The Yale expositor., 1898-01-21
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

the spring election at Pontiac.
A stock company is being formed at
Whitehall to build an opera house.
Catholics of Houghton will replace
their present old church with SIC, 900
structure.
Thos. BradbroolS, an aged English
man, was found so terribly frozen at
Bangor that he died.
The cid Edison house at Port Huron,
for years the home of Thomas A. Edi-
sons father, has burned
John A. Crisher, bachelor, aged GO,
quite well-to-do, married Miss Ida
Barnhart, aged 16, at Hudson.
Mrs. C. r. Adgate, wife of a wealthy
Berlin, Ionia county farmer, fell down
stairs and broke her hip. She may not
recover.
Chester Tibbets, a convict in the asy-
lum for the criminal insane at Ionia,
has escaped. He was employed in the
kitchen.
S. II. Stevens, of st. Joseph, writes
that he has started a laundry at Daw-
son City, being unable to find anything
else to do.
The Michigan Dairymen's associa-
ton and the Michigan Jersey Cattle
club will meet together in Ypsilanti,
February 1 to 3.
The Hillsdale County Agricultural
society has balance of 81, 129 in the
treasury. Sept. &c to 80 are the dates
for the 1898 fair
Christopher Hanna was so badly
scalded by escaping steam at Memoir
rams elevator at Port Huron that he
is not expected to live.
Albert Footc, aged AZ, at one time u
prominent citizen of Flint, suicided in
his lodging room in the Mather block,
at Flint by taking big dose OF NOR
phine.
While playing ball in the loft Of a
barn at Port Huron, John Ford, "a lad
of IA, fell to the ground, distance of
l6 feet, breaking both arms above the
elbow.
New Michigan postmasters: Custer,
Mason county, John C. Tracy; Grind
stone City, Huron county, Samuel j.
Wallace; Ventura, Ottawa county, VIM.
w. Reed.
Arthur jacket, aged IL, was drowned
fore the ice had formed solid again
after having been broken up by an +.
Il p. Nj. steamer.
Erving Ritz. a conductor on the d..
S. s. & A. railway was held up by two
highwaymen near Besse mer, and was
compelled to give up his money at the
point of a revolver.
Patrick Reed was sweeping a box
car at Lexington when an engine was
coupled on and he jumped out. His
ring caught on nail and jerked the
end of his finger of.
II. $. n. Simons, travelling man of
Neenah, Wis, was laid up with rheu
matism at Menominee, and becoming
Respondent, he committed suicide by
the laudanum route.
Tecumseh feels assured that the car
shops and roundhouse of the Lima
Northern railroad will be located there
as they have raised the $4,000 bonus
asked by the company.
Emmett L. WALDORF, an evangelist
of Port Hope, was found guilty of lar
ceny at Saginaw and sentenced to pay
fine of $40 or spend 90 days in the
Detroit house of correction.
Carl Heiden, aged %, near Three
Rivers, started home from a school ex-
hibition and was last seen crossing the
ice. Tracks were found, as well as his
cap, but no trace of his body.
In spite of watchful parents, Frank
Tobev, aged II, and Dessa Carr, aged
Is, high school scholars of Galesburg,
drove to Kalamazoo and boarded a
train for Indiana, to be married.
Enos Putnam, one of the best known
business men of Grand Rapids, presi-
dent of the board of public works and
president of the Grand Rapids National
bank, died very suddenly, aged 65.
Alarmed at the growing tendency of
farmers to seek Bay City markets, be-
cause of the excellent stone roads in Bay
county, Saginaw county, supervisors
are taking steps to build good roads.
The combine of retail coal dealers
at Grand Rapids, which kept the price
of anthracite coal up TO $3.50 per ton,
has been knocked out by a cut rate
firm and the price dropped to So. 20 in
one day.
The Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk
railroads are about to erect "a union
depot at Durand. 1t is to be of brick,
200 feet long, two stories high, and
will contain offices for uperintendents
and agents.
Grand Rapids furniture mauufactur-
ers say that the annual January ex-
| hibit has resulted i'm much larger sales
than they anticipated. From 100 TO
200 buyers were in the city every day
| for two weeks.
Sailing, Hanson & Co., of Grayling,
are starting colony of Danes at
| Houghton Lake, in Roscommon county
! Thousands of acres have been pur-
chased. The land is good and is sold
at nominal price.
Daniel Holton, who had been miss
! ing for several days, was found dead