The Yale expositor., 1894-09-28

ladies in Saginaw who wear boomers
A case of smallpox is reported in the
family of Scott Hamlin, near Rives
junction.
One of the canning factories at Ben
ton Harbor put up Is tons of tomatoes
every day.
The Standard Oil company is going
to make Alpena a supply point and
employ 30 men.
Owing to competition from a new
stock company, Saginaw expects to get
milk for cents quart.
Louis Koch, of Bay City, recently
fell into a vat of scalding brine, and
died from the effects of his injuries.
About 900 acres of flax have been
raised in the vicinity of Berne this
year. There's flax mill in the viii
lage.
Benton Harbor and st. Joseph pro-
pose to drain the marsh between the
two cities and donate the land TO pros
pective factories.
Rats got 50 numerous and voracious
in Bay City that the citizens imported
"a professional rat-catcher from Phila-
delphia to clean them out.
The Standard Cloth factory, at Lud-
ington, was sold by the sheriff at as
signee's sale to Eugene Scofield for
81 $50. 1t is valued at $1,000.
The Au Sable e Northwestern rail
road is now within nine miles of Lewis
ton, Montmorency county, and will be
extended to that place this fall.
The special election held at Harbor
Springs to bond the village for $4,000
to purchase the water works plant of
+. Shay & Son was carried by 125
majority.
Ithame ii. Clark, jackson team
ster, 45 years of age, cut his throat
with n penknife. A physician was
summoned, who saved the mans life.
Family troubles.
The body of Charles Peasc was found
at ST. Joseph floating IN the st. Joseph
river. lie separated from his wife and
told her he would drown himself if she
would not live with him.
The Diamond Match Co. have let
contracts for cutting 60, 900, 900 feet of
pine the coming winter and camps are
diIcily bclHB OpchCu w ChC NOhlIdCb-
ors in Ontonagon county.
Upton McLain, an old resident of
Erie, mistook bottle of corrosive sub
Innate for whisky. A stomach pump
saved his life, but his throat and
mouth were badly burned.
The Colby mine at Bessemer will be
worked this winter and a new shaft
will be sunk. About 400 additional men
will be required. 1t is stated that the
men will receive 81 per day.
Albert Kuppenheimer committed sui
eide at Grand Rapids by hanging. lie
was Al years old, a member of the to-
bacco firm of Kuppcnhcimer Bros, and
had been in business 20 years.
Clara Plass and Mary Thompson es-
capped from the Industrial school at
Adrian by tearing off board from the
high fence. They attempted to walk
to Detroit but were captured.
The farmers about Centerville have
decided TO take a day off, and will
make a united effort to destroy all the
thistles and noxious weeds that grow
in profusion along the highways.
John Bruce, an old soldier, was
found dead in house kept by col
ored woman at Grand Rapids. Foul
play is suspected. Bruce was 5S years
old and an inmate of the Soldiers
Home.
They are going to try the cumulative
sentence on William Curley. who as
saulted Foreman 5. q. McCleary at
jackson prison. A warrant has been
issued, the law treating Curley just
the same as if he were free man.
Willis French, of Girard, lost a cow
under mysterious circumstances. A
post mortem revealed five s-penny nails
and piece C trace chain over an inch
long in the animals stomach. The
nails had pierced the bowels and pro-
duced death.
Two little boys were arrested at
Saginaw blind drunk. At their exam
inatiOn they insisted that the whisky
was found in lumber pile, but the
judge suspects they tried to screen
some saloonkeep per. They were given
six days apiece.
William Tillett is missing from his
home in Stony Creek, near Rochester,
and his relatives fear that he has
etJneT killcu nlInScll JllTOuHl ledT Oh
again becoming insane, or that he has
had a second attack of insanity and
wandered away.
Otto Proul, of Port Huron, attempted
TO kill rat on the street by kicking
it. lie missed fire and the rodent ran
up his trousers leg. The mans yells
attracted the attention of policeman
who grabbed Proul's leg and chol<ed
the offender TO death.
All the salary amendment fraud
cases, although noticed for trial at
this term of court in Ingham county,
are likely to go over. The two first
trials took so much time that they
crowded off q lot of civil cases, which
lawyers now insist shall be tried.
Convict Curley, Detroit burglar
doing five years at Jackson prison, hit
Foreman John McCleary,a free man, on
the head and face with a pointed steel
drill. Free men and n convict pulled
Curley away, or he would have killed
McCleary, who was badly wounded.
The will of Deacon James w. Con-
verse of ROStOu has beeu filed nj