The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-27

The grading of the Detroit & Maclli-
nae, from Emery Junction To Omer, is
nearly completed. Rails are laid most
of the way, and trains will begin run
ming by Jan. l.
There's project ON foot at st. Jo-
seph TO build combined g.. A. K.
memorial building and city hall, cost
ing 500. 1000. Considerable has already
been subscribed
| j. VI. Miller, OF Ypsilanti, met young
Clark Chamberlain on the street and
openly charged the lad with stealing
S. from his store. Chamberlain wilted,
confessed and got 60 days in Jail.
Louis Sander, a clothier, was ar
rested at Grand Rapids, for violating
the pension laws. lie accepted pen
sion voucher from an inmate of the
Soldiers Home for the payment of
bill.
Maxim Lamont, aged -, died at Au
Train under suspicious circumstances.
1t was alleged that his family knew
something of it. The jury decided
that he came to his death from poison
administered by himself.
d. Bakers sawmili was totally de-
stroyed by fire at Grand Haven. Loss
500 fully insured. 1t was the work
of an incendiary. The mill is the last
of the great sawmills in Grand Haven
and was run but one month this year.
George Cordes, Il well-llnown Alpine
farmer. had just received $3.50 in cash
and $3.50 note for piece of property
/ when he accepted tue invitation of
three strangers to take "a sleigh ride.
| When he woke up in Grandville
hotel he was minus his wad
The supreme court affirmed the con-
viction of Edward G. Gay, OF kala-
mazoo. who was found guilty OF so
| Letting insurance for AN insurance
company not authorized To do business
in this state. The companies for
when he did business were the
Lloyd's.
Joshua Hill, Pontiac capitalist has
purchased 800 acres OF woodland and
meadow. watcred by large creek,
which he will transform into an ami
NAL PARK \ dozen elk are already
there. Pheasants, gray foxes, beavers
and other animals will be added to the
collection.
Louis Pearlman, of Detroit. one of
the principal creditors of Bernard
| Goldstein, who made an assignment at
Owosso, is in IA critical condition. He
had loaned Goldsmith several hundred
dollars, all the money he possessed,
and the prospect of losing it made him
distracted.
The Fourth National bank of Grand
Rapids has placed the words without
grace" on all its new bank notes, and
will hereafter try To do business with
out the extra three days. other banks
intend to follow suit and the next
legislature will be asked to abolish the
days of grace feature.
Three young tramps while attempt
ing TO gain entrance to the store of
Dudley Carter at Nottawa. were fred
on by VIM. Cole, clerk. The bullet
struck one OF the burglars in the abdO-
men and he will probably die. lie
gave his name as Frank VAIL. OF Sagi-
nav. Both of the other burglars were
captured later.
Harry Schmidt, of Niles. was Sc
verely scalded about two years ago.
The flesh on his body and shoulder
was terribly burned. Many doctors
pronounced him incurable, but he was
taken TO Ann Arbor, where Drs Oar.
ling and Brooks decided to graft skin
upon the injured parts. The father
and mother sacrificed their flesh and
today the boy is cured.
Fr Slattery. of st. Mary's Catholic
church. at Lansing. is having rough
time He was boycotted by an in flu
entail section of his Pensioners be-
cause of some of his methods. but
Bishop Foley unheld the priest. Then
the disaffected ones took possession of
the parish residence and fired Fr. Stat
terry and six other priests out. Later
the law was invoked to settle the mat
ter and the Sheriff took possession
until the court renders decision.
The fireman, jefferson, who was ar
rested during the city hall fire at
Ludington and to whom suspicion
points as being implicated in setting
fire TO the building was sentenced to
30 days in Jail a. n disorderly. The
officers and detectives in the mean
time. are gathering all the evidence
possible. and claim to have enough
already to bind jefferson over for trial
on charge of arson. New informa-
ton, IN the hands of the officials, is
claimed to connect him with other
fires during the past two or three
years.
Plumber Finn and three assistants
were repairing large gasoline tank
in the basement of the Wells Stone
Mercantile Co., at Midland. when il
suddenly exploded and the whole room
was filled with flame. Mr.. Finn was
severely bruised and burned and James
Donihue had his right leg broken in
four places, his left leg twice. his
shoulder fractured, his face badly cut,
and was in imminent danger of being
burned to death when he was rescued.
The fire burned fiercely and over 81 900
damage was done to building and stock
before the flames were extinguished.
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