The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-03-27


The Third Michigan cavalry reunion
was held at Lansing with over 100
members present. Adrian Yates, of
Grand Rapids, was elected president
and o. L. Webster of Owosso, secretary.
Mrs. Esther Kinney celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
at Laingsburg. She is in good health
and does enough walking, working and
reading to tire many younger women.
At the winding up of a dance in a
drunken row at the boarding house of
August Linn, at Fulton, Jacob Pollan,
aged 30, single, was killed. The sher-
If locked four men in jail on suspicion.
Margaret I. Tate, the pretty daugh-
ter of VIM. Tate, began suit by capias
at Grand Rapids against Harrison Il.
Ledyard claiming $50, 900 for breach
of promise to marry, and deception
generally
Chauncey e. Mccormick local agent
of the Chicago, Kalamazoo d Saginaw
railroad at kalamazoo, has disappeared
and it is said that there is a large
shortage in his accounts. He was
heavy drinker.
At depth of 3s5 feet large body
of magnetic ore has been encountered
on the Quinnesec town site. The find
is considered the most important and
valuable that has been made on the
Menominee range in recent years.
The Indictment against Edwy c.
Reid, of the Allegan Gazette, in the
IT,. S. court at Grand Rapids, for pub
fishing obscene poetry in his paper and
depositing it in the mails, was quashed
because of insufficient evidence. New
charges will be made.
Fire originated in the basement
of the Lenawee Preserving Co. S
plant at Adrian. 1t followed the
stairways and elevator to the roof,
burning the floors, part of the roof,
and doing $1,000 damage to the build
ing and machinery.
BENJAMIN Hathaway, the farmer
poet of Little Prairie Ronde, is dead.
hathaway made his own coffin. Years
ago he planted a chestnut tree. Not
long ago he fellcd the tree, sawed it
up and made the box into which he
was carried to his grave.
Gov. Rich has appointed William S.
Turclk, of Alma, a member of the board
of managers of the Soldiers Home to
succeed James a. Crozier, of Menomi-
nee, who was recently elected com
mandant. Mr.. Turclls term of Office
will expire in March, 1899.
The little son of Joseph Toynton,
aged two and a half years, fell over a
chair at Pontiac and bit his tongue,
which bled profusely for some time.
Two days later the wound broke out
afresh and, despite all the doctors
could do, the little boy died.
The Burbridge block at Bay City was
damaged to the extent of $1,000 by
fire. The Bay City Cigar Co., on the
second floor, loses 81, 900 and William
Keisler, saloonist on the first floor,
$500. All of the losses are covered by
insurance. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Rufus Baker and wife celebrated
their golden wedding at Fairfield.
Mr.. Baker was Il poor man so years
ago, but by frugality he has become
one of the largest tax payers in Fair
field He started one of the first,
if not the first cheese factory in Lena
wee county.
Muskegon has a mystery. In n house
on the Rood farm the body of Charles
Converse with his throat cut was found
and by his side closed razor and a
letter to his daughter The letter was
not the dead mans writing and there
are many who believe that he was
murdered. but no motive is given.
Joseph Albert Vinson, of Port Hu
ron, a convict in the northern prison
with several aliases, has made a second
written statement to the prison chap
lain confessing to six murders. Vim
son has served time in Ohio and Mich
igan prisons, and if his confession is
substantiatcd, his criminal record is
appalling.
Elder Buck, the divine healer, who
took undue liberties with a woman
| who called him in to treat her at
Grand Rapids was fined $50 and
costs with 30 days in Jail us an alter
native. Not having the funds, he
went to jail. His wife and two chill
dren have arrived from Dakota, and
are in destitute circumstances.
Peter Rheinhart moved out of the
old building at Benton Harbor two
weeks ago where five of his seven
children died of diphtheria and the
sixth, girl of 10, was left speechlcss
| by the disease. While the seventh
was vet barely convalescent their home
and most of their belongings were
consumed by fire. Their loss is $500,
with no insurance. The family is en-
tirely penniless.
Worlimen, while ditching near Eau
Claire, unearthed a portion of the sl<el-
eton of mammoth. A tooth that
was dug up measured 25 inches in cir.
conference, the jaw bone was nearly
three feet in diameter and a tusk was
two feet in length. Three teeth were
found which glistened as though re-
Gently polished. Other huge bones
were found and the entire skeleton
will probably be brought to light.
Two men, one whose name cannot
be learned, the other giving the name
of William Hunt, were asphyXiated by
gas at the Bayview hotel at Marquette
Both men were lahorers OF middle age
and unmarried. Hunt, at one time
admitted that his name was assumed
and said his real name was llargraves
His family connections in England are
said to be highly respectable and ht
| claimpd to he the owner of an estate