The Yale expositor., 1896-09-18

The large main building of the Bat
tie Creek improvement Co. was destroyed
by fire and the smaller buildings were
saved with difficulty. The loss will
reach $685. 900 largely on manufactured
wagons and farm tools.
Edward Gates, was driving some
cattle to Coldwater when steer be-
came angry and turned upon him,
trampling upon him and goring him.
The animal had To be killed before he
would desist Mr. Cats was fatally
hurt.
VIM. III. Johnson, who in company
with Isaac Snow, assaulted Mrs. Phe-
lima Define, aged IS, at her home near
Columbiaville, was sentenced by Judge
Smith, of Lapeer, to IA years imprison-
lnent at jackson. Snow is serving a
term for forgery and will get his dose
later.
A heavy wind and lightning storm
struck Holland. Several buildings q
few miles from the city were burned.
The house of Elias Becker is almost n
complete wreck, the roof and frame
work being entirely shattered. Mr..
Becker and his family of five children
were in the house at the time, but all
escaped with but slight injury. A
horse belonging to Peter Kuiger was
killed.
While Adolphus Grenmie and wife,
well known residents of Richland
township, Ogemaw county, were driv-
ing to their home they stopped at Clear
lake to water their horse, driving into
the lake for that purpose. In turning
around the horse backed into deep
water, and Mrs. Grenmie, becoming
frightened, jumped from the buggy
and was drowned before she could be
rescued.
After being fed at the home of Bar
ney tinker, near Newberry, n tramp
made indecent remarks to Miss tinker,
aged 90, who was alone in the house.
The girl seized rife and ordered the
tramp to leave, but the fellow tried to
wrench the gun from her hands. In
the struggle the weapon was dis
charged, the bullet passing through
the girls right leg. The tramp then
skipped.
w. w. Gouche, wealthy Berrien
county farmer, predicts that the world
will come to an end October /. Gouche
has converted his property into coin,
which he has secretly buried, being
the victim of an hallucination that his
treasure will come into his possession
again in the next world. 4 vivid
dream he recently had he regards as a
revelation, and he has considerable
following and weird scenes are being
nightly enacted.
DIR. Jud w. Wetmore, fromerly
prominent homeopathic physician at
Holland, with wife and two grown
daughters, has been arrested for com
plicity in the murder of Enos Law
renee, whose body was fished out of
Black lake last April, and for whose
murder Mrs Lawrence and Ray Coates
have been convicted. the former now
awaiting sentence and the latter being
sent to Jackson for life. Mrs. Law
renee has made a confession implicat-
ing Wetmore in the crime.
The Michigan Press association an
nual meeting was held at Detroit. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, l.. Il. Slussar, of the Mancelona
Herald; vice-president, II. j. Stevens,
of IIoughton; secretary, c. 4. Fairfield,
of the Eaton Rapids Journal; treasurer,
w. j. Hunsaker, of the Detroit Journal.
The reports showed n membership of
175 with $500 in the treasury. The
annual outing which followed the bus
mess session comprised n trip to Cleve-
land, Buffalo and Niagara Falls.