The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-10-23

The ere =, court OF Schoolcraft
county holds that in tax title sales il
is not necessary to make personal SER
vice upon persons who are to be de-
prived of their property.
The Twenty-ninth Michigan infantry
reunion was held at Owosso. Chas. III.
Peters, of Saginaw, was elected presi-
dent; e. n. Carley, of North Bradley,
secretary, and A. L. Dickey, of Durand,
treasurer.
Sheriff Smith attempted to arrest
Geo. II. Mccoy, desperate burglar
and Jail breaker at Mushegon, when
the fellow fired two shots at the officer
and escaped. None of the bullets hit
the sheriff.
Rev. Olivia j. Carpenter, of Lansing,
pastor of the Plymouth and Farming
ton Universalist churches, will shortly
be married to j. j. Woodman of Paw
Paw, who represented Michigan at the
Worlds Fair.
Fred r. Phetteplace, of Kalamazoo,
is charged with being an embezzler, by
the G. r. & /. railroad. He says he
never took cent. The company
claims the shortage dates back over
period of five years and that it will APP
proXimate $4,000.
Work has been commenced on the
Benton Harbor & Southeastern railway
from Benton Harbor to Nappanee,
Ind, where connections will be made
with line to Cincinnati, thus opening
direct communication between Cincin-
natl and Lake Michigan.
BY Dec. Grand Haven will be rum
ming its own electric light plant.
The $4,000 bonds have been
sold to the Hackley National bank,
of Muslzegon, at par value, and the
contract for the plant has been let TO
the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation,
of Fort Wayne, Ind.
But three of the eight candidates be-
fore the Michigan board of examiners
for admission to the bar were recon-
mended-Mrs. Caroline B. Kelleher, of
Gladstone; Harry c. Howard, of Kala-
mazoo, and Lewis Il. Macarthur, of
Lansing. Mrs. Kelleher is the first
woman to be examined by the board.
The Presbyterian synod of Michigan
met in the siXty-second annual session
at Detroit, attended by over 100 dele
gates of the various presby teries OF the
state. Rev. James G.. Lowrie, ID. d.,
of Niles, the retiring moderator, gave
way to Rev. George w. Barlow. of
Caro-, who was elected after a spirited
contest.
Albert Fuller and Fred Ran Hall,
charged with robbing Mrs. Jane Ran
dali of 81, 500 at Elsie, acknowledge the
crime, but each accuses the other Of
taking the money. Randall refuses to
tell where he secreted his share and
$3.50, which amount has been returned
TO the old lady.
James Patton, aged GO, was taken to
the central police station ut Saginaw
by Deputy Sheriff Barter, of Alpena,
while cnroute 20 the insane asylum at
Traverse City. Patton was fearfully
emaciated, having refused to eat. and
the only way OF keeping him alive was
by forcing food through n tube placed
between his teeth. As consequence
of his starving himself Patton was
found dead in his cell
The board of supervisors of Mason
county have decided TO invest $500 in a
stone crusher and commence the con-
struction of macadamized highways.
The county's experience with clay and
gravel roads during 10 years has con-
vinced IL that such roads are expensive
and it is more economical to build
stone highways, even though the first
cost of the macadamized road in about
double that of clay or gravel.
Levi j. Shaw, who has been separated
from his wife for some time, called to
her house at Alpena, and made muir
derous attack upon her with Ratchet,
striking her six or eight times on the
head and eating the scalp in n terrible
manne.. She put her hands on her
head, which undoubtedly saved her
life, but her hands were cut almost
through, the bones smashed and an
artery severed. She can scarcely re-
cover. Shaw skipped.