The Yale expositor., 1894-11-16
All of Lanslng's factories are run.

TO 50 men Will be located at Alpena.
Paw Paws fruit cooperating works
used $4,000 bushels of apples this sea-
son.
Belding has another diphtheria scare
on, and one death from the disease has
occurred.
The state fish commission has de-
cided TO re-stocS Green Bay with
whitefish.
Frank Beihler, of Stanwood, was
shot in the leg by another hunter near
White Cloud.
The public schools at Ithaca have
been closed on account of the preva-
lence of scarlet fever there.
Union City society young ladies will
give a minstrel show soon, the pro-
ceedS to be devoted to charity.
The $50, 900 appropriation for county
buildings Tor Berrien county to be To-
Gated at st. Joseph was carried by 06o
majority.
A collection of Indian relics and
other articles of historic Importance
will be prepared in Branch county and
placed in the library building at Cold
water.
Hartford residents have voted to
purchase the opera house block at that
place and transform it into a township
building.
Edwin Camp and c. ]. Jackson, of
Hartford both of whom tried to sui
eide by shooting themselves, are re-
covering.
Dennis O'Brien, aged - years, and
for - years a resident of Ottawa
county, died at Grand Haven. of inju-
ries received in runaway some time
ago at Holland.
Leroy Gates, OF Merrill, was acct
dentally shot in the thigh by William
Rastedo while carclessly handling a
revolver. The ball entered the left
thigh, and was removed from the op-
positc side.
Gcrtic Bicking, aged "a years, Of
| Monroe, played around n stove and
pulled some redhot Goals out on her
dress. Her left side from the waist up
was so horribly burned that she may
not recover.
Angus McMapus accidentally shot
himself while hunting deer near
Traverse City, and died during tn
night. He was one of the most pros
porous young business men in the city.
and popular with all.
William Lander, an +. e p. NJ
brakeman, was caught between the
drawbar while attempting to make n
coupling at the Almont junction anu
crushed to death in n horrible manner
He leaves a widow at Saginaw.
Richard Huffman, while out hunting
near Harrietta, was shot in the right
arm by the accidental discharge of his
gun. Both bones were shattered anC
the arm will have to be amputated
Huffman is from Gibsonburg, o.
Alexander Robertson, an old man
near Silver Lake, Grand Traverst
county, wandered away from home
October IS. and nothing has been seen
or heard of him since. He is 70 years
old and somewhat feeblc-minded.
The wife of a Coldwatcr man died
recently, and in the pocket of "a dress
he found checks on the bank for $500
payable to him. She had distracted
the money from his POCKETS at differ
ent times and deposited it for him.
State Land Commissioner French
offered at auction 10000 acres of aban
doned homestead lands and 1000 acres
of land forfeited for the non-payment
of interest The bidders were few ano
but 500 acres were disposed of at an
average price of 81 per acre.
John Etzcorn. yardmaster of the
Michigan Central ut Niles, was switch
ing cars on the repair track. In climb
ing down from the top of freight
car he slipped and fell, his right leg
going across the track and was run
over. 1t was amputatcd near the
knee.
+. n. Mcdowell, a patient in the
northern asylum at Traverse City,
whose home was at Big Rapids, sui
cided by hanging himself with a towel
in the wash-room. He had never
shown a suicidal disposition. The
coroner's verdict eXonerated the insti.
tuition from all blame.
Edward and Peter Alec, of Mar
quette, are missing, and it is supposed
that they have been drowned in Lake
Superior. The last heard of them was
when they went out fishing in n small
sailboat. The boat has been found up
side down upon "A rock with her upper
works gone, but no trace of the mer
anywhere.
At the annual meeting of the Van
Buren, county Pomona Grange resolu
tions were passed asking the legisla
ture TO amend the drug store law so as
TO prevent the indiscriminate sale o.
liquor in local option counties, and tc
enact law compelling persons founc
intoxicated to furnish inform alton a.
where they procured the liquor.
Charles Perry met with an accident
which caused his death at Harrietta
Wexford county. He was n brake
man, and was walking along on top o.
the cars in the dark, walked off tn,
end of box car and fell on fatcal
loaded with old iron. lie struck Oh
his head, and his skull was fractured
and his brains crushed out. His hom'
was at Frankfort.
3-year-old daughter of Newell
Harrington, of Adrian, went out to tn,
woodshed with u lamp which she helC
close TO her clothes to prevent being
distinguished. Hearing her screams
her mother sprang to the door an,
saw the childs dress in flames. Sh,