The Yale expositor., 1897-12-17
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

NnafleS EWalu, farmer near Jag
gett, fell under car and was killed.
1t cost John Bethune, of Port Huron,
$50 for selling liquor without license.
Lewis Wards back was broken by
being run into by a street car at Ben
ton Harbor.
Mr. and Mrs. G C. Lord celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of their mar
riage at Grass Lake.
Nickel Plate is The name of n new
postoflice in Ionia county with Julia A.
Jones as postmaster.
The discovery of large bed of pure
shell mari has caused considerable eX-
element about st. Ignace.
1t is said that tax titles on three
Lansing churches have been gobbled
up by sharks for unpaid taxes.
Five Marquette saloonkeepers were
fined $50 each for selling out of legal
hours, and five more await trial.
John Dasef, the clerk of Montcalm
county, issued license to himself to
wed Miss Mary Jones, of Greenvillc.
New Michigan postmasters; At Can
ton, Wayne county, VIM. A. Moore;
Lake Ann, Benzie county, Samuel S.
Burnett.
The supreme court has decided that
municipal ordinances requiring house
to house peddlers to pay license are
constitutional.
Tho Suprop,a oorrt hoe dao;dad tbat
minors cannot be employed as bartend-
ers in saloons, even il they are sons of
the proprietors.
VIM. Eames, the Grand Blanc pioneer
who passed the century mark last
month, and who has been very sick, is
now convalescent.
Miss Sarah Reeves ran up DIR. Hull's
stairs at Lansing and was stricken
with apoplexy as a result, and she died
in few moments.
Miss Jennie Knapp, a school teacher,
aged 22, living near Dowagiac, tried to
kill herself with carbolic acid on ac-
count of a love affair.
Minden City school teachers visited
scholars sick with diphtheria and as
consequence the schools are closed and
all public meetings suspended.
A contract has been signed by Il. &
w. +. Swisher, of Columbus, o., for
the services of 100 convicts in Mar.
quette prison to manufacture cigars.
Gov Pingree has granted Col II. NJ.
Loud, aide-de-camp on his staff, a leave
of absence for four months. Col Loud
is about TO start on tour around the
world
Carl Schroeder. aged 81, farmer of
Milwaukee, threshed some grain with
an o!d-fashioned fail and the unusual
exertion burst blood vessel, causing
instant death
Thirteen of the II "blind tiger" pro-
prietors arrested for violating the local
option law of Van Buren, county, were
fined total of Sis.
Miss Lillian Arnold, killed herself
with morphine at Jonesville because
she was respondent over the loss of
her mother, who died about a year
ago from the same cause.
VIM. Duncun. the fireman who mar
rowly escaped death in the recent tun-
mel horror at Port Huron, has not yet
recovered his reason and has been
taken to Chicago for treatment.
Charles Duncan, young attorney,
was fined at Ann Arbor for riding his
bicycle on the sidewalk. Before he
got home he was caught at it again,
brought back and paid another fine.
Fire starting in the furniture store
of VIM. Guileman, at Vaudeville,
caused damage to Spangemacher &
Johnson's hardware store, Masonic
hall, opera hall and Vaudeville Sun
office.
Druggist f. II. Hartman, of Muske-
gon, charges Barber f. l.. Ward with
plating pennies and giving them to
boys TO pass for 10cent pieces. The
U. S. authorities have the case in
charge.
The Michigan Beef & Provision Co. S
entire plant, near the Michigan Central
yards at Detroit, is in ashes, the result,
it is alleged, of an incendiary's work.
The loss, which is total, is placed at
S4O,0 900.
Mrs Henry Bailey horsewhipped
Grant Roebach, waiter in the Rich
inond restaurant at Kalamazoo, be-
cause he circulated reports about her
which resulted in her husband leav-
ing her.
Albert Knapp, age 80, German
cigarmaker of 210 Elizabeth street
east, Detroit, attempted to kill his
aged mother with hammer and then
suicided by cutting his throat, He
was constantly afraid of being robbed.
The Grand Rapids pastors conference
adopted resolution recommending
that funerals be not held on Sunday;
that black mourning be discarded; that
sermons be short, that there be more
privacy and less display, and less ex-
pense.
Railroad Commissioner Wesselius an
nounces that Mechanical Engineer
Moore is at work on a train-dispatch-
ing system for suburban trolley roads.
AS soon as it is completed, the commits
sioner will require all roads to adopt
and maintain ii.
Gov pinuree's annointment Of ex-