The Yale expositor., 1895-04-05
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

J. Todd, deaf farmer aged 20, was
instantly killed by a train near Paris
The Weyers homestead at Port
Huron was totally destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,000.
Bethune Bigelow, West Bloomfield
tilemak kerr stands feet ~ inches with
his boots off.
The residence of George Raub burned
at Greenville; loss 81 200; fully covered
by insurance.
The Manistique street railway has
notified its employees that they must
swear off drinking or else quit their
jobs.
Fowlerville citizens want the coun-
ell TO raise the bonds of saloonkeepers
to $1,000 or else close up the saloons
entirely.
The 47th anniversary of modern
spiritualism was celebrated by the
spiritualists of the Saginaw valley at
Saginaw.
The Odd Fellows hall in Haynes
township, Altoona county, was de-
stroved by fire, together with the con-
tents. Loss 81, 500.
VIM. Jolly, married man. aged 81,
Of Brockaway, was arrested at Yale
on charge of assaulting the l2-year.
old daughter of Id. King.
The Centennial Touring mills at
Lapcer for some time idle, will shortly
resume again under the management
of a. w. Kelly, of Detroit.
Gen. George A. Hart, of Manistee,
has 200 vacant lots which he proposes
to apportion out to poor families for
potato raising, la Pingree.
Fred Matthew, sent from Detroit
for burglary, and Brace Scofeld, from
Greenville, for forgery, both TRUSTEES,
ran away from the Ionia prison.
Jackson county Sunday school peo-
pie met at jackson and elected Il. A.
Hough president. They reported 142
schools and IL, 946 pupils in the county.
Mrs. Henry b. Ledyard, wife of the
president of the Michigan Central rail
road, dropped dead on Chene street,
Detroit, without moments warning.
FIR. Mcnamara, one of the most elo-
quent priests in the Grand Rapids do
cese, fell from train at Lansing and
suffered injuries that may prove seri-
Gus.
Woodchucks are plenty around Mid
dlevillc. Over $50 have been killed in
Thornapple township during the past
month. The treasurer of the township
paid out $50 % in bounties.
Another dividend of per cent has
been declared by Receiver Stone, of
the Central Michigan Savings bank.
Lansing, making total of so per cent
since the bank went under.
Otsego ladies were much Mortified
last week to see the spanish Student
performances illustrated in the Police
Gazette. The pictures were purely
imaginery and, unlike the reality,
were far from modest.
Walter Thurlby, a young Birming-
ham blacksmith, charged with taking
Fred Stephens pocketbook containing
1865, was honorably discharged.
Friends gave him an ovation, and he
is the hero of the hour.
A large eastern car manufacturing
company is negotiating with buchanan
citizens in view of locating there. If
the deal is consummated the factory
will employ 1000 men and use the en-
tire power from the new dam.
Rev. John Hooper, the former Pres
byterian minister at Cadillac. involved
in row that led to several lawsuits
and to his retirement from the minis
try, passed creditable examination
at Benzonia and was admitted TO the
bar.
Miss Lucy Whitney, aged 10, Meta
mora. o., but attending school at Bliss
field, left to attend teachers examina-
ton at Adrian. Instead she purchased
a ticket for Detroit. Her father re-
ceived letter saying farewell forever,
as she would never return home.
The case against DIR. Myron s
Brownson, of Kingsley, WHO'S charged
with causing the death of Hattie Belle
Coe by criminal operation, has
created n sensation at Traverse City,
at Kingsley ana at Wexford, the home
of the girl.
\ bull that a farmer was bringing
into Battle Creek broke loose on Maple
street and ran amuck, causing a STAN
pcde among the people. lie became
perfectly Infatuated and drove the peo-
pie OH the street. III was IOunu neCCS-
sary to shoot the animal.
Fire started in Pickles boat house at
Wyandotte, and owing to a strong
wind tho flames spread rapidly. The
new Wyandotte boat house, four
smaller houses, Marx Bros and the
Eureka ice houses we're all destroyed.
Loss 81 200, with no insurance.
Charles Cort tried to cross the track
on his bicycle ahead of an approaching
train at Royal Oak, but his wheel
slipped, and the train struck him.
Ills left leg was cut off between the
knee aud ankle, and his right foot
was taken off just above the ankle.
lie is about "a years old. Later Cort
died from his injuries.
Mrs. Wilbur Berry, colored woman
at Battle Creek shot her husband and
herself. The woman is insane. She
ordered her husband out of the house,
and he started to leave when she shot
him between the shoulders. The
wound is not fatal. She shot herself
under the chin, the ball passing up
into her head. Her wound is consid-
cred fatal.
Oxford held an election last fall and
voted in favor of n water works sys-