The Yale expositor., 1895-03-22
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.


iceland. Ottawa county, has l,40o
inhabitants, and neither a saloon nor
a lawyer.
John Benson, of Manistee, aged 2S,
was fatally injured near Harriette by
rolling logs.
The board of supervisors of Van
Buren, county has refused to call
local option election.
Another tannery is promised Allegan.
All the projectors ask is free site,
and that will be forthcoming.
Manistee voters will decide on April
1 whether or not the town shall be
bonded for $35, 900 for the purpose of
building a city hall.
1t took KallSaska jury five minutes
to render verdict of not guilty in n
case where persons were tried for
working on Sunday.
While Fire Chief L. n. Gardner, of
Cheboygan, was working at fire his
own house caught fire and was con-
sumed. Loss 1000.
IA meeting of the editors of the
Eaton county papers will be held at
Charlotte, March %, to organize
county press association.
Burton G. Moorman's large farm
barns near Ypsilanti, just completed
at cost of SO, 700, burned with C on
tents. Total loss nearly $4,000.
Several school boys and girls were
arrested in Saginaw for distributing
obscene literature, and the town is
much agitated over the matter.
The four-year-old girl of w. f.
Stump, of Eureka, was fatally scalded
by falling into pan of boiling water
her mother had placed on the floor.
The Soldiers Home board at Grand
Rapids report receipts during the past
year of Sl0s, lac and disbursements of
500, 097, leaving a balance of $4,000.
Athens has but one saloon, and the
people propose to keep an eye on that
one. The proprietors kept open on
Sunday and were fined 500 and costs.
A base ball league may be formed in
the upper peninsula, with Gladstone,
Escanaba, Iron Mountain, Ishpeming,
Manistique and Sault Ste. Marie as
members.
George Blashfield, of Telxonsha, has
nine Lincoln ewes. Within the last
year they have presented him with II
lambs, six pairs of twins, one set of
triplets and two singles.
brutal farmer dashed his wife with
n horsewhip on the street at Grand
Rapids, and although there were sew
eral dozen men watching not one was
brave enough to interfere.
The iron works at Elk Rapids will
shut down on May for an Indefinite
period, after running continuously for
% years. Two hundred men will be
thrown out of employment.
City Controller Fred A. Ashley,
aged IS years, of Saginaw, one of the
best officials the city ever had, dropped
dead while ascending the stairs to
Lavignc's Turkish bathrooms.
At an auction near Mt. Norris an
unruly horse which was being sold
broke away and ran over VIM. Fran
cisco, breaking both of his legs below
the knee and cutting his head badly.
The 2-year-old daughter of Hugh
Collins was struck by the pilot of the
engine of an +. a. +. NJ. train at Sag
inaw, her skull being fractured, re-
sulting in her death shortly afterwards.
A little son of n. HaslSin, of Inlay
City, climbed unseen upon a wagon
load of oats and when the horses
started fell off and struck the ground
with such force that he is fatally in
jured.
While watching her brother-in-law
at work in the woods, Mrs. Minnie Sis
son, of Custer, was instantly killed by
a falling tree. cab containing her
baby was demolished, but the child
was unhurt.
Over 900 men were naturalized at
Marquette in one day. The jam was
so great that the storm house in front
of the court house was smashed, the
tables inside the bar were broken and
the room was so packed the Judge
could not reach the bench.
More than 500 voters have signed
the constitution of the Lansing Free
Silver league. of which james NJ.
Turner is president. Free silver clubs
have also been formed at Lapeer, st.
Louis and Dowagiac and several other
towns are getting ready to do SO.
Owosso citizens have sent petition
with 400 signatures for the pardon of
| Rev. Il. T.. Heddle, serving three
years term for the alleged seduction
of Highland Station girl. They will
raise 500 to pay an attorney to inter
cede for Hcddle, whom they believe to
| be innocent
John Harris, of Ellkhart, Ind, was
found lying in a pool of blood at st.
Joseph in an unconscious condition,
with large cash in his left temple
and terrible cash from his forehead
! down his nose. He had considera BILE
money on his person when found. His
injuries are quite serious.
Orlando Smith, prosperous farmer
at Decrficld, was found dead on the
street at North Branch. lie came to
town Co draw his pension, visited some
of the drinking places until IL o'clock
at night, when he started for home
lie drove n spirited team and was owl
IDENTIFY thrown from his wagon, as the
horses ran away.
Melvin Worth. n well-to-do farmer
of London, who escaped from the in
sane department of the county house,
returned TO his farm. His family told
him the sheriff was after him, but he
said the sheriff would not get him.
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