The Yale expositor., 1895-06-14

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Dick Brotherson, of st. Joseph, fell
from ladder, which stood on a scow,
into the canal at Benton Harbor while
painting on the steamer City of Louis
vile, and was drowned.
After rs men had been examined,
jury was finally obtained at Muske-
gon and the trial of Mrs. Henry Hugh
son on the charge of muroering her
second husband, Nathan Douglas, has
begun.
Mrs. Harriet Evans, of 0wosso, was
put in Jail at Lansing for safe keeping.
She was arrested after making several
Intellectual attempts to purchase poison
and confessed to the officers that she
intended to commit suicide.
A frame building adjoining Smith,
Claggett & Co.'S stave mill, at st.
Louis, was burned, and only by the
prompt work of the fire department
was the mill saved. Three tiremen
were injured by falling roof.
bridgeport claims the oldest pen
sioner in the state in the person of
Daniel Smith, born in 1870. When
over 80 he enlisted and served in the
Mexican war, receiving the wounds
for which he now draws pension.
The famous Petoskey sea serpent
now turns out to be a cedar log which
was partly buried in the sand. This
does not explain how Detroit paper
secured a very life-like picture of the
monster "by an artist on the spot"
A silver convention has been called
for June % at Grand Rapids for the
Of of Al
on the lines embodied in the American
Bimetallic League. All silver clubs in
the state are invited to send delegates.
At dress parade at West Point mill
tary academy the standing in general
merit of the Michigan cadets was an
nounced as follows: Two, Harry
Burgess; three, j. A. Quincy; thirteen,
n. X. Averill eighteen, NJ. o. Bigelow;
thirty, NJ. +. Smith.
During a thunder storm at Paw
Paw the house of Sim Morton was
struck. The fluid passed through both
floors of the house and killed dog
which was sleeping under a bed in
which Mrs. Morton was lying. She
was slightly shocked.
Mrs. VIM. Emery, wife of a promi-
eide bv taking acid. A little son saw
Mrs. Emery take the dose and when he
was made to understand its effects he
begged his mother to give him dose
so he might die with her.
For over year farmers about
Allegan, have been losing horses,
cattle and sheep. Officers have come
TO the conclusion that there is an
organized gang. Elmer Wells, a re-
spected farmer was apprehended near
Paw Paw, and bound over.
State Salt Inspector Hill reports the
following inspection of salt for May;
Manistee county, Isl, 654 bbls; Mason
county, 7l,030; Bay county, 81, 035; st.
Clair county, 49,941; Saginaw county,
35,06s; Iosco county, 1881; Midland
county, 1000. Total, $50, O99.
Commencement at Albion college
will begin June 10. President l.. X.
Fiske will preach the baccalaureate
sermon. There will be sermons by
Rev. George Whitaker, Detroit; Rev.
Il. b. Bancroft, Adrian, and Rev. j. p.
Mccarthy. Chancellor w. f. Nc
Dowell, of Denver university, will
deliver the commencement day
address.
The officers elected by the Michigan
w. c. Il. L. in convention at Battle
Creek were as follows: Mrs. A. S. Ben
amin, of Portland, who had been fill
ing the vacancy caused by the death
of President Mrs. Mary Lathrop, was
elected president; the other officers
are: Mrs. Julia Parish, of Bay City,
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Lizzie
IAh e inf I'D linz
Mrs. Jennie VOORHEES,, Ann Arbor,
treasurer.
Barney Freeman and Will McGill, of
Constantine, aged 10 years, were
drowned in the mill pond while bath
ing Friday night. William Lintz,
while fishing, found their clothes lying
on the bank of the bond, and went to
the village and gave the alarm. The
citizens made search and found the
| bodies in 30 feet of water. John Sy-
mons dove down and got the bodies.
They We're exemplary young men and
residents of Constantine,
The salt-lifters of the State Lumber
| company, at Manistee, struck for ST.
per 100 barrels to S1.50. The demand
was conceded and the men went back
| to work. A strike of the packers for
an advance OF from 10 to 10 per cent
followed, and the men are still out.
Saltworkers at the Eureka Lumber
company, at Manistee, have also
struck, aud it is expected that the
strike will extend to all the salt plants
in this region.
Rev. VIM. Mcknight, of Saginaw, is
| again on the warpath. 1t will be re-
membered that he recently fled GER
tain charges against the mayor who
sued him for libel. This was dropped.
The minister says that he has not with
drawn the charges against the police
department and still says that they
are corrupt. One of the police com
missioners, he says, is visitor at dis
reputable house and deputy sheriffs
| protect the houses.
The Michigan Masonic Home will
not be closed. Funds sufficient to pay
the running expenses of the institution
! for at least three months have been
received. The home will be maintained
through the year, and at the next
meeting of the grand lodge, another
effort will be made to donate the prop
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