The Yale expositor., 1896-06-12

Rochester and vicinity will give a
$40, 900 bonus and exemption from tax
alton for Is years to the Western Knit
ting Co., of Detroit, which will move
its entire plant there.
like" Snow pleaded guilty ut La
peer to raising one Marathon drain
order from $4 to $40 and another from
IS to $50. He was captured at Elmore,
o., after long hunt.
The Muslsegon chamber of commerce,
which has been fighting the Bell tele-
phone monopoly, has obtained over
200 subscribers for new exchange.
The rates are to be $24 and SIS.
While fishing in Maple river Sherman
Kerby, aged 81, and his daughter,
aged IS, of Eureka, were struck by
lightning. Kerby was instantly killed
and his daughter may not recover.
After courting Miss Edna White, of
Monroe, for 20 years, c. l.. Comfort, of
Syracuse, N. Y, has finally made her
his wife. The couple are both midgets,
neither being more than feet inches
tall.
Genesee county citizens complain be-
cause relief committees have forgotten
that farmers in Vienna. Thetford and
Forest townships, lost much property
in the recent and are in need of assist
ance.
Robert brewery has mysteriously
disappeared from Utica and it is feared
he has committed suicide. Last winter
his wife died and he was left without
a living relative. Since then he has
been quite disconsolate.
At the The third anniversary of The
Altcnheim. or the old folks home, at
Monroe the ceremonies were imposing
and elaborate, and over 1900 were
present. Excursion trains were run
from jackson, adrian and Detroit.
All the Benton Harbor saloons are
close tight on Sundays. The proprie-
:ors are trying to get evidence against
DIR lggists, who, they say, must quit
selling soda water and cigars on Sun
day and confne themselves strictly to
medicines.
A small blaze was discovered in the
First National bank at Charlotte caused
by spontaneous combustion from rags
which had been used to oil the floor.
The fire was extinguished without
damage.
While engaged in quarrel at De-
catur Geo. Quarters was struck on the
head with hoe in the hands of Frank
Conrad. which laid open his face from
forehead to chin, and the victim nearly
bled to death.
Lay and clerical delegates are having
a warm contest at the United States
synod of the Finnish Evangelical Luz
theran church at Calumet, the laymen
insisting on further representation and
greater powers.
At Bay City Mrs. Alexander Simpson
was carrying a lighted lamp when she
stepped upon needle. The lamp was
dropped and it exploded, setting fire
to the building. The loss amounted to
several hundred dollars.
A. j. Bovine, president of the Con-
solidated Street Railway Co., of Grand
huDlllS. anu Ollc VI lllC DCSu hIoWll
financial men in the western part of
the state, was victim of the intense
heat and died very suddenly.
A. O. Abbott, inventor of the famous
Abbott voting machine, wants to build
big factory in Hudson. He offers to
take 20 per cent of 100000 capital
if citizens will take the rest. A COM
mittee has been appointed to raise the
cash.
A cloudburst caused such flood that
out the foundation of Adams & Smiths
wagon shop and storeroom, causing
them to collapse with a loss of $4,000.
Wheelocll's Touring mill was also dam
aged 81, 900.
Louis Peppler, of st. Louis, Mo-,
writes TO his parents in Monroe that
eight of twelve persons at the house
where he lives were killed by the re-
cent cyclone. He escaped with slight
injuries, but lost everything he pos
sessed except his clothes.
Adrian and vicinity suffered from
storm. The largest elk in the Page
Wire Co. herd was killed by lightning.
j. j. Walters, of Fairfield, was struck
by lightning which passed through his
hat, clothing and shoes, melting his
watch, but scarcely injuring the man.
The bronze bust of Thomas ID. Gill
bert was unveiled at Grand Rapids
with interesting ceremonies. The bust
is of heroic size, executed by dorado
Taft of Chicago, and is erected by the
friends of Mr.. Gilbert, in remembrance
Of lis efforts in behalf of his city. The
bust tests on a massive granite pedestal
in Fulton street par:,
The manager of the Ferry Seed Co.
this spring distributed $4,000 bushels
of pea seeds in the vicinity of Charlie
voix. The prospects for the crop now
warrant the prediction of 20, 600 bushels
These will all GO to the Charlevoix
warehouse. and will cause the disburse-
ment of at least SIS, 900 there next fall
for the pea crop alone.
Stephen Il. Grummond, Jr. a son of
the late Capt. 5. B. Grummond, of De-
troit, and manager and owner of Grum-