The Yale expositor., 1895-04-19

Grand Rapids.
The state military board has decided
10 hold the annual encampment at
Island Lake for five days, beginning
Aug. o.
Bicycle riders at Kalamazoo and
Battle Creek are raising fund to
build bicycle road between the two
towns.
George Perry, an old man who lives
with his son near Flushing, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the alb
domen.
The cooling moth has made its APP
pearance on apple trees near Flushing.
Farmers are girdling trees with print
er's ink.
Nathaniel Flint, 7O-year-old repro
bate of Flint, got one year in prison
for taking indecent liberties with
little girls
The seventy-siXth anniversary of
the /. O. O. +. of Tuscola and Sanilac
counties Will be celebrated at Marlctte
on the Goth
Receiver Snow, of the Adrian Elec-
trio Belt railroad, resumed running
nearly year.
Bell Banz, alias King, an alleged
sand Dagger of MuslSegon, escaped from
the MuSkegon sheriff and five White
Cloud officers
The Hillsdale college authorities
feel encouraged The number of lit
erary students is in excess of that of
the past seven wears.
Menominee lumbermen deny the re-
ports that the lumber supply will soon
be gone. They declare that there is
enough to last Is or 20 years.
Mrs. Spencer, state librarian, has
already had Is applications for the
travelling library and three for the
associate, under the new law.
Martin Martin tried to commit sui
eide at Saginaw by opening a vein in
his leg But for his opportune discov-
cry death would have ensued.
The Antrim Iron company's furnaces
at Mancelona are once more all ablaZe
after having been shut down year.
This will give employment to 1875 men.
Mrs. DR.. A. Jefferies and Mrs. w.
| McSherry, of IIubbardston, are said to
be heirs to 81, 800, 900 estate in Buff,
falo, n. Y, together with four others.
VIM. Whitman was arrested at
| Adrian, charged with incest with his
simple-minded sister. His brother
was recently arrested on a similar
charge.
Macknac island will be the greatest
passenger port on the lakes this sum.
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will stop every week, and some OF
them every day.
The trial of Fred Nichols, on the
| charge of criminally assaulting Miss
! Katie Kehrer at Monroe resulted in a
verdict of guilty and sentence to Jack.
son prison for Is years.
The Standard Bed company, of Grand
| Rapids, manufacturing tables and
chairs, suffered loss of S2O,O 900 by
fire, with $1,000 insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
One of the richest clay beds in Michi.
gan has been discovered at Buchanan.
II burns to n light buff color and it is
said that $4,000 plant will be
erected during the coming summer.
The Pontiac authorities have or,
dered the greater part of I. II. Ms.
belts large orchard destroyed on ac-
| count of the fact that many of the
trees are infected with the black knot.
The Hotel Raymond, at Pasadena,
| Cal, was destroyed by fire. Not a
stick of the famous resort is left.
Some of the guests saved few per.
sonal effects though most of them lost
everything. Loss 5000, 900; insurance
! 5000, 900.
Atty.-Gen. Maynard's opinion that
the new village charter law affords
! the opportunity for village Prohibition
! has struck terror TO the hearts of Clio
liquor lovers, as they have just dis
covered that they elected u Prohibit
ton council.
A petition, signed by large mum,
Der OF Nassar citizens, was presented
TO the council to suppress saloons and
license hotels and eating houses. by
! vote of to the council decided &c
close saloons after May |. The saloon.
keepers threaten to start eating houses,
c. j. Staples, "a well-known confcc,
toner in the Arcade, at Grand Rapids,
was found dead. He had been slightly
i'll and under the doctors care, but
nothing was known that could have
had fatal effects. The coroner has
ordered an investigation. Staples was
well-known in the state and leaves q
valuable estate.
William Court Gully, member foi
Carlisle, the government candidate,
was elected speaker of the British
house of commons in succession to Sir
Arthur w. Peel, who resigned, by the
narrow majority of II. The Parnell
ties voted against the government.
Mr.. Gully, in politics, is liberal who
supports Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy
Sheriff Mills arrested Justice of the
Peace Frank n. Campbell, of Erie, for
burglarizing Z. j. Drouillard's general
store at Erie. Mr.. Drouillard claims
two boxes of cigars and 500 in silver
were stolen. Campbell confessed when
arrested, and gave up 800. The rest he
had spent. He was placed in Jail, wild
with grief, and fears are entertained
he will do violence TO himself
Detroit's latest sensation was the
discovery of the body of young
woman in an undertaker's establish
ment. where it had been kept for two
months as an experiment with 9
patent embalming fluid. The young
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