife corner ot Seventh Adams streets thi city Deceased Cirtiio to Bay City in Iris? and opened a picture tratue establishment whch ho operated until about four months ago when he bnduenly left tho citv his wife and three children remaining totally ignorant ot lu3 whereabouts or his reason in leaving A month since ho returned as mysteriously ns he de yaited ana went to the boarding house which his wife had started During the past week he has appeared to be flow nbeartodand had spoken of suiciding on a few occasions Last night ate no supper aud retired early sleeping his twin children years of are This morning he was dead Indications point to hvdrateof chloral rs the drug used' Hfa children say they saw him take tome medicine Mrs Lynch aud Per oldest child left the city six ago ostensibly for the shore towns to deliver book i that bad been sold up there Tho Inquest has been adjourned until to morrow at 4 Ho Made a Thorough dob of Self Destruc tion December 13 Henry Taylor a colored man who lived alone iu a house on Dr Galbraith's farm four miles from this city blow ls brains out yesterday wish a smooth bore ritle loaded with buckshot He put the mnzzlo against hfa face and pulled the trig ter with the ramrod Tho whole of the topothu head was blown off and part of the skull was blown out nf the window into the yard No cause of the suicide fa known Wear Long Ifnmigh Kalamazoo December 13 Ezokial Saunders who was confined in tho Newaygo County Jail charged with stealing a yoke uf oxen and escaped November 15 in his clothes was arrested to dar by Kherlfll Kimball of Newaygo Counlv in Noble County luff and taken north over the Grand Rapids A Indiaua Hoad Saunders claimed that he traveled to New Orleans in tho petticoats but bo was working as a railroad section hand when arrested ell Through the Ire Kalamazoo December 13 Div ision Superintendent Wattles of the Lnltc Shore received a dispatch to night stating that his son Tracy Wattles fell into a holo through tho ice of tho Mississippi River at avannnU Ill and has not I ecu found He was Mr only son and was aged lio was formerly employed here in the freight depart ment of the Iake Shore Road anil Lett a month ago to take tt position in tho offices of the Chi cago Burlington Northern Railroad To Revoke a Street Railway Charter December At the session of tho City Council this evening City Attorney Mnyar was ordered to begin legal proceedings against AV Bnvnton and the Kalamazoo Street Railway Company io revoke the charter tor failure to comply with its pro visions in completing lines ami paying no heed to paying taxes aud stopping the running of curs on certain linos Diack I1 pbtlierl'e at flRAXD Rapids December Word was received hero this afternoon tint three children of YVm Lillibridare living at Ber lin Ottawa Co eight miles from Eero had died with black diphtheria A good deal of excite ment was rented Ly tho announcement and the public schools were at once closed llurltd nt I'raukfott iiankfoiit December Tha ody of Mrs Lafferty ot the wrecked Marinette was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery The fu neral and memorial services were held at the Methodist Church by tho liev Dr Howe and wero largely attended State items Howard City's now opera house was dedicated Saturday night John clothing stora at Bay City was rubbed of $ZOO worth of goods Sunday The clothing firm uf Colo Jones ot Char lotto auticipato moving to Wichita Ks Jan uary 1 Mrs Van Cami living near Port Huron dis appeared from her homo lustrlday aud basnet been seen since A badger weighing sixtv nlno rounds was killed on the farm ot Nelson Gould near Brighton thocthoi day President Willits of tho Agricultural College Ims gone to Washington to look after the ul providing fur experimental stations at agrcul tural colleges Rhinehohl Ring a farmer of Ilridgeport 8eg innw County who was formerly at the Home committed suicide yesterday by hanking limst lt to it tr His widow's first husLauu ended his life the same way The Charlotte Common Council have ap vmnted a committee to look into th merits of the different tiro alarm sj stems with a view ot putting one up at Charlotte In the near future The following officers have been eiecte 1 7 Oxford Lodge No i and A AL Ai 8 tV Dunlap: A AV Bidwell: Treasurer A Tanner Secretary Gardner Gustav saloon Battle Creek and a place kept by Mrs whose husband is under sentence to Jacksen for thirteen years wi re buind early yesterday morning Los insurance $1750 August Shorkey a brakeman was instantly killed yesterday at bt 'giace Ho fell between the cars just as the train was pulling out ot the depot lie leaves a idow and a iitUe girl who were on the train at the time of the accident TLe American District Telegraph Company was organized at East Saginaw Monday wim nine stockholders and captt il stock of JIOGOO It will begin business as soon as the lines aru strung and that work will be commenced im mediately Grand Rapids taxpayers will vote to day on the uuestfon of bonding the city for $'XouuJ additional water supply The amount asked voted will make the tb'al bonded debt ot tlie city S1''jOjU'j and tlere is quite a feeling worked up against the proposition The liir fatfng store ot Hrrnler at Bay City was entered by ro ben Sunday noun who stole goods to the value cf 85 most of which as recovered to dn by the police in the possesion of a young paired fan Loken who will be hold on the charge if grand larceny He says he bought tno goods irom tome one The furniture store of Samuel Robinson Charlotte which was bid in by Mrs VJ ViOr den sometime ago was eleven again last Satn day try Sagendwph who held claims for back rent of ffUti anil attorney fees of The stock fa Irg invoiced and will be opened as soon as completed Suit will be comiaeaced immediately against Sagendorph for damages Our esteemed contemporary the Evefiln News Is building up the State and cbaugiSS things alxiut to suit iuelt in a manner Hist fa both lull leroifa ant amarmg The other daf moved Oscoda over into Dscoda County inads the Prosecuting Attorney of Iosco County i ll a like position for Oscoda County IU latest is to arid nr entire county to the State Tisii did yesterday and the News calls Nega neo County 1 he annual meeting for election of officers of Jacksim at a waahehi Saturday even ing in the parlors of the Hibbard "ite Piesideut Charles YV Gregg in the chair and 1 large attendance of members he Doet was raniw! one year ago December 12 JSS5 witk thirty members rhu secretary Arthur ri' id tea! hfa annual reixirt showing among Hungs that the presen' membership Ot JncKson i 12U tne mein hers admitted cur ing tiic ear numbering ninety The Treasur ers rep it allowed 25 due from th NationVsacH 'tion and 30 1 in the treasury Tue annual dues tier? past yenr ere each '4 uO election of officers re ulled ib fallows: resfa nt Gregg Vice President Me 1 innald Secretary Arthur Reid Treassrer Edwy Knight A Christina Present ffk umbrella or presentation cane ItotnC Liugemann L'o'a Monroe aveuua Iii You Want Umbrella Ge a an nirl rell i tore Lbigemann Co Auuroe avenue.