The Yale expositor., 1898-04-01


Branch, Jan. 81, has been found in the
woods.
Eddie Zimmerman and Willie Err
mingham were fooling with gun at
Mancelona when it went off, instantly
killing Birmingham.
Postmaster c. A. Downer, of North
vile, was among the injured in the
c. p. railroad accident, near Winnipeg
He was on his way TO Alaska.
The C. & w. NJ. has bad washout
between Coloma and Watervliet. The
Big Four and NJ. Il. II. & c. tracks
have been under water near Benton
Harbor
Capitol grange is arranging TO call a
mass meeting of farmers of Ingham
and Eaton counties to induce capitalists
to establish "a beet sugar factory at
Lansing.
VIM. King, aged 30, an unmarried
farmer near IIiilman. went to town to
see a doctor He got out of his buggy,
stepped upon the sidewalk and tumbled
over dead.
An unknown dead woman was dis
covered in the Bruce bayou at Spring
Lake. The body had no clothing. ex-
cept black stockings, and was badly
decomposed.
Abraham Watts was found dead in
bed at his home, 14O2 Third street. Bay
City. lie had committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid. Watts took
his recent dismissal from the police
force very much to heart.
1t is now said that the proposed
aqueduct to supply all the towns from
Port Huron to Detroit with pure water
from Lake Huron is entirely impractic-
able. A pipe 20 feet in diameter and
60 miles log would. be required.
The Michigan Central and c.. 5. & NJ.
tracks between Bay City and Saginaw
have been submerged and washed out
in several places by the floods and will
require large sums for repairs. The
mines also will have to spend lots of
money pumping out water from the
shafts.
The body of an unknown woman was
found in Grand river, near Grand
Haven. The body had apparently
been in the water several months.
Both arms were gone as well as part
of the head. The only clothing worn
were shoes and stockings and blacl,
corset
Some more new Michigan postmas-
tiers: Arbela. Tuscola county. Geo. w.
Mathews; Hammond, Prcsque Isle
county. Catherine Violintine; Melita.
Arenac county. Jesse \. Hamlin; New
Baltimore, Macomb county, Robert a.
Heath; Pomona, Manistec county. Leo
l.. Duppey; Richie. Altoona county.
Robert Hastings.
The L. 5. Senate has passed a rcso-
luton introduced by Senator Burrows.
calling on the secretary of war for in
formation as to the cost of improving
the Saginaw river. with view to Sc
curing 16-foot channel $50 feet wide
from the head of the river to Third
street, thence channel 200 feet wide
TO the Saginaw bay.
Mrs. Jane Foster died at the Lapeer
county house. aged %. She was born
in England. and was refined and well
educated. Mrs. Foster saw Queen Vic
toria when she was babe in her moth
er's arms, saw her crowned and was
present at her marriage. She knew
Gladstone when he was a boy and often
met the duke of Wellington.
Rev. O. d. Taylor, former Baptist
preacher of Saginaw. who was con-
victed some time ago on charges of en-
bezzlement and fraud, has been SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment and
hard labor at the jackson state prison.
While pastor of n church in Oregon
Taylor inveigled number of Saginaw
people, including several widows, into
land swindle.
The Fourth regiment, NJ. n. g., has
been divided into two battalions, Gov.
Pingree signing the order, This was
decided upon after consultation with
Adjt. Gen. Irish and Quartcrmaster-
General White. One battalion will be
commanded by the major who holds
over this year. In the other commits
stoned officers will elect a captain as
major, unless the governor decides to
ucJdll OlO VI bllO piO'Nilb Ndpbdiho 90
acting major.
c. H. Hackley, Musllegon's million
aire philanthropist, has asked permits
sion of the council to erect in IIacl<ley
park statues of Lincoln, Grant. Sher-
man and Farragut. The figures are to.
be of imperishable bronze, mounted on
granite. and will cost $4,000. The
park itself was donated by Mr.. Hack
ley, and magnificent soldiers monu-
ment has already been erected therein.
Mr. Hacxley's gifts to Muskegon ag-
gregate s3OO,OO0
Nearly five months ago the fs-year-
old daughter of farmer Custer, near
Harrisville left home for neighbours,
two miles distant. but never arrived
there. Her brother found that a
young man with whom Miss Custer
had kept company" had left home
about the same time. II was generally
agreed that the couple had eloped, and
further search was abandoned. A
neighbor, going along an old log road,
last week, found the girls cape, hat