The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-09-27

rem lOWnNnlll- NllulduQ county, WAS
arrested on the charge of embeZZling
nearly $1,000 from school district No. 1.
Old age and business reversals caused
DIR. Martin, aged 75, Co suicide at Ber-
rien Springs. lie thrust a lancet into
his left lung once and into the right
twice.
Fred DENLY. Il. II. & |. lineman,
had both legs taken off by being struck
by locomotive while going to repair
broken telegraph wire He died two
days later.
Lightning struck the residence of l..
Beardsley, killing two kittens which
lay beneath the stove None of the
family was injured End no other dam
age was done.
Durand is rejoicing over her pros
perity. A citizens committee reports
that 20 new houses will be built at
once. A big elevator and flour mill
will also be erected.
John Pierce. aged CO, had a hand cut
off by cog wheels at the +. N L. NJ.
boiler shop at saginaw and would have
been killed had not another employee
helped him to get free.
Hugh Clark had nice potato crop
at Pinckney aud someone pulled up all
the vines and stacked the tubers in
piles, preparing to carrying them off.
Clark gathered them in himself.
Crushed granite is being used on the
new roads in Aipena county to the
depth OF half foot. Swamps are be-
ing graded up and hills leveled as the
result of the new county system.
The committee appointed to examine
the books of eX Treasurer John L.
Doherty, of North Muskegon, found
them all right. lie had six cents com
ing TO him when they had finished.
Nearly 1000 old soldiers belonging
to the Grand Traverse Soldiers and
Sailors associatio were in camp on
the county fair grounds at Traverse
City. The town was gaily decorated
with bunting.
The national convention of the Ma
tional Protective League was held at
Allegan. There were numerous good
addresses, splendid banquet and an
eXemplitication of the workings and
benefit of the order.
Prot. H. L. Wilgus, of the Ohio
State University law school at Column
bus has been chosen as professor of
the law department OF the University
of Michigan, Prof. Wilgus comes
highly recommended.
OwoSso is in a quandary as to what
TO do about her waterworks, the reser-
voir of which is located on the margin
of "a swamp and the walls are con-
stantly caving in and now threatens To
ruin tho pumping plant the same way.
The central union of the German
Catholic societies of Michigan held the
annual meeting at Detroit. Many inn
portant matters were discussed and
the old officers reelected. The next
convention will bc held at Grand Rap
ids.
The first man released from state
penal institution under the new parole
law is Nina IL. ingalls,, serving five
years in the Ionia house of correction
for forgery at Grand Rapids. His re-
lease was recommended by every officer
of the institution.
The little town of Erie, Monroe
county, is Furnishing saloonkeepcrs
who violate the law. Sam LaPointe
paid a fine OF So for his carelessncsS.
Now the saloon men say they will
prosecute every business man who
keeps open on Sunday.
Articles of incorporation of the Ann
Arbor Railway Co. the successor of
the Toledo. Ann Arbor e Northern
Michigan Railway Co.. has been fled
with Secretary of State Gardner.
The new company is capitalized at
$3.50 900 and paid franchise fee of
$685..
Arrangements are now making for a
joint meeting of the cham Der of com
merce OF Port Hulon and the board of
trade of Sarnia, at which the matter
OF better railroad facilities will DO con-
sidered. Active steps will be taken to
induce the Canada Southern to extend
it's road TO Port Huron 20 compete
with the Grand Trunk.
Detroit is having another season of
deadly street car accidents. :. j.
Stockman. aged ~, was knocked from
his buggy while crossing the Grand
River avenue electric car line and was
fatally injured before the car was
stopped. One car on the IT. Wayne IL
Belle Isle line ran into another which
was turning a corner and JOS. Schar-
metzl>i. aged 60. was fatally and Chas.
Michacls severely injured. Donald
Yeti aged 40. received serious cuts
about the head from being knocked
down by "a TT. w. Il i. /. car. Minor
accidentsare very numerous.
Deputy Sheriffs McNamara and
Fleming rounded up several dives at
Kenton and Pori in Houghton county
and brought in 10 prisoners. Hough-
ton county officials are waging
vigorous war on the dens
and propose cleaning them out
Vigorous action toward purifying the
village of its notorious dance halls and
gambling rooms has recently been
taken at Even. In Ontonagon county
the dives along the South Shore, be-
tween Ncstoria and Lake Gogebic,
have been notorious and without
question among the worst in the
northwest.
Mrs. Enos Larkins is in Jail at Mon
roe, charged with guilty knowledge of
the death Of Mrs Merrill, which is be-
lieved to have occurred at the I4arlSins
homo near Petersburg. 1t will be re-
membered that Mrs. Merrill disap-
pcared and LarSins displayed papers
deciding her property TO him. The