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The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

officer Regain, of Chicago, was called
to arrest Herman BurlSholdt, who had
become insane. The mailman fought
so fiercely that the officer had to beat
him to death TO save himself.
Miss Homeria Bouton, the past three
years teacher in the public schools
of Pentwater, has gone on the road as
a travelling saleSwoman for the Pent-
water Bedstead company. She takes
takes the position made vacant by the
death of her father a couple of months
ago.
Chase III. Osborn was elected presi-
dent of tho Michigan Press association
at the Benton Harbor meeting. Il. G..
Stevenson, of Marshall, was chosen
vice-president; T.. O. Dewey, Owosso,
secretary; j.. T.. Slussar, Mancelona,
treasurer, and Byron Schcrmerhorn.
of Hudson, historian.
The following cadets have been APP
pointed TO enter West Point in June,
1896: Geo. X. Spauldiug, Monson,
Weatherwax, Jackson as alternate;
trict, with VIM. IA. Yore, Benton
Harbor, as alternate.
c. @. Cady, Of the firm Of Jackson
& Cady left Pinckney June 80 and
foul play was feared. Investigation
showed that he had been caught and
securely bound and delivered over TO
young lady of Lansing-Etta Rice
by namely little villain known as
Cupid. The knot was tied on the quiet
at Eric, Monroe county.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
nsstructlye Forest ;rres

Wallin, a numbering town near
Thompsonville, was entirely wiped out
by fire. Forest fires were raging over
a week. About 20 houses, one store,
hotel, coal-lxilns, warehouse and Sulli-
van Lumber company's saw mill,
with about 1000, 900 feet OF lumber,
were all burned. About 20 people were
badly burned. When relief train
arrived many people were found
on the ground with their faces or the
moist dirt TO prevent choking to death.
The fires are still running and the
towns of Clary, Morley and Odin-Oden
were in great danger.
The house of Father Smoke an
Indian at Bay Shore, was burned, and
several farm houses were burned in
the clcaringS north of Petoskey. All
trains on the {. ~ w. NJ. were stopped.
The village of Kinde, Huron county,
is said to be in great danger. Wires
are burned and no particulars could
be obtained.
Forest fires which had been burning
nearly two weeks along the NJ. G. rail
road came within few rods of Mack
inaw City when welcome showers
quenched them.
Dispatches from Thompsonville and
other towns in that vicinity say that
rains quenched the forest fires tenn
porarily, when it seemed that Thomp-
sonville and Clary were doomed. An
appeal has been issued by the mayor
of Thompsonville for assistance for
the Wallin sufferers. He says:
Every family is left without bed or anything
60 wear or eat They just saved what clothes
they had on. They are all except one very
poor and we have given them all the assistance
q small village
eivo them enough TO go to keeping house.
The settlement at Hubbard, Isabella
county, was completely surrounded
by fire. Hubbard & DIngwalls camp,
the saloon and large amount of crops
were destroyed, and the postmaster
shipped the postoffice outfit TO Midland
hasty exit by rail if it became impera-
tive.
Rains were most thankfully received
along the Muskegon river. In Emmett
county crops were damaged fully
Sl2, 900 and buildings almost as much
more before rain fell.
Welcome Rains.
The whole state is giving thanks for
the rains which broke the drouth of
nearly two months duration and
quenched the forest fires which were
threatening death and destruction in
every part of the numbering districts.
Reports from all sections tell of the
reviving effect of the rain upon corn,
potatoes and fruit, and while other
crops arc beyond help it seems to be
the most general opinion that a fair
yield of those mentioned will be Sc
cured.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
A Gigantic swindie. with Bogus Bonds.

u. T. Lewis. of Urbana, o., is n
fugitive for justice. He was bond
broker and operated on large scale.
He handled immense quantities of
county and municipal bonds and was
considered perfectly reliable. Re-
Gently suspicious became aroused among
Dayton bankers and an investigation
showed that they held $50, 900 of bogus
bonds received from Lewis as security
on loans. When this become known
stories of bogus bonds came pouring In
from all directions, but Lewis had
made his escape and is supposed to be
in South America. At least 500, 900
worth of worthless paper is reported
and it is hard to tell how much the
SO, 900, 900 worth of collaterals he has
put out the past year is forged.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
srackinac Park Commission Organized.

The first meeting of the commission
appointed to assume charge of the
Mackinac Island state park, was
called TO order by Gov. Rich, and the
following officers were chosen: Il. w.
Ferry, president; Peter White, vice
president; Editor VIM. Clark, of Ian
sing, secretary; A. Il. Stephens, treas
urer. George Il. Arnold was
designated as acting superintendent.
II was decided to advance rentals to
500 for front and $50 for back lots.
Regulations were adopted prohibiting
the sale of liquor. Authority to lease
the officers quarters and barracks was
Conferred and JAS. Il. Keightley was
given a 30-year franchise to operate
telephones and an electric light plant.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
John sherman too Old for President.

SENATOR John Sherman, of Mans
field, o., when asked his views on pres
idential politics said he was not can
didate and ADDED; "If all the people
of the United States should join to-
gether and offer it to me | would not
accept the position. am too old. No
man of ~ has the right 10 undertake
the work and responsibility which
United States. 1t lisa position of wear
and tear and it should have younger
man"
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
Upper renln.ula Minor. strike.

The men employed at the mines at
Negaunee, with the exception of the
Buffalo group, went out on strike.
They demand general advance in
their pay, but as yet the management
OF the companies has shown little dis
position TO grant it. The management
of the Lille mine, where the strike
started, positively refuse to give it,
and say they will close indefinitely.
About $50 of the strikers marched TO
Ishpeming to induce the miners there
60 60 out. The circumstances of the
men at work were of no avail and find
ing resistance useless they laid down
their tools. About 1000 men are Idle.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
GRAIN, ETC.

sDetroit-Hay, No. I Timothy, SIG 10 so per
ton. Potatoes, southern. 81 per bu. Live
ducks, &C. Eggs, strictly fresh I2c per doz.
Butter, fresh dairy 10 % loo per b;creamery' lsc
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

Frederick Hellmann, well-to-do
mason contractor of Chicago, killed
his wife, his four children and himself
by closing his house as tightly as pos
Sible while the family slept and then
turning on The gas without lighting il.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

When .hc steamer City of Mackinac
was crossing Thunder bay bound for
Maclkinac island DR.. and Mrs. l.. u.
Hamilton. of Marion. o., were made
the parents of a bouncing boy.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
REVIEW OF TRADE.

Duns says: business food so strong and
rapid that the conservative fear IL may do harm
is out OF season in July. But the seasons this
year lap over and crowd each other. May
frosts and frights, IL is now evident. kept back
much business that would naturally have been
finished before mids INNER and the delayed
accumulation of one season gets In the way OF
efforts to begin another on time. But the vol
ume OF business. however IL may be measured,
is remarkably large for the month. even in a
good year The exaggerated fears about crops
have passed the syndicate Is believed both
able and determined TO protect the treasury
and the time draws near when the marketing
OF new crops will turn into national balance
II speculation does not hinder. The latest news
indicates an enormous crop OF corn. much the
largest grown. II the weather favors The rapid
rise in prices OF iron has brought into operation
many additional works and there is rush to
buy before prices advance further. lnhuentlal
manufacturers are sending out warnings tnat
the rise may easily do mischief. A. the sales
OF wool are about four times the weekly con-
sumption IL is obvious that tue market u
essentially speculative. but the rise mas set the
country abba e so that western holders arc ASK
Ing even higher prices than heretofore; but
buying by most manufacturers Is already af.
fected and at the prices now asked for WOOL
some manufacturers are doubling whether
corresponding value for goods can be realized
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19

DIR. w. III. Gum. Montcalm county
convict at jackson prison, severed the
brachial artery of his left arm and
slashed his throat in his cell in at
tempting suicide.
The three mills of the Niles & Ohio
Paper company, and the two of the
Michigan Wood Pulp company, at
Niles. have been closed down on ac-
count of low water in the St. Joseph
river. The mills are overcrowded
with orders, thus making the shut
down prove a great loss to the ow ners
of the mills. About $50 men are de-
priwed of employment. Tie river is
now lower than Il has been for the
past 25 years.
The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
WITH WOLVERINES.
Brief ITEMS ABOUT MICHIGAN
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

SIX Men Burned TO Death at Detroit
Forest Fires in Various Sections of the
State Destroy "a Great Amount OF Val
liable Property-Wallin Burned.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
A Cat-nnd.por rriondshin.

l In the back-ltitchen premises of an old manor-house, among hampers and such like odds and ends, cat had It. ter of kittens. They were all remov- ed but one, and as the mother was fre- quently absent, hen began laying in a hamper close by. For time all things went well, the hen sitting on her eggs and the eat nursing the kit ten within a few inches of each other The brood were matched out, and al- most at the same time the old cat dis appeared. The chickens were allowed to run about on the floor for the sake of the warmth from neighoring chim- ney, and the kitten was fed with a saul cer of milk, etc, in the same place, both feeding together frequently out of the same dish. The hen used to try to induce the kitten to eat meal like the chicks, calling to it and de- posting pieces under it's nose in the most amusing way; finally doing all in it's power to induce the kitten to come, like her chicks, under her wings. The result was nothing but series of squalls from the kitten, which led to its being promoted from the back to the front kitchen, where it was reared un- til it was grown up.
 At this time Q young terrier was in-
 troduced into the circle, and after many back-risings and bad language on pussy's part, they settled down ami cably and romped about the floor in fine style. Eventually the terrier be- came an inveterate rabbit poacller- killing young rabbits and bringing
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
NOW.

1 Now doth the valedictorian go fortl to encounter the first great problem ! of life-how to get a job.-BrooklyI Life.
 Eastern man-You Kentuckians don't use taste. Colonel Jagholder-No, if the color is right we chance it.--Puck.
 If that projected poker congress does convene for deliberation and counsel il is suggested that it meet at Council Bluffs. s.-Philadelpbia Times.
 A mean landlord raised the rent of one of his houses because the walls have bulged out, and therefore made the house larger, er,-Chicago Chronicle.
 Mother-If you wanted to go fishing why didn't you ask me instead of run ming off and going? Johnnie (from ex- perience)-Because I wanted to go fish in'.-Detroit Free Press.
 Jones-Now that Smith has made such a success of his business I suppose he will retire. Brown-I didn't sup pose he was in business. Jones-Ye es. He made it his business to find a rich girl and marry her, and he succeeded Judge.
 Strawber-Your sister says that you promised to give her a, gown every year, and that you haven't done it.
 Singerly- isn't my fault, my boy. promised to give her gown every time she had a birthday.-New York Herald.
 The pretty girl was lavishing wealth 70 h, e,tt soft young man was watching her.
 q wish I were a dog" he said, lan- guishingly.
 Don't worry" she replied; "you'H grow, "-Detroit Free Press.
 q hear," said the Cheerful IGiot, "that they are talking of revising the costume of the Goddess of Liberty" And what will it be, pray?" asked the typewriter boarder, who has wheel. Red, white and boomers, :" said the Cheerful Idiot.-Indianapolis Journal
 Gadabout-What do you suppose the sphinx that has stood there amid the hot sands of the Egyptian desert for thousands of years would say if it ever spoke?
 Old Soak-It would probably call p. d. q. for gin tlzz, schooner size.-The Traveller.
 'What is your objection to that jur- or? ?' asked a lawyer whose client was being tried for burglary.
 Client-It was at my house that he made the acquaintance of his present wife. Challenge him, for heavens sake, as he will want to find me guilty without leaving the jury box Tammany Times. Where wise men are with doubts per
 plexed,
 He sees an easy way; Great problems which for years have
 vexed
 He solves in half day Of science, art, philosophy,
 He has profoundest knowledge. There is no nlystery-you see,
 He's just come out of college.
 -Kansas City Journal.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
The BIeyoIe n ontIet to woman,s zeaI.

lrIbNi tidIptI $ " eeINly.I
 There was a good deal of pith to Mrs. stanton's remark in reply to Bishop Doane that women are riding to suf- frage on the bicycle" They may not be riding to suffrage, but they are rid ing everywhere and everywhither they want to go. Certainly and conspicu- ously they are riding into any sort of costume 1t suits them to put on. Bloom CTS are so common that 1t seems possl- ble that the untutored eye will pres ently dwell upon them without shock The more circumspect American ladies still keep out of them, and may never come to prefer them to skirts, but the young and glddy experiment. with them pretty freely. Was there ever any thing so efficacious to give woman an Idea of what she could do if she tried as the bicycle? Soberly speaking, if she had to choose between the ballot and the bicycle as a means of develop ment and advancement, she might bet ter cleave to the bike. It is worth more to her than the ballot. It is more fun, more use, less trouble, and very much less costly. There was pith in what Miss Stanton said, but Is there not some substance in the suggestion that the bicycle has brought women so many new opportunities and privileges that she never needed or wanted the suffrage so little as now.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
oAprA1N rAr1oR's GooD-BH.
His Wife's Interpretation of the Three Blasts from tho Sinking Colima.

His Wife's Interpretation of the Three
 Blasts from tho Sinking Colima.
 [From the San Francisco Examiner.l
 The three blasts on the whistle of the Colima given by Captain Taylor jus before he disappeared under the waves have singular significance for his grief-stricken wife, To her it is more than farewell salute to others--it is "a very last good-by" to herself.
 Captain and Mrs. Taylor were an un- usually devoted couple. Having nc children, they lived for each other The only thing that interfered with their happiness was his going to- sea. Like most of the wives of the Pacific Mail oompany's captains, Mrs. Taylor sell dom went down to the dock to see her husband off on a voyage When the time came for him to leave on his last voyage, Mrs. Taylor had singular feeling about letting him go. At last, unable to have him take leave of her at their hotel, she said she would go down to the dock The captain tried to disuade her, saying it would not be pleasant for them to part before stran- gers. In spite of his reinsurance, she could not bear the idea of having him go. The captain had never seen her exhibit such a dread of their parting, and was puzzled at it.
 At last he suggested that she should give up going down to the dock and should go to Point Lobos to wave fare- we'll to him. He said she could watch for him there and he would watch for her from the vessels deck. Then to cheer her up he said he would give a parting signal
 "I'll be sure to blow you three whis- ties, dear" he said as he was kissing her good-by, land that will be my fare we'll. The three whistles will be my very last good-by."
 Mrs, Taylor went out to Point Lobos as arranged She saw the Colima steam out the Golden Gate, heard the three good-by whistles, and watched the vessel until 1t was a mere speck on the horizon. Then she went home with a heavy heart,
 When Mrs. Taylor first received news of the wreck of the Colima she was hopeful that the captain had been saved But directly she read in the paper of the last three-whistle signal he had given while standing at his post of duty she broke down.
 Later in the day she telephoned to the Pacific Mail office asking if the newspa- per accounts of that last signal were true. When told they were she gave up all hope and became utterly pros trated She takes the last blast signal as a message from the captain to herself as his very last good-by."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
UNEASY J1P1NESE CHRIsr1ANs.


 A committee of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions is to investigate the condition of mis- sion affairs in Japan. For some time there has been trouble there between the 1 missionaries and the native Christians It looks as if the native Christians were full of the spirit of new Japan as well as the spirit of Christianity, They ap- parently feel able to run their religious affairs themselves. What is going on is illustrated by the situation at Kuma- moto. All the missionaries in the Ku- mamoto station had their passports re- turned to them and were told to vacate the houses the board had built for them. For more than a year, the re- ports says, there has been trouble between the missionaries and the prin- cipal of the boys school at Kumamoto. The missionaries were located there at the earnest request of the Christians, and houses were erected for them there, just as in other stations. Since Kuma- moto is not an open port, foreigners cannot live there without being in the employ of the Japanese, nor can they hold any real estate save in the name of a Japanese. The missionaries were employed in Christian school and their hands and lands were held by the offi- cers of the school. The present princi- pal of the school has become very pro- nounced in his Liberal" views, widely differing from the missionaries. Co., operation in such work gradually be- came more and more difficult. At the same time, the cry against foreigners living in the interior, in houses held in private names, was loudly raised throughout the country, so that Japan csc who held such property everywhere naturally desired to be relieved from the odium of helping foreigners to evade the treaty obligations. The principal claimed that the missionaries dwellings had been erected to aid the school, that they belonged not only legally, but morally, to the school for its purposes, and not for missionaries to live in while doing missionary work. He requested the mission at last to recall all it's teach CTS, and when this was refused he re- turned them their passports, declining to be any longer responsible for their presence in Kumamoto, Having no Japanese employer the missionaries were compelled by law to withdraw to the open ports of Nagasaki and Osaka. This is an interesting situation. If the Japanese Christians are becoming more liberal and more independent than is good for them they are in great danger. They would undoubtedly do better to continue to travel heavenward under the guidance of American Chris tfans
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27

them home-a proceeding to which the | cat gave an intelligent curiosity, then a passive and purring approval, and f1n- l ally, her own instincts having asserted | themselves, she went off with the dog. hunting in the woods. Our own keep CT reported them as getting simply | owdacious," being found a great dis tance from the house; and keepers of l adjacent places also said the pair were constantly seen hunting hedgerows on their beats. On one occasion saw them myself hunting a short hedge down systematically, the dog on one side, the cat on the other; and on com Ing near an open gateway a hare was put out of her form, and, bounding through the open gate, was soon off; the dog followed, till he came through the gateway, where he stood looking after the hare; and the cat joining him, they apparently decided it was too big or too fast to be successfully chas- ed, so resumed the hedge-huntihg, each taking it's own side as before.
 They frequently returned home cov- cred with mud, and pussy's claws with fur, and would lie together in front of the fire; the cat often grooming down the dog, licking him and rubbing him dry, and the dog getting up and turn ing over the ungroomed side to be fin- ished. This curious friendship went on for six months or more, till the dog had to be kept in durance vile to save himfrom traps and destruction--the cat, nothing daunted, going on with her poaching until one day she met her fate in a trap, and so brought her course to an end. The dog was a well bred fox-terrier, and the cat a tabby of nothing beyond ordinary characteris- tics, save in her early Afe having been fostered by hen, and in her prime the stanch friend and comrade of poor old "Foxie," the terrier. If there are hap py hunting grounds" for the animals herafter, and such things are allowed in them, no doubt they will renew their intimacy, if not their poaching forays, together Correspondence Lon- don Spectator.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-27
1HE RAPE oF rMN s0UEHzER.

While Yale has been busy drinking
 beer and wine, smoking cigars ant pipes, licking Harvard, shooting fire crackers, and otherwise commencing, there has been some excitement in thu village of Hartford. Not in the legisla ture, which has ceased to be even in.
 teresting, but in the Episcopalian col lege, whose founders wanted a place for their school that would always be nice and quiet, and with accurate pre- vision picked out Hartford. But the soothing influence of the village has railed of it's wonted effect during the
 past week, and both the college and the
 village are now disturbed. The row is
 all over the rape of lemon squeezer, an article which appears to be as i'm
 portant to Trinity as the wooden spoon which Yale las outgrown used to be to
 Yale This lemon squeezer has been in existence since 1857, and it Is transferred from one class to another. Usually the
 graduating class gives it to the class next in order, but this year it was voted to give it to '97, the class of '96 not being thought worthy to have charge of the sacred relic. Of course '96 didn't like the snub and decided to have the squeez- CT. It maneuvered so that one of it's members was picked out to assist the presenter of the squeezer in his great act of handing it over to '97. When the presentation was about to be made the bold and predatory man of '96, in snatched the precious squeezer and dashed away with it before the startled throng fully understood the situation, Before the startled throng did fully un- derstand the performance the squeezer was in the hands of a '96 man on horse back, who, in company with another '96 man on horseback, went down Fairfield avenue as fast as possible. When '95 recovered its senses one of its members mounted a bicycle and rode after the feers, but he couldn't catch them, When 1t was found that nothing could be done, the squeezer presentation speech was made in gloom without the squeezer, and '97 had the poor satisfac- ton of having the name without the game.
 This episode of life in Hartford is much discussed there, and there is said to be a difference of opinion about it. Some go so far as to say that the '96 man who "conveyed' the squeezer took a dishonorable advantage of his official position as assistant to the presenter, and argue that his action proves that '95 made no mistake in deciding to pass over '96 and give the squeezer to '97.