The Yale expositor., 1900-10-12
NEWSY BREVITIES.

Franl, and Kcnnctt- Hill are in Jail
at Mason on the charge of mrking aud
passing counterfeit money.
The Ionia Novelty mills at Ionia
were destroyed by fire on the sth.
Loss, ST., 600; insurance, $4,000.
The entire product of the Nome City.
Alaska, district for the present year is
estimated at from $3.50, 900 to $500, 600.
The City of London volunteers sailed
from Cape Town for England on the
9Th. Their departure was attended
by scene of tremendous enthusiasm.
Mrs Lillian Smith. Of luwood. n.
Y, while insane on the 5th shot her
two children, girl and a boy, aged II
and respectively, and then committed
suicide in the same manner.
Eight persons were injured, one of
them seriously, by collision between
a Calumet electric car and south
bound Lake Shore x Michigan South.
ern train, in Chicago ON the night of
the 7th.
Coal shipments TO tide wafer have
practically ceased over the Philadelphia
Il Reading railway. On the 4th about
20 cars passed down the road. while
the average before the strike was about
400 cars daily.
The cash contributions Ivy the citi-
zens of Philadelphia TO the relief fund
for the Texas Hood sufferers has now
exceeded Sl00.O0) and considerable
farther increase is looked for within
the nest few days.
Burglars entered the Hotel Victor at
Plymouth on tho morning Of the sth
. through rear window. The proprie-
tors trousers, which were under his
pillow, were pulled out and were found
in a shed, minus about Sll0 in cash.
The German column, consisting Of
/ ZOO men, under Gen. Won lloepfner,
encountered small boxer force south
of the Imperial deer park, Pekin, re-
Gently and killed 40 OF the Chinese DIR
ing fight which followed. The Chin
csc were put to flight and scattered.
-Four Germans were wounded.
state Accountant Humphrey figures
that the state has saved 81 ,002. Sc by
paying off the war loan bonds pre-
scented recently. The interest on the
bonds to their maturity would have
amounted To So, Sse.5 Sc, but as prem
iums of S930.s0 were pald, the net gain
TO, the state is the amount first named.
Mrs. Chas. Almas, OF Detroit was
victim of a gasoline stove accident on
the Sd, the exact cause OF which will
never be known. as the unfortunate
woman was alone in her kitchen at
the time, and after the accident the
womans suiferings were so intense
that she could not explain. She lived
about six hours.
VIM. T. Horner, of Detroit, n brake
man on the Michigan Central railroad,
was run over and instantly killed by a
freight train in the yards at Wayne On
the 9TH. The brakeman, while at
tempting to run across in front of the
backing train. slipped on the wet rails
and the train was upon him before he
could rise. His body was badly man
gled, one leg being entirely severed
Jose MARQUEE and Antonio Gutierrez
were murdered ut their ranch near Las
Cruces. Tex, on the LIST 10y two Mexi-
cans who called shortly after dark, pre-
sumably for food After ealing sup.
per they pulled their weapons. aud or.
dcring the ranchmcn TO throw mp their
hands commenced 10 shoot. Guiiercz
was instantly killed and MARQUEE SO
badly wounded that Inc after ward died
The mnrdcrers arc believed to have cs.
capcd TO Mexico.
James Conlan, railroad messenger,
aged Is years, of Toledo, fell IN.
der n moving train IN the Pennsylvania
yards aud had both legs cut oil above
the knees and both arms severed above
the elbows. Conl..n is alive. and there
is possibility he may recover. With
both legs and both arms gone the
young man gave directions how 10 get
| his manglcd form from under tho cars
| The skeleton of an unknown man
was found in thickct near Bloomdale
o., recently The flesh had been eaten
away. A clipping from a Chicago pa
per was found in his pocket. II is
thought tho mau died n natural death.