The Yale expositor., 1896-12-25

prisonment in jackson prison at hard
labor.
The freight sheds at the $500 and
South Shore lines depot at Sault Ste.
Marie, together with seven loaded box
cars, were destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Mrs. Bert Il. Kennedy, aged 81, died
at Adrian of lock jaw as result of un-
due exertoin in running to fire re-
Gently. She was about to become
mother.
Willie Monks, the 16-year-old forger
who escaped from Jail at Bay City by
sliding down a rope made from his
bedding, has been captured at Corn
ing, N. Y.
The Bell Telephone Co. at Alpena, is
fighing hard for life and has cut its
rates to So and Sic year, while the
local company maintains its rates at
Sl2 and S24
EX-City Controller Waite, of Port
Huron. who was found to be off in his
office accounts has been surrendered to
the sheriff by his bondsmen. His
friends say he is insane.
Mrs. f. A. Russell, aged As, of Gen
esee, threw herself in cistern at her
home to drown her earthly woes. She
had been respondent since the death
of her husband last spring.
VIM. Doyle was arrested at Sault Ste
Marie charged with placing a stick of
hardwood, loaded with powder and
bucl1shot, into a pile of wood at the
home of his wife, who had left him.
j. L. Kleckner, who left Edwards
burg while under charge of embez-
element while cashier of the now de-
/ funct Citizens bank, has been captured
! in Chicago and returned to Cassopolis
/ for trial.
p. j. Dyllema, Henry Saunders and
| Adrian Kramer well-known Grand
Rapids men, were caught at Dykema' S
drug store engaged in private game
of penny ante, and each was fined for
gambling.
Considerable land has been leased
near Roscommon for the purpose of
developing an alleged find of oil. Two
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unknown reason the owners plugged
up the well.
A man supposed TO be Levi Stude-
baker, OF Cairo, ILL.,, was found dead in
his room at the Elliott house at Sturgis
with bullet wound in his head and a
revolver in his hand. 1t was a clear
case OF suicide.
The two-year-old daughter of Ira
Wilcox, of Munday, fell into some boil
ing water and was fatally scalded
This is the second accident of similar
nature in the same household during
the last few months.
Auditor General-elect Dix has mott
fed 2S of the present employees OF the
auditor-general's Office that their ser
vices will not be required after Jan. l
He says he has friends Of his owl
whom he desires to have fill the places
James X. Stevenson, the wealthy 60
year-old farmer of Green Oaks, Living
ston county, who is charged by Tuli
Shockly, an industrial home inmate
with being the father of her child, wa
bound over to the circuit court for trial
Pontiac citizens who are in the babi
of getting drunk and disorderly hav
discovered a conspiracy. The marsha
has ordered the saloonkeepers not (
sell any more liquor to those who hav
been convicted OF either of these OF
lenses.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.
moving dwellings at IIoughton to max
room for the sinking of three neN
shafts-the beginning OF the openin
of the Osccola amygdoloid, a cope
, vein entirely distinct from the Calume
conglomerate.
Specimens of iron ore which wer
found near Polkagon, Cass county, an
sent away for examination have bee
! returned with the information tina
the quartz contains 90 per cent pun
= ore. Farm land near by has increase
considerably in value.
Downs hall at Adrian college III
= been dedicated. 1t is the old chap
: building redecorated and modernize
" beyond recognition and is named
honor of Jordan Downs, of Steubel
; Vile. o., who made a handsome b
. quest for this purpose.
Berrien and surrounding counts
u have been flooded with counterie
n coin recently and VIM knight was a
Is rested on suspicion. He confessed al
'peached' on Samuel Brant and a mi
lie named Gibbons Brant was arreste
e but Gibbons has skipped.
n 1t seems almost certainty TINT Il
State Agricultural society VIII n
1t hold n fair next year. Notes for ov
E. $50, 900 are about due aud the socie
rs has no way of meeting them, unle
they can be renewed. Several mel
rs bcrs of the society are crying quit no
g, Two tramps at Grand Rapids {
Of coste1 Ethel Mills, a 14-year-old e
who was on her way to school. :
n. carried a lunch basket and after tn
m found out she had no money one grd
n bed the basket and the contents we
quickly divided and eagerly devoure
lie AS soon as the oclligerency of Gu
n is recognized by the United States G
ir A. ii. Boies, OF Hudson, who is pro