The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-06-26
MISCELLANE OUS.

The Springfield Grocers' association
held its annual picnic at Havana, Ill.
About 1900 people attended.
The Toronto Methodist General Con-
ference passed strong resolution con-
demning the use of coercive and sec
tartan influences in the effort to re-
establish separate schools in Manitoba.
1t is authoritatively announced that
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr., whose mar
riage to Miss Grace Wilson was set for
Thursday, is seriously i'll with infam-
matory rheumatism at the home Of his
father. 1t is thought that the Wedding
may have to be postponed.
Seven companies of state troops,
comprising the entire First Regiment
Of the Oregon National Guard, left
Portland for Astoria to suppress the
lawless acts which have marked the
course Of the iishcrme2's strike on the
lower Columbia River for the past two
months.
Returns to the Canadian fisheries de-
partment of the spring catch of seals
by Canadian vessels taken off the Brit
ish Columbia and Washington coasts
show the decrease Of nearly thousand
skins.
Indiana labor unions will hold rally
at Elwood in September, and $1,000
union workmen are expected to attend.
Matters of grave Importance will be
considered, and the proposed consolida'
ton of the different Indiana glass
workers unions will be perfected and
ratified.
John Marsh a pioneer settler OF
Illinois, is dead at Maroa. aged ~ years.
Sidney Martin. a resident of Rock
ford, ILL.,, for forty-one years, died very
suddenly, aged So.
Mrs. Rufus Kibbe, aged 81 years, who
had resided at Coldwater, Mich, forty
five years. is dead.
George Moulton, prominent Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
engineer, aged co years, died at Elk
hart, Ind, of typhoid fever. Adolpb
Shick, aged 80 years, is dead at the
same place.
Rev. julius Becks, pastor of st.
is reported to be an inmate of Chi
cago hospital. His friends fear that
ill health will compel his permanent
retirement from ministerial work.
Methodists OF Wabash, Ind, dedi-
Gated handsome new structure, the
address being delivered by DR.. d. II.
Moore, editor of the Western Christian
Advocate. The Institution is free from
debt.
The treasury department has nearly
completed the payments Of beet and
maple sugar claims under the bounty
appropriation Of $23S,2S and it is ex-
pected that warrants covering the
whole amount will have been issued.
by July 1, when work will begin on tho
100000 appropriation for cane sugar.
1t Is expected that the percentage OF
payments to claimants will be between
Go and 20.
Every incoming train at Denver
Monday brought large number OF
members of the Junior Order OF United
American Mechanics, whose twenty
eighth annual convention began in that
city Tuesday.
Judge Field of Louisville. KY, has
ordered the assignees to pay out 12h
per cent on claims allowed against the
Columbian Fire Insurance Company
estate. 1t Is thought the stockholders
will get about 80 cents on the dollar.
Fred J. Gibson of Dunlap, financial
secretary of the local camp OF Modern,
Woodmen, came to Peoria, ILL.,, Thurs
day with several hundred dollars in his
possession and has not been seen since.
He Is farmer with family.
At Menominee, Mich, the annual
convention of the Lake Superior dis
trict of the Methodist Episcopal church
closed it's four days session. Rev.
John Sweet, presiding elder, OF Calu-
met, was elected president, Rev. F..
Townsend of Bay Mills secretary, and.
Rev. James Elford of Rockland treas-
urer.
In the court-martial Of the Italian
general, Baratieri. at Massowah, the
advocate general demanded that Bara-
teri be sentenced to ten years in a
fortress, with the attendant penalties.