The Yale expositor., 1896-10-30
NEWS OF A WEEK.
A Budget OF Happenings in and Around st.
Clair County.

A Budget OF Happenings in and Around ST.
Clair County.
The government dredging contract
at the foot of Lake Huron has been
completed.
Capac will have an entertainment
course for the winter, consisting of
five entertainments.
The Imlav City Times came out in a
beautiful pink dress last week but we
didn't learn the reason why.
The supervisors who visited the st.
Clair county poor house were pleased
with affairs at that institution.
The board of supervisors have ap-
propriated 5000 to repair and repaint
the interior of the court house at Port
Huron.
VIM. II. Fogle and Bertha Dorsch,
of Caseville, were married at the bed
side of the groom's mother, who can
not live long.
DR.. Walter p. Brown, the Oldest
physician in Lexington, died last week.
He had practiced medicine in Lexing-
ton since 1858.
There are in the st. Clair county
poor house 6l inmates. Thirty-three
have been received during the year,
28 discharged and nine died.
During the supervisors stay in Port
Huron they are kept supplied with
cigars by the men who have been
elected to office by the board.
The farm house of Daniel Mckenzie,
near Richmond, was totally destroyed
by fire one night last week, together
with all contents except a piano.
John East, who lived alone in an
old mill at INLAY City, was found
helpless in his bed by neighbors, and
died the same day. Deceased was 50
years old.
Robert Mcdonald, of Prescott, Mich,
is in Sanilac county jail, on a serious
charge. Complaint was made by a
Mr.. Thompson, husband of the woman
Implicated.
George Mccormick, of Kimball, has
resigned his Office as supervisor, and
was elected last week as superinten-
dent of the poor. Elba Hubbel sue
ceeds him as supervisor.
1t is possible that an insane ward
will be built in connection with the st.
Clair county Jail. The Michigan asy-
lums are full and there are four in
sane persons in the Jail.
The barns of Lansing Carl, at New
Haven, burned last week, supposed to
have been set on fire. The entire con-
tents of hay and grain was consumed,
together with two horses.
Seward L. Merriam, of Port Huron,
was to haYe made speech at Brock
way last Thursday evening on Free
silver, but he missed his train at the
tunnel although he was there on time.
st. Clair has AS, ,906 acres of farming
lands. Berlin, the largest township,
has % 1856 acres, and East China, the
smallest, has 1888 acres. There are H.
600 acres of swamp land in the county.
Port Huron Times.
Edward Williams, of Almont, pied
guilty to the charge of fast driving
and disorderly conduct on INLAY City
streets, and was fined $50. Williams
horses knocked down j. NJ. Sherman
and injured him severely.
William Wiswell. who shot Asa Rey.
nolds, near Brown City, has been in
the Sanilac county Jail for four months
awaiting trial. He will probably re-
main there until the January term of
court, as he can get no bail.
Lenorde Link, a painter at the new
Catholic church at Emmet, grasped
the wrong rope when descending the
tower, the rope flew through the pull
ley and Link fell so feet, both hands
and his nose being broken. He may
recover.
j. w. Benedict, administrator
of the ESTATE of Geo. p. Burgess,
who rode his bicycle into Black river
while the bridge was open and was
drowned, has commenced suit in the
circuit court against the city of Port
Huron, claiming lack of proper safe
guards at the bridge approaches.
Sixty thousand dollars in bonds was
found in an old unclaimed trunk in
the Saratoga hotel, Chicago, the other
day. The wallet is inscribed "Camp-
bell and Schoolcraft," and the name.
j. l.. Schoolcraft, is found on many of
the papers. This leads James School
craft, of Port Huron, 10 the belief that
the bonds belonged to his father, who
was murdered in the south some years
a Oo and ha uyill inuaatiUata