The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-10-30
NEWS FOR MIcHIoANoERs.

Mason county supervisors have pared
down county officials salaries.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Everhardt cele-
brated their golden wedding at Te-
cumsch.
Ben Christensen was sent to Jail 80
days at Mcnominee for hugging ladies
on the street.
At the Baptist state convention at
Plainwell So 900 was secured for Kala-
mazoo college.
The store and Maccabee hall of
Henry Hoover, at Smiths, was de-
stroycd by fire.
Chas. Horton, of Calumet, pulled n
gun through fence and his right arm
was amputated.
The l7-year-old son of s. Parks, of
Riverdale, shot his arm off at the
shoulder while hunting.
Washtenaw county supervisors have
reduced the salaries of several officials
from $500 to 800 per year.
Mrs. Zebcr Root, of Niles, celebrated
her eghtieth birthday by husking a
| DuShel or corn IN the nelu.
Emil Pardon, brakeman on Michelfs
| logging road, was killed while making
coupling near Lake City.
The board of supervisors of Oscoda
county have reduced the salaries of
nearly all the county officers.
VIM. Vanderveer. Hollands leading
butcher. was arrested for alleged COM
plicity in the tannery swindle.
William FIFTEEN fell FROM tree while
picking apples at St. Clair, breaking a
leg, collar bone and three ribs.
C. IL. Morse, wife and two children
will drive overland from Alma to Mr..
Morse's former home in Maryland.
John Evert committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with a pocket knife at
the farm of James Patterson, near
Ravenna.
A c. r. & l. passenger train sJrNck a
milk wagon at Grand Rapids aud killed
the driver, d. Van Middleworth, and
Doth horses.
Five cows on David Wilcox's farm
near Bay City, afflicted with tubcrcu-
losis. were killed by order of the state
veterinarian.
Solomon Elbinger, n travelling man
of Bay City, was killed by his horse
running away and throwing him out
of the buggy.
James Shurley, aged As, committed
suicide at Ann Arbor, by hanging him
-, L.
strip of cloth.
Conrad smith, an old and respected
farmer, was thrown from a wagon and
killed, near Newaygo, by his horse
running away.
Mrs John Burbank and Mrs. L. West
ern, elderly ladies of Hartford, were
very seriously injured by their horse
running away. Mrs. Western may no,
recover
Clovis Duval. Marquette tailor
committed suicide by attaching II rub
Der tube To n gas fixture and putting
the other end in his mouth and inhal
ing the gas.
The sixteen annual convention of Tho
w. c. Il. L. of the Eighth district was
held at Saginaw All the old officers
were reelected with Mrs. Melissa Il
Adams as president.
The G. II. & Iround house burned t.
the ground at Mackinaw City. Th'
contents were all destroyed. including
passenger engine No 10. The loss il
estimated at $4,000.
Col. A. T. Bliss lumber yards at Car
rollton. were set on fire by some boy
with lanterns. The estimated loss /
700. 900 feet of lumber, valued at Sl2, 200
, covered by insurance.
While hunting near Kingsley Cla nd
, Putnam, aged %, was killed by the ac
, cidental discharge of his gun whicl
: slipped off of log. He leaves
! widow and two children.
2 A large barn in Essex township
5 Clinton county, owned by John [
5 Henderson, was destroyed by fire tc
: gether with large quantity of hay
( grain and farming implements.
!. Ora l.. Hemingway, well-to-d
S farmer, near Orion, lost three barns b
n fire. The barns were full of grain an
d hay. and three horses were also burned
n The loss is 81, 500; insurance 81 500.
n The new Detroit & Mackinaw Raj
u road Co. has made formal demand {
!, the Business Mems association of Ba
City for the $685. 900 promised as
bonus for the extension of the roa
from Alger to that city.
d The Drydocls Iron Co. S plant at Ba
n City was totally destroyed by fire. Th
r plant employed about 30 men but wa
l. working only about half time. III
IS plant was valued at 100000; insuranc
# $4,000. The origin of the fire is III
= known.
n The aged aunt of Arthur Smith,
: Dawson, fell down a hay chute di
= lance of 10 feet, and tore asunder I'll
is ligaments of one of her arms. 81
was in the chute for an hour and wa
rescued by means of ropes. She
,e seriously injured.
Mrs. Archie McDougal, in a fit of a
ir ger, shot and killed her husband
ar Memo minee. He had returned hon