The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-08-14

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Elias Fuller will start out from St.
Joseph to find the lost steamer Chicora
by methods of his own. He is after
the $4,000 reward offered.
The schooner Minch took fire when
near Port Huron and during the ex-
element the mate, Andrew Barber,
fell overheard and was drowned.
While Wixoms circus was giving an
exhibition at Central Lake violent
wind storm came up and blew the tent
down. Every one got a soaking.
The Litchfield village council has
adopted a resolution prohibiting all
pool, card and billiard tables and games
of chance being operated in the village.
During a severe storm at Maple Rap
ids, large barn and contents belong
ing to Mrs l.. III. Peet, was burned by
lightning. Three horses were also
burned.
The thermometer registered at 95
in the shade. At Kalamazoo it was SO
hot that men quit work on street pave
ments. The men are working nights
instead.
The girls industrial school at Adrian,
celebrated it's fifteenth anniversary.
Mrs. A. Il. Bliss delivered an address.
Since its opening the school has cared
for 1,126 girls.
Jacob Stopper, aged 81 tailor, died
suddenly at Jackson, from heart fail
ure induced by hot weather. He had
resided in the city for "A years, and
leaves widow and six children.
During a storm at Petosl1ey several
yachts were wrecked, pair of horses
belonging to VIM. Atkins were killed
and the electric wires burned out of
the Belvidere hotel by lightning.
A second gas plant is about to be set
up in kalamazoo. The old company
furnishes gas at $1.25 per thousand;
the new company asks only 60 cents
for small consumers and 40 cents for
large.
Fire broke OFT in the Central hotel
of North Mitchell, and before the
flames could be checked ruined the
building and destroyed all the furni-
ture; loss, s. 800. The hotel will be
rebuilt.
Benjamin Hodge, an aged farmer
near Ionia, while catching Il horse in
the pasture was kicked on the right
leg. The bone was shattered so that
amputation was necessary and he will
probably die.
The Delta Lumber Co., of Detroit, is
in financial difficulties, "A trust mort
gage running to Gov. John Il. Rich
having been filed in the Office of the
city clerk, securing creditors for debts
which aggregate $66s,426
The Michigan grand lodge of the
United Order of Odd Fellows (coloreD
convened at Battle Creek in fourth an
nual session. The total membership
in the state is 2So. In the United
States there are 1000 lodges with "a
membership of 2l7,00i.
Santanelli, the hypnotist, put Lyman
l.. Kilmer to sleep at the Lansing hos
pital and proposes to keep him asleep
% days, if possible, without food or
drink. Eight days is the record so far.
Only the matron of the hospital will
have access TO the room.
Philip Slattery, an old and respected
pioneer. was found dead on the road
side near North Branch. lie was in a
partially reclining position under
tree, where he had evidently taken
shelter from the intense heat or a
severe thunder storm.
Ferdinand Weber. a well-known mu-
stefan, of Saginaw, who has been miss
ing for several days, was found dead
in his house where he lived alone. He
had been addicted to the use of drugs
and it is thought an overdose of NOR
phine caused his death.
Mrs. Esther Brooks, aged 60, the
wife of well-to-do farmer in the
township of Ross, Kalamazoo county,
who was arrested in a store in Battle
Creek, in the act of shop lifting and in
whose home quantities of fine goods
were found by officers, has been ac-
quilted because of her mental condition.
There has been considerable excite
ment at Valencia, Spain, recently, oc-
casioned by popular demonstrations
against the action of the government
in sending additional reinforcements
of troops to Cuba. Anumber of people
have been arrested for attempting by
force to prevent the soldiers from en-
barking on board the Spanish trans
ports
The Osceola sand shaft of the Frank
lin ,Junctures mine at Houghton,
caught fire, burning the shaft house
and timber in the upper portion of the
shaft. The money loss will be small.
The miners were preparing to go UNI
foreground when the fire was discov-
cred. Had it broken out a half hour
earlier or later number of lives would
have been lost, as the shaft was the
only means of egress from the work.
ings.
The weekly crop bulletin says the
upper northern counties of the lower
peninsula have had too little rain, the
lower counties too much, delaying farm
work and damaging wheat and oats in
shock and stacks. Corn, beans and po-
tatoes, pastures and meadows have,
however, hourished wonderfully under
al