The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-08-06

Frank Klumpp, proprietor of large
stock farm near Port Huron, after. pied
to suicide by severing the arteries in
his arms, but this evidently proved too
slow so he jumped into his cistern and
was drowned. Family troubles.
A meat market belonging to Martin
Kramer and a grocery store occupied
by Martin Waallxes, were destroyed by
fire at Muskegon. VIM. Winter, his
wife and son barely escaped from their
rooms over the grocery. Loss $4,000.
Bears are said to be unusually com
mon about Seney. Geo Taylor was at
tackled by a large black bear while re-
turning home from the mill, but bruin
reiterated after receiving several
thumps on the head with an iron bar.
The wife of Wallace j. Scobv
dropped lighted lamp at Grand Rap
ids The oil caught fire and Mrs.
Scoby was probably fatally burned
A young son was suffocated, while
two other children escaped. Scoby is
in New Orleans.
A gasoline stove exploded in the
home of S. A. Lockwood at Lapeer.
very severely burning Mrs. Lockwood
and Rena Brown, a domestic. The
girls presence of mind saved Mrs.
Lockwood's life as she smothered the
flames on her with rug.
A $4,000 fire at Ashley destroyed
the hardware store and warehouse of
Jos. f. Bush, the general store of Mill
Nj Cla,.lr ha Got To- Eunnf m cr
Post printing office, the postoffice,
two vacant stores, three barns and an
ice house. The total insurance is only
$4,000.
Ex-County Treasurer b. w. Wright,
of Ishpeming, has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Ropes gold mine in Mar
quette county, whose liabilities are es-
timated at 100000. The machinery,
buildings, ETC., are valued at $4,000,
but won't bring half that at receivers
sale. An attempt will be made to re-
organize.
The fifth annual meeting of the
United States League of Building and
Loan associations was held at Detroit,
and the sessions were full of interest
Lake w. Sanborn, of Illinois, was
elected president; II. T.. Cellarius, of
Cincinnati, secretary, and w. c. Shep-
pard, of Grand Rapids, treasurer
They will meet at Omaha In 1898.
Photographer McSherry, of Hub
bardston, recently took family
group. There was only one child in it
and she stood beside her mother.
When the plate was developed sec
ond child was revealed standing with
a hand on the living child's shoulder.
1t can be explained in only one way,
that it was spirit of sister of the
living child.
The Duluth, South Shore g. Atlantic
railway will be extended to Calumet,
the largest town of the copper district,
at once. The narrow gauge tracks of
the Mineral Range r. r., will be wild
ened and passenger and freight trains
run through to Calumet A new passen-
ger station and new wharves of large
capacity will be built at Hancock, and
a number of other improvements made.
The deputy game warden of Pressure
Isle county complains to the state Off
Gals that the board of supervisors
have fixed his compensation at one
cent per day. The board fatty in
formed him that they did not want
those laws enforced in that county and
the prosecuting attorney told him the
same thing. AS result all the fish
and game laws are being hagrantly
and openly violated.
Frank A. Covey, of Kalamazoo, is at
work on huge airship in which he in
tends to go to the Klondike regions,
carrying, besides provisions, two
companions. He expects TO make the
first stop at Winnipeg, where addi-
tional supplies will be procured. In a
week from that time he says he will
land in the heart of the gold regions if
the wind is favorable, securing such
claims as he may find, and returning
inside of six weeks.
Chief Simon Pokagon, of the Potta-
watomie tribe in Allegau county, is
very i'll and says he expects to shortly
leave for the happy hunting grounds.
He is almost 80 years old and has done
great deal for his people in obtaining
justice from the government. During
1898 he was a prominent figure at the
Worlds Fair where he delivered sew
eral lectures of historical interest. He
has since written a book bringing out
the white man selfishness and rapacity
in dealing with Indian tribes.
John Ryan was elected drain com
missioner of Scioto township, Shiawas-
see county, last spring and notwith-
standing the fact that the last legisla-
ture abolished that Office John has been
doing business just the same. He ex-
perienced no particular difficulty until
the laborers who had been construct.
ing costly drain demanded their pay
and the township treasurer refused tc
cash the commissioners orders and in
formed the men that they must look to
Mr.. Ryan for their pay, about $500.
5About $50 in money and $1,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry disappeared
from the jewelry store of Although &
Son, at Ilillsdale, at the same time
that f. w. vergein, who had been