The Yale expositor., 1894-11-23
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

John Johnson, of Holland, suicidcd
at Manistee.
Ludington wants "A tannery, and has
all the natural facilities.
c. A. Mapes' dry goods store at Vas
sar was burglarized. Loss 500.
Weaver & Mabee's cider and feed
mill burned at Watervliet. Loss SO, 900.
The south pier at the mouth of Hol-
land harbor has been washed away by
the storms.
Coal gas nearly ended the lives of the
members of John Vantolls family at
Grand Haven.
A Benton Harbor concern has just
shipped 5000 barrels of pickles to
Great Britain.
William Langsford, laborer in the
Negaunee mine, was instantly killed
by fall of rock.
Lieut-Gov. elect Mines lost S65 cash
and 12 watches from his Coldwater
store. burglars.
Grand Rapids furniture mauufactur-
ers are strongly agitating the abolish
ing of the factory at lonia prison.
The roller Touring mills, owned by
S. M. Trobridge ~ Son, at Geneva
have burned. Loss about Sl2, O00
The Aldrich Memorial Deaconesses'
Home at Grand Rapids was dedicated
with appropriate and impressive cere-
monies.
Luke Sharia, of Sodus, was robbed
of S., 500 in gold. He had no faith in
banks and buried the money in his
woodshed.
The celery crop near Kalamazoo is
said to have been injured per cent by
thousands of dollars.
The merchants and citizens of Iron
wood are jubilant over the resumption
of operations by the Ashland mine,
located IN that city.
Hon. w. r. Burt, of Saginaw, denies
the story of the consolidation of the
c., S. 81 NJ, the T., A. A. 81 n. NJ. and
the D., b. c. & A. railroads.
While hunting deer on the Mus5c-
gon river, near Marion, l.. c. Hancock
was instantly killed by the accidental
discharge of a gun in the hands of j.
Lafferty.
s. Nj. Trowbridge & Sons Touring
mill near South Haven was destroyed
by fire. The building was full of grain
and new machinery had but recently
been put in. Loss sec, 900; not insured.
Liphardt, the convicted boodling
school inspector of Detroit, has been
granted an order for admission to
$4,000 bail and "A stay of proceedings
until the January term Of court, when
he will have another hearing.
Charles Myers, of Gobleville, Van
Buren, county, attempted suicide by
taking laudanum, but in his effort to
make good job of it he took so much
that it was ineffective as a poison and
only succeeded in making him sick for
"A while.
The Women's Press association of
Michigan has closed an interest
ing meeting at the home of Mrs. George
A. Perry, at Charlotte. The ladies
selected the daisy as the association
flower, and white, gold and green as
the association colors.
OOHu DC hdulls ScNCh dRO, Dt-
ing then 10 years of age, killed Chris
Rickling at Grand Rapids. He was
sent to jackson for Is years. He has
been constantly planning TO escape,
but the strain has caused him to be-
come violently insane.
Mrs. John Wingcr, of Dexter, gave
birth to twin girls. weighing about 10
pounds, that were connected like the
Siamese twins, with the further pecu-
liarity that they had but one abdomen.
The twins, which ~ere dead when
born, will be sent to the Michigan Uni
versity.
State Game Warden Hampton's last
report says 20 upper peninsula violaters
of the game laws were convicted in
October. Several hundred dollars were
collected in fines upon outside hunters,
tons Of venison seized and score of
dogs shot by wardens. Since January
1, out of 2Gi violaters only IS were ac-
quilted.
AS Will Richardson, farmer
near Pontiac, was returning home at
night accompanied by his niece, they
were run into by another party, it
being very dark. The horses ran
away, throwing them both out. Mr..
Richardson was quite seriously injured
internally and his niece kicked in the
face by one of the horses.
Bill Virgins, the Lake county moon
sinner, was sentenced by Judge Sever
ans in the United States court at Grand
Rapids to spend six months in Jail
and pay n fine of 500. Virgins con-
fessed that he had still and made
whisky from sap which he extracted
from the trees. He sold the liquor to
woodsmen and it produced a beastly
drunk.
Deputy Sheriff Phelps, of Wash
tenaw, arrested six men, all hitherto
respectable citizens of Augusta town
ship, for stealing chickens, wheat,
oats, etc, from farmers. Other ar
rests will follow, as there is in all
probability an organized gang in that
vicinity composed of farmers and hired
men, who have been disposing of their
ill-gottcn gains in Ypsilanti.
Since trying so desperately to escape
from Jackson prison, Irving Latimer
has been confined in the solitary cell.
He has such an easy conscience, how
ever, that it has only rcdoundcd to his
benefit. He was troubled with stom-
ach disorder before, but the fare given