The Yale expositor., 1895-02-15
MIcHI0AN HAPPENINGS.

to erect knitting mill.
Saginaw lumber operators feel conf
dent of a fairly active year.
Mabel Congdon, aged 8, fell on the
ice and fractured her skull.
Mason ladies held memorial services
for the late Mary Il. Lathrap.
Grand Rapids capital will manu-
facture shirts, overalls, etc, at Otsego
Two horses were killed and Anton
Chasera injured by a train at Red
Jacket.
Tekonsha schools closed two days
familiar.
Henry p. Jenney, the Capac attorney
accused of forgery, was convicted at
Port Huron.
The dry house of the North lamar
ack mine at Calumet was burned to the
ground. Loss about 81 ZOO.
w. jennings barn near Owosso, was
destroyed and 90 sheep persisted Loss,
$1,000, covered by insurance.
The Ann Arbor Courier will be pub
lished by the ladies of the University
town on Washington's birthday.
Cadillac has six athletic clubs which
will combine for grand exhibition
in March l. The ladies are in it, too
S. d. Croy, of Grand Rapids, gave
himself several frightful cuts with a
jack-knife trying to suicide. He will
recover.
Mrs. Henry Bos, of Fillmore, wan
dered away without sufficient cloth
ing, and it is feared she has persisted
in the cold.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin, of Tecumseh,
was fatally burned by her clothes
catching fire from stove. She was GO
years of age.
The Y. p. S. C. L. of the southwest
ern district of Michigan, comprising 10
counties, held three days conven-
tion at Cassopolis.
Houghton's Law and Order league
give the marshal warning that they
will remove him if he don act against
liquor law violators.
Zero weather did not chill the ardor
of K. ID. Shenick, aged 20, and Mrs. q.
married at Lexington.
The junction depot of the D., L. &
N. and Ann Arbor railroads, about a
mile from Howell, burned. Nothing
but the records were saved. The loss
is 1000.
The female minstrel craze still con-
tinues. Leslie society ladies have had
their attack and are recovering.
Owosso ladies will try it on Washing
toms birthday.
Water street, Pontiac, was given
over to coasters until several limbs
were dislocated and heads bruised,
when the marshal gave the street a
coating of ashes.
Otsego ladies aspired to something
higher than a minstrel show. so the
Ladies Literary club rendered Long
fellows Spanish Student" all parts
being taken by the ladies.
Michigan veterinary surgeons met
at Lansing and advocated a law MAX
ing it difficult for quacxs TO practice
their profession. They elected George
G. Moody, of Mason, president.
Steamer Ann Arbor No. tried to
enter Manistee harbor, but her coal
gave out. Then 100 tons had to be
hauled over the ice by men in order to
enable her to crush her way through
the ice.
Chief James Battle. of the Detroit
fire department, has resigned after 35
years continuous service in that ca
pacity; i'll health. His successor, James
II. Elliott, was assistant chief for al
most 80 years.
Douglass citizens have purchased
the spars of the Inflated Chicora and
will erect them as flag stats to COM
memorate the disaster. One of them
was 60 feet in length and it took so
men to drag it across the ice.
Scarlet fever is raging in Raber and
Detour townships, near the 500. Sew
eral deaths have occurred and 20 cases
have been reported. Schools and
churches are closed. In one family
two children died on the same bed
within an hour of each other.
The state board of agriculture has
reelected Franklin Wells, of Constan-
tine, president. and /. H. Butterfield,
of the Agricultural college, secretary.
w. L. Boyden, of Delhi Mills, was
elected a member of the board, to sue
coed Edwin Phelps, of Pontiac, re-
signed.
City Attorney Chapman, of Owosso,
fled bill against the Owosso 81
Corunna Street Car company, praying
that its franchise be revoked. The
bill shows that the company, in viola
ton of its charter, failed to run the
cars in winter because it was too ex-
pensive.
The Detroit observatory at Ann
Arbor, once the scene of remarkable
astronomical discoveries, is in sad
need of money, nothing to speak of
having been appropriated for years.
The director wishes some benevolent
man would give $50, 600 endowment.
For years this was the leading observa-
tory in the country.
Two weeks ago lad named Peter
son, 10 years old, went from Monroe
Center to visit his father, employed in
Crandalls sawmill at Grawn. Return
ing he took short cut through the
woods for the home of his uncle, but
lost his way. The uncle meanwhile
supposed the boy was with his father,
and the latter thought his son was