The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

| broken into ana robbed or $50.
Daniel Stines' sawmill was destroyed
h fire at Lake Odessa. Loss 800
Joseph Gully drove from Nebraska,
| 1,SO0 miles, TO visit his father at Min
den City.
The Ranny refrigerator works at
Greenville started up with a force of
nearly $50 men.
Kelly e Coville's store at Sights,
near Traverse City, burned; total loss
So, 900, insurance $4,000.
The first snow of the season fell at
Hancock on the Sth for about one
hour, but il did not stay.
Mrs. Sarah Way, residing south of
jackson, fell down stairs and broke
her neck, dying instantly.
Loud's new railroad is at last fin
ished, and trains are now running be-
tween Au Sable and Lewiston.
Joseph Knauf, trammer, aged 81,
was struck by "a falling rock at Calu-
met. He died half hour later.
Ionia was closed up Sunday; that is,
candy stores and cigar stands were;
saloon back doors were open, however.
Reports to the state board of healtl,
show that diphtheria is prevelant at
SO places in Michigan and smallpox Vt ..
John O'Neil was run over by a
| Northwestern passenger between
Daggett and Talbot lie died in few
minutes
Isaac Cantrall fell off ladder on his
! fn,. in, | al hi IN L.
land county, and injured his spine so
that he died
Cadillac will lie blessed on October
Q. 10 and IL, for the Christian Endeavor
convention for II counties will be as
sembled there.
Clyde. the l0-year-old son of S. A.
Watt, of Saranac, lost his right arm by
the accidental discharge of his gun,
while duck hunting.
The South Haven & Eastern railroad
is building n new round house and re-
pair shops at Lawton, having aban-
doned those at Paw Paw.
Henry J. Downey, proprietor of the
well-known Hotel Downey at Lansing,
died of typhoid fever after an illness
of 10 dPys. lie was Sc years old.
Ernest Dubois, of Olivet, while oper-
ating corncutter. fell under the
knives and his right leg was so badly
cut that it had TO be amputated.
Instead of chapel exercises, which
have been practically abolished at the
University at Ann Arbor, devotional
exercises will be held twice week in
University hall.
Louis Van Zant, of Muskegon, aged
II, while hunting, was tipped out of
his boat. The shot gun at the same
time was discharged, intlicting injuries
from which the boy died.
Prof. Harry B. Hutchins, associate
dean of Cornell law school, has ac-
cepted the deanship of the Ann Arbor
school, but will remain at Cornell till
the close of the fiscal year.
Mrs. Charles Chambers, popular
lady of Webbervillc, was driving pair
of fractions horses, when they became
unmanageable, throwing her out and
breaking her neck. She died instantly.
w. j. Peters, city ticket agent for
the l.. 5. & NJ. :. railroad at Jackson
has resigned to take the position Of
Michigan passenger agent for the Ohio
Central. His headquarters will be at
Detroit.
Jay Forbes was caught in pulley
in w. A. Forbes 81 Co.'S $ planning mill
at Caro-. His clothing gave way and
saved his life, but his right leg from
the hip to the ankle was nearly denuded
of skin, and he was badly crushed and
bruised.
Cyrus Weaver, of Watervliet, struck
a match while pouring hot cider into n
barrel. Something exploded the hot
cider depriving Mr.. Weaver of his eye
brows, part of his hair and most of the
skin on his face. The cause of the ex-
plosion is mystery.
The Tamarack mine officials at Cal
umet are getting rid of the Austrians
in their employ and hiring Cornish
men. Most of the men made idle by
the closing down of the Central mine
have been taken in by the Tamarack
and Calumet IL Hecla.
The Michigan Trust company, re-
ceiver. asks the supreme court TO elm
mate O. NJ Barnes as defendant in
the Lansing Lumber company > affairs
and TO dismiss Mr.. Barnes appeal. II
this is done the company will take
possession of the plant at once.
George Coleman, five miles south
west of Howell, fell from his wagon
when on his way home from town and
broke his back. Mr.. Coleman was rep
resentive in the state legislature from
1882 to 1856, and was treasurer of Liv-
ingston county from 1888 to 1892.
George Shepherd, of Homer, was
seriously injured while fish spearing
by the explosion of his fishing Jack"
as he was filling it with gasoline. The
burning fluid was thrown over him,
and he was badly burned before he
could jump into the water and extin-
guish the flames.
Pitts g. Co., of Bay City, have sold to
Piggott & Co., of Windsor, Ont, 1000,
900 feet of pine lumber. The lumber
was cut from Canadian logs, and
brought in RATS from the Georgian
bay district. This sale is the first one
on record of Michigan lumber going
into the Canadian market.
While Fred George and his mother
were attending the play at Ypsilanti,