The Yale expositor., 1901-08-23

They elOped from Bay City Aug. T.
Briggs Is travelling salesman and
married.
Thomas Shillaire. who caused the
arrest Of his wife and a Detroit man
named Briggs. at Saginaw, took pity
OH her and saved her from jail by Sc
curing bail for her appearance at her
| examination.
There were 2,4T0 deaths In Michigan
during July, and of these ~ were
drownings and IL were from lightning
The death rate was 1872 per 1000. The
total number of deaths from violence
numbered 234.
| A. l.. Fox, aged IL, of Grand Rapids,
has committed suicide. When his
mother heard he had stolen $50 from
an uncle she said she would rather he
would die than be branded THIEF
hence the suicide.
Naval officials at Washington say
Americans in Venezuela are not men,
aced. Had n situation existed which
was dangerous to American interests.
the Mayflower would not have left
Venezuelan waters.
The latest sensation i'm Benton Har-
Dor is the alleged sale of girl by her
parents to an aged man. The girl Is
Mrs. Bessie Leyrer. aged II, and she
openly charges her parents with selling
her to her present husband.
This report comes from Constantine:
Early potatoes are as scarce as hens
teeth. and farmers get their own price
for them-$l and upwards per bushel.
Ihe bean fields are drying up and the
crop Will be almost failure
1t is believed that Howard Hopkins.
| aged "a. OF Mendon. is the oldest man
in st. Joseph county. His first vote he
cast for Lewis Cass, and the deed Of
the farm he now occupies was secured
by him from Gen. Lewis Cass.
II. II. McLaren, Of the Canadian
500. has agreed to cut 300 cords OF
hardwood daily for year for the
Clergue syndicate. to be used in the
carbOnizatlon plant of the big steel
making industry now being built.
Rev. Nathan Root has lived in Ash
ley about twenty-five years. He has
preached $50 funeral sermons for per-
sons of all ages from one day to 106
years. He also preached the first SER
mon in the town after it's founding.
The census report shows that of the
entire number of persons i'm Michigan
of voting age only 80 per cent are il
literate; while of the total number of
foreign-born people of voting age in
the state 153,662, or $50 per cent, are
naturaliZed
People in the vicinity Of GagetOwn
are aroused over an act of brutality
committed by Judd Stewart. In fit
OF what he calls "anger" he stabbed
horse in the eye. tearing the eye from
the socket. and causing the horse ter
rble suffering.
Chief of Police Johnson. Of Benton
Harbor. has received word from New
York that he will be paid reward of
about $500 for his services in aiding
the New York authorities in running
down Reuben Feinberg. notorious
confidence man.
Martin Howard lad living I'm
Northtield was the victim of a bullet
from his younger brothers revolver.
Before the doctors arrived to probe the
wound Il hearty snceZe diSlodged the
ball, which had found resting place
in the roof of the boys mouth.
Selig Solomon, Charles Cornett and
| Charles Schrber, of Alpena. charged
with trespassing on United States
| lands. were held to the federal grand
jury. John McNullen and John Scar
les. implicated with the others, have
! already been indicted. All gave bail.
VIM. J. Lambrecht. of Detroit. son Of
the pastor of the Evangelical Christ
| church. is in the hands of the. police
| charged with arson. Lambrecht is ac-
n
church on Twenty-ffth street near
! Michigan avenue. He was arrested at
! the scene of the fire.
| \ religious crank in Berrien county
| declares that the "yellows," the dread
disease which is ravaging the peach
orchards of the fruit belt. is simply Il
/ form of punishment visited upon the
! fruit growers because they work on
| Sunday. He says that If they cease
| the latter practice the disease Will
| disappear without further effort to
| stamp it ont.
Emit buyers from Chicago are can
vassing Branch and Calhoun counties
| for fruit. They claim the prospect for
! apples is much poorer than last sea-
son. The quality of the fruit is much
| inferior. owing to lack of spraying.
! One farmer near TckOnsha sprayed his
orchard of ten acres carefully and
! sold the apples from the same, on the
! trees for $3.50.
Mrs. sam Boyd. aged about 80. was
| found dead at her home in Jackson
/ Wednesday, Her body was burned
| almost to n crisp. 1t is supposed that
she came down stairs in the night with
lamp and tripped on the stairs and
fell breaking the lamp and setting her
clothes on fire. She had gone into an
other room and fallen on her face,
| where she expired.
The horrible burns and bruises
which Louis Wolf received in bak-
cry freA i'm Detroit Monday morning
proved fatal. the unfortunate man dy-
ing at the hospital that afternoon. Fire
department officials say that had he
made direct attempt to escape in
stead of trying to save some money
| he had stored away. he would not have
been fatally injured.
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