The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-06
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.


Ed. Bates, while numbering at In
land, was struck by falling tree and
had his neck broken.
About 300 miners of the Corunna
Coal Co, are out on a strike against
reduction in wages.
The large country residence of Mel
son Bigbee, near Big Rapids, was
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
The trades and labor assem- bly, of
Muskegon has given an invitation to
the Michigan Federation of Labor to
hold their next meeting there.
The Livingston county fair grounds
atsIIowell were sold at public auction
TO one of the old stockholders. A new
company is now being organized.
While Jesse Denyes and young
man named Jameson, near Fairgrove
were chasing and endeavoring TO shoot
hog Denyes was shot, perhaps fatally.
George Hartigan fell under the
wheels while attempting to steal n
ride from Union City to Jackson, and
lost both legs, but has good prospects
of recovery.
Mr. and Mrs Jacob limerick, of
Ypsllanti celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary Of their wedding. The former
is "a and the latter 50 years OF age and
were pioneers
The old Indian chief at Amber,
known as ''Rushy Joe" and who was
claimed To be 1iO years of age, died
recently Bushy Joe was an expert
hunter and trapper.
Battle Creeks truant officer is car
rying on a vigorous warfare against
tobacco dealers who sell cigarettes to
boys. Wm. Edmunds was fined $40 for
this violation of law.
Ernest Gray, aged rs, Grand Trunk
fireman of Battle Creek, was found
dead in his room at Kalamazoo Near
the body was half emptied morphine
bottle indicating suicide.
Diphtheria is raging about Benton
Harbor to an alarming extent Several
country schools near town are closed.
Over 40 cases were reported within
| two weeks with Six deaths.
Mrs. A. +. McGillis, of Menominee,
was badly burned while rescuing her
daughter from their burning home,
and died from her injuries. Her nus
band was also severely burned.
Herbert ". Bedell, clerk of the po-
| lice court 1T Grand Rapids, has disap-
peared, with between $500 and $500 of
funds. lie had just resigned, his bonds
men forcing him 20 do 50. owing to
recent crooked transactions.
/ About 100 feet Of one of the g. Il. &
| 7, freight houses in Grand Rapids, col
/ lapsed from the weight of the snow on
! the roof. The night Waterman was
! the only man in the building and had
a narrow escape from death.
Ed. NJ. Lapcrre was found dead in
/ the cemetary at Niles. From appear
| himself with a 3S-caliber revolver
through the right temple Death was
instantaneous.
John A. Moll. of Minden. ex-repre-
sentative and one-time aspirant to the
Office of secretary of state, was ar.
rested in Detroit aud lodged in the
county Jail at Sanilac Center on Il
charge OF forgery.
clarence u. Vining of Ypsilanti,
who held a 81 GOO clerkship in the
treasury department ut Washington,
has been dismissed in disgrace. lie
was charged with removing internal
revenue stamps from old bonds on file
ia the department.
Four desperate young criminals es-
capped from the county Jail at Cold
water by cutting through the floor and
crawling through "A cellar window.
They stole DR.. WilcoX's horse and
buggy, but Allie Bedford and the rig
/ wore fa pturpd at Quincy
Mrs. Jane Heritage, wife of the
former pastor of the Wealthy avenue
Baptist church at Grand Rapids, sui
cided by taking chloroform. Mrs.
Heritage has been in poor health for
some time She had tried to suicide
a week before with laudanum.
John Widdecomb, president and
manager of the WiddccOmb Furniture
Co., at Grand Rapids, which employs
about 900 hands. is an enthusiastic
supporter of the eight hour day princi-
Pile. He considers il question OF
vital importance To the entire country.
Shortly after dark Geo. p. Burgess
OF Port Huron. started to cross the
bridge over Black river on his bicycle.
The draw had been opened TO allow q
steamer to pass and no danger signals
were displayed to give warming, and
burgess plunged from the end of the
bridge into the riverand was drowned
David l.. Pearson. living near New
Buffalo was driven insane as the result
OF the belief that the recent earth
quake heralded the end of the world
and is now confined i'm an asylum
Miss Alice Pearson, aged is. was ad
judged to be of unsound mind, hei
fathers peculiar hallucination having
also affected her reason.
Ollie j. Watkins, the Detroit eX-con
stable, who has served rs months of T;
four years sentence TO jackson prison
for forgery. is now free man, Gov
Rich having granted him q pardon
The action of the governor was based
on the unanimous recommendation o
the pardon board. and was pctitioneC
for by excellent citizens of Detroit
The schooner Mary Collins wa
picked up off Alpena in badly bat
tered condition. The schooner wa
caught in the gale off Sturgeon point
and lost her canvas in the first few
hours. Her spars were broken, every
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