The Yale expositor., 1896-11-20
THE TWO PENINSULAS.

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Two woodchoppers near Newberry
found the petrified remains of three
men in the woods.
Fred Smith, aged 10, was fatally shot
by his brother Tom, aged II, while
they were hunting near Sturgis.
Burglars blew open the safe in
August Kleemans grocery at Bay City,
and were rewarded by finding $500.
Albert Clark, of Wyandotte, was in
stantly killed by being shot by Chas.
Davis at Flat Rock. Coroner's jury
says it was accidental.
The Shaw Electric Crane Co., of Mus
kegon has just completed four large
cranes for an immense manufacturing
plant at Mariopol, Russia.
The state fish commission has bought
five acres on Mill Creek, near Grand
Rapids, for a black bass hatchery. 1t
will be the only one of the kind in the
country.
Gov. Rich has appointed Edward w.
Lowe, of Grand Rapids, member of
the Macllinac Island state park COM
mission to succeed Thomas w. Ferry
deceased
The football teams of the University
of Michigan and the University of Min
nesota fought hard battle at Mime
apolis for the championship of the
west. Michigan won by score of
6 to 4.
The Cleveland Cliffs Co., at Glad
stone, has made sales of pig iron since
election sufficient to warrant running
its furnace to its full capacity. For
some time it has been turning out only
about 100 tons daily.
Col. A. Il. Bliss, of Saginaw, says the
demand for lumber is increasing, and
sellers are,able to make better terms
than they could a month ago. Shingles
have advanced 30 cents per 1000 and
are moving briskly.
lGov. Rich has appointed Gen. ID. b.
Anger, of Charlotte, state bank com
missioner, to fill out T. C. Sherwood's
unexpired term. Gen. Anger was a
national bank eXaminer-at-large under
Harrison. For four years he has been
deputy auditor-general.
The four copper mines at Houghton
which have been idle for some time,
are soon to be consolidated and worked
on large scale on eastern and Euro;
pean capital Employment will be
given TO over 500 men. a mill site has
been secured on Portage lake.
Peter thinner, a farmer near Port
Huron, was hauling cornstocxs for
fodder when his team started forward
suddenly. throwing him to the ground.
His head struck on the sharp corn
stubble, bursting blood vessel and
causing death in a short time.
Frank Rockefeller visited James Nc
Naughton, superintendent of the
Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain He is
about to visit the Gogebic and Vermil-
lion mines to arrange for the resump-
ton of work, giving employment to
1900 men. 1t is believed work will
also be resumed at John ID. Roclefel-
ler's mines.
The Cincinnati saw mill, owned by
Mrs. III. T.. Carpenter and Mrs. i. Z.
Wodon and valued ut $50, 900, and the
Salisbury brewery, owned Jacob Knob
LAUGH & Son and valued at SEQ, 900, both
located just north of Bay City, were
burned by supposed incendiary fire.
Davison's shipyard and Wilson's hoop
mill were saved by the wind shifting.
Gov. Rich has paroled Benjamin II.
Hicks, sent up four years and six
months from Grand Rapids for taking
liberties with little girl. Hicks is
now Ga years old. Elmer Northrop,
sent from Van Buren county IL years
ago for rape, is also paroled. He was
Il stupid, illiterate boy of Is when the
crime was committed.
Samuel Nixson, aged 81, was Gre
mated in his shanty, about three miles
east of Britton. An old wornout stove
is supposed to have been the cause OF
the FIRE. Mrs. Nixson and her brother,
Henry Prentiss, were in another house
only 20 rods away and knew nothing
of the fire until an hour later Two
of Armours box cars and several small
buildings were destroyed.
Henry Schmid, aged IA, and several
other boys were shooting quail near
Flat Rock. Schmid carried his gun
under his arm, with the muzzle point.
ing forward and in front of him walked
Charles Hood, aged s. by some acct
dent one of the party behind Schmid
struck his gun, which vent off and
shot the Hood boy in the leg, inActing
such terrible wound that he bled 70
death before the boys could carry him
home.
One of the most stirring and touch
ing incidents of the Methodist centra
missionary meeting at Detroit was the
farewell To Bishops Thoburn and
Hartzell, who leave at once for Their
work IN India and Africa respectively
There was cheering amid tears ant
applause, evoked by the climax &
Bishop Hartzell's patriotic eulogy e
the stars and stripes when he unfoldeo
an Ainericansflag made for him by hi.
aged mother and his sisters. and drapec
10 over the front of the altar and spoke
of the thoughts which came to him n,
he realized that he was leaving Amer