The Yale expositor., 1895-02-01
General NeWs.

Ht On sh III
is 40 miles in length.
st. Clair firemen will hold y grand
tournament next June.
A plan is on foot to build mammoth
hotel ut the st. CLAIR Flats.
School was ordered closed at Fostoria
on account of scarlet fever.
Marlette expects to have a new plan
ing mill started there in short time.
There are three hundred car load 8
of hay shipped from Port Huron every
year.
Stephen MCGEE, of Smiths Creek,
was arrested last week for assaulting
Nicholas Smith.
Croswell merchants now close their
business places at 1880 each evening
except Saturday.
A lodge of Daughters of Rebeccah
has been organized at Marlette with
twenty members.
During the three months ending
January LIST, it cost S5.957 .03 to support
st. Clair county poor.
Inlay City has water works system,
will soon have an electric light plant
and now wants factories.
James Burger, of Mt. Salem, has
purchased the store and property of
Mrs. +. Seigel IN Brown City.
Ubly citizens were promised wool
en- mill hut Minden City has got ahead
and Ubly is mad clear through.
Captain John Cadotte, we'll known
vessel man, died at his home in Ago
nac, on January 23rd, aged % years.
The snow on the Port Austin & Sand
Beach division of +. d Il. NJ. was in
many places ten feet deep last week.
John Mckenzie, of Clyde, died last
week at the age of SO years. He had
been resident of st. CLAIR county 40
years.
A bill will be introduced into the
legislature to repeal the act of annex
alton between Port Huron and Fort
GratiOt.
Detroit has had POI cases of small
pox since last July and is deaths.
There were five deaths last week there
from smallpox.
A large number of Cass City citizens
have petitioned the council to keep
children under sixteen years of age oil
the street. An ordinance was ordered
drafted to that effect.
The Lamb Dairy Association have
filed their annual report with the
S4,27O, real estate 500. There are 45
stockholders in the association.
About 1900 900 pounds of fish were
caught in Lake Huron last year and
nearly 100000 pounds in Lake St.
Clair. st. Clair county has % fisheries,
Huron county 40 and Sanilac 10.
Two st. Clair men have purchased
three acres of land in that place which
they will divide into lots, grade, orna-
ment with trees and build houses as
fast as they can dispose of them.
It was reported in Port Huron last
Saturday that man was sick with
smallpox at the City Hotel. A num-
Der of doctors were sent to Investigate
but reported it false. The man was
only suffering from u skin disease.
Mrs. Mary Newton, of Marysville,
was driving in Port Huron on Thursday
last when the horse became frightened
at the street car throwing Mrs. New
ton out against II telegraph pole. She
was badly bruised and had some ribs
broken.
Lexington village has two marshals.
1t seems that Marshal TAFT was de-
posed and another appointed in his
place. but the former declares the pro-
ceedings irregular and refuses to give
up the office, so the peace of the viii
lage will probably be well looked after.
The occupants of Caro- Jail got up q
nice little plan one night last week to
make their escape. They made saws
from putty knife and the steel
springs in their shoes and were saving
away in great shape when they we're
discovered and the little game spoiled
Marine City has been troubled lately
over her missing tax rolls, which were
thought to be stolen. On Friday las
two boys claimed to have found them
under barn, while skating. People
generally have u suspicion of who
stole them. Four boys received the
reward of $4,000 offered.
+. A. Goodfellow, of Brown City, i:
called a water wizard, because he is
enabled by the excessive amount OF
electricity in his body and by the use
| of witch hazel, to locate currents Of
water anywhere from six to 100 fee
below the surface of the ground. His
services are in good demand.
John Bond, of St. Clair, 25 years oil
age, ship-keeper of the steamer Cen
turion in Chicago, met with Il fatal nc.
cdent last week by falling into the
hold oil distance of twenty-three feet
lie only lived 10 minutes after being
taken out. The remains were brough
home to st. Clair to his parents.
Asa Grand Trunk train was passing
New Haven ut full speed last Saturday
man attempted TO go from one coacl
| TO another. lie lost his balance, fcl
from the train and was instantly killed
by breaking his neck. His name wa,
Rev. j Henry Liebhart ID. D., of Gov
ington, Ky. The remains were sent t
that place.
Last Friday as Otto Shepherd of st
Clair was skating on the river he go
i'm the way of an ice-boat going at the
rate of % miles per hour, which strucl
him with such terrible force that hi,
skull was crushed and he died in i
minutes. lie was Is years of age. NJ
blame was attached TO those on tn,
ice boat.
w. ". Seedlings, of Capsc, met will
bad accident while in Saginaw. III,
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