The Yale expositor., 1894-12-21
YALE St. County FRIDAY DECEMBER 81 1894
General News.

Carsonyille wants a grain elevator.
There are % persons licensed to sell
liquor in Lapeer county.
The Romeo Observer will not start
paper at Lexington, as was rumored.
The Memphis Bee has started upon
its second year. Long may it "buzz."
Four Almont families had their
clothes lines robbed one night last
week.
William Murdock, of Almont, has
had his pension cut down from SIS to
$ll.00.
An effort will be made to have n
life saying station established at Port
Huron.
K. G.. Mclaughlin, Brown City mer-
chant, has opened a branch store at
Omard.
Every night from to 10 tramps ap-
ply at police headquarters in Port
Huron for lodging.
The ladies of the Port Huron Con-
gregational church cleared oyer $500 at
their fair held last week.
The Congregational church in Port
Huron will hereafter use individual
cups at their communion.
There are one hundred and fourteen
vessels III winter quarters at Port HUI
ron, SaTnia and Marysville.
Marvin Rogers, of Port Huron, has
been taken to the insane asylum. He
imagines that he is Jesse James.
Seventy new members were added to
the Richmond NJ. +. church recently,
as a result of the revival meetings.
The first Spiritualist lecture given in
Bad Axe, was by Mrs. Robinson, of
Port Huron, on December 18th aid
l4th.
AlonSo Thayer, of Port Huron, is
said by his mother to be insane, and
she wants him sent to the asylum
People can see no signs of insanity
about him.
Lincoln Avery, of Port Huron, lost
80 cans of fruit, crock of butter, a
roast of beef, apples and other pro-
visions, through some thief getting
into his cellar Sunday night.
People living in the vicinity of Down
ington who have had sheep and nu-
merous other articles stolen recently
are now satisfied that the thief has
been captured in the person of Frank
| Fuller.
Mrs. Anna Robinson, the Port HUI
ron Spirituallst lecturer, was struck
across the face with horsewhip, by a
man who was pounding dog, and
whom Mrs. Robinson had asked to
stop his whipping. Later the man
could not be found.
A fatal accident occurred in New
Baltimore one day last week at the
ashery there. A workman by the name
of Paul Socia was STOPPING over vat
when some of the fixtures fell upon
himcrushing his skull, and death oc-
CURED in few minutes.
Sums of money have been missed
from the roller mill at Marine City.
A burglar alarm was arranged and
men set watching, ready to turn on
the electric lights. The result was the
arrest of three boys, who implicated
| fourth. The ages of the boys are
from Is to 81 years.
David Turner brought suit against
the st. Clair tunnel company some
| time ago for injuries received while at
work in the tunnel, but it was claimed
the company could not be sued in St.
Clair county, as none of the officers
reside here, but the papers were served
on train dispatcher and it was decid-
ed by Judge Vance and later by the SUI
preme Court that this could be done.
Three of the oldest lawyers in Michi-
gan live in st. CLAIR county. Judge
Walker, of Capac, has practiced law 5S
years, came to this county 80 years
ago and is 81 years of age, but still
attending to business. B. c. Farrand is
"a years, has practiced for 81 years and
lived in Port Huron so years. Judge
Mitchell was admitted to the bar 50
years ago and has lived in Port Huron
AZ years. He is still active in his busl-
| ness.
There was frightful time at Vassar
one night last week, when officers en-
deavored to force seven tramps from a
box car where they were hiding after
stealing the trainmen's s overcoats. The
tramps opened fire on the officers.
badly injuring two, but posse getting
after them, four were captured. A
day or so after one was arrested at
Oxford and the other two at Port Hu-
ron. 1t is thought probably that a
well organized gang of safe-crackers