The Yale expositor., 1895-03-01
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

against church taxation.
Nathaniel Rice, sheriff of Kent
county, died of typhoid fever.
John Brokaw's head was crushed by a
falling limb at Athens. Fatal.
Squire Finn, of Hancock, has been
justice of the peace for 80 years.
Moses Kimble was almost instantly
killed by falling tree near Evart.
Clara, the 4-year-old daughter of
Fred Levingood, was fatally burned at
jackson.
Saginaw is going to build S40,-
600 armory, which the finest drill room
in the state.
Mrs. Edgar Z. Define, of Saginaw,
wife of an f.. & p. NJ. conductor, COM
mitted suicide with a revolver.
Motorman p. Fitzsimmons, of Mus
kegon, was caught between two cars
and severely injured internally, but
he may recover.
julius Fisher, the Bay City police
man who shot Max Drifke at Tawas
City last summer, has been found
guilty of manslaughter.
Jumping from a train at Sparta,
Allie Covert. telegraph student, fell
and crushed his forehead. Chances
for recovery about even.
Bernard Lachance. of Mackinac, lost
a fine team, sleigh, end load of wood
in the straits while driving from Bois
Blanc to Mackinac island.
The question of rc.establishing the
l.. A 4 =.
being discussed, aud several capitalists
have expressed willingness to invest.
The 13-year-old son of p. j. Marthey,
in Denver township, Isabella county,
blew down the barrel of shotgun
which was loaded and died soon after
ward.
1t has been decided Informally by
the mayor, city attorney and other
officials of Ironwood to repudiate the
last issue of city bonds amounting to
S150,00
The residence of William Chamber
lain, warden of jackson prison, was
destroyed by fire at Three Oaks. The
loss is So, 900 with 81, 400 insurance. 1t
was the finest dwelling house in Three.
Oaks.
1t is said that one-third of Grand
Rapids saloonkeepers will not renew
their licenses this spring. Awfully
hard times for them, with the financial
depression and Parkhurst movement
all at once.
Charlevoix is figuring 20 win the
county seat from Boyne City. She de
pends, for one thing, upon the addi-
nj htr
the extension of the c. & w. NJ. from
lronton to East Jordan.
Mt. Pleasant is after that new nor
NAL school which is being talked of by
the legislature. The town has build
ing which will accommodate 800 pupils
which it will present to the state, to-
gether with 10 acres of land.
The 10-months-old child of Paul
johnson, of Manistee, fell from high
chair upon red-hot stove. The
mother, was absent from the room.
Schild's flesh was literally cooked
and its condition is very critical
L. Silvers, tax collector of Benton
Harbor, fastened Big Four engine No.
"a, in the railroad wards with heavy
log chain, because the company de-
locomotive is TO be sold at auction.
Il. Il. Owen and L. A. Grant, of
Richland, were locked up at Kalama-
ZOO, charged with the theft of SAC
worth of grain, which they admit.
Grant is the son of Joseph Grant, who
recently shot his wife and committed
suicide.
John Martin, n teamster hauling
cedar posts near Menominee was found
dead by a roadside with his head cut
in several places. His team and load
was found near by and it is probable
that he fell off the top of the load and
under the horses.
Fire started in the upper story of
Aliens Sanitarium at Flint, and be-
fore il could be brought under control
the entire building was destroyed. All
the patients, 1S in number, were re-
moved TO places of safety. The loss is
estimated at $1,000 insurance $4,000.
The G.. A. II. art loan and industrial
exposition was a success at Kalamazoo.
The industrial display covered 5000
square feet of floor space and nearly
every article exhibited was donated
| The war relic museum was large and
| iHCluuto ihDNClbltos lOdn
contained hundreds of valuable paint
ings from all parts of the state.
Francis Knowing. of Au Sable,
while fishing off that place in an open
boat, was blown out in the Saginaw
bay. After battling with the wind,
wave and ice with one oar to keep the
boat headed into the sea for two days
and nights, he sighted Port Austin
reef light. lie started over the ice
with his feet and hands badly frozen.
He could hardly walk the 10 miles to
! the shore.
In May, 1853, James Hitchcock was
J sent TO prison from Ingham county,
, convicted of murder. After 81 years
he established his innocence TO the
satisfaction OF Gov. Luce, who par
doned him on Thanksgiving day, lsS5.
lie is now 10 year old. The old man S
family died while he was in prison,
and an effort will bc made to induce
she Legislature TO make some provision
for his remaining days.
Tho street railway car houses at