The Yale expositor., 1896-06-19
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 steamer Idlewild is on the To-
ledo route this season.
Capac people are bound to have a
new depot before long.
II. w. Knight, Richmond pioneer,
died June 6. at the age of 80 years.
M. G. Skinner, of INLAY City, will
open general mercantile business in
Ubly.
Maud Grey, of Port Huron, was SER
iously injured by falling from her
bicycle.
Robert Dunery, proprietor of book
store in Utica, has mysteriously dis
appeared.
Capacers are kicking about the hor-
rible stencil arising from numerous pig
pens situated in their midst.
Charles Schoners and Sophia Paul,
of Casco, aged 81 and 63 years, have
taken out Il license to marry.
Matthew Bosch, of near Armada,
lost his house and contents by fire one
night last week. Nothing was saved.
John Mcdonald, Brown City
moulder, got his foot terribly burned
last week with ladle full of hot iron.
Romeo people have 5000 on hand
for the cyclone sufferers besides about
81, 900 worth of furniture and clothing.
The publisher of the County Journal,
Carsonville, was married on Thursday
June II, to Ida Courtney, of same
place.
Lamey Williams, u siX-year-old boy,
was instantly killed near Juniata, by
being run oyer by wagon laden with
saw logs.
Sherman S. Eaton. prosperous and
influential citizen of Memphis, and the
first president of the village, died
June 9th.
People are stealing flowers from
graves in the Richmond cemetery and
those caught in the act are threatened
with the law.
Thomas Donlay, of LenoX township,
was kicked in the stomach by a horse
one day last week and died from the
injuries the next day.
The annual meeting and picnic of
the ST. Clair County Pioneer society
will be held in Port Huron on Tuesday
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The st. Clair Republican issued a
beautiful Oakland edition last week.
The different views of that famous
summer resort were fine.
The Johnson House, in Inlay City,
which has been vacant for the past
year, will be opened as temperance
house by John Maynard, of Detroit.
l.. S. Conner, foreman of Sand
Beach planning mill, had his hand
terribly crushed while at work in the
mill. The fingers will be amputated
A boycott formerly placed on the
firm of |. f. McCollum q Co., Port
Huron, through the firms refusal to
recognize the Longshoremen's union,
has been declared Off.
Sands G.. Carpenter, an old school
master and civil engineer and famil-
lar figure on Port Huron streets, was
taken to the poor house last week.
His children are in prosperous circum-
stances but have long forgotten their
father.
Edgar Schulz, of North Branch, was
instantly killed by lightning, while
closing u window. His body was scar
ed from head to foot. Others of the
family were shocked, the house took
fire, but the flames were extinguished
by the hired man.
The Michigan Salt Works. two miles
below Marine City, were destroyed last
Thursday evening by an explosion and
| fire. Three men are killed and a
fourth injured. The men killed are
William Mowbray, night foreman,
John f. Huley, farmer, Peter Booth
fireman, and Cyrenius O'Neill is badly
burned The loss is about SOC, 900 with
about 0,000 insurance.