The Yale expositor., 1897-12-31


at Muskegon on the charge of counter
feiting. He confessed that he had sill
YER plated pennies and passed them for
dimes, but said that it was only joke.
He was held for a hearing before the
U. S. grand jury.
Police Justice Sellers, of Detroit, has
dismissed over score of complaints
made by deputy food commissioners
against Detroit merchants for selling
oleomargerine for butter. The justice
says the evidence was not obtained ac-
cording to the statute.
The bitter con test for the postmaster
ship of West Branch-there were five
candidates-has been settled by Con-
gresham Crump deciding upon Ii. NJ.
French, after he had tried his best to
have the ambitious ones settle it among
themselves, but without avail
John Maher, aged 60, of the Soldiers
Home at Grand Rapids, went to the res
idence of Rev. FIR. Distler and asked that
prayers be said for dead relative. He
had scarcely made his request when he
fell TO the floor and was dead before
medical assistance could arrive.
Farmers around the route are agitat-
ing project TO dig a canal connecting
Maple river with Grand Rapids and to
build an electric railway to Saginaw.
The canal would cost $500 a mile and
would furnish waterpower for electric
plants. Pledges are being made to pay
the cost of preliminary survey.
Isaac Ellsworth, who was captured
in Toledo a week ago for stealing a
team from Wilkins Bros. livery at ST.
Johns, pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to jackson for four years.
When Ellsworth has finished this term,
he will have served "a years behind
the bars, all for horse stealing.
The Queen mine at Negaunce has
closed down for an indefinite time,
throwing 25O men out of employment.
In case the company can induce fee
owners TO induce fee-owners to reduce
the royalty, operations will probably
be resumed, otherwise nothing will be
done until the shipping season opens
in the spring.
Francis Durrant, hobo, was SEN
fenced to Jail at Niles for 60 days for
threatening to burglarize a store. AS
he was leaving the courtroom he stole
the Justices new hat. He had 20 be
severely pounded before he would en-
ter the lookup. While the jailer was
at dinner Durrant got hold of an AK
and chopped hole 12X1S inches
~ Il
The annual meeting of the various
state stock breeders associations was
held at Lansing. About 800 represent
alive breeders from all sections of
Michigan, and few from other states
and Canada were present. They report
ed the stock market vastly improved,
prices being good and the demand
brisk The Michigan Merino Sheep
Breeders association elected as presi-
dent, A. A. Wood, of Saline secretary,
f. n. Bail, of Hamburg.
The dreaded San Jose scale has
surely secured a foothold in the west
ern Michigan fruit belt. Clinton ID.
Smith of the Michigan Agricultural
college, visited the orchard of a young
farmer in jamestown, Ottawa county,
and found his apple trees so badly in
fected by the scale that the young man
was ordered to cut down and burn
/ 200 trees The farmer had mort
gagged his farm to put out the orchard,
which was only five years old, and had
just come into the bearing stage.
At the annual meeting of the state
live stock sanitary commission Presi-
dent Kinds spoke strongly for vigorous
efforts to stamp out and prevent hog
cholera, which he said was largely on
the increase in Michigan. Speaking
of the farming industry generally, Mr..
Kinds said that he believed the changed
conditions of the past few years had
come to stay and the only hope for
farmers was TO adopt modern business
methods. Stock breeders must be con-
tent with lower prices for their pro-
duets. Officers elected: President, II.
IL. Kinds, of Stanton; secretary treas
urer, l. II. Butterfield, of Lansing.