The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-03-29
MicHIoAN HAPPENINGS.


Benton Harbor expects a brass
foundry TO employ 125 men.
Wilbur Rowley, a Hanover farmer,
blew his head of. Probably insane.
The Hygeia Sanitarium, recently
burned at kalamazoo, will be rebuilt.
Grand Rapids women are organizing
a Young Women's Christian associa-
ton.
Bcthune Bigelow, a West Bloomfield
tilemaker, stands feet ~ inches with
his boots off.
George Hers, a Grand Rapids cab
inet-maker, committed suicide. No
reason Is known.
A counterfeiter dressed as farmer
has been showing lots of the queer"
off on Saginaw people.
The twenty-fourth reunion of the
Eighth Michigan calvary will be held
in Mt. Clemens, March 26 and 81.
Benny Moon was struck by derrick
blown down by gale at Allegan and
knocked into the river and drowned.
Colored people of Saginaw held a
meeting TO protest against the mas
sacre of their lIinsmen at New Orleans.
A fish, game and protective club has
been organized at Big Rapids TO look
after violations of law in Mecosta
county.
The supreme court has decided that
the governor has "a constitutional
right to transfer convicts from one
prison to another.
A writ of error has been granted in
the case of DIR. NJ. p. Fogelsong, of
Hillsdale, who is serving life sentence
for poisoning his wife.
Owosso has cleaned away every
dollar of its floating debt and has no
debt of any kind except the water
works and Improvement bonds.
Asher Wood is accused of burglariz.
ing a church and n store at Shepherd.
He Is only IS years of age, and has
been in the Reform school at Lansing.
The wedding of Henry Goebel and
Mrs. Barbara Reinikc, at Sebewaing,
was celebrated by 800 guests, and 25
barrels of beer were provided for the
occasion.
/. Edgar Jones, the Muskegon poet,
has been elected president of the In
ternational Society of Writers, which
has vice presidents in England, France
and other countries
A bimetallic league was organized
at Grand Rapids. Charles X. Sigh
president, Judge T.. A. Burlingame,
vice president, w. d. Folger secretary,
James Verdier, treasurer.
A tramp caught Miss Gertrude Kelly
at Blisstield and nearly choled her
her into insensibility. He was cap
tured after long chase and the hard
hearted justice fined him SIS and costs.
Manley Margeson, an inmate of the
Asylum for dangerous and Criminal
Insane at Io1ia, made his escape. He
was sent from Genesee county for
three years and his time was nearly up.
Loreb Anderson, an alleged horse
thief, attempted suicide in the Ithaca
Jail. He tied sheet around his neck,
jumped and would have strangled to
death had not boy notified the sheriff.
The -year-old daughter of
Edgar Winning was terribly burned at
Marlette by her clothes catching on
fire from the stove. The mothers
hands were burned in attempting to
put out the flames. The child cannot
recover.
Frank Lucia shot George Valdyne at
Even in self-defense, Valdyne having
drawn knife in a drunken row. Luz
cia escaped and has not yet been ar
rested. lie is a desperate character.
Valdyne is shot through the abdomen
and may die.
1t is reported that n beer garden and
pavilion will be established mile
north of Grand Ledge, just over in
Clinton county A movement is about
TO be set on foot to urge the adoption
by the legislature OF the bill for town
ship local option.
The Twenty-seventh Michigan in
fantry held reunion at Laingsburg
and elected the following officers:
President John :. Blackmer, North
Adams: vice president, Oscar Hancock
lIillsdale; secretary and treasurer,
+. j. Buck, of Adrian.
John G.. Waterman was arrested at
Jackson on the charge of embezzle-
ment. 1t is alleged that he purchased
large orders of goods of Minor, Beal &
TO-, OF DOSJOn, anu Tue ENcclSlOT Mdn-
ufacturing Co., OF Buffalo, placed
them in store at Bryan, o., then
sold out for what he could get and
left.
Peter English, who esta blished the
Benton Harbor water works and built
the water works and tower at Buch-
anan, applied for an electric lighting
and power franchise for Benton Har-
Dor the power TO be furnished by dam
ming the Paw Paw river one mile
above town.
At Fife Lake fire destroyed the City
hotel block, in which there were five
dwellings, "A shoe store, grocery, the
postofiice, a barber shop, jewelry
store and the Fife Lake Monitor Office;
also a dwelling across the street, a
large hardware and agricultural inn
plement establishment and three
warehouses. The rest of the town
was saved with difficulty. The total
loss is S90,0
Mail Carrier Chambers and five pas
sengers had thrilling experience n
short distance out from Mackinac
island while crossing the straits on the
ice. Without warning, horse and rig
went through. All the occupants sue