Among Our Neighbors

Mrs. George Brown, of Browor-st, Ypsilanti, was injured while escaping f rom her home which was on fire. She will recover. Two prisoners escaped from the Monroe jail last week. They hid under a table when the turakey locked tbe oells, and cut their way out duriüg the night. Mr. and Mra. Arthur Lowery. of Manchester, celebrated the twentioth anniversaryof their marriage Sept. 25. Among those present were Mrs Felton aged 89 and Koswell Raudall aged 94. A raürond smash-up toóle placo at Pinckney, last Friday night. The eastbound pasenger train attempted to j make the siding, and collided with the west-bound freight. Both engines were wreoked but no one vvas hurt. The next meeting of the Farmers' Club will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Miller in Saline, Friday, Oot. 8. A paper will be read by Theo. Josenhans, subject "Business methods among farmers."- Saline Observer. The harvest festival of tne resoyterian society, will be held in the op?ra house, Friday evening, Oct. 8. The society is doing everything in their power to make this a pleasing and proütable gathering and interesting to all who will attend.- Saline Observer. Whlle at Buffalo, recently, Mrs. Florence S. Babbitt secured a number of valuable additions to her collection of pioneer dishes, among them being a jar, a píate, and a cup píate formerly belonging to Julius Movius, onc of the most prominent of Ypsilanti's citizens in the '40's.- Sentinel. The Chelsea Herald says that Archie Leach, of tliat villaje, met with a scri0U8 accident near Essex, Ont. His mother, Mrs. James Leach, accompanied by Frank Leach and Mason Whipple, lelt on a morning traia for the scène of the accident. On arriving there they found that he hai fallen Irom a freight train and that his right foot was eut off by the instep and Wa left leg so badly mangled that ít naa 10 be amputated above the knee. It lfl thought he will recover. On Sunday Frank Townley, son of the late Anson Townley, for many years register of deeds in Jackson county, arrived in Jackson only to learn that he had been dead for the past 12 years. Ia 1861 he enlisted and at the close of the war went to Dakota and from there to Alaska. Nothiasr was heard from him and in 1893 his estáte went through the Probate court, bis death being dated ia 1885, and nis pi-operty was distributed among the heirs.- Chelsea Standard. Surveyors ttais week are running a new line east from Dnndee for the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee railroad. The new line is north oí the line surveyed a few weeks ago. Begin-i upon land of Wm. Penfleld, north of A. A. depot, runs to farm of B. E. Bullock and Bone hill, strikes the line lately surveyed one mile east of Baisinville station and follows that line beside Lake Shore track with few changes to Trenton. The new line is said to be considerable shorter than the one la.te)y eurveyed.- Dundee Reporter. Beven trarops riding on a Michigan Central trelght car ncar Trenton, were set upon by another gang, whü robbed them of their clothing and everytliing of valué and then made them jump for their Uves. It is tbought they were held up by three members of the fameus "Lake Shore" gang that haa terrorized railroad employés forsome time past The robbers were part of the same Kang that had a pHched battle with offioers at Petersburg a couplü of months ago, when several people were killed, and who at Elkhart, gix months aco. killed two otlieers and one train