The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16

Inc secret service gives warning OF
| the discovery of new counterfeit 81
ma ional bank note, series of 1882, on
the First National bank of Flint. The
printing of the bill is badly blurred.
The Joint session of the prison boards
at Macknac island reported 300 idle
convicts at Jackson, $50 at Ionia and
! 100 at Marquette 1t was the sense of
the session that the contract labor sys-
was the best.
Men were put at work clearing up
at the Arnold nine at Iloughton, pre-
! paratory to resuming work on a large
scale. The mine will be unwatered
and strongly worked as soon as it can
be put in shape.
Ishpeming held a firemens tourna-
| ment for the upper peninsula. Visit
ing departments were present from
| Michigammc, Negaunee, Republic,
LAM, lronwood, Marquette, Hancock
and Red Jacket.
| Diugcnis Brandt, aged 60. while
handling wheat from stack to the
thrcsher at iceland slipped and fell
into the machine. Both legs were
taken OFF, one above and the other
close to the knee.
michael Kreig. laborer at Detroit,
was fatally shot by his son-in-law VIM.
| Haas. The latter was enraged because
his wife refused to live with him, on
account of his abuse, and had returned
to her fathers house.
Simon and Edward Kastead tried to
protect two girls from burly Negro,
VIM. Rose, at Kalamazoo. Rose
pounced upon them with a knife and
both were so badly cut about the arms
and body that they will be disabled
for life.
| The forest fires which have been
raging on Beaver island since July
have not done any particular damage
To the farmers, but destroyed valuable
timber owned by Chicago parties. The
hay crop on the island has been fail
IRE, but other crops are looking fair.
Il. L. Wigcnt, while bathing off For
est Beach at Paw Paw struck on his
head in shallow water and failed to
come up. His wife, who had been
watching him from the bank, called
help and he was pulled out dead. 1t
is thought apopleXy and not drowning
caused his death.
Mabel Gray, the keeper of a ques-
| tionablc resort at Portland, was shot
| by Mrs. y. Pine. The revolver shot
pierced her right shoulder, but the
wound is not serious. Mrs. Pine was
recently divorced from her husband
and supposed her husband was at the
Gray house. No arrests
The peach crop about South Haven
is the largest it has been in the his
tory of the oldest fruit-grower. 1t is
estimated that the crop will be
100000 baskets, larger than has ever
been harvested before. In many in
stances the trees are breaking down
from the weight of the fruit.
The Port Huron-Le lexington railroad
may yet be n success, although the
| bonds couldn't be sold. The workmen,
who have $1,000 due them, made a
proposition to wait six months for the
money provided the work can be re-
sumed and all labor paid every week
in the future. 1t is claimed that S25,-
900 of the $50, 900 necessary TO complete
the road has been raised.
Miss Fannie Hunt, an esteemed
young lady near Stockbridge, was
on 2O-foot ladder picking cherries
when hogs knocked it from under her
| a
gent dog with her seemed to realize
her position and made his master un-
derstand that something had happened
and thus medical aid was summoned
in time to save her life.
Lightning burned Brandt's building
at Durand occupied by c. L. Glover
and Mrs. NJ. II. Glover, with stocks of
groceries, loots and shoes and milli-
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the upper part OF the building and were
! badly daZed and il was with diff
GUILTY that they escaped. Nothing was
saved but the scant garments they had
on. The loss was So, 200.
Il. A. Carten. dry goods dealer of
Ionia, missed gloves and other articles
from his stock and made up his mind
that they had been taken by Mrs.
John Morton. He got a search war
rant and succeeded in finding part of
the missing goods. Mrs. Morton is
over 60 years of age, in good circur1-
stances and an old and respected resi-
dent and the news has created a SEN
! sation.
A man visited Elsie few days ago
inquiring for a daughter of John
Paulding. Paulding disappeared %
years ago and his daughter was raised
by the family of Wesley Curtis and is
now Mrs. Minnie Van Deusen, of Nc
Balm, Mich. The stranger said Pauld-
ing had left $40, 600 in property in New
York City for his daughter. Many
believe the stranger was Paulding
himself
The report of Warden Chamberlain
on the jackson prison for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1895, has just been
presented to the joint boards of con-
troll of the state penal institutions.
Total earnings, $l25, s2s.76; disburse
ments, S137, 5OS53; average number of
convicts, 1863; earnings on contract
work, S67, ls3. 43; total cost of food S26,-
$50. "a; hospital expenses, not includ-
ing salary of physician, S549.57; fuel,
lights aud water, $40, 092. 03.
Annie Kerr was arrested at Muske-
gon by Deputy L. 5. Marshal O'Don-
nell, charged with using the L. 5.
mails fraudulently. In answer to a
matrimonial advertisement she wrote
to w. Ii. Lucas. at Red Lodge, Mont.