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rWEEN THE LAKES. MICHIGAN NEWS RECORDED IN NEWS FOR MICHICJANDER3. "Train Kobbur Foiled NmrOiforil Mur derer Tries to Itleed Himself to IW-itth la I'rlnon llouMe Fatality tit m l(rwlt Fire. Attempt at Train Itobberjr. TIi ret; mea Hugged n Michigan Cen Iral paiepger train near Oxford, bu just before the train had stopped the engineer discovered that the men held revolver in their hands. Ho immedi ately opeued tlio throttle and passed them at a good speed. The fellows fired several shots breaking the cab window, but missed the engineer. At Oxford Constable (Jrcen was informed if the affair and immediately set out in pursuit of the would-be robbers and finally arrested three fctrungcrs, from 2J to 24 years of age. Several articles which had been btolen at Capenter'a store, at Oxfril a week leforo were found on the fellows. 50,000 lllaxe at Detroit. One of the largest fires in IV trait recently 'was the burning of It V. Uiekcl's malt house and elevator at the corner of Adelaide aud Pequiudre streets. The elevator contained be tweeu r0,000 and G9.000 buslieU of bar ley and malt and this together with the building, is a total loss, about 850, fXX). The buildings were all erected in 1893 and had a rapacity of S.'iU.OOO bushels of grain. Fireman Herman Huebuer was struck by falling iron and seriously hurt. A number of other firemen had narrow escapes. Morderer Attempt Suicide ut Jackion. Frank Ashley, scut from Detroit for the murder of James Mngee, attempted suicide in his cell at Jackson prison by cutting an artery in his left arm with a, razor. Ashley ocoupicd an upper cell and had a tin basin to catch the blood. The dish was filled and the blood run niog over aud dripping into the cell beneath aroused the prisoner in there and he gave the alarm. I'risota I'hysiciau Gibson believes that Ashley, will live, although when found ho was; unconscious , and extremely weak from the lo. of blood. Oran Mcatner on Fire 10 Lives Lost. The Mallory line steamer Leona, which left her pier at New York, bound for Galveston, took fire at sea, nnd put back and arrived in prrt the next day with 1G corpses on board. Those who burned to death wiro pen ned up below decks, and although frantic efforts were made to save them, the fire had gaiued such terrific headway before the danger was dis covcivd that all escape was eut off. I.egriklatlve Appropriation are tow. Work ou the appropriation bills for the present session of the state legisla ture has progressed far enough to en able an approximate estimate to be made, of the general budget. Two yeaisago tho budget was .1.071,00;). Tliis year it will be at least $300,000 less, and the decrease may reach $.0!), tXK). Itut there isn't the deficiency to provide for that existed two years ago. THE TWO PENINSULAS. Oakwood Masons will erect a hall. Grand llapid.s is to have a garbage crematory Fred Ewald fell off a pier at St. Joseph and was drowned. Iron Mountain has only 40 saloons litis year against 03 in 1890. Adrian college seniors have decided to wear Oxford caps and gowns. Itattle Creek's recorder fined It bicy clists for riding at night without lan terns, i Nalhau Itird, near Udwardsburg. hanged himself with a wire. No cause known. Agues Keating, aged l'J, suicided with strychulnc at Saginaw because of 1 ill hcaltiu Lyons, Muir and Ionia wheelman talk of a bicycle path between the three towns. C Negaunee citizens are looking for firebugs: there having been six fires within a week. Five dwellings, a small box factory and several bams;went Up in smoke at Hancock. Loss $3,000. ' At Clare Govv Arrand's planing mill burned; loss t3,000. The whole town waH threatened for a time. Prof. Samuel 1). l!arr has resigned the chair of mathematics at Albion col lege, which he occupied for It years. John Zimmerman, aged 30, of Mont erey, fell under a train at Waverly aud lioth legs were eut off above the ankle. The grocery of Fred N. Lewis and the meat market of G. R Cliff, of Jack son, were destroyed by fire. Iass ,ntxi. Alon.o Smith, aged ft, accidentally lischarged a gnn, near Wayland, in stantly killing hisonly sister, Krminda, aged IX Fruit growers of Henrietta township. .Tack son county, Ray that pcaeh buds were all killed and they expect no crop whatever. John Youngs, Hgcd Iff, sent to prison f pom Owosso. for burglary, threatens to kill himself by eating soap, unless Jic is pardoned. Chas. Walter meat market at Sagi naw wa nearly destroyed - by fire and a short time after Walters suicided by hanging himself. Ilnuiiiha! Doty, head sawyer in Fierce fc Son's sawmill in Watcrviict, was fatally injured by being crushed ilx'tUi'l'll two logs. Kail road Commissioner Wessclius de nies llial he pnKtNOs to. resign, al I hong), he is not satisfied tvlth certain parts of his work. . " Tho state military board has decided to hold lue unnnal encampment of the Michigan National Guard at Island Lake ou Aug. 4 to S. Chas. Trueblood, a farmer near Fine llidgc, was run into by a C. fc N. W. locomotive at Kscanaba, and injured so severely that ho died. Itattle Creek is going to set apart a square m the heart of the city where the Grand Army memorial cannon and monument will be placed. Samuel Harlow, aged 79, died at Iiidgeway from starvation, having been unable to take food, for two months because of a stomach trouble. lJeuton Harbor is to have a new 525, 000 opera house to take the place of Gore's theater, which burned last fall, 12 firemen being killed by the falling walls. Will Crance, of Renin., while play ing with a revolver thought to be un loaded, shot his married sister, proba bly fatally, the ball passing through the bladder. The 13-year-old daughter of Adam Smith, near Moline, had the top of her head blown off by the accidental dis charge of a shotgun in the hands of her little brother. David 11. Wilson of Detroit, went out to Grosse Pointe on a pleasure trip. On his return he was struck by a car on Jefferson avenue, near Fox creek, aud was instantly killed. Miller Hobbs' saloon and Colson's drug store were badly damaged by tire at Kalkaska, the losses being $600 and f'J,000. Hard work was all that saved the whole business section. The common eouncil at Litchfield, has lowered tho rate for liquor bond from 80,000 to 83,000. Litchfield has been local option for the past six years, but will now have at least three sa loons, Wm. Van Akin and family of 12 children were evicted from their farm near Hudson on account of tho fore closure of a mortgage. Neighbors gave them shelter for the night, but they will probably become couuty charges. John McMan, aged 70, died at Mosh erville in destitute circumstances, shortly after he had received a letter saying that he was one of the heirs to a jr.OO.OOO estate left by his brother in Australia. His widow will try to get the fortune. The body of II. L Osborne, aged 21, 01 Dowagiae, was found in the hold of the steam barge Olympia, in the har bor at Cleveland. Osborne's head was crushed in and his clothes had been stripped of valuables. The police be lieve he was murdered. While iutoxieated ltenjamin Hour gcois, aged 31, a saloonkeeper at St. Paul and Townscnd avenues, Detroit, lay down in bed, and, placing a revol ver in his mouth, pulled the trigger. The bullet plowed through the roof ot the mouth and the brain, prinluciug almost instautaneous death. A short time ago Uobert McCarthy, Clarence It rooks and Fred Fountaiu committed a frightful assault in Itridgewater township. Washtenaw county, on Mrs. Conrad I'erg, a widow, aged 71, and her maiden daughter, aged 41. McCarthy has been sentenced to life imprisonment at Jackson; ltrooks, 1.1 years at Ionia, and Foun tain, one year at Ionia. The Detroit bridge and iron works has secured the contract of construct ing the mammoth railroad bridge for the Grand Trunk railway at Montreal. The cost will probably reach beyond 82,000,000. The present railroad bridge ut Montreal is over a mile long. It must be taken down and the new bridge erected in such a way that it will not interfere with traffic and will be GO feet above the water. The oper ation of constructing it will be one of the biggest engineering feats known in this country for many years. Three Hirers. Sturgls and Ccnterville are all struggling for the eountv siat of St. Joseph county. Ccnterville at present has that honor, but at tho spring election a proposition to spend 5 1. .100 repairing the county buildiug was voted down aud then Three Iliv ers' council asked the state legislature to allow them to issue 8."0,000 bonds to build a new court house in their town. Sturgis people quietly opposed this latter scheme, having a string they wished to pull and now the fight is growing warm. Athens newspapers say that a strong Turkish 'force from Jan ina, co-operating with the Turkish garrison at Pen tepigradia, in Epiriu, attacked the Greek position there and that tho Greeks, after a desperate resistance, were compelled to retreat to Arta. Two companies fell into disorder, and ou arriving at Arta threw the town Into a panic. The inhabitants fled terror-stricken. The Greeks are abandon ing all the iosltions they had occupied in Kpirus except Salagora. Iteeent Cuban Victories. - During ahot light within a few miles of Santa Clara, the Spapish column under CoL Aguariea was defeated by Col. Itarrios with a loss of nearly 12." killed and wounded. The contending forces numbered about 800 men. The Cubans drove the Spauiards back Hftcr several machete charges. A small rapid tire gun that the Cubans carried did great execution In the ranks of the Spaniards. Th engagement which the Spanish had with (ten. llodriguei in the Pur gatori Hills, and which was reported as a decisive Spanish victory, turns out to have been the reverse. The Span ish columns encountered the Insur gents and attacked sharply, relying on tneir superior force. The rebel re treated toward their camp and suc ceeded in drawing the Spanish into an amtiuscadc. Gen. Castillo arrived with re-enforecments while Gen. Rodriguez was engaging the Spanish, nnd fell on their flank. The fighting lasted five hours, and in killed, wounded and pris oners the Spanish lost 280 men. The Cuban dead being nearly 100. THE C5TH CONOftESS AT WORK Senate. 34th day. -The most im portant event of the da was the re-! port by the finance committee of tho Dingley tariff bill, or rather a tariff bill, for the original bill was plastered wUh nearly 1,000 amendments and changes. The principal features of the bill as reported is the retention of the 82 duty on lumber; the tux on beer is increased 44 cents, making it 81.44 per barrel; leaf tobacco is eut from 82 to 81. M), and filler is cut to 35 cents; hides are taken from the free list and a tariff .of-frora 10 to 25 per cent ad valorem . placed on them; beet sugar machinery is to be admitted free; the House Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is stricken out, and a substitute offered . for the general reciprocity provision of the original bill; numerous important ' alterations are made in the wool sched- ules, principally in the nature of slight ! reductions of the tariff proposed by the j Dinglev bill; a duty of 10 cents per pound is placed upon tea until 1000 when it will be placed on the free list; the most important alteration of all, perhaps, from the standpoint of its im mediate effect is the abrogation of the retroactive feature of the original bill j and making the date it will go in to effect July 1 instead of May 1. After the bill had been reported Senator Aldrleh, us chairman of the finance committee, gave notice that he would call-up the bill for consideration on May 18. Late i in the day, during the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, Sen ators Gorman, of Maryland, and Fora ker, of Ohio, had a lively tilt over an amendment offered by the latter to ap propriate 8400,000 for improving the Tennessee river, which resulted in Mr. Foraker withdrawing the amendment. The item of 82,333,333 for continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river was amended ko on to be immediately available. A final vote on the "free homestead" bill wes taken and the bill passed 42 to 11. The Morgan Cuban resolution again went over. IIovsk. No session. Skxatk. 35th day. The Senate by the vote of 43 to 2ti refused to ratify the general arbitration treaty between the United States and Great llritain, negotiated by Secretary of State Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefotu the P.ritish ambassador to the United States. The rules of the Senate require a majority of two-thirds for the ratification of treaties. Hence four more affirmative votes would have been required to se cure a favorable result. The vote was preceded by a short, spirited debate. In open session the sundry civil appro priation bill was again under consider tion and although it was not completed an amendment was agreed to appro priating 850,000 for the improvement of Pearl harbor, Hawaii. Mr. Deboe, of Kentucky, took the oath of office and was cordially greeted by his Republican associates. HorsE No session. Skxate. 3tUh day. The Senate agreed to an amendment to the sundry civil bill, revoking tho order of Presi dent Cleveland, made on Feb. 22 last, establishing forest reservations aggre gating 17,000,000 acres. The debate brought out much criticism of Mr. Cleveland's order. Another amend ment agreed to provides for a continu ance of the investigation of the con dition of the fur seals in Itering sea. The sundry civil bill was liter passed, carrying an aggregate of 853.0on,Ooo. Mr. Ilacon, of Georgia, introduced a joint resolution deprecatiug war and an nouncing the policy of the government in favor of arbitration between the United States and other countries and lietween all other nations. The reso lution was referred to the committee on foreign relations. Hoi'SK. Tho session was occupied by a partisan dis cussion of tho House dilatory action in holding only semi-weekly sessions. There are some points at which the talk became rather warm, but nothing of particular interest was developed. Just before adjournment Mr. King of Utah, offered a resolution for tho an nexation of Hawaii to the United States as soon as Hawaii cedes her ter ritory to Uncle Sam. Sexati:. 37th day. Senator Mor gan's Cuban resolution was discussed at considerable length. For the first time s'ncc tho debate be gan the oppo sition sentiment expressed itself. The speeches were not of a kind to stimu late the galleries to applause, being in the main calm and dispassionate re views of the situation in Cuba. A res olution was agreed to requesting the secretary of war for information as to the steps taken to locate a deep-water harbor at Port Los Angeles or San Pedro, Cal., in accordance with the re port of a commission. Hocst. The House resumed the transaction of pub lic business, which had been suspended since the Indian appropriation bill was sent to conference threo weeks ago. The consideration of the Senate amend ments to the sundry civil appropriation bill was taken up. Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, pursued his tactics of attempt ing to harass the majority with points of no quorum, but without success. Mr. Lacey criticised the Senate provis ion restoring to the public domain the reservation created by the order of President Cleveland last February. He thought the order should simply le suspended pending au examination. Mr. Knowles, Populist, of s'orth Da kota, aud Mr. Hartmau, of Montana, supported the Senate amendments for tho unqualified suspension of Mr. Cleveland's order and the restoration of the lands to tho public domain. The latter characterized the order a& tho "prating shot of the greatest enemy the American people ever had." It is said that King George, of Greece, is quite ill at Athens. The powers have decided to land troops at Athens to protect the royal family. Dr. Lewis Ransom Fiske has re signed the presidency of Albion college after having occupied that position for 20 years and having been one ol the principal forces in building up that institution. Dr. Fisko retires at the age of 71 years on account of ill health. J GREEKS ROUTED. RETREAT FROM PHARSALA TO DOKOMOS. Defeat tha Turku With Terrible Lous at Velestino, ' hut Superior Number Compel a Itetreat to Dokomtxt I'ower VFlll Now Intervene. The Greek armies at Pharsala and Velestino under Crown Prince Con stantino and Gen. Smolensk!, respec tively, were attacked by the Turkish forces under Ed he in Pasha and a ter rible battle resulted. At the close of the first day's fight. Crown Prince Constantino telegraphed: "With God's help our side has conquered. The Turks attacked our advance posts at 2 o'clock. Their movements indicated an intention to cut off our left wing, and later they attacked our front. Our advance posts retreated, as they were fighting against very superior numbers, aud took up a position in front of our right wing. An artillery duel ensued along the extensive line. The enemy's infantry advanced in per fect order at three points and in large numbers, but the3' were speedily checked by our infantry. We main tain all our positions intact the Turks being completely repulsed, and the engagement will certainly be con tinued to-morrow." Other dispatches say: The fighting was the most desperate, and the losses on both sides were heavy, there being 1,000 Greeks and 0,000 Turks slain. Rut the close of the day showed the su perior numbers of the Turks had en abled them to partially outflank the Greeks, and Crown Prince Constantino therefore decided to make a virtue of necessity and gave orders for the evac uation of Pharsala and a retreat to Dokomos. It was not a stampede, but an or derly and well executed military move ment, which began as soon as darkness settled down, ond was continued until the last man. all the arms, artillery aud ammunition had left the place. Reforc the first gray streaks of dawn showed in the east the Greeks had le gun the preparations to defend the heights of Domokos. Incessant skir mishing had been kept up by the out tying forces to mask the retreat, but as soon as the Turks discovered the situation they took possession of Phar sala without opposition. The railroad between Velestino and Pharsala was cut by the Turks, thus shutting off communication between the Greek armies, cutting off the base of supplies for Velestino, which forced Gen. Smolenski to commence a retreat from that point to Armyros. . The powers have decided to inter vene, and the ministers of Great Rrit aiu, Frauee, Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy will hand a collective note to both the Greek and Turkish govern ments calling upon them to cease hos tilities on the distinct assurance that the powers will undertake the final solution of pending difficulties. Senate Kill the Arbitration Treaty. The final consideration in the United States senate of the arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Itritain, and refusal of that body to ratify the treaty, by a vote of 43 to 2fl, was marked by a bpirited debate in troduced by Senator Mills, of Texas, who made a strong appeal against rati fying the agreement. He asserted that as amended the document was most objectionable, not to say contra dictory, in term, and that under it England justly could claim that ques tions of territorial rights were still in cluded within the scope of the treaty. Under such circumstances, he. asked, what was to prevent England from purchasing tho Island of Cuba or any other American territory, and in case of objection on the part of the United States insisting upon the reference of the dispute to arbitration. He spoke of the conduct of England in connec tion with the Graeco-Turkish wa and implored the Senate to protect the United States against the proposed al liance. The speech made a visible im pression and the opinion was general that the treaty should be amended so as to remedy tho inconsistencies, but this required unauimous consent and Senator Carter objected. The lat ter said that there could be no doubt of the partiality of the government, and the people of the United States towards tho settlement of disputes by arbitration, and that for this reason there never would bo any difficulty in securing an agreement for arbitration of any specific dispute with any nation, but it was not necessary for our people to tie themselves in au agreement of uncertain scope and purport, especially with a country which has shown itself so completely out of sympathy with the feelings of the people of the United States in the position England had taken in European affairs. After the ballot Senator Davis, chair man of the committee on foreign rcla tions,attributcd the defeat of the treaty to the feeling of dissatisfaction at Eng land's course in the struggle of the Greeks to liberate the island of Crete from ottomau dictation and tho Arme nian massacres, and with the evident designs of Great Rrltaln upon the Transvaal. SOO l'eople llurneil to Death. The worst holocaust in the history of Paris occurred in tho burning of the charitable bazaar in the Ruo Jean Ooujoti, at which 200 people were either burned to death or trampled under foot in tho mad struggle to es cape the flames, aud over 200 others seriously injured. A company has been organized to erect a 810,000 sanitarium at Munlsing with accommodations for from 50 to 100 patients; to be built of stone, thr-e stories high, and will overlook tho fa mous Munlsing bay and Pictured rocks MICHIGAN'S LEGISLATORS. After facing what looked like certain defeat Rep. Edgar, who is a physician and chairman of the Houso committee on public health, won a big victory by carrying through the House committee of tho whole his substitute for the med ical league measure. There was a lobby of 15 persons on the floor work ing against Dr. Edgar's substitute, but it was finally agreed to with a few amendments, and now provides that tho governor must appoint a board of six memlwrs, non-sectarian. '' This board shall examine all applicants for admis sion to the practice of medicine. Any one possessing a certificate or diploma from any Michigan college which has a 24 months' course of study must bo ad mitted to practice without examina tion. There is also a proviso m the bill, against which Mr. Edgar fought, exempting nurses or anyone who prac tices the art of healing without drugs or medicine (Christian scientists, faith curists, magnetic healers, etc.) from the provisions of the bill. The House passed the uniform text book bill; also a bill providing for an appeal and a jury trial in the circuit court from the decision of the probate judge. This bill is made retroactive for two years. President Dunstan of the Senate ruled to be out of order the concurrent reso lution to appropriate 87,500 for a Mich igan exhibit at the Tennessee centen nial exposition at Nashville and was sustained, and that killed it. The Sen ate committee on the. U. of M. reported without recommendation the bill for the removal of the homeopathic school to Detroit and it was placed upon the general order. A resolution for final adjournment on May 25 was promptly tabled by the Senate. The Senate passed the bill appropriating 85.000 for the state board of health to provide for teaching in the public schools methods for the restriction of danger ous and communicable diseases; ulso the bill compelling cities of 10.000 to employ police matrons. Among a batch of appointments sent to the Sen ate were those of ex-Mayor T. C. Jtrooks, of Jackson, as a member of the board of control of tho Jackson state prison and C. I). Danahcr, of New berry, as a member of the board of control of the upper peninsula hospital for the insane, both of which were laid on the tabic. Gov. Pingree sent to both nouses an exhaustive message on the subject of taxation of railroads. The governor claims that instead of the railroads of Michigan paying in1o the state treas ury 5741.NW.77 a year they should pay S2,2i)7,523. All other kinds of property are paying increased asscsMiicnts and there is no reason why railroads should not do the Htiue. The governor also gets in a drive at the express compa nies and shows that in 1S05 in Michigan they paid S2.7t2.34 in taxes, when, if the assessments had lieeu made in pro portion to those in Indiana they wouid have paid 837.25S.03. The governor says that the laws and system of taxa tion of railroads is wrong and gives them every opportunity to defraud the state, but that he does not charge them with fraud. In conclusion he said: "One thing is certain, that Michigan is not receiving from railroad compa nies any such returns a:- is received by other states no more favorably situ ated. We get in Michigan less than three-quarters of a million of dollars. Our adjoining sister state of Indiana gets more than two and a quarter mil lions, although wc have l,33t miles of railroad in Michigan in excess of the mileage of Indiana, and although our manufactures and commerce are greater than that of Indiana. Taxa tion in Michigan has In come a question of paramount importance. It amounts in many eases to-confiscation. It de mands the earnest thought and honest action of those entrusted by the people with the management of their affairs." In the Senate the message was received in silence and referred to the commit tee on state affair. There was not much demonstration in the House, but 5,000 copies were ordered printed. Dr. Edgar's hard work in the House for hissubstltute for the medical league bill came to naught, as it was defeated, failing by 11 votes to receive the nec essary two-thirds vote. There was a fishy odor in the House during a four hours' fight between the state fish com mission and the commercial fishermen of the state and each side won u point. .The commercial fishermen killed the bill providing a license system for, fish ermen, and tho fish commission passed the bill establishing a closed season for whitcfish and lake trout during Nov ember and December, aud enlargiug tho meshes of the nets to be used. Other bills passed by the House: Pro viding for police matrons in cities of 10,000 population; amending the dog tax law so that money derived from dog taxes shall remain in the school district where it is collected; making it compulsory upon the city of Detroit to issue 8150,000 in bonds for the erection of a manual training and normal school. The Senate unanimously pass ed the Mcrrinm bill to increase the specific taxes on railroad earnings. The Senate also adopted a resolution to adjourn May 31. The retroactive bill, providing for appeals from pro bate judges to circuit courts with a jury trial, in caws of K?rsons adjudged insane, was also passed by the Senate. The railroads ore in for another lam basting. The Senate committee on railroads has reported favorably the Merriam bill which proposes to raise in taxation on railroads about 5200.000 more than at present, and it is possible that the Senate will make the amount still greater. As the bill was reported it provided for a 2.W per cent tax on the receipts of railroads getting less than 52,000a mile; 3!; percent on receipts of let"-ocn 82,000 and 84,000 a mile; 4 per cent on receipts between 81, 0H) nnd 5t),000,and4H perccnton nil over 8, 000. Holland has asked Uncle Sam for free mail delivery in that city. The struggle which independent telephone companies have been mak loflT against the It.'H telephone monop oly in various parts of the state has been recognized in tho House and bill was called from the private corpor ations committee establishing a maxi mum rate for telephone service in cit ies of the state at a point equivalent to tho highest rate now charged by inde pendent companies, but from 23 to 50 per cent below the old rates for msrviee that tho Dell company charged before the independentcoinpanies entered the field in competition. The committee had decided to pigeon-h.olt 'this bill. The ltoll company does not want any telephone legislation, and the Del I lobbyists were highly pleased with the action of the committee, but their grat ification was short-lived. The bill is now upon the general order of tho house for future consideration. The Itell people claim it is unconstitutional. Rep. Edgar is making a campaign for the passage of his bill for the emascu lation of third-term convicts and in mates of tho home for feeble-minded.' The physicians of the state are stand ing back of him In tho measure. In the House committee of the whole Rep. Perry's bill for the regulation of the priuting of state documents condens ing department reports and stopping the publication of joint documents was agreed to. It will save the tttato 812,000. Gov. Pingree is becoming accustomed to handling his veto power son 's using it quite frequently. The most recent instance is the veto of the anti-cigar-etto bill. The governor's special veto message says the present law prohibit ingthe selling or giving of cigarettes, cigars or tobacco to any minor under 17 years of age, and providing a penalty therefor, fully covers the first two sections of the new bill. He is en tirely opposed to the remainder of the bill in that it makes it a misdemeanor for such minor to buy or accept cigar ettes or tobacco and provides a peualty with a possibility of imprisonment. The governor says he favors punishing the seller or giver of cigarettes, etc., but he objects to the arrest of boys and miking criminals of them. Roth houses are now agreed upon May 28 as the date to cease acting on bills and May 31 for final adjournment. Sena tor Holmes' lien bill met strong oppo sition in the House, but it passed by a good inajorit It protect the prop erty owner from irresponsible con tractors and extends lien rights equally to building material men and labor. An attempt was made to pass tho lta kirk local option law in tho Houso, but it was tabled. Several important bills were passed by the House: Providing for the preference of discharged union soldiers, sailors and marines of the late rebellion in public work and pre venting their removal, transfer or sus pension from municipal office without a full hearing before the mayor or common council of the municipality; appropriating 83,750 for improvements at the upper peninsula prison at Mar quette. 82.ooi for the state public schools at Cold water, 8S,000 for im provements at tho Jackson state prison, 523,400 for improvements at tho Michi gan a.sylum for the insane at Kalama zoo, 52,500 for a physicians residence ut the Fair Oaks colony farm at the Michiguu a.sylum for tlic insane at Kalamazoo, 53.000 for tho Michigan Pioneer and Historical society; permit ting iusurauce companies to insure against theft; restricting tho pub lication of state documents and providing for the distribution of the Michigan state manual. Dur ing a short session tho Senate passed several bills, the most Import ant being: To appropriate 8146,300 for tho school for the deaf; allowing peo ple to vote at school elections who own property which is assessed; authorizing organized townships to issue bonds for the payment of claims; for the plug ging of ab&ndotied salt wells In the counties of Saginaw and Ray. Tramps traded their old clothes for nice new suits ut Long & Voraberg'a store at Charlotte without the consent of the proprietors. THE MARKETS. LIVK HTOCK. New York Cattle Sheep Lamb Ho(f H m Ixiwer grades.. 2 7i&l W Chicago Hcst frr.ide....5 OOftS 2 Ixwer grades.. 3 50(1 .V) Detroit Hent grades.... 4 SVTlt M Ix)wer grades. .2 i"$4 in) Hoffalo Ilest grades.... 007M CI Lower grades.. Z iMtc W Cincinnati Hest grade.... hC-frA in Lower grades.. 2 huitl 2S C"l!eland Ilest grade.... 4 W?.t 2S Iiowcr grade.. 2 'i-x&l i t IX) 6 00 4 ) . 4 W4 ft 25 S 2 4 Oil 4 M 2 rs gem 3 3 o r. 3 4 5n 5 2 4 ID) tt 4 .VI 2 7 n no 8 8 4 ai 3 W a ; . 2 25 4 1 3 .V 4 0) 3 K" Hest grades..... WM V Lower grades.. U Ntt&l 4 41 8 U) 4 8 4 oa 4 t-) 3 6 tJKAIN, ETC. Wbeat. No. 2 red Corn. No. 2 mix Oatv No. a white 22 22i New York 79 Chicago 9) lletroit fli Toledo 91 Cincinnati (M Clevrlmid P9 rittMhurg 9) SfiiSfc.iP.i 1 QiV.i ffiM',4 25 (IM 23 tff.'l C&H.1 Gt?l (' 23 to?- 21 21 2t (2I 21 21 2l'-4 llulTulu 91 3 feSHi 25 025 Potatoes, new Konthernx, 2 pT bus old, lc Llve I'oultrv. chicken. K p r lt: ducks, im-; turkeva. HK r'.pgs. trlc tlv fresh. Wc per doa. Mutter, dairy, 13c per lb; creamery, lc KKVIKW OK TKAM. Manv will he atonthert to learn that actual sale In April lr leading houses In each line of huMlneN In' Itae principal cities east of the Rockie average only alutiu per cent lesH than In April. xi, tt:" ear of the largest purines hitherto, and were M per rent more than la the same month last year While apeculatlre buslnek la nearly all linen Is small, and doest not swell clearing house returns, ns in previous years, the vol ume of legitimate trade shown no corre sponding decrease and the fact H of high est Importance In all business calculations. Moreover, returns of failure for April by branches of business show decrease In num tier, amount and average of lUbiUttei in al moit every branch ol trade and In nearly all branches of manufacture except cotton Western receipts and Atlantic export of, wbeat continue larger than last year.