The Yale expositor., 1894-11-09
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

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shot by hunter through accident.
The contract has been let and work
begun on a casket factory at Belding.
5. S. Bailey and wife celebrated
their golden wedding at Grand Rapids.
Coppers and fire laddies at Lansing
have been forbidden to drink while on
duty.
The Davis mine has shut down at
Negaunee, throwing IS men out of
work.
The state fish commission has de-
cided to re-stock Green Bay with
whitefish.
The trial of ex-Deputy Secretary of
State August w. Lindholm has been
postponed till Nov. L.
George Welch, one of the five men
who escaped from Hillsdale Jail, Sept.
6, has been recaptured.
Burglars stole 500 worth of mer-
chandise from the American Express
company at Otter Lake.
William David's barn, three miles
north of New Haven, was destroyed by
fire. Loss about g., 900.
A Kalamazoo lady has been studying
the culture of pineapples and is meet
ing with hopeful success.
Emmett village will shortly have
system of water works. There are
only 225 inhabitants there.
Rev. Alfred L. Howard and wife left
Schoolcraft for Africa, where they will
teach in the missionary schools
Ewing Camp, aged 20, of Hartford,
shot himself in the left breast and will
die. a love affair was the cause.
A lantern exploded in Andrew
! Hearts barn, near New Haven. Five
cattle persisted. Total loss, 81 900.
William Smith, aged 16, son of Patrol
man Leroy Smith, fell from a build
ing at Grand Rapids, breaking his
neck. He died instantly.
Since last spring five immigrants
have arrived at Grand Haven from
Holland, but in the same time So have
returned to their old home.
The Paine Lumber company's big
planning mill at Marinette was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss SO, 800. The
cause was undoubtedly incendiary
Muskegon grocers have commenced
war on all peddlers and hucksters,
claiming that their business has been
injured by the travelling merchants.
Alfred Ever committed suicide at
Flint while temporarily insane by
hanging himself in his barn. lie had
been a resident of Flint for 40 years
A team belonging to V. l.. Parsons &
I Co. became frightened and ran away
at Elmira, throwing out and instantly
killing the driver, George Wise, aged
about %.
The mailing facilities at Paw Paw
are of the worst possible. There are
but two trains per day and the Detroit
and Chicago papers are received II
hours late.
Mrs. Argalus Need, an old lady. fell
from the top of long fight of stairs
at Dowagiac intlicting a severe scalp
wound and breaking two ribs. She is
in a critical condition.
NJ. ID. Beaver recently tried TO drive
a cow into Ed O'Donnelrs barn when
the animal charged him and rammed
her horn through the mans groin.
His injuries. while serious, are not
necessarily fatal
Mr.. and Mrs. John G.. Schairer. two
of the oldest residents of Washtenaw
county, celebrated their golden we'd
ding at their home at Ann Arbor.
Eleven married children and 25 grand
children were present.
Willie Deerbeck, l6-year-old
Frenchtown lad, accidentally shot
himself with 32-caliber revolver with
which he was playing. The ball
glanced just to the side of the heart
and lodged in the lung tissue.
w. b. Nicholson sleeps in Moshers
jewelry store at Holly. lie heard
noise at the door and fired three shots
through it. He then made "a break
and caught two of three tough looking
tramps and landed them in Jail.
Thomas Pool was arrested at New.
berry on the charge of assaulting H.
year-old girl. He got a bottle of poison
in Jail and tried to join the angels, but
stomach pump interfered, and
Thomas will be tried on the shocking
charge.
Hope college, at Holland, has re-
ceived a present of several hundred
volumes and check for $500, to be eX
pended for more books, from Mr.. n. +.
Graves. of Syracuse, y. Y. Mr. Graves
donated the library building which
was finished early this year at cost
of $40, 900.
While Harry Ham and Roy Collins,
both II years of age, were playing
with target gun in the woods south
of Sturgis, the gun was discharged,
the ball striking Harry Ham in the
back, passing through him, and was
found just beneath the skin in the
center of the abdomen. lie cannot
live.
Zach Vandam, of Grand Rapids, who
has been passing among his friends as
Sunday school worker and model
husband, has been arrested for bur-
glary. Secrcted under the floors in
his house was found wagon load of
provisions, clothing and other supplies.
He had been foraging for several
months.
Small poX has broken out at Clawson.
village near birmingham. Frank
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