The Yale expositor., 1897-09-03

The deep waterways board has de.
cided to make their headquarters al
Detroit. A surveying party will be at
once be put to work on the route of the
Niagara ship canal
Henry Jennison, of Antioch town
ship, Wexford county, which many
people imagine is a wilderness of pine
stumps, has raised $50 bushels of wheat
off 80 acres, and other farmers average
from 20 to 25, all of fine quality
The largest single shipment of lum-
Der from Bay City this year was five
Larges which cleared last week for
Cleveland and Tonawanda with $780,
600 feet The Bay City lumber market
shows signs of returning activity.
Miss Nellie Clark. a pretty 1e-year-
old girl, of Ypsilanti, outwitted her
mother and escaped on a borrowed BIZ
cycle to meet her lover, Geo. McDan-
iels, of Detroit, with whom she fled to
Windsor, where they were married.
Ludington is greatly interested at
present over the Christian socialistic
movement which engages every class
of people in discussion. There is talk
of establishing socialist industrial in
situations, truck gardens and fruit
farms there, thus utilizing some of the
waste lands.
In order TO keep members from drop
ping out and to awaken interest Grand
Chancellor d. p. McMullen, of the
Michigan grand lodge X. OF p. has of
fered prize to the Michigan lodge
that lives the closest to the law and re-
ports the fewest suspensions for the
coming year.
The Bay View Epworth League
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, f. A. Smart, of Detroit; vice.
president, Rev. A. w. Stalker, of De-
troit; secretary, Rev. II. +. Shier, of
West Branch; treasurer, Mrs. Cross
man, of ST. Johns; trustees. j. L. Berry,
j. L. Mason, Rev. A. w. Stalker.
The State fair opens at Grand Rapids
Sept. 8. The first day will be Labor
day and suitable program will be car
ried out in counec ion with the usual
doings of labor's holiday. Tuesday is
designated as Children's day, Wednes-
day will be Grand Rapids day, Thurs
day for farmers and fruit growers, and
Friday for everybody.
just after dark G.. b. Ross, the sta
ton agent at Minden City, walked
down the siding to seal some freight
cars. Two rods from the depot he was
seized by two men who quickly bound
and gagged him and then robbed him
of SECS and gold watch and tossed him
under freight car. After struggling
some time Ross loosened the bandage
on his mouth and his cries soon brought
help. but the robbers escaped.
While thrashlng was in progress on
the farm of Lewis Lefevere, near
Galesburg, bundle of wheat contain
ing some explosive, presumably dyna-
mite, was fed into the cylinder. The
whole interior of the barn was in
stantly in flames and the seasons crops,
together with an entirely new separ-
ator, the latter the property of Jesse
Simmons, were destroyed. The man
who was feeding was blown out of the
door and seriously burned.
Fire broke out in Ed Croarkin's
clothing store in the Masonic block at
Dexter and threatened TO destroy the
building and spread To other structures.
Ann Arbor was appealed to for help,
but the home bucket brigade did such
exec lent work the fire was gotten
under control before the engine ar
rived. The building is a three-story
brick and was damaged 81, 200. Ed
CroarkIns loss on stock is So, 900, while
aged 500.
The three military companies at
Grand Rapids have applied to the quar-
termaster-general for the loan of shell
ter tents for their accommodation for
two days during September. They in
tend to leave the city in heavy march
ing order, with tents, blankets, haver-
sacks and canteens, and strike a camp
six miles out. They will go through
all the military regulations and rou-
tine, and the next day will move to
another location, and change several
times before returning.
The mysterious death of Geo. Beck
with and the finding of his body in the
Huron river, near Ann Arbor, Aug. II,
is forcibly recalled by the coroner's
verdict which says that the young man
was dead before he was placed in the
water. Monroe Kendall and Walter
Warren, who claimed to have heard
Beckwi cries, and ran to help him,
but arrived too late, have been arrested
as have Mrs. Kate Nef, her daughter
Mary. and Alice Kearney, who live in
an old house with an unpleasant repu-
tation near the scene of the supposed
drowning.
Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, has been
scaled by the Italian party led by