The Yale expositor., 1898-09-30

was run over and killed by the west
bound passenger train on the Detroit
& River st. Clair railroad, between
Chesterfield and New Baltimore.
Gen. Arthur +. Marsh, of Allegan,
the new chairman of the Republican
state central committee, has designated
Harvey A. Sherwood, of Grand Rapids,
as committee secretary to succeed ID. e.
Award.
Some few weeks ago Leonard Jones,
living four miles west of Highland
Station was blown from his wheel and
his skull fractured. The young man
is now insane, due, it is believed, to
the accident.
Just before the 12 companies of the
32d Michigan left Island Lake for
their various homes Chaplain Kelley
presented Col. McGurrin with dia-
mond ring in behalf of the officers of
the regiment.
Lieut.. Sargent, who as executive Off
GER of the u. S. auxiliary cruiser Yo-
semitic was bitterly complained against
by the Michigan Naval Reserves, has
been relieved from duty and placed on
waiting orders.
Mrs. Mary E. Battin, of Steubenville,
o., claiming to be the widow of a
prominent Buckeye judge, is under ar
rest for theft at Ann Arbor. She says
she was under the influence of liquor
when she committed the crime.
The estate of DIR. Elizabeth Bates, of
Port Chester, n. Y, who left her prop
erty to establish chair of dis
eases of women and children at the
U. of NJ, inventories 100000, against
which there are claims aggregating
$4,000.
The steamer Queen of the Lakes
burned to the waters edge while in
harbor at South Manitou island, where
she had ran in for shelter from the
storm on Lake Michigan. No lives
were lost, but the crew lost all of their
belongings.
Briggs & Smalley's saw, feed and
planning mills and contents were
burned at Vicksburg, involving a loss
of $4,000 or over with no insurance.
When discovered the buildings were
half burned, and the fire department
saved adjoining property.
Ed. Hughes, a Clio lad of Is. left his
widowed mother and home a month
ago. Nothing has been heard of him
since until his mother received a tele-
gram, stating that he was killed while
riding on freight train at London,
Ont. His mother is nearly distracted.
The body of Anna Vandam, the
young lady who was missing from her
home in Muskegon was found in the
lake near the Goodrich Transportation
Co. S wharf. There were no marks of
violence on the body with the cxcep-
ton of n slight cut over the left eye.
1t is evidently a ease of suicide.
Nicholas Thompson is in Jail at
Houghton under suspicion of having
murdered his wife at Portage Entry.
He bears a hard reputation, and as he
had half-killed the woman in previous
outbreaks her disappearance under
peculiar circumstances leads to the be-
lief that he has made away with her in
some way.
A heavy cloudburst did great damage
to wheat fields about Sturgis The
water came in such torrents that great
burrows were cut in fields never known
to wash before and in many instances
the complete surface of the ground
was washed away, carrying the seed
and young wheat with it. Thousands
of acres are ruined.
Writ NJ Austin, of Lapeer, commit
ted suicide by drowning at Vassar.
He was young man about 80 years
old, of excellent habits and was finely
educated. He was teacher of Ian
guages in the Lapeer high school for a
ployed in the same capacity in the AL
pena public schools.
The Michigan Federation of Labor
in session at Kalamazoo adopted reso-
lutions declaring united boycott on
West Virginia coal, as it is on the I'M
fair list; against letting the state print
ing by contract, and asking for con-
stitutional amendment to allow the
establishing of a state printing office,
also resolution to change Labor day
to the first Tuesday in September
Gov. Pingree is on top again. Sur
geon-General Sternberg has been
forced to admit that the policy of abol-
ishing regimental hospitals in favor of
division hospitals has proved unsatis-
factory. This has been a hobby of the
governors from the outset, and the
opinion is gainiug that the governor is
right and Gen. Sternberg wrong in
this matter, and Secretary Alger has
about made up his mind to the same
effect.
Mrs. Solomon Shoemaker was as
saulted on the public streets at Benton
Harbor and because she fought for her
honor her alleged assailant. colored
man named John Williams, fired three
80 caliber cartridges in her face and
one at her side, but the last ball struck
corset steel and glanced to the
ground. The enraged man then turned
the gun on himself and would have
mot instant daoth had not tho bul lat