The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-10-26
MIC4IoAN HAPPENINGS.

Jacobsville, getting Sl.25, struck for
an increase of 20 cents.
Eli Giranord was run over by
Michigan Central freight train at Mar
shall and instantly killed.
George Clarl1's carriage was run into
by an engine at Oakley. Both horses
were killed and Clark was hurt.
John l.. Curavc, of Traverse City,
started across the bay and is missing.
His boat was found bottom side up.
The Michigan Manufacturing COM
pany, of Otsego, will shortly remove
their overall plant to Grand Rapids.
Cordelia Sanford, an insane woman,
committed suicide at the Kalamazoo
asylum, hanging herself with sheet.
Il. G. Robinson's barn and contents
were burned near Sherwood. Valuable
live stock and farming tools were de-
stroyed.
w. l.. Wilson, OF Port Huron, deputy
great commander of the Mac cabees,
has decided To make his head quarters
at Saginaw.
Carrie Fairbanks, of Adrian, at
tempted to commit suicide because her
mother kept house for widower
against her wishes.
Edward Jones, of Ubly, slashed his
throat and his abdomen in an attempt
at suicide. He was distracted over the
death OF several relatives.
The warehouse established in Man
chester, Eng, by Grand Rapids furni-
ture manufacturers has proved sue
n,.Jn IN,
The law and order league of Calumet
have lodged a complaint with Gov.
Rich anent the alleged fragrant viola
tions of the liquor law in that section.
About $50 survivors of the Seventh
Michigan cavalry attended the annual
reunion at Lansing. The association
has 400 members, scattered all over
the country.
Ray and Lee Brothington, two IL
year-old children OF Escanaba, were
fooling with a revolver and as a result
! instantly killed.
Henry Farwell, of Dowagiac, is miss
| ing. He left home with $3.50 in his
pocket and has not been heard from
since. 1t is thought that he was men
tally unbalanced.
Rush Culver has instituted libel
suit against the Iron Herald of Neg
aunee, owing to its editorial charging
him with dishonest practices in refer
ence to land eases.
On October Lansing physicians
! diagnosed the case of German named
! Iimeldinger as smallpox. Many per-
| sons have been exposed. Two more of
the family have since taken it.
Some one threw an apple at Charles
Knapp while he was at play in the
school yard at Grand Ledge. It struck
the boy in the eye, bursting the eye
ball and totally destroying his sight.
Sheriff Wilson has been called to
Blissfeld to investigate the shooting
of Mrs. Robert Elftman. Later devel-
opments lead to the suspicion of
murder. The woman cannot recover.
Henry /. Allen, of Schoolcraft, has
been appointed chairman of the finance
| committee of the general assembly of
the Knights of Labor, which meets at
New Orleans November -. He says
the order has grown rapidly during
the past year.
The Sixteenth Michigan volunteer
! infantry, 80 strong, had jolly re-
union and banquet at Ann Arbor.
| New officers were elected: President,
Meme Swart; vice president, Theodore
Hoeninghausen; secretary and treas
urer, a. NJ. Apted.
Miss Dana Douglas, aged %, cashier
at the Livingstone dry goods store at
| Kalamazoo, shot herself in the side
and died soon after The only cause
assigned for her act is that she was
not invited to Miss Jessie Livingstone $
wedding, while other clerks were.
Miss Maggie McDay lives near Leets-
vile in Kalkasl<a county. She is the
possessor of a heavy growth of beard,
| which covers her face and extends
lowish tint, coarse and long and re-
sembles the shaggy name of lion.
Supt Wilcox, of the Tecumseh paper
mills, went to the asylum at Kalama-
ZOO to see his wife, who was confined
there. she went for walk with him
and managed to get s. from him, and
then gave him the slip and took the
train for Battle Creek. She has not
yet been captured.
VIM. Fleming, of Lodi, o., was out
bicycling near Battle Creek when he
met team. The horse SHE'D and a
collision resulted, in which Fleming
was struck by the thills. He was dis
embowlcd and his life is despaired of
His mother is in the sanitarium and
may not survive the shock.
The river steamer May Graham has
made her last trip for the season up
the historic st. Joseph to Berrien
Springs. This closes all egress from
the county seat of Berrien county by
common carrier to the outside world
except by the antediluvian carryall
over dusty or muddy roads.
4Wm. c. Liphardt, the member of the
Detroit board of education who was
convicted of accepting a bribe, was
sentenced by Judge Chaplin to five
years at hard labor az Jackson. Walsh,
the second to be tried, was acquitted
after the jury had been out about 90
hours. lie proved an alibi.
A 1f-year-old son of O. G. Clarke, q
painter ut ST. Johns, was killed by a
COW which he was leading with the
end of Tho popa tod oroupd bic hOdxy