The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-10-30

with his wife and five children, went
boating on Smiths Ike, small body
of water within the southern limits OF
the city. The boat was by some means
overturned and Mrs. Spute and her
I five children were drowned.
Henry Ramm attacked his wife and
! a party of women who were going TO
church at Toledo. Ohio, Sunday, with
a revolver. Then he fired bullet into
his forehead.
The Arkansas supreme court, in an
opinion rendered by Justice Riddich,
held that the governor has the right to
appoint members of the legislature
where vacancies have been caused by
death, designations or other causes.
This is said to be the first case OF this
character decided in any state in the
country.
Judge Charles Speck, collector of in
ternal revenue at ST. Louis, Mo-, died
Unexpectedly Sunday. About the first
of this year he suffered from a stroke OF
paralysis, but had apparently fully re-
covered.
AS Mr.. and Mrs. John Burstel OF Troy
were driving above Tell City, Ind, Sun
day, their team became frightened at 4
train and ran over the river bank.
Both were seriously injured and the
woman died shortly afterward.
General Morton c. Hunter died at
Bloomington, ILL.,. Sunday. of paraly-
sis after weeks illness. He was the
commander of the Eighty-second In
diana regiment. and became famous at
Chickamauga by carrying out General
Thomas orders to hold Snodgrass Hill
at all hazards He was II years old.
The Hamburg Nachrichten, Prince
Dismarck's organ, prints an article dis
closing the fact that a defensive ALI
ance existed between Russia and Ger
many during the last six years that
Bismarck was in office, ending in
March. 1890. The article has pro-
duced a profound sensation in Vienna.
H. B. Porter of Titusville, Pa, capt.
talist. was instantly killed while hunt
ing near Alvord, Iowa, Sunday.
Another daring escape occurred at
Louisville Sunday at the county jail
shortly after $50 o'clock, and six des-
perate prisoners got away.
The most disastrous cotton fire in
the history of Galveston, Texas, &C
Cured early Sunday morning, result
, ing in the destruction of 400 bales and
the warehouse in which they were
stored. The origin OF the fire is not
known.
, A memorial meeting to do honor 10
the late Horace Rublee, for years edi-
tor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, was
held by the Press club Sunday.
Angelo Meyers Of Philadelphia, man
ager of the distilleries of the American
Spirits Manufacturing company, is at
Peoria, ILL.,, making preparations for a
resumption of business. The ST. Paul
d. distillery will be the first to start Nov
1. About the middle of next month the
: Schufeldt house in Chicago will be
: started. and Dec. / the Monarch and
Great Western of Peoria will be start
!. ed at a capacity of 1000 bushels.
9 II is reported that George j. Schwein-
. furth has returned to Rockford, Ill. He
4 left the train at Oregon, ILL.,, and was
@ driven quietly to Mount Zion, where
his followers are again located. 1t is
stated that Schweinfurth and others
who have been married will hereafter
live as married people, and not as IN
= der the old rule of the community.
5 Fire broke out at 6 o'clock Sunday
)" evening in lumber piles on the prem
h Uses of the Central Lumber company at
- Milwaukee. six males below Saginaw
10 Mich, and spread rapidly. The lum-
- Der destroyed covered twenty acres and
:, was the choicest to be found in the
Is Saginaw valley. The fire is believed to
have been incendiary. Good judges
q estimate the loss in lumber az $4,000
and the other property destroyed Is
"a valued at $4,000.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Standard says that Russian officials on
- the Prussian frontier have seized lot
thick walking sticks containing thou
i. sands of Nihilist proclamations.
Z A Madrid dispatch to the London
Standard SAYS: 1.-The press continue
bitterly to resent and declare 1t impos-
9 sible to admit in any shape or form
: United States interference in Cuba
The government is straining every
nerve TO bring the rebellion to a de-
cisiye issue. Orders have been sent Il
e Cant. Gen. weyler to this effect"
e President Cleveland has again re-
> warded Lieutenant David l.. Brainart
is of the Second cavalry. who rendered
" such distinguished service to his com
" panions with the Greedy arctic expedi
Ie ton. He has just been promoted to b'
Is captain in the commissary.
n The plan for a state university In
Il California, housed in the most coher'
l. ent handsome group Of educational edi
= fees in the world, is now near realiza
&c ton. The announcement was made al
/ board of regents meeting that $4,000,
rs 900 had been promised by private citi
>" zcns as soon as the state gave 100000
The jewelry store of t. w. Martins
d at Joliet, ILL.,, was closed by the sheriff
n on executions amounting to $1,000.
20 Two firms at Houston, Texas, have
a