The Yale expositor., 1894-10-19
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

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which win begin operations in the
spring.
Benjamin Barnard, travelling man
aged about % years, committed suicide
at Flint by drinking quantity of car
bolic acid. Temporary insanity.
Florence Campbell, 2-ycar-old girl
of Grand Marais, got hold of a bottle
of carbolic acid and drank some of the
contents. She lived but short time.
The truckmen and lumber pliers in
the ID. d NJ. mills, at Ontanagon, struck
for higher wages. Unless they return
to work the mills win probably close
down for the season.
Two little girls named Edna Austin
and Edith shit, of st. Joseph, ran
away from home and frightened their
relatives into the belief that they had
been kidnapped, but were found at
Watervliet.
Maggie Smith, a saleswoman in "a
Grand Rapids dry goods house, drank
carbolic acid by mistake and died in
awful agoly. She got out of bed to
take IA dose Of nitrc, but got the wrong
bottle in the dark.
Michigan state prison is crowded
with convicts. The roll call shows an
attendance OF sG6, and the officials are
worried TO find room for the inflow of
offenders, who come in lunches, some
times reaching as high as 10 day.
Mrs. Minnie HERE, charged with
the murder of her son in May, 1898 =,
was acquitted in the Ingham county
circuit court the theory of the wo-
mans insanity at the time the crime
was committed being accepted by the
jury.
Fire destroyed the entire plant of
the Plymouth Air Rifle company. Loss
about $4,000 insured for 81, 500.
Twenty men are thrown out of en-
ployment. The buildings being frame,
adjoining buildings were saved only
by stubborn fight
The Grand Traverse region will
soon be the leading fruit raising dis
trict in the state if things keep on the
way they have for a few years past
Thousands of fruit trees will be set out
next spring, one man alone having
ordered 1000 for his own planting.
The long talked of project of a spur
line from Benton Harbor by the way
of Il rrien Spings to South Bend, con-
Meeting with the Grand Trunk, seems
about to be realized Surveyors are
going over the proposed route, and it
is claimed that the work of construc-
tion will commence at once.
Herman Swartz. a young married
man, began working in the South End
Lumber Co.. s mill, at Bay City, and
the second day as he was cleaning
sawdust under one of the saws in aris-
ing his skull was broken by a pulley
making 300 revolutions a minute. He
was not found until an hour later.
Typhoid fever is very prevalent in
the township of Greenleaf, Tuscola
county. In the family of John Jones
there have been eight afflicted and five
died inside of one month, and three
others are now at the point of death.
A son-in-law has become deranged
from his misfortune, his wife and
child being two of the dead.
Sheriff Stratton arrested Mrs. Ira
Hurd and man named q. w. Ludlow
for numbering Ira liurd at Allegan.
Ludlow is young man about 2S years
of age with a wife and two children at
Benton Harbor. lie visited Allegan
quite frequently To purchase apples,
and the officers claim to have letters
which passed between him and Mrs.
IIurd making engagements; also that
the revolver found was the property
of Ludlow.
protest signed by many of the most
prominent citizens of Benton Harbor
will be sent to the Allegan authorities.
who, il is alleged. have dealt unfairly
with o. Ludlow, of Benton Harbor. who
is charged with being implicated in the
murder of Ira Hurd at Allcgan. The
petition says that he is n young man of
sobriety and rectitude, and that he has
not received fair play at the hands of
the authorities of Allegan. William c.
Hicks, n local attorney, has been sent
by citizens to defend Ludlow.
The Marquette county board of
supervisors, for economical reasons,
have not appointed a game warden,
and as result the southern part of
the county is flooded with hunters, it
being estimated that there are over 300
i'm that district. Most of these are men
hired by commission houses and all
the deer they kill are shipped to these
houses in gross violation of the state
law which prohibits the shipment of
venison out of the state. 1t was the
same with partridge in September
Over 100 laborers employed on the ore
docks of the Chicago Il Northwestern
railway at Escanaba are on a strike.
They have been receiving S1.25 per day,
but asked TO have their wages raised to
Si.05. This the company refused TO do
and the men have been paid off. The
work is hard and disagreeable at this
season of the year and the increase
they ask is not considered unreason-
able. Good wages are being paid in
the lumber woods and the railroad
company will find il difficult to obtain
men at less than Sl.7j.
Willard NJ. johnson, aged about 40
years, living two miles from Burr Oak,
was found dead in the st. Joseph river,
northwest of Colon. He had been shot
and his body thrown into the river.
-Four bullets had been fred into his
body, one taking effect in his heart.
The crime must have been committed
as johnson was returning from his
father-in laws, near Athens, where he
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