The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-12-14

The house, barns and contents and
10 head OF horses and cattle belonging
TO Mrs. j. III. Lounsberry, near Orleans,
were destroyed by fire.
The local option law and order
league Of lIillsdale is after the viola
tors OF the law. Several offenders
have been arrested already.
The dry goods house of w. NJ. Ben.
nett 81 Co., the oldest mercantile es-
Enlistment in Jackson, has discon-
tinued business and closed its doors for
all time.
Near midnight james Beatty, of
Saginaw, walked oft the Woodward
avenue dock into the river at Detroit,
but was saved by Capt. Ed Horn of the
ferry company
A Bay City lumber dealer had a pile
of 1900 slabs which almost entirely
disappeared in one week He has
caused warrants to be issued for the
heads of 2G families.
Mr.. Jane Allen, of Lansing, was
frightfully burned by the flaming oil
from an overturned lamp, and her re-
covcry is decidedly improbable, as she
is over 50 years Of age.
The ladies of Port Huron will on
December II have entire control of
the edition of the Port Huron Times
of that afternoon. The profits of the
venture go 10 charity.
Hira n Ruggles, an aged farmer near
Edwardsburg. was held up by three
highwaymen, who got about 80 cents.
disappointment cnraged them and they
Inaf hn ~. f,.i oh tf,,l1,.
Edward Pfi,ter. farmer near Harbor
Springs, stole two of a neighbors
sheep, was arrested, mortgaged his
farm to pay the fine and ended his fun
by marrying an Indian woman.
The club house of the old Hillsdale
Rowing club burned at Baw Beese
lake. The four-oared shell with which
the club won the senior and junior
championships OF the L. :. was burned.
Homer Anton was arrested at Men.
don for stealing a horse from the
Washburn farm three miles east of
kalamazoo. This is the third
horse he has stolen since harvest time.
Mrs. Angel, mother of President
Angel, of the Michigan University,
died at Genera, \. \. Her remains
VIII be taken to Providence. K. l.. for
interment. Mr.. and Mrs. Angel It
tended the funeral.
The ovcrseer of the cisy poor of Jack
son reports that there is very little
suffering in his city and not single
case of contagious disease. Only 1865. 10
WAS expended i'm relief during the
month of November.
Rev Joseph st John. the Saginaw
rector charged with gross immortality
with young girls, has written to his
wife pleading guilty and begging her
10 forgive him and join him somewhere
to begin life over again.
Kalamazoo dealers sell monthly
1875, 600 cigarettes or 100. GOO every
year A local paper says half of them
are bought by boys OF an age which
the law says no dealer can sell to.
Still there are no arrests.
Mrs. F. Frankenstein died az the
residence of her son, Peter Franllen-
stein, Detroit, having attained the ripe
old age of l05 years. She was born ii
Russian Poland, but had resided in De-
troit for the past ~ years.
Louis Berclund, an Escanaba Scan
dinavian woodsman, was found dead
on the line of the 500 road near Rapid
river. A day or two ago he drew $500
on a check, and there is n strong prob
ability that he was murdered.
The salt inspection in Michigan for
November is as follows: Manistee
county 1898 barrels; Bay, 7O,472;
st. Clair, Is, 1877; Saginaw, 1870;
3,611; Huron, 2,773. Total, 364, 1856.
The Michigan Federation of Labor
in the convention at Detroit elected
officers as follows: President John ID.
Flanagan, reelected; first vice-presi-
dent, Harry c. Ban ser, Detroit; second
vice-president, VIM L. Gardiner, Sagi-
Raw; third vice-president, j. ID. Fer
guson, Muskegon; Secretary-Treasure
Crewe was reelected.
President Angel, of the University
OF Michigan, in giving his opinion of
football, says he heartily approves of
the game, both because It tends to the
development of courage and discip-
line, and because Il is conducive to the
formation of regular habits, through
it's example exercising a salutary influr
ence on the morals of the students.
a strong effort q now being made in
West BAY City toward annexation to,
Bay City. The Tr bune published the
opinions Of leading taxpayers on the
subject, and they were almost all for
consolidation. Is is believed that
bill be introduced at the January
meeting of the legislature uniting the
two cities. and steps in that direction
will be taken within a few weeks.
Grand Rapids kns a practical short
age of $4,000 in her city funds,
although the new levy of taxes has
just been collected. The city recently
enlarged her limits greatly, and the
increased cost was not made anywhere
near even by the increased taxes coll
lected. The legislature will be asked
to raise the limit of taxation, and for
an enabling act under which the city
may borrow enough money On bonds.
The jury in the Burpee case at
Corunna disagreed, and has been dis
charged after being out over thirty
hours. The cost to tho county will
reach 81 800. Mrs. Ursula Burpee
was arrested on the charge of pouring
hot water into the boots of her adopted
son Ira last March. The boy accord
,