The Yale expositor., 1895-09-13

cause of poor business.
Archie Saucier, 16-year-old boy of
Menominee, has gone insane from an
excessive use of cigarettes.
Michael Kitson, brakeman on log
train, fell between the cars and was
crushed to pieces at Alger.
Rose Marwilsky, aged IL, was fatally
burned at Detroit by her dress catch
ing fire from gasoline stove.
Charles Schwab, brakeman on
Sands logging road, was killed at the
Manistee river, near Fife Lake.
The common council of Escanaba
has closed "a deal for the purchase of
the gas and electric light plant
NJ. Maurier's saloon and the village
hall at Dearborn were fired by incen-
diaries. VIM. Staer was arrested.
Charles Fcrno. miner, fell down u
wlnze - feet at the Chaplin mine at
Iron Mountain, fracturing his skull.
Geo. BRANDED of Lansing. says he
was robbed and thrown from an excur-
sion train while returning to Lansing
from Owosso.
The Michigan state board of phar-
macy held its annual upper peninsula
session at Sault Ste. Marie and exam
ined Is applicants.
A business blocl<--containing two
stores-a dwelling and small shop
were burned at Kalamazoo with u
total loss OF $4,000.
Alexander Ralph. who recently
bought the Owosso n Corunna Street
railway, is To Immediately fit up the
road with electricity.
L. 4. Rundquist, well-known ex-
plorer, OF Ishpeming, while hunting
was instantly killed by the accident
discharge of his rifle.
The Northwestern Michigan Soldiers
and Sailors association held their fifth
annual reunion at Manistec with 500
veterans in attendance.
A three-foot vine of coal has been
discovered near Omer, and if it pans
out operations for developing it will
be commenced at once.
Mike McKeown and Joe Breaugh
were each fined 500 and costs or 90
days by the Shiawassee county court,
for selling liquor TO minors.
VIM. Kitchen. wanted at Hillsdale
on a charge of embezzling nearly 500
from the Singer Sewing Machine Co.,
was arrested at ~. Thomas, Ont.
Post \, Michigan Knights of the
Grip, of Lansing, arc making deter
mined effort TO have the annual con-
vention in December, held there.
Church & Co. in boring for salt at
Trenton. struck a copious vein of min
cral water which is said to have the
characteristics OF the Mt. Clemens
product,
Five residences were burned at Car
rollton. causing a loss of $500. All
of the household effects were saved.
Saginaw sent an engine and the fire
tug, which saved the town.
The Manistique IL Northwestern
railroad, which has long been talked
of, is TO be reality before spring. 1t
is expected to greatly benefit Manis-
tiquc, Munising and Negaunee.
\ brush fire started on the farm of
VIM. Ellis near Mt. Morris got beyond
control and swept through the woods,
burning over 20 acres. James McFar-
Ian. laborer, narrowly escaped death.
Business men at Camden are at work
raising a cash bonus of 5000. which
is part of the s., 600 demanded by
Jerry Boynton for building his new
Central Michigan railroad through
that place.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found in a c., j. Il NJ. car ut Dun
dee. There was Il bullet hole in his
right temple, but as no blood was
found in the car it was believed to be
"A case of murder
w. III. Cooper and Louis Smith, of
Gaylord recently went fishing at OF
sego Lake. While there they saw a
deer and two large fawns swimming
across. After a hot chase they landed
the fawns and brought them IN alive.
South Haven claims that D 200, 900
baskets is a conservative estimate of
the peach crop Whereabouts. The ex-
pertinent of shipping long distances in
refrigerator cars proved such a success
that SO carloads were shipped within
two weeks.
1t is reported that near Union City
a family of six arc all ill with typhoid
fever and as they have only two beds
they are confined three in bed. The
condition of the house was found to be
extremely filthy. The authorities will
now look after them.
The jury in the Mary |. Pierce muir
der trial brought in verdict finding
Mary |. Pierce guilty of manslaughter
after being out nearly all night. She
was sentenced by Judge Padgham to
the industrial school for girls at Adrian
until she is II years of age.
Nena johnson, a 16-year-old colorcd
girl, was shot and killed by her broth
er-in-law, Edward Hurst, also colored.
Hurst heard her moving about the
house in the night and thinking of bur-
glars he fired with musket, the
charge striking her in the abdomen.
Recently the eight-year-old son of
George Swartz, farmer near kalama-
ZOO, was following sister about the
yard, when sand burr caught in her
dress. She stopped and Tipped it over
her shoulder. The burr struck the
boy on the lips, and he attempted to
blow il off. Instead of removing it,
the burr was drawn back into his
windpipe. where il stuck The lad
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