The Yale expositor., 1894-11-30
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

Within week five bears were shot
within the village limits of Rogers City.
The Il. & A. NJ. of Manistee arc
thinking of erecting n 900 Masonic
temple and opera house.
About 500 bushels of potatoes were
roasted by the burning of VIM. Rich
! ardson's home near birmingham.
Rev. j. A. Cairns, retired Wesleyan
minister, was struck by n L. * A. A.
train at Milan and instantly killed.
Carl j. Rumsey. well-lSnown farmer
near Hudson committed suicide by
shooting. Continued illness the cause.
An aerolite fell in the field in which
two Swedes were working near Benton
Harbor, nearly frightening them to
death.
The 42d sanitary convention, under
the auspices of the state board of
health, was held at Charlotte, lasting
two days.
Calumet people thought they were
eating venison OF recent occasion
and were shocked TO discover that it
was horse meat.
Jacob Crook, of Bay City, was run
over and killed by Michigan Central
train near the Woodward avenue
crossing, Detroit.
County Treasurer SullSey, of Wash
tenaw county, is short $500 in his
accounts and has gone to Germany to
get money to square up.
Rev. John Frost, of North Branch,
while on his way to the f. IL +. Nj.
depot in Port Huron, was run down by
hack and seriously injured.
Louis Souscr passed check at
Kalamazoo hotel for an oveEcoat. lie
was arrested and it was found that he
had his pockets full of forged checks.
Detroit schools were all ordered
closed for at least one week because
of the diphtheria epidemic. All the
school buildings are being thoroughly
disinfected.
Noah Kissei, aged as, meat market
owner, of Sherwood, was thrown from
his buggy on his way home from Union
City, and his skull was fractured SO
that he died.
A direct descendant of Pocahontas,
the tender-hearted Indian princess of
Virginia colonial history, died at
Grace hospital, Detroit She was Mrs.
Sarah Robinson.
In a quarrel which originated at a
rattle, Louis Elsey, stone cutter, aged
% years, of Detroit, cut his brother
Charles twice across the neck, intlict-
ing fatal injuries.
William ii. Barber, farmer near
l. 49,
lie also sold his crop of wool and now
! both stranger and wool money and
good overcoat are gone.
Three cases of smallpox were dis
covered in Dandy township, Ionia
county. They were traced to Super
visor Holiday, who had the disease.
Nine cases grew out of his exposure.
Lansing mail carriers and ex-carriers
who recently fled claims for overtime,
under the eight-hour law, have been
advised that their claims, aggre eating
over $1,000, have been recommended
paid.
Will Ankli was shot while out hu mt
ing with a friend near st. Joseph.
The gun was accidentally discharged
while they were lying in the bottom
of the boat, empting its load into
Ankli's right hip.
State Game Warden Hampton pulled
an Ohio hunter off the midnight train
at Grayling and took deer out of his
! trunk. When the Buckeye came out
of Squire Woodburns justice mill, he
had Just % cents left.
A match broke in two as a clerk in
| Il. A. Cartons dry goods at Ionia was
striking il and the blazing head caught
in some lace curtains. Before the
flames were extinguished $4,000 dam
age had been sustained.
-Four boys, aged IL to Is, were ar
rested in West Bay City charged with
entering building filled with tug and
steamer furnishings, stored for the
| winter, and deliberately cutting and
smashing over 100 worth OF goods.
A hunter few miles south of
Petoskey saw two elk, and shot and
killed one of them. 1t is said that this
is the first time in 20 years that an elk
has been seen in the lower peninsula.
The animal which was shot weighed
600 pounds.
The common council of the village
| ldS pTdHJcu d lTduCniot 10 ~. II. hOD-
erts, of Grand Rapids, for an electric
road around Mackinac Island, follow
ing the lake; also for an electric light
and telephone system at an estimate
cost of Sl25, 900.
| Lawrence Hill, millwright at Buck
ley & Douglas mill at Manistee was
fatally injured. He was on ladder
engaged in running off belt. The
| stick he was using caught in some
manner, striking him in the forhead,
crushing in his skull.
Detroit has been connected with the
Canadian natural gas fields by the
means of pipe line just completed
across the Detroit river. 1t was
| gigantic undertaking, but was accom-
! plished without accident or injury to
any person or the machinery.
Thomas Black met with an accident
at Coldwater that may result fatally.
Driving under wire clothesline in the
dark il caught in his mouth, breaking
the upper jaw on both sides, cutting
off the soft palate and iniuring him
| otherwise in terrible manner.
Charles Wright, the trusty who es-
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