The Yale expositor., 1897-05-14

The state military board has decided
to hold the annual encampment of the
Michigan National Guard at Island
Lake ON Aug. To S.
Chas. Trueblood, a farmer near Pine
Ridge. was run into by C. & n. w.
locomotive at Escanaba, and injured
SO severely that he died.
Battle Creek is going to set apart a
square IN the heart of the city where
the Grand Army memorial cannon and
monument will be placed.
samuel Barlow, aged 20, died at
Ridgeway from starvation, having been
unable to take food for two months
because of stomach trouble.
Benton Harbor is to have new $685.
900 opera house to take the place OF
Cores theater, which burned last fall,
IL firemeu being killed by the falling
walls.
Will GRANGE, of Remus, while play
ing with revolver thought to be un-
loaded. shot his married sister, proba-
bly, fatally, the ball passing through
the bladder.
The l3-year-old daughter of Adam
Smith, near Moline, had the top of her
head blown off by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun in the hands of
her little brother.
David r. Wilson of Detroit. went out
to Crosse Pointe on a pleasure trip.
On his return he was struck. by a car
on jefferson avenue, near Fox creek,
aud was instantly killed.
Miller Hobbs saloon and Colson's
drug store were badly damaged by fire
ut Kal<aska, the losses being $500 and
s., 900. Hard work was all that saved
the whole business section.
The common council at Litchficld.
has lowered the rate for liquor bond
from So, 900 to So, 900. Litchtield has
been local option for the past six years,
but will now have at least three sa-
looms.
VIM. Van Akin and family of IL
children were evicted from their farm
near Hudson on account of the fore
closure of a mortgage. Neighbors gave
them shelter for the night, but they
will probably become county charges.
John McMan. aged 20, died at Mosh-
erville in destitute circumstances,
shortly after he had received letter
saying that he was one of the heirs TO
IA $500, 900 estate left by his brother in
Australia. His widow will try to get
the fortune.
The body of K. T.. Osborne, aged "a,
of Dowagiac, was found in the hold of
the steam barge Olympia, in the har-
Dor at Cleveland. Osborne's head was
crushed in and his clothes had been
stripped of valuabes. The police be-
lieve he was murdered.
While intoxicated BENJAMIN Bour-
geois, aged "a, saloonlleeper at st.
Paul and Townsend avenues, Detroit,
lay down in bed, and, placing a revolt
YER in his mouth. pulled the trigger.
The bullet plowed through the roof of
the mouth and the brain, producing
almost instantaneous death.
A short time ago Robert Mccarthy,
Clarence Brooks and Fred Fountain
con- nitted frightful assault in
Bridgcwatcr township, Washtenaw
county. on Mrs. Conrad Berg, a widow.
aged 74. and her maiden daughter.
aged A. Mccarthy has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment at jackson;
Brooks, Is years at Ionia, and Foun-
tain, one year at Ionia.
The Detroit bridge and iron works
has secured the contract of construct
ing the mammoth railroad bridge for
the Grand Trunk railway ut Montreal.
The cost will probably reach beyond
S., 200, 900. The present railroad bridge
ut Montreal is over a mile long. 1t
must be taken down and the new
bridge erected in such way that il
will not interfere with traffic and will
be 60 feet above the water. The oper-
alton of constructing it will be one of
the biggest engineering feats known
in this country for many years.
Three Rivers. Sturgis and Centervillc
are all struggling for the county seat
of st. Joseph county. Centerville at
present has that honor, but at tho
spring election proposition to spend
$4,000 repairing the county building
was voted down and then Three Riv-
ers' council asked the state legislature
to allow them To issue $50, 900 bonds to
build new court house in their town.
Sturgis people quietly opposed this
latter scheme, having string they
wished 20 pull and now the fight is
growing warm.
Athens newspapers say that a strong