The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-11-02
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

Ontonagon wants dentist to locate
there.
Coldwater will have n new bicycle
factory.
Lucicn Jacobs was killed by falling
tree at Even.
Bay county's first grand jury will
convene November 10. Some sensa-
tions are anticipated.
The Croswell Agricultural society has
declared dividend of 81 per cent as a
result of their fair this fall.
Frederick Gross, aged 50, formerly of
Detroit, hanged himself at Millington.
Financial trouble was the cause.
Fire destroyed George Lynn's barn
and all its contents, including grain
and beans, at Springport. Loss heavy;
insured.
j. Wesley Davis, of Liberty, died at
jackson from the effects of the acct
dental discharge of his gun while out
hunting.
Mrs. Hannah Chaffee, who died at
Adrian, aged lO2 years. often told how
well she remembered George Wash
ington and his wife.
Van Buren, county's apple crop proved
n disappointment TO shippers, the
amount of good packing fruit being
much less than expected.
X. j. Rex, of Crlaud, Ind, near the
Michigan line, went TO Bronson, Mich,
with considerable money, and has
inystcriously disappeared.
Otto Bauman, florist. of Manistee,
was the victim Of "A runaway accident.
Several ribs were fractured. His in
juries will not prove fatal
A Pole. aged about 30 and unknown.
was discovered near Republic with his
throat cut from car to ear. 1t was
evidently a case of suicide.
Curtis Fall, who tried ito cut his
throat at Mt. Forest some months ago,
has recovered, but is violently insane.
He has been taken TO Pontiac.
The factory of the Plymouth Air
Rifle company, which was DESTROYED
by fire recently, will be rebuilt ami
will be in running order by Decem-
Der ].
George w. Grim, of Detroit, assaulted
his step-daughter, aged % years, with
an AK, inflicting frightful wound in
the back of her neck. She will re-
cover.
Cha rles Johnson, a prominent citi-
zen, of Hartford, aged IS years, shot
himself in the lungs and will die. The
alleged cause is domestic and financial
troubles.
The Evening Eagle newspaper prop
erty ut Grand Rapids, was sold to the
Herald publishing company at terms
not made public. The Herald Will
continue the Eagle as its evening
edition.
Hamilton Black, arrested some time
ago on suspicion of being counter
feiter, was released by Z. s. Commits
sioner McMath at Bay City, there
being no testimony sufficient to secure
"a conviction.
The village officials of Kalkaslla
have forbidden candy dealers from
selling brandy drops to children or old
topers. 1t is alleged that six of them
will equal the effects of an ordinary
drink of whisky.
a county union of the Christian En-
deavor society was formed at Gales
burr, with the following officers:
President, Rev. j. Il. Fisher, Kalama-
ZOO; secretary, Miss Nora Long, Viclls-
burg; treasurer. Miss Una Jacobs,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Ellis, of Belding,
have celebrated the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their marriage. They are about
S3 years of age, and located where
lnl 4 Inc go. lie,
was not another house but theirs in
the vicinity.
While playing ball at Dowagiac,
Charles Henwood ran into his brother
Albert, who held an open knife in one
hand. The blade penetrated near the
heart, death resulting in few minutes
Charles was 10 years old, his brother
being three years younger.
Thomas Richardson, aged 81 years,
and living near the county
farm at Bay City, was in boat hunt
ing ducks when his gun was dis
charged, the contents taking effect in
left elbow. His arm was
six inches below the shout
der.
The Franklin Copper Mining COM
pany has purchased the mine and 1850
acres surrounding the lands of the
Peninsula Copper company at Hancock
for S45, 900. The Peninsula changed
hands in 1892 for SlS7,5O0 A question
of great value TO Franklin is that il
adds TO the reserves of good mining
ground now nearly worked out.
The state legislature in 1858 enacted
a law that one-half of the interest at
per cent on money derived from the
sale of swamp lands, should go to the
primary school fund and the other
half to the several counties of the
state for the drainage and reclamation
Of lands. County Clerk Gregg, of Cal !
houn county. has recently discovered !
that such law existed and that CAL |
houn county, had never drawn any
thing but the primary school fund. |
Thus the county has large sum due. !