The Yale expositor., 1895-03-08
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

500.
Marlette is to have a new planning
mill.
East Tawas has voted for a city
charter.
Niles is to build new opera house
this summer.
A. II. Lockwood died at his shoe
makers bench at Vassar.
Muskegon is working to nave tim
plate factory located there.
Adolph A. Meyersahm, Grand Rap
ids cigarmaker, hanged himself.
The Matvela Coal Co.. of Boone, has
passed into the hands of receiver
j. ID. Clements barn and contents
were burned at Blissheld. Loss 81, 600.
Mills G. Hawley, charged with barn
burning, died in the Paw Paw
Jail
Charles Manly, aged IA years, broke
through the ice at Calumet and was
/ drowned.
Richard Calkins, near Flint, fell
down stairs and broke his back and
neck and died instantly.
j. Eding, of iceland, engineer in
Kepler's Touring mills, was arrested
charged with counterteiting silver
coin.
James Miller was arraigned at Sagi-
nav charged with assaulting l4-year-
old Myrtle Webster. Miller is 60 years
of age.
Joseph Dale, of Port Huron, COM
mitted suicide in the American Tx
change hotel at San Francisco, with
strychnine.
II. Il. Davis, of Minden City, has just
| received news of the death of an uncle
in California whereby he has fallen
heir to $4,000.
John Lindsay, farmer near Mason,
aged so, cut his throat with a razor
He has been demented since his wife's
death last year.
Edwin Wyant was helping to fell
two cedar trees near Manistee. A dead
ash gave way, striking him on the
neck, killing him instantly.
Hans Gilbertson, an employee of the
Elk Rapids Iron company, drew his
pay and soon after disappeared. Later
his body was found in a swamp frozen
stiff.
Cattle near Central Lake are dying
from n mysterious disease Their
lungs are shriveled away to a small
bunch, and they die within day of
being attacked.
The first case against the fishermen
for trespassiug with nets at the mouth
of the Saginaw river was tried at Bay
City, ending in a disagreement of the
jury at Bay City.
Section men found the body of John
Long aged 30, on the track near
Flushing, with the head entirely cut
off and lying inside the track. The
evidence points to suicide.
Willis Ross, "a years of age. near
Lapeer, was taken with bleeding of the
nose. Doctors were Immediately sum
moned, but their efforts were of no
avail, Ross dying in few hours
The works of the Chicago Pipe com
pany, manufacturers of east iron
water and gas mains, located at New
Philadelphia, o., were destroyed by
fire. Loss, 500, 000 insurance $4,000.
Menominee county will give Menom-
inee city $4,000 towards building a
bridge across the river. and work will
begin as soon as the Wisconsin Michi-
gan boundary line can be determined.
Mrs. Emma Obenauer, manager of
the Manistee Industrial home and
well known throughout the state,
while visiting near Saginaw, slipped
on the ice and badly fractured her left
leg.
Thomas Young, of Chicago, was
found guilty in the Oakland county
court of stealing some beans from
Novi farmer ten years ago. His father
served term at the time, but Young
went to Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Markle, of Bu-
chanan, left their 3-year-old son and
l5-months-old daughter alone in the
house. The sons clothes caught fire,
and he was burned to death. The
little girl had a narrow escape.
The Woman's Relief Corps of Mich
igan will hold its annual session at
Mt. Clemens March 26-25. The depart
meut now numbers 237 corps and 1868
members. Twelve corps have been
organized during the past year and
relief extended to the extent of SO, 562.
The relief other than money amounted
to S4,054.
Il. Il. Darlington, the well-known
Bay City iumberman, put several
ladies TO the blush. At minstrel en-
tertainment his view was INSTRUCTED
by forest of high hats. He arose
| and, in behalf of his suffering broth
ers, requested the ladies to remove the
distractions, and many of them were
! sensible enough to do it.
John Adamson and ID. Bergeron, a
| blacksmith, got into a quarrel at Stur-
geon Bay. and the former began to
thump Bergeron, who is small man.
Bergeron obtained a shotgun aud
warned his assailant to desist. Adam
son paid no attention to it, and the
contents of the gun was fired into his
body, striking him in the lower side of
the abdomen, and he may die. Ber-
geron is in Jail
For more than two miles the On
tonagon river below Even is jammed
with pine logs. They fill the channel
and overflow on either bank, towering
, 20 and 30 feet high. They measure
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