The Yale expositor., 1895-12-20
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

Port Huron S military company VIII
he given the opportunity to reorganizc
for the state service.
Seymour Il. Graves, Michigan Cen
trail switchman. got his foot caught in
frog at Detroit and was crushed to
death.
John La Fevre, employed in GUNNER
& Diggin's saw mill at Cadillac, fell
upon the slab saws and was cut to
pieces.
Amos Lane became suddenly insane
at Bradley and disappeared. His body
was found, face down, in stream
near town.
The Detroit Drydock Co has con-
tracts for five steel steamers TO be fin
ished next season at an aggregate cost
of over $4,000 900.
2Fire in row of wooden stores on
Kent street at Portland threatened to
wipe out that side of the street. Loss,
5000; no insurance.
Ed Sellers died at Laingsburg. and
on his death bed confessed TO having
two wives, one in Kansas City and an
other in New York City
Mrs. Nellie Pope, who instigated the
murder of her husband at Detroit, is to
be transferred to the Detroit House of
Correction from Jackson prison.
Asa Palmer was seriously hurt on
log railway of the Oval Wood Dish Co.
at Traverse City Several logs were
released, one of them rolling over him.
Mrs. Jennie Ladelle was found stag
l.. a
She had taken poison because her hus-
band, who is gambler, deserted her.
Riley's hall, which housed the local
X. 0. r. NJ. Orangemen, Foresters and
l.. o. II. NJ, was burned at Brown
City. Loss, $1,000; insurance, 81 400
James II. Clark attempted to burn
his children TO death at Ludington by
setting their bed on fire, but they es-
capped. He had suddenly become in
sane.
Joseph humphrey, truckman at Lud-
ington, while sick with the grip got
out of bed at night, went out into the
yard and cut his head nearly off with
a rCZor.
Farmers about South Haven arc
naming their farms and districts.
Trees will be set out and the roads
graded. A large fund has been sub
scribed for the purpose.
Marcellus mills win grind 1000 bar
rels of flour according to the Jewish
formula to be used by that race for
making unleaycned bread for its ccle-
bration of the passover.
Logging operations in the Iron
Mountain district are now in full
blast, with an abundance of snow.
There are 5000 men at work. The cut
will reach $50, 900, 600 feet.
The boys Of Co. f.. Third infantry.
at Port Huron, feel sore over the re-
port of Asst lnsp. Gen, Williams,
which recommends that the company
be mustered out of the service.
Judge Daboll at Ithaca sentenced a
man, aged go years, to Jackson prison
for six years for assaulting "a young
girl. The brute would not tell his
name and was sent up as John Doe.
Robert Malley, fireman on the Ann
Arbor road, stepped into the caboose
To get drink of water, and in the
darkness dipped his cup into a bucket
strong I've. A physician pumped him
out. He may recover.
The Baldwin roller mills, elevator.
sheds and barns were destroyed by fire
ut baldwin. The loss is about SIS 900.
insurance about half that. The mill
was one of the largest in the state
Spontaneous combustion was the cause
The board of directors of the Michi-
gan State Federation of Women's
Clubs held a meeting at Saginaw and
decided to hold a midsummer meeting
at Bay View in August. 1896, and their
annual convention in Detroit, Novem-
Der, 1896.
w. j. Moore, farmers son, near
Elmer City, has invented a telephone
of his own, quite unlike existing pa
tents. He has connected Sanilac Cen.
ter, Elmer City and Marlette. and has
exchanges in both Elmer City and
Marlette.
Gid Guinan, a young Ishpeming
terror, has been sentenced to 20 years
in Marquette prison for a murderous
assault on Thos. Garry, aged 90 Gui
mans parents spent small fortune,
the savings of life time, trying to
save their boy.
Atty-Gen. Maynard has given the
secretary of state an opinion in which
| he holds that the use of the word
and for orr in the blanket charter
for fourth-class cities does not prohibit
women from voting at school elections
as was supposed.
The city hall at Ludington was
damaged by fire and water to the
! amount of s., 600 The entire struc-
ture and furniture were completely
soaked. The origin was incendiary.
Geo. Jefferson, u fireman. was arrested
for being drunk at the fire.
Col. Henry M. Robert. division
engineer of the southwest division,
has been made engineer of the north
west division. to succeed the late Gen.
o. NJ. Poe. II is wholly distinct from
the work of Gen. Poe as engineer in
charge of the deep channel project,
which has been assigned to Maj. Post.
During November State Analyst
Rossman analysed 80 samples of food
products and found 30 of them adulter-
ated Samples of honey were found
to contain but 25 per cent of comb
honey, the balance being glucose syrup.
Mustard contained 40 per cent of mus
| tard and 60 per cent of wheat flour.