The Yale expositor., 1896-11-06

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ington, Berne, Fargo, Yale and Brown
City, have closed down indefinitely,
hrowing $50 men out of employment.
/ Truman Smith, Is years old, was
killed while hunting near Hartford.
The gun was accidentally discharged,
| blowing the whole side of his head off.
Frank Bachelor, of Pontiac, is under
arrest on a charge of attempted Grim
] inal assault on Maggie Seeley, the H.
year-old daughter of Clarence Seeley,
near Utica.
A pulley seven feet in diameter burst
at the Power and Electric Co. IS plant
at buchanan and demolished the switch
board. Ralph English barely escaped
being killed.
"Kid" Lavigne, of Saginaw, Mich,
won 24-round fight at New York,
with Jack Everhardt, of New Orleans,
to decide the lightweight champion
ship of the world.
The new farm residence of Samuel
Lemon near Indian lake, Kalamazoo
county, burned together with its con-
tents involving a loss of S., 200, with
an insurance of 81, 200.
William Pelett, grand larceny COM
Wet at Jackson prison, from Port
Huron, was struck on the head by a
flying piece of metal and his skull
fractured. He may die.
The Sixteenth Michigan Veteran
Volunteer infantry reunion at Grand
Rapids was attended by about so mem
bers. Alfred NJ. Apted, of Grand Rap
ids, was elected president.
A cut of 10 per cent has been made in
wages by the Port Huron City electric
railway rs a result of decreasing travel.
The old rate of SO per week is prom
Used as soon as traffic picks up
Martin Lubinslli, Pole residing at
1916 Dubois street, Detroit, attempted
TO kill his wife and two sons with n
butcher knife while suffering from
temporary insanity, caused by starva-
ton.
The large Bailey house livery barn
at Ionia, burned to the ground. Loss
900, insured for 1000. All the
horses and 'arriages were taken out,
but Frank Montgomery, the lessee,
lost all his sleighs
Henry Balsley. railroad man, was
swept off the deck of the steamer
Frank Woods by huge wave while
returning from Milwaukee to his home
at st. Joseph to vote. He leaves a
widow and two children.
A bald eagle tried to carry off the
little child of Mrs. +. Corrother who
was walking with the babe and Mrs.
A. Stewart near Benton Harbor. The
women kept the bird off by yelling and
throwing clods of dirt at it.
A wagon, harness and blankets were
discovered hacked to pieces and
burning in the woods near Char
lotte. Two horses were gazing
near. by, but no human being was in
sight. A murder or suicide is suspected.
Thugs knocked down and seriously
injured Frank Maud, farm hand, at
Benton Harbor, but failed to find $50
in a pocket. Neighbors, hearing his
call for help, rushed out. firing three
shots after the robbers, who escaped.
A hunter returning home with a
party carelessly discharged his shotgun
at Marine City and Willie Sturgis, aged
6, received five shot in his body and AL
bert Sturgis, aged 4, one shot squarely
between the eyes. The boys will re-
cover.
a tremendous explosion in the Ells'
lodge rooms at Muskegon startled the
people for half mile around. Carpets
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wall was blown out as were nearly all
of the windows. The cause of the ex-
plosion is a mystery.
Charles Hahn, young Swedish
miner in the Wolverine mine at Calu-
met, was riding up on the back of
the skip, and when he reached the sur
face his head struck a timber and
doubled him up and crushed him,
breaking his back. He died in few
hours.
Mike Lullaszewix, Manistee Pole,
was lowered in n bucket TO clean ont
well. When near, the bottom the
sides caved in. The men began TO haul
him up. but when 30 feet from the top
the we'll filed in with sand. The man
vas builNN anu ilC was uieu w ilCh NilS
body was recovered.
William Deighner, Mrs. Emma Zim-
norman, beginners step-mother, and
Ira Koning, an inmate Of the Soldiers
home, were arrested at Grand Rapids,
for coupterfeiting and for raising bills
from 1 to so. Koning has confessed.
A lot of conterfeiting apparatus and
coin were found at beginners house.
Chief Justice Long, of the Michigan
supreme court. whose famous case
against extension Commissioner Loeb
rem was dismissed by the u. 5. supreme
court will at once commence a similar
action against the present commits
sioner, and will endeavor to bring it TO
final hearing before the commissioner
has time to either die or resign.
VIM. Picl1el, manager of the Char
lotte gas works, while alone in the
building heard noise in an adjoining
room and stepped in to investigate.
Two men confronted him and gave him
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