The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-11-01

Saginaw. Loss $40, 000, small insurance.
Hulda Sionberg, an unfortunate
Swedish girl, pleaded guilty at Escan-
aba To the charge of having murdered
! her babe and was sentenced to one
year in the Detroit house of correction.
An attempt was made to hold up
midnight &. r. 81 /. train, southbound,
at Cooper. The engineer refused to
obey a signal to stop and several shots
were fired into the cab, but hurt no
one.
The body OF an unknown man was
found in the woods near Hillman, by a
hunter. The only possible clew TO the
identity of the unknown was silver
50-cent piece stamped "H. Lalon,"
which was found in pocket.
Alpena county supervisors charge
the road commissioners with eXtrava-
gance and non compliance with the
law in constructing county roads. They
also claim that the commissioners are
leaving the roads in worse condition
than before.
VIM. r. Johnston, of the township of
| Gerrish, and chairman of the board of
! supervisors of Roscommon county, has
been arrested on charge of making
| fraudulent assessments. Other arrests
may follow.
Ionia county supervisors claim that
they have found that bread and water
diet for several days is better protec-
ton against the tramp nuisance than
the stone pile and they recommend the
idea to other counties.
The Exchange hotel burned to the
ground at Durand, entailing a loss of
SO, 900 to the owner. John Budd, the
lessee, loses everything, including fur
niture two horses, COW, $50 bushels
of oats and 10 tons of hay.
Two children of John Conley, aged s
and 3, got hold of a box of matches
while still in bed and began playing
with them, at Manistee. The bed
clothes were set on fire and both chill
dren were smothered to death.
The Henry Smith paper mill at Te-
cumseh came very near going up in
smoke, but good work by the fire de-
partment saved the mill after a large
quantity of baled straw and shed had
been burned at loss Of 800.
A wall of ]. Il. Undertakes plating
factory collapsed at jackson, while
workmen were excavating a deeper
basement. The men had left the place
short time before, so no one was in
| jured. The loss is about 81, 900.
While drilling a we'll on the farm of
| Mrs. Il. Wall, near TrUmbulls station.
worlSmen struck remarkable flow of
water, which burst forth TO n height
of 10 feet The water continues to
rush upward with deafening roar.
Phillip Wedcman's residence on the
! Ridge road near Lexington, burned TO
the ground together with the contents.
! His eight-year-old daughter has been
missing since the fire and is supposed
to have persisted. Property loss S1.sOo.
Ed Robinson. n Bellevue druggist
indicted by the grand jury last spring
for alleged violation of the local option
law, in keeping liquors stored contrary
TO that law, was discharged by the cir
cult court jury. 1t was held that his
druggist license permitted him TO keep
the liquors.
Some weeks ago Mrs. Harrison took
three children and eloped from Durand
withGe III. Hyde. Their whereabouts
have just been revealed by the fact
that Hyde and the woman and one
v
a hovel at Ionia. where they have be-
come charges of the town.
The sixtieth anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. William Wortley,
at Ypsilanti was celebrated in quiet
way, the aged couple simply summon
ing uheir grandchildren, of whom
there are eight, about them and enjoy
ing the day in this manner. Mr..
Wortley is Sc years of age, and his
wife 20.
The Cleveland Cliffs, Lake Superior
and Pittsburg d Lake Angelina min
ing companies are back of a scheme TO
build a railroad Is miles long from
their mining locations to the lake at
Marquette. 1t is understood that the
contract has already been let TO
Winston Bros, of Minneapolis, and
the cost will be about s., 900, 900.
Sparks from a locomotive set fire TO
some slabs and sawdust at Ferrysburg,
suburb of Grand Haven, and a strong
wind carried the flames along until
several houses were ablaze. The viii
lage was in danger of destruction until
the Grand Haven and Spring Lake fire
departments arrived and by heroic
work averted the disaster. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Valley City tent of the Maccabees,
at Grand Rapids, which led the fight
in the Boynton Boughton controversy
has been communicated. The tent
and every member of the tent has re-
ceived formal notice ofssuspension and
If the tent within the next six months
does not adopt the prescribed resolu-
ton of loyalty to the great camp Off
GERS, the suspenion is made permanent
and final.
The war which has been waged with
considerable fury almost the entire
summer between the Muskegon River
booming Co. and the Log Owners
Booming Go. came TO an end. by the
agreement the former company leases
for 10 years to the Log Owners Co.
both banks of the Muskegon river for
distance of Is miles from its mouth,
also all implements necessary for the
floating of logs.
Since the killing of James Probst,
near Cheboygan, by hunter who mis-
took him for bear, man named
johnson was shot in the leg and so
badly wounded that that member will
have to be amputated Three cows