The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31
MICHIGAN NEWS.
Menominee mills are booming.

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Miss Eta Hustled, aged IS, near Gro
ton, took her life by cutting her throat
with n razor.
An explosion of gasoline at Bay Port
burned the Bay Port Mercantile Co. S
store. Loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Ed Innis suicided with NOR
phine ut New Richmond. She had
gone daft on spiritualism.
| O. c. Eaton committed suicide at AL
bion by hanging himself with a strap
to his barn. Financial troubles.
George Hartigan, whose legs were
both cut off by Il freight train near
Homer, sues for $4,000 damages.
The telephone line has been COM
pleted between South Haven and
SaugatuclI, distance of 20 miles.
Burglars entered the house of Farm
err Sylvester Parkins near Dimondale
and carried away $3.50 in currency.
The Menominec council has granted
a franchise to a competitor of the Bell
Telephone Co., and war is coming.
Tim O'Keefe died in the county lock-
up at Hancock of strangulation. 1t is
supposed that he imbibed. too freely.
jackson has given the Phoenix Tele-
phone Co. the privilege of fighting the
Bell people and low rates is the result.
William A. eager, ex-deputy town
ship treasurer, of Boyne Falls, has
been arrested on the charge of embe2-
element.
A three-year-old child of Mrs. j.
Quicker, of StoclSbridge, upset lamp
into baby's cradle and the babe was
fatally burned.
Frederick Busch, who was one of
the original force of letter carriers at
Detroit, has just died. having been in
the service since 1861.
Allegan and Ottawa Maccabces met
at Holland and organized an associa-
ton. They will hold a celebration at
Macatawa park, June Ii.
2Alfred Kenna was found guilty at
| Sanilac Center of numbering George
Belts in saloon row. Judge Beach
gave him Il years at Jackson.
The board of directors of the Sagi-
nav board of trade adopted resolutions
strongly urging that the Cuban insur-
gents be recognized as belligerents.
Edward Hand, a Lake Shore section
hand, was found dead on the track
near Allen. The trunk of the body
lay outside of the rails, and the legs
inside
The ll-months-old child of Roman
Smith, near Evart, was scaldcd by IL
kettle of boiling water being acct
dentally tipped off the stove. Death
soon followed
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Republican Newspaper asso-
citation of Michigan was held at Grand
Rapids and plans for the coming cam
paign discussed.
Horace Hill, prominent citizen of
Petersburg, was arrested at Dundee.
charged with breaking into clothing
store at Petersburg The burglary
was committed last fall.
The holders, machinists and pattern
makers at the machine shops of ;. f..
Cleaves IL Son. at Hancock have struck,
the trouble arising over wages unpaid,
from one to two months.
Convicts lIuntley, Curley and Boot.
Of Jackson prison, who were the lead
ers in the recent riot and assault on
Deputy Warden Northrup, have each
been sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment.
Charles Il. Sigh, of Grand Rapids,
is authority for the statement that the
silver element will make a big effort
TO elect one of the four dclegates-at-
large to the Republican national con-
vcntion.
Thomas Worthington, aged 20, OF
Bay City, stole pair of rubbers that
he might find "a home in the Detroit
house of correction. He got 90 days,
and when he gets out it will be almost
spring time.
The Grand Rapids authorities have
quit hauling immoral women up be-
fore police justices and have got after
the people who rent them rooms and
houses. Quite a number of hitherto
respected persons were arrested.
An order has been issued accepting
for muster into the state service the
Iron Mountain military company to
take the place of the Menominee com
pany recently mustered out. The new
company will be Co. f, Fifth infantry.
Mr. and Mrs. ID. ID. Broclway, of
Lake Linden, celebrated the siXticth
anniversary of their marriage, almost
so years of which have been spent in
the Lake Superior copper district,
where they were among the first white
settlers.
Mrs. Philo Hughes, aged 90, wife OF
prosperous farmer in Hazelton town
ship, Shiawassee county, shot herself
through the heart after returning from
party. She had been married less
than year and no cause can be given
for the deed.
Undisturbed Capt. Frank Haven has
squatted on and improved an island
recently formed in Holland harbor,
and has presented to the council OF
Holland a petition for permission to
erect bridge over Black river so that
he can get to and from the two houses
he has built.
A fist fight between Rev. Il. A. Cross,
of the Methodist church, and Frank
II. Dukesmith, editor of the Express,
at Durand, created considerable excite
mcnt. The preacher came out on tor
and had the editor arrested and fined
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