The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30
THE TWO PENINsuLAs.

Thomas IIaight, an aged resident of
Hamburg. shot himself on account of
i'll health.
The house and barn of Peter Degocd,
one mile south of Holland, has burned.
Considerable stock persisted. Loss
$1,000.
Many prominent fruit growers of
0ceana county are preparing to go into
the sugar beet raising industry this
season.
Fire in the second story of the Nc
Pherson block Mt Howell destroyed the
law library of c. A. Brayton and badly
damaged the stocks below.
John lager, of Scion, was fatally
injured by the bursting of n shotgun
while shooting rats. He had loaded
the gun twice with powder, sand and
matches.
Capt Andrews, of the steamer j. j.
Hill, reports that a deckhand. named
John Nicol, fell overheard in Saginaw
bay aud was drowned. Nicol shipped
in Chicago.
Timothy McEvoy, aged 5, while play
in front of his home 1917 Concord ave-
nue., Detroit, was knocked down by
Detroit railway car and instantly
killed, his head being severed from his
body.
Censor Judd, fireman on the Ann
Arbor pile driver al work at Alma. was
run over by north bound freight.
His skull was badly crushed and his
arm mangled. He lived about one
hour after the accident
Richard Rumble, we'll digger. was
being hauled out of George HalSens
we'll at Kingston when the windlass
broke. letting Rumble fall % feet.
Both of his legs were broken, the bones
protruding through the flesh.
Prof. c. W. Cavincss has resigned
the presidency of Battle Creek college
and will go to Mexico as representative
of the Seventh Day Adventists on the
board to translate the bible into Mex
lean for the native protestants.
What is supposed to have been an
earthquake was distinctly felt several
seconds at Holland. The front of the
brick bottling works of John Sutton.
fell over into the street and other
places were shaken up somewhat.
Mrs. Il. Basman, of Muskegon, dis
covered her 4-year old daughter,
Teenic, wrapped in flames. When
help arrived the child's clothing was
all burned off. and the flesh was black
ened so that she died in few hours.
The lime plant at the Bayport quar-
ries. near Saginaw, destroyed by fire
some time ago, has been entirely re-
built, with an output OF $50 bushels
daily. Sixty men are employed. The
workings have penetrated over 80 feet.
A. L. Clappcr, night dispatcher for
the d., G.. r.. & w railroad at Ply
mouth. was found by the crew of a
| train lying unconscious, and perhaps
fatally injured, upon the floor of his
Office. HE had been sandbagged and
robbed.
The recent frosts have not injured
fruit buds in the Oceana belt. the buds
not being advanced enough to be
caught Successful fruit growers of
Shelby say that the prospects are now
good for even larger crop than last
season.
Alexander Watson, aged 81, of De-
/ troit. brakeman on the d., G.. III. &
NJ. railroad, was crushed between two
freight cars while coupling them, at
Birmingham. Both arms were broken
and his chest squeezed so as to cause
fatal internal injuries.
Enoch Chamberlain, farmer three
miles east of Willow, lost five large
barns by fire; also two sheds, about
1000 bushels OF corn, considerable hay,
grain, farm implements and 10 head OF
cattle. The cause of the fire is I'M
known. The loss is about S., 900.
Herbert.Wheeler of Saline. was re-
Gently called To the bedside of his
father, DIR. Wheeler. in Boston. He
was immediately recalled by his wife:
illness and two days later both father
and wife were dead. DIR. Wheeler was
worth 5000, 600 and Herbert is sole heir
Luther Potter, aged so, a farmer
near Merrill. hanged himself from the
rafters in c. V. Johnston's barn. ii,
had been arrested for stealing chick
ems. lie had recently been served
with notice TO quit his present resi-
dcncc and during the winter he hat
been compelled to ask assistance frou
the city.
Sanborn's elevator. near the i. & L
NJ. tracks at Port Huron, caught fire
and is n total loss. The iron will
which the building is shceted kept thu
firemen from the fire. The elevate
was of $4,000 bushels capacity. Tn
loss on the building is said to be $50,
600 and $4,000 on the grain. Tn
grain is owned by eastern parties.
Mrs. H. NJ. Lewis. wife of a promi
; uent grocer. at Ionia was found dea'
5 on Rich street, about 10 o'clock a
night. She was subject to attacks O
' heart disease, and at such times ha'
to have fresh air. She had evidentl.
gone out to walk an attack off. becam
bewildercd and tainted She took he
| shawl off, made pillow of 1t, unloos
| nd Ia