The Yale expositor., 1895-09-06

Hoggish thieves stripped several
peach orchards near Adrian. They
had horse and wagon.
Geo. Lawson, of Lansing, tried to
suicide at Sheridan with laudanum
because his wife left him.
The wife of Phillip Schuerman, OF
iloughton, has mysteriously disap-
peared and foul play is feared.
Ella Jones, aged 20, was asphyxiated
by gas leaking through n defective jet
in her sleeping room at Detroit.
The barn Of Allen Shaw, near Kings
ton, was burned. together with his
stored crops and farm implements.
! G John Bollman, aged 60, wealthy
! farmer near Sturgis, hanged himself
I while Respondent because of i'll health.
A New York dispatch says that
Andrew Storey, Of Grand Rapids, sui
cided by shooting himself at brooklyn.
Geo. c. Eaton, an engineer on the
! Lake Shore road for 30 years, fell dead
on his engine as he pulled out of White
Pigeon.
A tumor weighing ia pounds was
removed from Mrs. Louis Brown at
Saginaw by DIR. II. NJ. Leach. She
viii probably recover.
Errors in favor of VIM. Erratt, ex-
treasurer at Cheboygan, amounting to
! Sc, 600 have been found. This reduces
the shortage to $4,000.
Irving Butler, OF Cooper, had his
face so badly laccrated that 40 stitches
| had to be taken. He was knocked
| Nui,.a fanaa hu 70 1ipor fraa
At session of the Loyal Temper
ance Legion of Wayne county, held at
Worthwhile, an experiment was per-
formed showing that root beer con-
| tains alcohol.
| The BODY of an unknown man was
found in the woods near Ludington
with nothing about him to show his
identity. He had evidently been dead
several weeks.
The Albion college exploring party
! have returned, having had to abandon
their canoes at Ombabika river, On
tario, and take the steamer from Port
Arthur TO Detroit.
The wire shovel works of w. A.
ReddiclS, at Niles, the only factory of
its kind in the United States, was
partially destroyed by fire. The loss
is 49, 900, fully insured.
IL is stated that the records in Mich
! igan show that during the past two
years more farm mortgages have been
| discharged in this state than for any
similar period for 20 years.
Three furnaces in the Calumet g.
| Hecla smelters at South Lake Linden
| have been fred up after several months
! idleness. There is a heavy demand for
copper, which warrants resumption.
A passenger on board the +. & F. NJ.
| steamer No. 4, from Ludington to
! Manistee. jumped overheard 10 miles
out of Milwaukee and was lost. His
| gold watch and baggage was left on
board.
! The members of the Ladies' Temple
| society of Bay City, being wives, sisters
and daughters of Masons, served as
conductors on the street ear lines all
of one day and make n good large sum
for their society.
Chief Justice McGrath has granted
writ of error in the case of Mrs. Nellie
| w. Pope, the Detroit woman in Jack
son prison for numbering her husband,
and the case will be reviewed at the
October term of the supreme court
Patrick Quinlan, who was so prom
incntly connected with the Holmes
| Castle" in Chicago, has moved to his
/ old home at Lacota and says that he
was prosecuted by the Chicago police.
Frankenmuth people celebrated the
| fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
their village by holding religious SER
/ Nrfp do civ
| ing picnics, games and fireworks.
! Thousands were present. -
The trial of John II. Haven, the auc-
| tioneer of Holland, who was arrested
at Muskegon for selling X. Mueller's
| iewelry stock at auction, which is con-
trary to the city ordinance, resulted in
IA heavy fine. Mueller will appeal the
| case to test the ordinance.
George w. Love, awaiting trial for
murder, and Oscar Schultz, doing time
for larceny, escaped from the county
| Jail at Bellaire. Love murdered a
squaw named Solomon in cold blood
near Elk Rapids last June. A reward
of $500 is offered for Love.
| During a brawl at the annual church
! festival of the German Lutherns at
| Frankenmuth, Charles Corlngton, of
Arbela, struck a man named Thomas
on the head with a stone and jumped
on him, iniuring him so that he will
probably die. Corington fed
Frank y. Clark, superip tendent of
the Michigan stations of the u. S. fish
commission. is just now located on the
main stream of the Au Sable river,
about seven miles east of Grayling,
csta blishing a government fish hatch
cry for the propagation of brook trout,
of which he expects to produce about
two million this year.
a. l.. Lakey, of Kalamazoo, secre-
tary of the National Sportsmen's asso-
ciation says that the next congress
will be urged to take steps to stop the
traffic in the eggs of wild ducks and
geese In Alaska, as the nests are sys-
tematically and persistently robbed
and the extinction of these two species
of fowl is threatened.
There is prospect that the digging
and shipping of mari from several west
Michigan towns to Chicago will grow
into quite an industry. Mari is found