The Yale expositor., 1896-01-17

ter, without apparent effect.
VIM. ii. Cole, of Flint, went to take
dose of bitters but got the wrong
bottle and took a swallow of corrosive
sublimate. He may recover.
John Butcher, an Eaton convict, at
tempted to hang himself with his sus-
penders at Jackson prison. but was cut
down, and then he cursed the guards.
Bert Mckenzie has begun suit
against John Lautschlager and wife
the parents of his wife-for $4,000
damages for the alienation of his wife's
affections
Cass county got rid of tramps by
building rooted enclosure in which
stone is broken. The entire appara-
tus, including balls and chains, cost
only S230.0S.
At special election at Buchanan on
proposition to bond the town for
SEQ, 900 for the purchase of an electric
lighting plant il was defeated by "a
vote of l76 TO 10.
The supervisors of kalamazoo inves-
tigated the charges against Poormaster
Bush and found him guilty of inhu-
man treatment of applicants and of
general incompetency.
Miss Minnie Sparkle, near st. Joseph,
who was recently assaulted bya young
man and bound and thrown into u
shed, has become insane. He assailant
has not been captured.
Analysis of the stomach of Mrs. Gym
thia Latimer, who died suddenly near
Mint md fnp NvhnSa S1t,Nnnca1 In,.
her son and his wife were arrested,
proves that She was not poisoned.
John Gutke, Henry Kaiser and
Thomas Barron, Port Huron liquor
dealers arrested on the charge of sell
ing liquor on Sunday, were sentenced
to pay $50 or spend 60 days i'll jail.
Charges of misconduct, malfeasance
neglect of duty and eXtortion have
been filed with Gov. Rich against John
ID. O'Brien, school commissioner of the
township of Seney, Schoolcraft county.
Lulu Maxwell. girl of IA, threat
ened to kill herself at Bay City because
her stepfather would not allow her to
go to a dance. She took butcher
knife and stabbed herself in the chest,
but her corset steels prevented any
damage.
Geo Garsidc. well-known Kalama-
700 citizen, was arrested charged with
threatening to beat his wife to death.
The poor woman exhibits frightful
bruises resulting from beatings he has
given her with heavy betting and an
anchor chain.
A robbers retreat has been found IN
Cedar swamp, south of Gladwin.
Stores have been broken open frc-
quently of late, freight taken from
cars aud large quantities of goods and
some money carried off. No trace of
the thieves could be found
George Deman's little daughter
started a fire with kerosene oil at Sand
Beach. The flames bclched forth from
the stove, burning her 2-year-old
brother, and she was sent TO the dock
for her father 1t was bitter cold
day, and her little hands were frozen
so badly that they will have to be am
putated
Charles Brant, a laborcr at Chelsea,
wrote an obscene letter to May Trou-
ten and asked her to meet him in u
certain place. When Brant arrived he
found the enraged father and friend
who Immediately gave him a sound
thrashing. Then the father made a
complaint against him and he was
locked up.
John Aclierhosen, near Benton Har-
Dor, would allow his family-wife and
four children-no food except dried
apples and coarse uncooked mush of
crushed wheat and water. lie also re-
quired that each one battle in the open
air with cold water every morning,
and claimed they would live 200 years.
He will be sent to an asylum.
John Wachsmuth, of Muskcgon, is
writing a book to show that the Ar
menian massacres arc the result of the
congress of religions ut Chicago during
the Worlds Fair. lie says that when
the Turks found out that the Christians
were really in earnest about convert
ing the Armenians they began to lay
plans to kill off the Christians.
The n. &c II. Mills lumber yard and
planning mill at Marysville in some
manner caught fire and great con-
fiagration was for a time threatened,
but the fire was confined to the Mills
plant. Only little of the lumber was
consumed, but the mill is a total loss.
1t had not been in use for several
years and 5000 will cover the loss
The distance between Adrian and
Palmyra is less than six miles and the
legal passenger tariff in Michigan for
the Lake Shore road is three cents per
mile; nevertheless when Hubert Il.
Clark and wife, of Adrian, rendered a
conductor Is cents each as their fare
from Palmyra to Adrian he refused to
accept it and put them off the train.
Clark will sue for damages.
A largely attended meeting of the
Northern Michigan Hardwood Lum-
bermen's association was held ut
Traverse City. A committee was ap-
pointed to confer with other associa-
tions, and if possible settle on a uniform
inspection rule. Steps were also taken
toward the organization of all the
manufacturers of the region to control
the entire output of maple lumber
Nelson Rivard. aged - years, a
member of one of the Oldest French
families OF the northwest, who lived u
miserable bachelor life in n hovel at
Crosse Pointe, near Detroit, was found
dead n his well with terrible wounds
on his head. Evidences of struggle
were uDDgrcnt in thp cabin and the