The Yale expositor., 1896-02-28
MICHIGAN NEWS.

store.
Paul Warboys and family have
started from Whitaker to drive in a
wagon TO Virginia.
Lou Geringher, aged 8, of Iosco, died
from the effects of being hit in the
side by SNOWFALL.
Eugene Mcneil took a large dose of
morphine at Lawton with suicidal in
tent, but may recover.
G. III. Cole, OF Lansing, while drill
ing well at depth of 275 feet
brought up PARTICLES of gold.
Muskegon, city and county, show
great interest in the good roads con-
vention to be held in Lansing.
Christ Splelberger, while practicing
on an improved trapezc in his barn,
near st. Clair, accidentally got his
neck caught and was found hanging
dead.
Adrian is having hard work to raise
the 100000 bonus necessary to secure
the Lima northern extension of the c.,
j. & NJ. railroad, and may not be able
to get it.
Grand Rapids has boen restrained
market site bonds, the superior court
holding that the vote did not carry by
n proper majority.
Church people of Traverse City have
agltated against dancing so much that
the school teachers have been informed
that they must refrain from such
worldly amusements.
r. w. Cochran recently opened
grocery and drug store at Cedar
Springs, and he has been arrested for
selling drugs without registered
pharmacists diploma.
Fire destroyed the water works, Jail
and hose tower at Pinconning. Bust
ness is at standstill, as all mills were
supplied from the water works. The
loss is $4,000; partly insured.
The commission appointed by the
city of MuslIegon to visit Washington
to urge the necessity of improving
their harbor, have returned with the
assurance of $4,000 appropriation
for an 1S-foOt harbor.
A rear end collision on the D., S. S.
81 A. road, near Houghton, resulted in
the injury of Brakeman Jerry Dono-
hoe and Conductor Horace Fee of the
freight train, which was run into by
passenger train the engineer and fire.
man escaping by jumping.
The body of Chas Pix was found in
bed in Il miserable house at Bay City.
The interior of the house was a mass
of filth. From appearances the body
had been there for month. 1t is not
known whether lie committed suicide
or not, but powerful drug was found
under the bed.
Poor Commissioner Moerdyke, of
Grand Rapids, is on the carpet 1t is
alleged that he has shown favoritism
toward well-to-do Hollanders and cut
off poor people from the list. His
books arc being Investigated. Some
of the people to whom he gave aid own
pianos and good homes.
Notwithstanding a severe and blind
ing blizzard the new Berrien county
courthouse erected at st. Joseph at a
cost of 500, 900. was dedicated with q
good-sized crowd present. A large
mob which had not been invited at
tempted to make u demonstration, but
they were dispersed by the police.
Chas. l.. Brecllon, editor and pro-
prietor of the Grand Haven Daily
News, was arrested on a capias issued
by Geo. a.. Farr, who claims $25, 900
damages. Bail in the sum of $40. 900
was asked, and the defendant went to
Jail The affair is the outgrowth of a
series of articles upon the political
record of the plaintiff.
The Flint Union Blues are very an
CRY because of the roast recently given
them by Col. Boynton, and declare
they will all hand in their designations
unless the company is inspected at
once and the charge of inefficicncy
withdrawn or proven. Capt. BuclSing-
nam has laid this ultimatum before
Inspector-General Walsh.
Gov. Rich, with the state veterinary
surgeon, the state sanitary commission,
and the commission of the home for the
feeble-mlnded, went to Lapeer to in
spect the stock on the farm. A disease
pronounced to be tuberculosis by the
state veterinary is said to be among
the herd. The entire herd of some 10
or IL have been ordered killed.
Andrew f. Kirvan, supervisor of
Arthur township, Clare county, has
been arrested on the charge of crimi-
nally assaulting his 12-year-old daugh-
ter, Cora. During the Investigation
another daughter, Jennie, aged II,
said she had been ruined by her father.
Their mother is dead. Kirvan is 40
years old. Lynching is threatened.
Fire broke out in the grocery store
of S. Dockham at North Branch, and
in three hours the entire block in
which it was located was destroyed
| All were frame store The buildings
were occupied as follows: S. Dockham,
grocery; j. Cunningham, barber; d..
Orr, farm implements; J. s. Clarkson,
photographer; also rooms by two pri-
vate families. The loss will reach
about $12, 900; insured.
| Adjt.-Gen. Green has promulgated
orders relative to the militia cncamp-
ment at Island Lake which begins
Aug. 10 next. Members mustered in
after May Is will not be eligible for
camp duty, and no substitutes will be
allowed Officers presenting substi-
tutes will be liable to court martial.
Leaves of absence will be granted only
in case of sickness or absolute neces-
sity. The law regarding the use of in
toxicating liquors will be rigidly en-
forced