The Yale expositor., 1896-07-17

| church which takes the place of q
structure erected in 1S41-the Oldest
Baptist church in Michigan.
The entire right-of-way has been Sc
cured for the inter-urban electric rail
road between Bay City and Saginaw
and the work viii be pushed.
| Albert Therbcn. Menominee bar
tender, during an epileptic fit, fell off
a beer wagon and was run over by the
heavily loaded vehicle and will die.
The city council of Niles decided to
bond the city for $50, 900, which will be
used SO pay the current years expenses
and to pay the interest on bonded in
debtedness.
james Seymour, aged 60, hanged
himself to an apple tree, near Jackson.
He left widow and two children.
The suicide is the wind-up Of IL pro-
longed spree.
Conrad I:arstch, aged 81, was
drowned in a mill pond near Stark,
while in bathing with several others.
He was taken with cramps while cross
ing the pond.
Fred Finn. six members OF his family
and Il lady guest were poisoned ut Bay
City by eating salt pork which con-
tanned trichina, and their lives were
saved with difficulty.
Frank Sweet. aged Is, was impaled
on pitchforlS near Niles. lie jumped
from load of grain and all the tines
were buried to the hilt in his body,
His injuries arc fatal.
The extensive manufacturing plant
| of f.. Bement Il Sons, at Lansing,
which has been shut down for several
weeks, will resume operations giving
employment to 500 men.
| Edward Stockwell tried to commit
suicide at Allegan, by taking an ounce
OF laudanum, but doctor and his little
pump saved his life. He had been hay
ing trouble with his wife.
Peter, the 10-year-old son of n. ID.
Cool, of Newaygo, was drowned while
bathing in the Muslegon river. The
unfortunate boy waded out beyond his
depth and could not swim.
The board of supervisors of Allegan
county in special session, voted to sub-
nit the local option question to the
voters again. August II is the date
set for the special election.
Herman Bartsch. aged %. of Pike S
Peak, Il mute. was drowned in Nankin
pond, near Wayne, vile swimming
with several companions. lie went
down before he was noticed.
VI. G. IIinman. OF Pontiac. has re-
reivcd SIS, 500. 50 for the cyclone suffer
ers. besides supplies and some money
given directly 10 the sufferers. There
is still great need Of money.
The army worm has made its APP
pearancc about Blissiicld, destroying
the wheat. oats and corn crops. The
roads and fields throughout this Sec
ton are covered with the pests.
The body Of Arthur johnson was
found in ditch which runs through
the Walpole marsh near Carleton. A
wound in the back of the neck has
given rise to suspicion of foul play.
Micah Morton. aged 81. has travelled
from Syracuse. n. Y, to Grandville on
bicycle of his own manufacture, to
visit his twin sister. Mrs. Kellogg.
He paid his way by repairing clocks,
spectacles. etc.
Just before his death at the Battle
Creek sanitarium +. s. peddiford. of
Marseilles. H., decided IL $4,000 farm
| to the institution. Heirs will contest
on the ground that Pcddiford was not
in his right mind.
The moder5 imported to fill the
places of the locked ont union men at
the Gale works at Albion, did not go
to work. The union men prevailed
upon them to remain out Things are
warm and trouble may result.
Some villain placed stick of dyna-
mite under the residence OF ID. G.. Mar
vim, an aged soldier at Dmondale. and
caused an explosion which threw Mr..
Marvin out of bed. knocked the plaster
off the walls and started a fire.
Mark Harder. 1G-ycar-old son of a
Chicago plumber. was drowned while
| diving from boat in mid lake on Paw
Paw lake with q number of compan-
ions. His mother witnessed the drown
ing and is almost crazed with grief.
The sight of fremen standing in five
feet of water in river to extinguish a
fire was a sight which appealed to the
humorous nature of Saginaw people
when they saw the boys" ''playing" on
a fire on the under side of the Bristol
4 street bridge.
After many discouraging accidents
the test well at Bangor struck oil at a
depth of ,055 feet. The company will
drill deeper in the hope of securing a
| flowing well but if unsuccessful the
well will be shot with 100 quarts of
nitro-g ycerine.
Grant Rowe, n laborer from Rives
Junction, was fatally injured while
eXcavating for new wall under the
barn of j. ID. Thorn, of Pulaski. He
dug the earth away from the props
which held the building and the heavy
structure fell upon him.
John a. Seymour, aged GO, n farmer
living near Rives junction, was found
hanging from the limb of a cherry tree
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