The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-09-10

took paris green and died.
Application has been made in the
| Berrien circuit court for receiver To
close up the affairs of the Benton Har-
Dor g. Eastern Electric Railway Co.
Three Rivers has voted to bond for
$50, 900 for new county buildings in
case the st. Joseph supervisors can be
induced to remove the county seat
from Centerville.
The house occupied by John Tolan
| at Saginaw was destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Tolan was alone with her young
son and they had to crawl through a
window to escape.
Albert Graves barns, near Ypsilanti.
with the contents, including three
years crops of wheat, valuable live
stock, farming implements, ETC., were
totally destroyed bv fire.
The Soldiers and Sailors association
of st. Clair. Macomb and Sanilac coun-
ties held a two-days' encampment at
Yale with 500 veterans and several
thousand visitors in attendance.
LNIOJ LtIu0s 1EOu lCy was AOhHNi
dead in bed at jackson. He was in
good health at midnight when awak.
ened by violent storm, and went
about the house closing the windows.
The strike at Pingree & Smiths shoe
factory in Detroit. has ended and the
employees went to work again just two
weeks after they walked out The
terms of settlement were not made
known.
1t is reported that a little child,
near Deep River, Arenac county, has
been torn to pieces uy bear, in the
berry patches in that vicinity, nothing
being found out few shreds of its
clothes.
George Dewars, employed on John
Manniug's farm in Blumfeld township,
Saginaw county, was instantly killed
by being caught in a steam hay press.
Ills head and neck were frightfully
crushed.
Allison Alvey, who eloped with Mrs.
c. w. England from Westerville, o..
and was caught at Howell, pleaded
guilty to charge of adultery and was
sentenced to serve 90 days in the
county Jail.
Mrs. Charles L. Lockwood suicided
at Holly with carbolic acid. She had
been in very poor health for several
years and had no hopes of ever becom-
ing well. She leaves a husband and
five small children.
Rosa Coins, a young colOred woman
near Benton Harbor, was shot twice in
the leg while out walking alone. The
would-be murderer fired seven shots at
her from behind a Llump of bushes and
then escaped in the darkness.
Farmer Black, living on the Flint
river near Saginaw, fred in the air to
brighten a potato thief. The fellow
returned the compliment, hitting
Black in the leg, and then carried
away all the potatoes he wanted.
The board of state auditors have al
lowed So, 200 to Mrs. Margaret Hines
for the loss of her son, member oil
the M. n. c., who was killed by fall
ing tree while on duty during the min
ers' strike at Ishpeming two years ago.
The mining companies about Han.
cock have not received their usual sup
| ply of coal owing to the coal miners
strike, and have been buying up all the
hardwood in sight and are employing
several hundred men to get it out and
haul it,
| Minnie Frederick, aged 10, pretty
and accomplished girl of Niles, made
an attempt at suicide by taking car
bolic acid, because her parents refused
to allow her to have gentlemen com
pany. Her life was saved after sew
eral hours hard work.
| The State Teachers association will
hold the annual meeting at Lansing,
Dec IS. The county school commis.
sioners' section will meet Dec 81. A
new departure will be the substitution
of a banquet and social session for one
of the evening lectures.
Wayne county's Sunday school Rally
day has increased continually in inter
ested and in the size of the turnout
This years Rally day at Detroit, was a
huge success and Belle Isle was crowded
almost to its limit by the children and
their parents and friends.
Anna Teets, 12-vear-old girl OF
Manton, was waylaid while in the
woods after cows and horribly out
ragged, by IA man who made his escape
while the girl was left in an uncon
scious condition. Judd Huff, farmer
was arrested on suspicion.
John Snyder, aged 90, while bathing
in Corey lake. near Jones, were
drowned. An effort was made by Del
bert Siclles to save him, but just a,
the drowning man was raised to tho
surface the boat capsized and Sickles
also came near being drowned.
The annual picnic of the farmer
clubs of Washtenaw, Livingston anc
Oakland counties, at Whitmore lake
was attended bv 10000 people. The
state legislature was ccnsured for TIL,
failure to tax corporations, and tn,
senate for opposing measures advo
Gated by Gov. Pingree.
Commander Willis. of tho Michigan
naval brigade; +. w. Wheeler. the Bay
City shipbuilder, and other Michigan