The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-09-04
NEWS FOR MICHIGANDERs.


The "old fremont house." a land
mark of early Saginaw, was destroyed
by fire.
Twenty-six bands attended the band
convention at Ionia. The city was
handsomely decorated.
Harvey G. Hall, a farmer of Fort
Gratiot township, was arrested at Port
Huron for alleged forgery.
About 60 delegates attended the
lower peninsula grand lodge of Good
Templars. The grand lodge degree
was conferred on 33 members.
Col. ID. 5. Wagstaff, the best known
man among Michigan publishers, is
now located in Detroit, general north
ern agent of the good old c., IL. & d.
railway.
The residence of w. r. Kilborne. at
Bay View, was split open by lightning
but did not take fire. A heavy rain
and hail storm prevailed during the
night, did much damage.
A hucllster named Henry Blair, of
Saginaw. was driving out in the coun-
try and jumped off the rig to get some
apples. just as his feet touched the
ground he uttered an exclamation of
pain and dropped dead.
The eighteenth annual farmers pic
mic of Oakland, Livingston, Wayne and
Washtenaw counties was held at Whit
more Lake. The weather was perfect
and the grounds were filed with
crowd of 5000 people.
Wesley Ellis, ex-treasurer of Cold
water township, Isabella county, and
afterwards supervisor, is alleged to
have been short in his account about
$500. He has paid back $500, leaving
an alleged balance of S324.39.
Bert Schultz was accidentally shot
while in bed at Big Beaver by little
playmate named Freeman Robbins,
with whom he was spending the night.
The bullet'crashed through his skull
and lodged in the bedroom wall.
The thirty-first annual reunion of
the Eleventh Michigan, Gen. Slough
tons regiment. was held in Sturgis.
1t was decided TO erect a monument at
Sturgis TO the memory of Gen. Slough
ton in the form of "a large gun.
Food Commissioner Storrs reports
that 3s samples of food were analysed
last month. Just one-half were adul-
terated. One sample of what was sold
as cream of tartar proved to contain
not particle of cream of tartar.
The steamer Harvey Watson, owned
by the Macatawa Park association,
which has been engaged as a ferry be-
tween the resorts near Holland, was
burned to the waters edge. If the
machinery has escaped serious injury
the loss is estimated at $1,000, with
small insurance.
6. II. Thomas, a diver and all around
athlete. dived into the St Joseph river
at Benton Harbor from the trestle
work of the Chicago & West Michigan
railway bridge, 60 feet above the water,
turning a sommersault in mid air in
the descend and came out uninjured.
The daring feat was for n purse and
was witnessed by 5000 people.
The lumber docks of the Cheboygan
Lumber Co., known as Nelson's break
water, caught fire from spark from a
passing boat and at least $500, 900 feet
of lumber burned. The lumber was
situated So far out in the lake that the
city fire department could render nc
aid, and the flames are famed by a
strong wind. The loss is about 49,, 200,
insured to the limit
Five of the convicts of the Marquette
state prison who were cutting down a
hill on the prison grounds, made a
break for liberty and got to the cover
of swamp nearby, despite fusillade
of rife balls from the guards. The re-
mainder of the gang was quickly
locked in the cells and the prison force
turned out in pursuit of the fugitives,
who were all coralled in an eiour.
Deputy Clerk Alex. Strom, of Gogebic
county, has disappeared, and a large
deficiency i'm his accounts is reported.
He is known to be short 81, 100 as as
signee in the Markstrom failure, but
his official shortage is not yet reported.
Strom was agent for n number OF
transportation companies, besides be-
ing treasurer and secretary of several
local concerns. lie left wife to whom
he has been married but few months.
Clarence Howell, aged is, was thrown
from horse near the ID. & M. railway
bridge at Bay City, and died a few
minutes later from the injuries he sus.
tanned by striking on his head.