The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-10-04

ern Transit line, struck the bank in
Portage lake canal at Houghton and
lost her rudder and shoe. She inme-
diately filed aud sank. She was
loaded with -four from Duluth to Buff.
falo.
A diphtheria epidemic is raging al
Wolverine with fatal results. Two
children died within "a hours and -four
more cannot recover. Over 100 chill.
dren have been exposed and schools
and churches have been closed for Il
time.
The general merchandise establish.
ment of Reader Bros. a. Hunter al
Scottville has burned. Loss So, 500.
There is.no insurance, the last policy
of 81 900 having been cancelled the day
before. The building was an old land.
mark.
The s-year-old daughter of Harrison
Blodgett, at Belding, was fatally
burned, while attempting to heat a
cloth to wrap her head in. Thc
cloth caught fire; her clothing was all
burned OFF and the body was horribly
burned.
Fire destroyed the home, barn, crops
and machinery of Fred Iimmerie, near
Niles. The loss is $500 with no in
surance. The family had a narrow
escape from cremation, escaping in
their night clothes, and they are now
destitute.
Muskegon is in an uncomfortable
position financially, owing to special
paving tax levied in 1902, having been
declared invalid by Judge Russell. 1t
is feared special sewer tax is in the
same position. If so the city is out
about $50. 000
Christian Goedecke, who resides
west Of Tawas City, was riding home
with his sister when they were fired
at, the ball taking effect in the back
of his head and causing a slight wound
Alfred johnson, attorney, was ar
rested on suspicion.
VIM. O. Lowden, representing at
torney of Barry county, recently or
dained a Baptist minister, who fed
from Hastings after securing 81 200 on
forged paper, has been arrested at
Darlington, y. D., and Gov. Rich has
issued a rcquisition.
Fire in the MACEDONIAN store at La
stock of dry goods and groceries, and
Mrs. II. A. Hunt with a dressmak ing
establishment, did damage estimated
at $4,000. Considerable of the damage
was caused by water.
Genevieve and Stella Burson, the
giddy Schoolcraft girls who were
thought TO have eloped at night with
two strange men, have returned home
and say they have been with friends
near White Pigeon. They did not like
the restraint of home.
a wild woman was captured near
Alpena. The tattercd remains of an
old wrapper was her only clothing and
she had made nest among the roots
of large stump under which she had
burrowed. She had evidently been
living on roots and berries for some
time.
The steamer Oracle Barker, Capt.
w. T.. Chryselis, used in the ferry bust
ness across Little Traverse bay. be-
tween Petoskey and Harbor Springs.
was burned to the waters edge at
Harbor Springs. Loss, 81, 900, with no
insurance. Thought to be the work of
an lncendiary.
The Michigan University regents
have directed their attorneys TO man
damus the auditor-gcneral for one per
cent of the land grant. The Univer-
sity has always received 7 per cent.
but the legal rate is now 6, neverthe-
less the regents think they are entitled
TO the full per cent
VIM. G. Denney has been returned
from Indiana TO Manistee, where he is
with having secured $40. 600
from the Manistee National bank in
1892 under false pretenses. Hillsdale,
Sturgis, Saginaw and Grand Rapids
banks are also said to have been
worked" 10y Denney.
Michigan's county jails have been a
Mecca for hobos during winter for
some years, but Acknowledgement
Maynard has found an old law which
provides that manual labor
must be provided If possible, for all
prisoners in county jails. An effort
will be made TO put the law into effect.
The annual conference and camp
meeting of the Seventh Day Advent
lists of Michigan and Ohio, which was
in session three weeks at Lansing has
closed. 1t was a success in every way.
Despite the disagreeable weather the
attendance was very large, and 100
converts were baptized in the Grand
river.
Mrs. Enos Larkins, in Jail at Monroe
together with her husband. both being
with the murder of Mrs. Mer-
rill, near Petersburg, has nude another
TO the effect that they had
planned the murder six weeks before
il was committed and that Larkins
cholzcd the old lady to death in the
woods and they then burned the body.
In reply to an inquiry from the state
board of auditors Acknowledgement
Maynard has prepared an opinion to
the effect that the board must begin
suit to recover excess salaries drawn
by the former state officers when 1t
was reported that the constitutional
increasing their salaries
had carried, but which proved TO have
been carried by fraudulent election
returns being made.
A bell costing $500, the funds for
which were contributed by Sunday
school children in Michigan, was cast
at the American Bell foundry at
and was dedicated 20 the
memory of the recently deceased