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i) tv J f1 THE DEAL IS OFF. Offer to Transfer Detroit Street Hull- to the City ! Withdrawn by Ton Johnion, Detroit, Mich., July 17. Gov. Pingree sustained another defeat Saturday. His opponent have put up such a stiff fight against the purchase of the street rail way system that Tom Johnson, principal owner of the street car system, Satur day withdrew from the city and de clared the deal off. He, through the Metropolitan railway, which operates all the lines, sent a letter toll. S. Tin gree, president of the Detroit Municipal railway, in which it was aid that the company was satisfied it was not feus ible to make the transfer under the con ditions existing. This letter, in which it is intimated that fares may be raised to five cents straight, as the franchise permits, was received by the governor: "Detroit. Mich., July 15. Hon. II. S. Pln rree, President Detroit Municipal Railway, Detroit, Mich. Dear Sir: Wo are satisfied that it is not feasible to consummate un der existing conditions the plan of trans ferring the street railway properties to your company. We must face squarely the proposition which the opponents of the plan put forward, that our franchises are running out and that when they do ex pire we shall have an expensive plant on our hands which the opponents of the plan fay they can compel us to sell at a ruinous sacrifice unless we are willing to accept a new franchise on their terms. "We must so manage the railways In the meantime as, If possible, to prevent the loss so threatened. Low fares and short franchises are Incompatible If railways are to be run for profit as a private enterprise, as truly so as low rents and a short-term lease would be If a great building like the Majestic were put up by a tenant on leased land. In bringing our negotiations to an end we thank you heartily for the courtesy and fairness which you have shown to us throughout. Yours truly, "METROPOLITAN RAILWAY CO.. "By Bernard Clark, President." The superintendent says he has re ceived no instructions to raise the fare. The threat in the letter to return to straight five-cent fares does not cause much commotion. It is realized it is in Johnson's power to charge five cents straight, but by doing so the lines would only further antagonize the people and rouse them to force the council to make it expensive for the company in many ways, besides keeping alive the feeling on the franchise question. Judge Speed says that so far as Gov. l'ingree is concerned the whole plan is to be abandoned. He was asked Satur day noon if any new move was in con templation by tht interests he repre sents before Tuesday. "No further move will be made," he said. "What will be done after Tuesday night, in the event that the veto of the mayor is sustained?" "Nothing will be done. The whole effort will be abandoned." The citizens' committee is not taking it for granted that the scheme has been downed, but will keep up an organiza tion, so as to be ready with its firing line should the battle be renewed. Detroit, July 1.". Three-cent fares, with transfers on all lines, went into effect Friday, and the change did not create the sensation expected. From inside sources it was learned Mr. John son was opposed to the reduction, but his objections were overcome by Gov. l'ingree and his associates. They ad vanced the argument that the people could not w ithstand the cheaper fares, and that they would immediately be siege the aldermen to pass the security franchise over the mayor's veto, and also enact into law the working fran chise under which the incorporators wish to operate the roads. Gov. l'ingree issued two circular pro nunciamentos which were distributed on the streets by boys. In the first he attacks the newspapers, claiming that they are bought up by capitalists to oppose his plan, and that the "enemies of the people" control every utterance. He says they never have given him a chance, not even w hen he has offered to pay for Ins matter as advertising. The second one deals with the financial side of the street railway deal and tries to show how eas' the plan may be made to work. Fee (rallliiu Stopped. Lansing, July 15. A little decision j by the supreme court effected a saving of at least $50,000 a year to the. taxpay-' crs of the state. It was in the case of '. Clarmont vs. Cummins. The complain ant was a constable in Ingham county, and put in a bill for witness fees. The point was raised whether an ofiicer could make an arrest, give testimony, and re ceive a certificate for fees in both cases. The Kiinrcmc court v:i vw t liere i nntli. ing in the statute to indicate it, and de-1 cides that relator is entitled to but one f fee. That decision affects every coun-J ty in the state. Automobile Factory. l'ort Huron, July 15. A new indus try will be established here within a week .which will be of much impor tance to the city. The Standard Nov elty company is placing machinery in position for the manufacture of me chanical clothing and automobiles. The company has a patent on an automobile. Representatives of different wholesale concerns at e in the city endeavoring to fit the company out with the necessary appliances. Stricken with liable. Lakeville, July 14. Mrs. John Kd gctt, wife of a farmer three miles cast of here, was bitten by a dog about a year ago. Thursday she developed symptoms of hydrophobia and is now raving mad. She barks, bites, spits and foams at the mouth. She has been strapped down to her bed and death is but a question of a few hours. Mrs. Edgett is only 10 years old and has been married less than n year. Died at the Supper Tahle. South Haven, July 13. Capt. William Tj. Stewart, editor of the Sentinel, died while eating supper Tuesday at his home in this place. He was born April 25, 1841, at Paw l'aw, and was the old est newspaper man in Van Huren coun ty, preparing copy for his paper three Lours before his death. REFUSE TO PAY BOUNTY. lb Michigan OKlclaU lleject Claim Set I'y by the Sugar Manufacturers. the Lansing, July 14. The Issues be tween the state and manufacturers of beet sugar us to the constitutionality of the one cent a pound bounty law of 1S97 is now squarely drawn and the question will shortly be taken to the courts for adjudication. Two yearn ago the legislature enacted a law pro viding for the payment of the bounty mentioned for all beet sugar manufac tured in Michigan during the ensuing seven years. At the same time there was enacted a law appropriating $10, 000 for the payment of bounties earned during the year 1808, this law contain ing a provision that all sums earned in excess of the sum named should be paid out of the general fund of the state. Attorney General Oren says that the question of the right of the state to pay bounties in aid of purely industrial enterprises has come before the legislature at various times since the adoption of the constitution of 1850, and in some instances legislation was enacted along lines similar to the pres ent beet sugar act. Reference is made to the salt bounty of 1859. The consti tutionality of this act was never brought in question before the courts nnd was apparently acquiesced in and stood without protest until its final re peal. Acting on the advice received Auditor General Dix will refuse to is sue the warrant and the sugar company will apply for a mandamus to compel him to do so. The case cannot be brought before the supreme court un til October. TROPHY FOR THREE OAKS. The Michigan Village Gets Spanish Cannon for Contribution to the Mnliie .Monument Fund. Three Oaks, July 15. The village of Three Oaks has won the cannon which Admiral Dewey sent from Manila for the Maine monument fund. The can non was to be given to the city or vil lage making the largest contribution in proportion to its population. Three Oaks, with a population of from 800 to 1,000 people, raised $1,132, representing more than one dollar per capita. Three Oaks entered the contest with consid erable spirit and determination. The village officials began a campaign, adopting the motto: "Three Oaks against the world," and started the subscription list with liberal figures opposite their names. Husiness men and private citizens added their de termination with the result that on Friday the announcement came from the committee that the trophy of war would be shipped here at once. PARK IS OPENED. Lender of the Forward Movement Dedicate n Larue Tract of Land to I'm of I'nor Youth. Saugatuck, July 17. Forward Move ment park at Saugatuck was dedicated Sunday with impressive ceremonies. Addresses were delivered by l'rof. Gra ham Taylor, Judge Charles G. Neely, W. II. Tuttle, Maj. W. S. Harbert and Prof. Ferris. The Forward Movement is a Chicago philanthropic society, aud the design is to give the poor children of the city, and more especially those of the Eighteenth ward, a summer outing. The tract of land purchased here con sists of 55 acres, has a frontage on Lake Michigan and is beautifully wooded. The building now erected is 70 feet in length and 30 in width. The first floor consists of dining-room, kitchen, lava tory, storeroom and two private sleep ing rooms. The second floor is occu pied by the boys as a dormitory and the third floor by the employes of the move ment. OLD P0KAG0N CLAIM. Pottawatomie (ilve Attorney- In Micliluiiii Title to Chicago Lake Front Ileal Fntutc. Dowagiac, July 17. A big meeting 6f l'ottawatomies was held here Satur day to confer with V. V. Vood, of Washington, their attorney, to secure the title to about 120 acres of land on the lake front at Chicago. The chief, Wosaw Motay, of Hartford, and the business committee Thomas Topah and Joseph Person, of this city, Joseph Cushaway, of Ludington, William Mix and Samuel Wosaw, of Hartford gave Wood a quitclaim deed to the land to be held in escrow until the case is decided. This is a revival of an old claim often pressed by Simon Pokagon, chief of the l'ottawatomies, who died a few months ago. The land i said to be on the North side near the river in Chicago. Pokagon's various efforts failed. To Succeed l'lnnklnton. Milwaukee, July 17. Judge Johnson in the circuit court Saturday appointed Capt. Irving M. P.ean to succeed Wil liam Pinnkinton as assignee of the de funct Plankinton bank. According to the writ of mandamus issued by the su preme court the creditors are granted leave to examine the books of Assignee Plankinton and officers of the bank. The report Issued by Mr. Plankinton was not in accordance with the statute and unsatisfactory to the bank's cred itors and complete investigation of oil affairs connected with the failure will now follow. Found fiend In lied. Saginaw, Mich., July 17. Maj. James W. Quinby, of Scranton, Pa., one of the most noted men of the turf and a prom inent pool seller for many years, was found dead in his bed at the Hotel Vin cent Saturday. He sold pools Friday evening as usual, but complained of not being very well. Maj. Quinby was about CO years of age. James Hradt, of Mendon, champion pie eater of Michigan, died of heart failure. FULL OF NEWS Much Information of General Inter est to lie Found In the Para graphs He low. HHssflcld's electric light plant will cost $10,000. A line gypsum mine is Bald to have been struck in Arenac county, one mile east of Turner. Grand Kapids new city directory will show a population of about 100,000 in the Furniture city. The Kalamazoo & Hattle Creek elec tric railroad is graded to within three miles east of Augusta. Six members of the Thirty-fifth Mich igan volunteers reenlisted for service in the Philippines at Grand Kapids. The Indians in Arenac county are profiting by the large yield of huckle berries und wild raspberries this year. S. A. Hulbert, of Cassopolis, has a turtle farm at Saddle Lake. He ships the turtles to Philadelphia and is mak ing money. The bank examiner has levied an as sessment of GO per cent, on the stock holders of the failed Citizens national bank of Niles. Kalamazoo's chamber of commerce has-decided not to hold a street fair this year. Merchants and manufacturers objected to it. The cold weather of last winter did not injure trees in Oceana county nnd the crops of all kinds of fruit will be the largest in the history of the county. The McVoy Mining company has been organized at Carney w ith a capital stock of $50,000. The company will conduct explorations for copper near Carnej'. Difficulty in securing structural steel is delaying the work on the beet sugar factory at Holland, but nevertheless it is expected the plant will be ready for operations by October 1. The catching of turtles for the east ern markets is getting to be quite an industry along the Grand river. One Dimondale man recently made a single shipment of 1,000 pounds. Kalamazoo growers and shippers of celery say that the crop of the present year is going to surprise everyone by its immensity. Shipments, they say, will far exceed those of any previous year. Ann Arbor will make the considera tion of the deed to the property which Ann Arbor donates for a site for the new homeopathic hospital, the condi tion that the regents permanently maintain a hospital thereon. The Federal Steel company has se cured control of the Dexter iron mine, nine miles west of Ishpeming, and will reopen it with a force of 100 men as soon as the workings can be unwatercd. The Dexter has been idle practically for ten years. John Mains, father of C. It. Mniiis, the 1 'attic Creek lawyer who has been en gaged in so much litigation, has placed mortgages on his property aggr egating about :? 10,000. It is supposed that the lather has been practically ruined in defending his son. On June .'!() the four banks at Ann Arbor held in deposits an aggregate of C-.0l,(.w;.).::(). Their total resources were $3,139,924.?.!. The cash in bank was $.)57,(!o.22. The total loans and discounts were $1,150,025.40 and the stocks, bonds and mortgages held, $1,2'.".),153.S'.). This showing is regarded as phenomenal. The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad is to be double-tracked between Lud ington and Haldwin, a distance of 30 miles, in anticipation of unusually heavy traffic over that portion of the road next winter, after the consolida tion with the Chicago & West Michigan goes into effect. Haldwin is the junc tion of the two roads. Sparrow bounty workers have been scattering poisoned grain about the streets at Ann Arbor to kill the spar rows by wholesale. Numerous other birds, as well as squirrels, have fallen victims to the trap set for the sparrows, and there is trouble in store for the person who has been scattering the poison, if he can be found. Heath of Henry Coruwell. Ann Arbor, July 15. The death of Henry Coruwell, the last of the famous Corn well brothers who were the estab lishes of the vast paper mill interests in Ann Arbor, Geddes, Fosters, Ypsi lanti and Jackson, occurred Thursday night. A week ago he was stricken with paralysis and did not recover con sciousness thereafter. The interests of the Cornwells were instituted here in ls52, and they accumulated a consider able amount of wealth. Xcw Conrae at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, July 14. The board of regents at its last meeting decided to institute a branch of marine engineei -ing. The university has at the head of the mechanical engineering depart ment Prof. Mortimer J-:. Cooley, a grad uate of Annapolis, who served in the Spanish war on the Yosernite. A com petent instructor will be provided nnd the work will be under Prof. Copley's direction. Mlchluan HecrultM Lend. Chicago, 111., July 15. Most of the recruits for the Thirtieth United States volunteers who have arrived at Fort Sheridan have come from Michigan. There is a possibility that the regiment will be more of n Michigan than an Illi nois organization. Nearly 200 Mich igan men have arrived at Sheridan. Youthful ItohherN Sentenced. Katon Papids, July l . William M. Stein, county agent of correction and charities, sentenced Paul P.rown and Hoy Merritt, the two boys who robbed the Michigan state bank Inst wi ek, to the industrial school for boys until they reach the age of 17 years. Killed h- LlKhtiilriK. Adrian, July 14. Oscar Lee Curtiss, of Pome, took refuge under n tree dur ing a Khower and was killed by light ning. CurtUs had just insured his life. The Xfev? Lesson of Wealth. Mr. Andrew Carnegie's recent public declaration that a man should give tway his riches before he dies has set sne of the enterprising newspapers to worft trying to get opinions on this subject from other American million aires. They did not to any great ex tent fight shy of It, and tlw result as set forth in print leads to the surpris ing conclusion that the American mil lionalrv as a rule, Is actuated by ,i burning desire to give away all that he has, only he cannot find the proper channel of distribution. Mr. John D. Rockefeller Is credited with saying, 'I do uot believe that there Is a man in this country today with a million dollars beyond his own personal and business needs who would not gladly give It to any object that he felt per fectly sure would help the commu nity." This is a valuable piece of in formation, and while It does not pre sent a very favorable picture of the community It nevertheless overturns some of our previous notions. It is specially fatal to that widely held opin ion that the more money a man gets the more he wants. If Mr. Rockefeller Is right, the more he gets the more he wants to give It away. Instead of the acquisition of gold, when It becomes the malu object of life, making a man miserly, It, on the contrary, broadens and deepens his generosity and liberal ity. In fact, with this new light on the subject, we see that in order to learn how valuable money is to other people one must devote his life to snatching it for himself. It may certainly be set down as a fact that no man but a mil lionaire is eaten up by a desire to give away all that he has. If Mr. Rockefel ler expects the hard working and av erage American to swallow this "taf feta" at a gulp, he Is very much mis taken. There are certain facts in hu man nature that are dead against his conclusion, and one Is that If a man begins business with a particularly generous nature and a moderate knowledge of the amount of need there Is In the world hi will never be come a millionaire. The question has been impertinently asked by the so cialists, ami it has never been satis factorily answered. "Can a man in an ordinary lifetime make a hundred mil lion dollars honestly and give an equivalent for It?" It Is not at all Im proper, in view of Mr. Rockefeller's statement, to answer that question to this extent: No man can make a hun dred millions who begins with the proposition that he Is willing to give all over ami above his personal needs to the community. Once admit the statement and there would not be a millionaire In the laud. Commend us In times of stress to our Chauncey. Always when the human heart sinks Into despair and the cause of man Is lost somebody Intercepts Chauncey, and then the dawn appears and all Is well with the world. He has Just been Interviewed In Loudon, and, presto, here he Is! "The situation in Paris, which Is equivalent to France, seems gradually becoming more satis factory. All this spasmodic upset, this changing of ministers, these cries fron the housetops, arc surely laying the foundation for something better and making men divide off Into those cog nate parties which, well defined, will. In my opinion, yet raise France into the very front rank." This beaming obviousness Is positively refreshing. One can now see through Chauncey's glasses that France advances Into the serene ether through her own mud puddles, and Hsterhazy himself Is lay ing the cornerstone of a higher aud bet ter civilization. As an optliuJst Chaun cey beats Joe Jefferson. "Here's to you aud your friends. May they live long and prosper." Mrs. Frances Hodgson Iiurnett has shaken the dust of America from her feet and gone to live permanently In England. There are some evidences of pique In this movement. Her last book, "A Lady of Quality," was not well received In this country. It was pronounced by the critics a sad falling off from the standard she had raised In "That Lass o' Lowrle's," and It was un deniably theatric and tawdry. When It was produced here upon the stage by Miss Julia Arthur, the two women fell out over It. Mrs. Ruruett had se lected as the Ideal of her heroine an English actress, and nothing that Miss Arthur could do satisfied her. Rut Miss Arthur made a success of the role, and the ideal English woman fail ed in It. This only made matters worse, and now Mrs. Rurnett, like Mr. Astor, has goue to England to spend the money she made In America. The celebration of the Fourth of July this year was far more earnestly patri otic in the small towns of the central and western states than it was In the large cities of the east, where It ex pended itself In meaningless uorse and ordinary outdoor games. Rut In many of the lesser towus and quieter ham lets of the country the! Declaration of Independence was read with solemn sincerity, nnd local orators fanned tho old flames of patriotism. And this Is as it should be. Tho Fourth of July Is the nation's chronological altar, where we ought to bring our children and tell them over all those hack neyed things which will live forever. IK ii Ail Who "TT 1 tl h 8 Lost The Kind You Have Always J Sought has borno tho signa ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, ami lias been mario under his personal supervision lor over ISO years. Allow 110 0110 to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations ami Just-as-good" arc but Experiments, ami endanger 'U10 altli of Children Experience against. Experiment. 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Copper relics of all kinds micli a spears, knives, axes aud chisels are especially desired. Also stone ripes. large flint spears and stone aies. Farmers who have found any of these articles will plcaCo write to me. Address, II. P. Hamilton. 302ti7oi8l Two Rivers, Wis. 3 L!1