The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-11-19
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


The annual reunion of the Sixth
Michigan cavalry will be held at Ionia
on Friday, December 81.
Scott Haywood, of Niles, writes that
he has crossed the White Pass safely
and has reached Dawson City.
The barn owned by George Metcalf,
of Seneca, Lenawee county, was, with
its contents, destroyed by fire.
DIR. X. McDermott has been appoint
ed a member of the board of pension
examining surgeons at Benzonia
Miss Margaret Stewart, of Farming
ton, Oakland county, has taken out
hunters license at Iron Mountain.
Delay BabcoclI, Johnstown farmer,
was held up near Battle Creek by two
men on bicycles and robbed of S25.
Port Hurons auditorium was form
ally opened with literary and musi-
cal entertainment and a grand ball.
Quartermaster-G General Whites in
fuence may secure next years encamp-
ment of the NJ. n. q. for Grand Rapids.
The Holland carriage and bending
works were sold under mortgage sale
for 1000. The plant was valued at
$780, 900.
VIM. L. Hogue has beea commits
stoned postmaster at Baroda, James w.
Payne at Pompeii and William Gage at
Luikville.
Farmers around Crosswell complain
no 70 lfg,NAca Nf fhni,.
hay and other produce on account of a
scarcity of cars.
William Eames, of Grand Blanc
township, the oldest man in Genessee
county, has reached tAe Tooth anniver-
sary of his birth.
The supreme court has rendered
decision fpholding the new fish law
forbidding the use of nets in the Great
lakes from Nov TO Dec. Is.
While fixing target on a tree with
his rife Guy LamereauX, aged 10, shot
himself at Otsego. The ball entered
between the ribs and penetrated his
lungs.
The Garland Buggy Co., has been
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operations before Dec. I. 1t will turn
out between 1000 and 5000 vehicles a
season.
Samuel Campbell, aged As, freight
brakeman, whose home is in Detroit,
lost his left arm at the shoulder while
coupling cars at Vassar. Recovery
doubtful
George L. Bowen, blacksmith, was
arrested at Lansing and taken to Pc
toskey, charged with betraying Cora
Hauser, of Three Rivers, who gave
birth to twins.
Charles Settlers, aged 20, assaulted
John Watkins with a club at Water
vliet. Watkins is in precarious con-
dition and may die. The tragedy grew
out of a petty quarrel.
Larium, at one time a small addition
to Calumet, has built up to such an ex-
tent that it is now large town and
promises to surpass Calumet as a bus
mess and residence city.
Grand Rapids filed in part of the
old steamboat channel, in order TO inn
prove the market site. The war de-
partment has ordered the channel re-
stored at cost of $4,000.
The Universal Construction Co, of
Chicago, has been ordered TO remove
the steel bridges which they built over
Grand river at Eaton Rapids. The
company has demanded pay.
Susie, the 1O-year-old daughter of
Representative John X. Campbell of
Augusta, Washtenaw county, was
burned to death by knocking over
lamp and catching her dress on fire.
Louis l.. Shaefer, aged %, of Sagi-
nav, was shot and killed while duck
hunting with Rudolph Endert on Wild
Fowl bay. Their boat capsized and
the gun was accidentally discharged
Albert E. Cowles, ex-judge of pro-
bate, has formed a law partnership at
Lansing with Lewis NJ. Miller, chief
clerk of the house of representatives,
and compiler of the Michigan statutes
The survey of the main line of the
new electric railroad from Kalamazoo
to Battle Creek is nearly completed,
and the survey of the loop from
Augusta to Gull lake has been started
Burglars entered the saloon of
George B. Martin & Co., at Newport,
pried open the money drawer of one
of the nickel-in-t he-slot machines and
took the box, with between $50 and
S55. Nothing else was disturbed.
George King, aged Is, was butcher
ing hogs at Brown City, when he slip
ped and fell backwards on long
knife, which went clear through his
body, severing his intestines. He died
in great agony.
Mechanical Engineer Moore has
thoroughly inspected the Pontiac, Ok
ford Il Northern roadbed and finds
that the repairs ordered last summer
by the railroad commissioners office
have been made.
Augustus Bean and Mike Orcutt
went on a spree together at Muskegon
and upon waking from a stupor drank
from a bottle containing nitric acid,
which they mistook for alcohol. Two
funerals was the result.