The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-03

Thos L. Giest. brakeman on the
Michigan Central, fell from the pilot
of an engine at Albion and was crushed
to death by the cars.
George Mcdonald, OF Oshtemo,
wants William Haines arrested because
he entered his house and stole $50 and
then took his horse and buggy aud
skipped.
Mrs Meta j. Ferguson, of Grand
Rapids, y in a serious condition from
the results of coal gas. She was under
its influence nearly IS hours before
being discovered.
A 30!-foot sidewhcel passenger
steamer, the City of Buffalo, was
launched at Wyandotte. She viii
| cost $3.50. 600 and will run between
Cleveland and Buffalo.
The Calumet store, situated on the
Calumet mine location, burned. The
building was 80 years old and valued
at about $1,000 The stock was worth
$4,000 Cause unknown.
The kalamazoo river went higher
than at any time during the pas5 10
years. The accumulation of driftwood
and che force OF tho current seriously
threatenel the bridges near Gales )urg.
Mabel Fishpool. a Grand Rapids do
nestle, is missing. Her satcnel con-
! tanning Jewclry and other belongings,
was found on the fulton street brid &c,
and it is believed she jumped into the
river.
VIM. Boston, colored, deputy sheriff
and salooniSt at Detroit. was shot
and killed by his bartender be-
cause Boston accused him of steal
ing customers diamond pin, valued
ut $3.50
Incendiaries attempted to burn the
planning mill of w. 81 A. Macarthur d.
Co., at Cheboygan, but the Waterman
saved $4,000 worth of property by ex-
tinguishing the blaze with great dan
ger to himself.
The supreme court has decided tina t
the state auditors cannot comp :om Use
with tho officers who drew an in
creased salary under the illegal sala-
rios amendment. Tney must sue for
the full amount
FIR. Macy, Of Hudson, has declared
war against the local saloon lie
urges his paris hioners to become total
abstainers, an proposes to make the
saloonkeeper either obey the laws or
quit the business.
Harry Van Couvers, horse doctor,
has been eking ont precarious living
at his prof .ssion for years at Blen-
don. lie last week received notice
that an aunt in the Netherlands had
died and left him IL fortune.
The dam ofthe Tobacco River Mill
ing Co., and the llubbell bridge, ut
Clare, were carried away by the
freshet. The loss is about 5000.
Considerable damage has been done to
the Ann Arbor railway road bed.
The state railroad crossing board
has approved the map Of the new and
| more direct route of the Ann Arbor
road into Alma. 1t was opposed by
the d., l.. d \. railroad and the viii
lage of st, Louis, bat to no purpose.
The notorious Arnold block at Battle
| Creek, in which Geo. Arnold was muir
dered, seems to be cursed. Fred Herr,
a bartender, was found dying in a
| little room on the fourth floor. Sui
eide is the theory universally accepted.
The Michigan Law Stenographers'
association held their annual meeting
at Grand Rapids with good repre- en-
! tation. The new officers are: Presi-
| dent, Chas. II. Bender, secretary treas
| urer, Chas. III. Straw becker, both of
| Grand Rapids.
The coroner's jury at Flint, which
| investigated the death of Cynthia Lat
inner in Thetford, returned u verdict
that she came to her death by infiam
nation of the stomach caused by poison
administered by her son, John Lati-
mer and his wife.
The Maccabees refused to pay a
81, 900 policy on the life of w. r.
| Ogden. of Henrietta, who was reported
to have been drowned in Wisconsin
and developments show that they did
right, as Ogden has been discovered
alive at Eagle, Wis
Alex London, confined in the
county Jail at Port Huron on
account of insanity, committed suicide
by hanging himself with towel. lie
was considered harmless and was kept
in Jail owing to the crowded condition
of the Pontiac asylum.
| Louis Detling, who for the last four
years carried the mails between Chelsea
and Freedom, became violently insane
and was confined in Jail at Ann Arbor.
lie refused to keep any clothes upon
his person and stalked IN naked
majesty about his cell. 1t required
! six men to remove him to Pontiac.
| George Jones, professional aero
naut, was arrested at Grand Rapids for
baselv deceiving Mary A. Webster, a
| l7-ycar-old girl from Alma. She con-
scented To marry hun, and he brought
forward IL bogus license and friend
performed a mock ceremony and gave
her a license. The girl suspected
nothing wrong until she talked to
some OF the ncighbors.
While digging hole to bury a large
stone near Concord Henry Mann and
Chas. Kane had a narrow escape from
death. The stone was split in two,
but they did not know it and as they
were digging under one side one halt
fell and buried them. Mann was help
less, but Kane dug himself out after