He Was Under The Roof

HE WAS UNDER THE ROOF

And Escaped with a Broken Leg.

MOLASSES AT CHELSEA

It Was Not so Sweet When Applied Externally—Beat the Hotel.

Chelsea, Mich., Aug. 22. —White removing the roof of a porch on the front of James Geddes' house yesterday, Edward Munroe and his son Claude had a close call. They were prying off the roof and had planks arranged to slide the roof down to the ground, but instead of sliding it came down end over end. Claude jumped out of the way but his father could not get out of the way. It struck him, knocked him down into a trench which had been dug for cement sidewalk and broke a bone in his leg just above the ankle. The trench saved Mr. Munroe from what might have been a serious injury.

This morning the conductor of a way freight, John Ryan, was unloading a barrel of molasses at the dock of the freight house, when the end of the barrel came out. Mr. Ryan slipped and fell and the molasses completely covered him from head to foot. It was a very funny thing for everybody but Mr. Ryan.

Jay Woods, constable, returned this morning from Grand Rapids, with one Frank Diamond, formerly of this place, who had been serving a sentence there of three months for larceny from a hotel. He was charged here with having put up at the Boyd house for a period of 12 days, and with intent to defraud the keeper, Merritt Boyd, out of the pay, therefore he absconded and left the premises without paying for the same. He plead guilty to the charge and Justice B. B. TurnBull sentenced him to pay a fine of $15 and costs, or 15 days in jail. He took the latter.