The Yale expositor., 1895-05-10
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

J1nCrO1J Is uTY. SdiOOuhttpCTS COulA
not get satisfactory bondsmen.
eUncle" Harve Hobson, aged IS, and
Miss Lucy Ellison, aged 90, were mar
ried at GAINESVILLE.
Game Warden Hampton has presented
the Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids
with two deer for the 200"
Phillip Patterson, aged IS years, fell
under a moving train on the i. Il +. NJ,
Mt Flint and was crushed to death.
Zachariah Taylor, farmer near
Vassar, was arr ested on a charge of
assault upon Emma Miner, aged 10.
John Morriarity and Frank Conley,
aged Ii years, were drowned in the
River Rouge at Detroit while bathing.
3 Two linemen working on the NJ. c.
railroad near Athens were poisoned
by eating canned beef, but will re-
cover
Henry Fisher, aged s, was drowned
at Bay City. He was padding about
on large plank and fell into the
water.
Esty e. Calkin's sawmill was burned
at Pinconning. Loss 1000; partially
insured. A lamp in the engine room
exploded.
Students of the Michigan mining
school are getting little experience
by working in the Champion mines
side by side with the grimy ore-diggers.
George ii. Baugh and his wife of
only nine weeks were drowned off the
foot of Twenty-fourth street. Detroit.
Their boat upset while they were
rowing.
West Bay City aldermen sought to
keep the Salvation Army off the street
by an arbitrary ordinance. The sol
diers kept right on, and Judge Max
we'll has declared the ordinance UNI
constitutional.
Alex. Robertson, of Silver Lake, has
been missing since last September.
He was 20 years old and demented.
Boys fishing in the lake a few days
ago ished up his body.
Bertha Schwab, aged 90, attempted
suicide at Traverse City. She took
half an ounce of laudanum and left q
letter saying, "tired of life" She was
pumped out and may live.
A man apparently about 80 years old
was found dead on the Lake Shore
tracks at Sturgis. He was frightfully
mangled. In a diary the address,
''H. ii. Thomas, Ogden, Ia. appeared.
An unknown tramp who was refused
food at l.. +. Armstrong;, at Niles,
tried to assault Miss Myrtle Arm
strong, but she seized revolver and
fired at the fellow. He was slightly
wounded and fled.
Three young men left Chelsea in a
wagon for trip overland TO California.
They are Ransom Armstrong, West
Armstrong and a young man named
Beckwith. They go by way of Chicago
and viii sleep in their wagon.
John Sweedyke and Abram De
Meester, each 16 years of age, were
drowned while bathing in Grand river
near the d., G.. II. & NJ. bridge at
Grand Rapids. They could not swim
and ventured beyond their depth.
Mary Liebolt, better known as Jessie
Lewis, awaiting trial in the circuit
court Ionia, on charge of keeping a
house of ill-repute, committed suicide
near Lyons by taking arsenic. She
preferred death to standing trial.
Miss Mary st. Dennis. an estimable
young lady of Is years, who has been
residing with her grandparents at
Monroe, left her home. and note was
found on the bureau, stating she could
no longer endure the false stories that
were being circulated about her and
had decided to drown herself. She
bore a splendid reputation.
Julia Curtis, % years old, daughter
of prominent farmer near Traverse
City. left home TO gather trailing ar
butus in the woods and did not return.
Men searched for her all night, and
found her body in swamp A basket
by her side contained two-ounce bot
lie of laudanum.