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

by order of the board of health and all
public meetings are prohibited.
The Michigan Masonic home library
has just received between 400 and 500
which formed the library of the late
George Il. Pantlind, who died about a
year ago Mr.. Pantlind was past com
mander of the Michigan Knights
Templar.
Mrs. Mariah Scranton, was arrested
at Coruuna, charged with cruelty TO
her little nephew and niece. 1t is al
legged she whipped her niece across the
face, tied her hands above the head and
put her under barrel half a day for
punishment.
The biggest logging contract yet
closed for the season is that of cutting
II, 900, 900 feet of pine on Ford river by
Capt. Martin Golden and his nephew,
William Golden, of Menominee, for
Utley 81 Douglass, the big lumber and
salt firm of Manistee.
Deputy State Game Warden Groce
rock arrested Charles Bell, near Me-
nominee, for violating the game laws
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deer season opened. The carcass and
hide were confiscated by the officer and
the prisoner was fined SO and costs.
VIM. III. Owen and Il. ID. Hicks, of
Lawrence, pleaded guilty at Paw Paw
to violating the local option law.
Owen was fined SlO5. SO, and Hicks
S115.5O. Hicks was village marshal
and got the extra SO to remind him
that an officer should not be a trans
gressor of the law
The business industries of Marshall
present a much different aspect from
that of one year ago, when business
seemed paralyzed and factories lying
idle. Now all of the factories are run
ming full blast Work at the Detroit
Toledo & Milwaukee railroad shops is
booming, so that the company found it
necessary To add 20 mechanics to their
shop force.
Milo Keep, under arrest at Kalama-
zoo on a charge of murderously as
saulting VIM. Duggan, an aged farmer,
escaped from Jail by cutting hole in
the roof and then letting himself down
with a rope made from a sheet. Later
keep returned to Jail and gave him
self up because he saw the sheriff plac
ing bloodhounds on his trail while he
he was hiding in a barn.
A stranger who gave the name of
George Morris, OF Flint, entered Nellie
Davenports resort at Battle Creek,
walked upstairs and entered the room
of Jennie Gray, who was sick in bed.
She ordered him out, when he as
saulted her with a knife, cutting a
deep cash in her neck. Morris was
run down after an exciting chase by
the police, who shot at him.
Baldwin's saloon in New Haven was
looted of nearly all the cigars in stock
as well as nickels in the slot machine.
Not satisfied with this the burglars
turned the faucets of wine and whisky
casks, so that when Baldwin came
down in the morning he found big
cocktail flooding the floor. Frank and
Thomas Walker and Arthur Feddis
have been arrested on suspicion.
The establishment of pearl fisheries
on the St Joseph river promises to
develop an industry of considerable
magnitude. Grand Rapids capitalists
will employ several hundred men gath
ering mussel shells along the river,
while many private parties are being
organized to engage in the business.
Thousands of shells were taken from
the river last season and many rich
finds were made.
Clifford Battry and Fred Benjamin,
well-known young men of Ortonville,
were arrested on charge of stealing
rig and attempting a criminal assault
upon a little girl. The evidence was
not sufficient and they were released.
animation, finally confessed that she
had taken the rig, and that someone
had helped her hitch the horse, think
ing he was thereby doing her kind
ness.
Fire was discovered issuing from the
boiler room of the Marshall Wagon q
Windmill Co. S plant at Marshall. An
alarm was turned in, and the fire de-
partment turned out promptly and in
full force. However, the third and
fourth stories of the factory were al
most entirely burned. The building
was filled with so much combustible
matter that but little could be saved.
The loss is about ST., 200; insurance
$4,000.
S. II. Tucker, an Eaton county
farmer, with his daughter Grace, aged
IA, were driving across the c. & G. L.
tracks near Bellevue, when their rig
was struck by passenger train. The
girl was instantly killed and her father
probably fatally injured. Both horses
were horribly mangled and the car
riage utterly ruined. Another daugh-
ter of Mr.. fuckers was killed few
miles away, on the same railroad, two
years ago.
Secretary Gardner reports that the
average condition of wheat in the
state is SO per cent; southern counties,
10; central, SO and northern, 103. The
per cent in southern counties is 13 less
than year ago, owing to the October
drouth, but per cent more wheat was
soXvn than in 1906 AVERAGE Weld of