The Yale expositor., 1897-01-01

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break his fall, or his head would prob
ably have been cut off.
In an interview Gen. r. A. Alger, of
Detroit, who has just returned from
Europe, said that he was opposed to
the recognition of the independence by
the United States, but he favored the
annexation of Hawaii.
The "new woman" in the shape of
Mrs. Ella Green, of st. Louis, appeared
at Grand Rapids recently. She was
travelling saleswoman for big whole
sale drug house. Shr says she hustles
out quite handsome living.
At a recent entertainment at the
opera house at Portland, the ladies
present were paralyzed by receiving a
request to remove their head gear.
Gentleman in the audience applauded
vociferously and off they came.
Shang Clark, of Bay City, who was
sent up 20 years for robbing Mrs.
lIogie's toll house on the Tuscola road
and subjecting her TO indignities, in
order to make her reveal her money,
is now trying hard to get a pardon.
Two small children of Mrs. Christine
Carlisle, at Wakefield, O., aged and
years, were burned to death. The
mother had locked them in the house
and gone to a neighbours to visit, and
the house caught fire in her absence.
Maj. Newell j. Kelsey, present reg
ister-of-deeds of Calhoun county;George
H. IIauser, of Charlotte, and Charles
III. Whittum, of Brookfield, Eaton
county, are among those who will be
given clerkships by Auditor-General
Dix.
There are only about 60 or 65 men
numbering on the Au Sable river this
winter, two crews cutting cedar for
the Loud company and another "a
elm for eastern parties. In former
years these woods were full of lumber
camps
During a surprise party at the home
of John Garborino, in the rear of his
saloon, $40 Rivard street, in the Italian
quarter of Detroit, a quarrel ended in
the murder of Philomena FandeclSia
by Frank st. Angelo, who shot him
three times.
Joseph Broughton, unmarried, of
Grand Rapids, was instantly killed by
Michigan Central train at Jackson,
while attempting to cross the tracks
in a cutter. His head was crushed and
the body badly mangled. A compan-
ion escaped by jumping.
Anglers for carp at Benton Harbor
do not have to use any bait, they are
so thick and greedy. One fisherman
lets down five bare hooks through the
ice and then yanks it up quickly. AS
general rule five carp are attached,
being caught in all parts of the fish
anatomy except the mouth. The fish
bring cents pound in the market.
The great plant of the Collins Manu-
featuring Co., at Jackson, was sold at
public auction by Trustee Wilson for
SIS, 900. 1t cost nearly 100000 three
years ago, and was bid in by the first
mortgage holders An effort is being
made to rcorganize the company and
continue the manufacture of carriages.
Mrs. Ida Rippleman, of Battle Creek,
some time ago made complaint against
her husband and his father, charging
assault with intent to do great bodily
harm. She was confined in bed for
some time. Later on she shot her hus-
band. but not dangerously. Mrs. Rip
pleman has now become violently in
sane from her troubles.
The elaborate new stone residence of
Bradley Delamater nearly completed
on West Main street, at Jackson, was
totally ruined by fire, which broke out
in the basement The interior finish
was said to be the finest in Jackson,
and costs upwards of S25, 900. The
cause. it is alleged, was spontaneous
combustion of waste or varnishes.
Owing to the very low taxes on va
cant property at Pontiac real estate
SPECTATORS have been able to hold
the property for many years and profit
by the increase in value. But the new
assessor has raised these assessments,
in some cases six times as high as be-
fore, and now much of that property is
being placed on the market or is being
| improved
A Cuban mass meeting at Jackson
was addressed by Hon. Il. w. Barber,
Hon Eugene Pringle, Hon. 7. +. Bark
worth, Hon. James O'Donnell, JAS. A.
Parkinson and Chas. Il. Townsend.
Sentiment was divided among the
speakers on the ACCESSIBILITY of the rec
ognition of Cuba, but the audience was
| strongly in favor of the Cameron reso-
luton declaring for Cuban independ-
ence.
An official of the D., S. $. & A. rail-
road announces that the line will be
extended from Houghton to Calumet
early in the spring. Although Calu-
met and it's environments has $4,000
people, and is the metropolis of the
upper peninsula. the only railroad
communication with the outside world
for over 20 years has been the Mineral
Range narrow guage. Freight rates
have been enormous and the COMPETE
ton will be greatly appreciated.
Z. S. Consul Fitzhugh Lee and fam
| ily have arrived at Havana,
President-elect Mckinley and wife
have returned to Canton from their