The Yale expositor., 1898-04-01
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs, Edgar Markham, of st. Louis,
Mich, was drowned in Grand river,
near Grand Ledge.
The postofiice at Springbrook, Kala-
mazoo county, has been discontinued.
Mail will go TO Richland
Lewis Davey, little son of John Da-
vey. hotel keeper at Emmett, fell into a
cistern and was drowned.
An electric road is being projected
from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan,
via iceland and Holland
NJ. Burke, charged with stealing a
yoke of oxen eight years, ago has just
been arrested at Merrill.
Andrew Haleita, aged 40, a Pole, was
killed by Grand Rapids train on the
Michigan Central tracks at jackson.
VIM. s. Butler, Michigan Central
employee at jackson, broke his leg and
died while undergoing an operation.
Grand Rapids and Detroit capitalists
are pushing the proposed electric rail
way from Muskegon TO Grand Rapids.
The old homestead of Cornelius Cro-
ley. wealthy wool merchant of La
peer, was destroyed by fire. 1t was
one of the first houses erected in La
peer county.
More new Michigan postmastcrs:
Viola, Mackinac county. A. b. Near
thur; Wilderville. Calhoun county, f..
$. Ellers; Monroe Center. Grand Trav-
erse county, Chas. Il. Dye.
VIM. Dolan, a prominent millwright
of Ontonagon. was instantly killed by
being crushed while supervising re-
pairs on one of the Diamond Match
company's log loading machines.
An infant was found in a box Is
inches long, near Flint. The box was
painted red and was lying about 10
rods from the river as if washed up
there by the late flood. 1t looks like
foul play.
Chas. Schafer, aged 80. a Bay City
mill hand, ended weeks spree by
swallowing dose of carbolic acid at a
saloon in Essexville. His companions
started to carry him home, but he died
on the way.
Paul Leverance, Michigan Central
brakeman, whose parents live at Three
Rivers, fell from a train. The lower
part of his body was badly mangled
and he died in a short time.
Escanaba will soon have another
railroad which will tap the hardwood
country of the upper peninsula as far
north as Republic and will make con-
nections with the Ann Arbor car ferries.
The straits of Mackinac were opened
by southwest gale, which rapidly
drove the ice into Lake Huron. The
straits are now practically clear of ice.
This is the earliest opening for the SO
years of which records have been kept.
George Sweetland, a farmer near
Charlotte, was returning home after
seeing his wife safely aboard train
bound for California, when his team
ran away. Both of the farmers legs
were broken and he was otherwise in
jured, probably fatally.
Sophia, the 2-year-old daughter of
Elizabeth Mitchell, died at the hospital
at Grand Rapids, as the result of al
| legged neglect and starvation while at
home. Mrs. Mitchell is the woman
under arrest on the charge of starving
/ her four-months-old babe to death.
Charles Verrette of Clare, was walk
ing on the Michigan Central track
when he was struck by train. His
skull was fractured, right leg crushed
and left ear torn off. He lay beside
the track all night before being dis
covered, and then died a short time
afterward.
VIM. II. Somers, aged 90, an employee
of Holmes & Son, was found in pool
of blood near the st. Paul road, at
! Pembine. A big club, covered with
blood, lay three feet away. Somcrs'
skull was crushed in and physicians
4 say he was murdered. He had $500 on
his person, which Is missing.