The Yale expositor., 1898-03-18
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


Oxford citizens raised $40 for Cuban
sufferers.
Gov. Pingree has designated Tues
day, April 90, as Arbor day.
Agents of an Ohio company have
leased many acres near Owosso and
will begin at once to drill for coal.
Arrangements are being made for the
assembly of the state Baptist Young
Peoples Union at Orchard Lake in
August.
Only three members of the House
voted against the bill authorizing two
more regiments of artillery, and one of
them was Mr.. Todd, of Michigan.
The annual field day meet of the
Michigan intercollegiate Athletic asso-
citation will be held at the Michigan
Agricultural college, June 3 and 4.
George II. Jacks, ex-chief of Muske-
gon, has been held to the criminal
court at Chicago to answer the charge
of numbering Andrew McGee, an old
millSman who was found dead and rob
bed in a hallway two weeks ago.
The coroner's jury declared that
Stephen Spraguc came TO his death
near South Haven, from the effects of
two bullets fired by some party un-
known. Jeff Davis is under arrest on
suspicion. The evidence is purely cir
cumstantial.
Mrs. Robinson. a widow who resides
at Augusta. has been made almost pen
niless by trusting in G. j. Tolliver.
young man who came to Augusta
year ago. lie induced her to raise $3.50
to start a drugstore and as soon as he
got the money in his hands. he disap-
peared.
Gov. Pingree sent out blanks for sig
natures to a petition asking the legis-
lature to pass his corporation tax bill.
and wit'-in 24 hours replies began to
pour in. He suggested that those to
whom he sent the blanks should secure
20 names. Some secured as high as so.
His petition is likely to reach several
hundred thousand.
An aged woman dropped dead on the
corner of Dubois and Clay streets, De
troit, and for four days the body was
unidentified. until Jeremiah Enright,
of Warren. went to Detroit to trace his
mother, who had started from Warren
to visit her children in Detroit, and
then it was found that the unknown
was Mrs. Catherine Enright.
Joseph Bennett, well-known citizen
of Saginaw, had an insgrowing toe
nail. A month ago he stubbed the toe,
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nail off. Blood poisoning set in, and
the toe was amputated few days
later. Then. there were signs of gan
creme and the leg had to come off Just
below the knee, but it availed nothing
and death resulted.
The members of the common council
of Munising and Banker G. w. Case,
who were arrested at the, instance of
Timothy Nester, president of the viii
laGe, were discharged as there was no
evidence to- hold them. The charge
was bo)dling in connection with the
purchase of the new waterworks sys-
TEN. Banker Case has caused the ar
rest of Nester on the charge of slander
Miss Emma Aday, created sensation
at Lansing by commencing ID SulJ 1or
S5, 900 damage against Attorney Geo
r.. Heck for breach of promise. She
now says that it was all a joke and that
she didn't know the papers were going
TO be filed. She admits that she had
been trying to- frighten Heck and that
she had had talks with lawyers, who
had called upon her with requests to
settle.
Edgar Webb, who left Bay City last
September for the Klondike, has re-
turned and brings anything but a rosy
description of what he saw and expert
cnced. He says only a few make
strikes. Others return penniless. after
long months of toll. People are re-
turning TO Dyea and Skagaay and sell
ing outfits. which cost $500 or $500, for
Se5, or enough 20 take them back to
Seattle.
Fire destroyed the house of Erie
Tuttle, north of Niles, causing a loss of
| 81 500. Mr.. Tuttle was away from
home and he lost everything hut the
clothes he wore,