The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-06-25
rELEoRAPAIc TIcKINGs.

Loss S., 900; partially insured.
Over {, 900 lives have been lost by the
earthquake disturbances which re-
Gently visited the province of Assam,
East India.
The window glass factory at Orestes,
Ind, has burned. The factory is
owned by the United Glass Co., and
employed 400 people and the total loss
will be $780, 900.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
has presented to Secretary of State
Sherman a vigorous formal protest
against the treaty for the annexation
of Hawaii to the United States.
A large hyena escaped from the Lin
coin park menagerie at Chicago, and
during the night ravaged several
graves in Graceland cemetery. The
police refused to help catch the beast,
but it was killed by a posse of men
about II miles out in the country.
The trial of Frank Butler, charged
with the murder of Capt Lee Weller,
and six other men whom he took sep
arately on gold prospecting trips IN
Australia, and who was caught In San
Francisco, has been concluded, the
jury rendering a verdict of guilty.
A carriage containing four ladies was
struck by train on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Logansport, Ind. and drag
ged 200 feet. Miss Daisy Raymond, OF
Valparaiso. was instantly killed, and
Misses Lillian Moore, of Lafayette, and
Stella Foster, of Logansport, were NOR
tally injured.
Over 5, 900 unemployed Poles marched
to the city hall at Buffalo to demand
bread. The outbreak arose because
600 men asked for work on street rail-
way construction, and only so were en-
gagged. The men had long looked for
employment at this work. After their
rejection, meeting was held, and all
officeholders were denounced.
The library building of the the Iowa
state university was struck by light
ming and destroyed by fire. The loss
is SlOo. 900. OF this $780, was in
books. Many of which are out of
print and cannot be replaced, some OF
them dating from the beginning of the
10th century Fireman l.. NJ. Leek was
} caught under falling roof and burned
TO death. The state carries no insur-
ance on any public buildings.
A very heavy thunder storm passed
over Owosso doing much damage.
Chas. Moss, a laborer, was struck by
lightning and killed while sitting at
= the supper table. Miss Horigan was
4 seriously injured, and horse owned by
e Gastric & Shaw was killed while the
Y driver was holding the team. At Cor
: runna the Baptist parsonage was struck
: by lightning.
The Michigan Association of indie
= pendent Telephone Companies was or
t panized at the Russell house Detroit
I with nearly 80 men, representing the
c most OF the independent companies III
= the state. present. Joseph b. Ware, oil
e Grand Rapids. was elected president
and Alex l. Mcleod. of Detroit, sec
), rotary. A constitution and bylaws
o were adopted and everything started
e for a strong movement to fight the
e Bell telephone monopoly.
l. Thomas Turk, one of the pioneer
e residents and merchants OF Detroit anc
&c Pontiac. died at his home at the latte'
place, at the age of II. lie assisted IL
,r LAYING the first plank sidewalk, one
d plank wide. between Grand Circus
" park and the city hall in Detroit
e which was laid in 1885, In 1874 M
m opened a small grocery store In Pom
4. tiac. The business steadily grew nm
e. til 1875, when then he sold to his sons
who still continue it on large scale
Of r. A. Wilson, superintendent OF tn
al electric light plant at Marquette, say
C. he has discovered complete model o
xt an electric lighting plant made by a
re eccentric inventor named John lngall
Nv which has lain in disuse since 1887 an
of has just been unearthed in pertec
C. working order. BY it light simlla
to the incandescent bulb is said TO b
.o obtained without the use OF tlamen
e. the light being caused by waves
10 electrical energy forced through vac
ho uum on "high frequency
es Lacon, Ill.-John Southworth,
up South Lacon, who kept house for hin