The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-10-15
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Uncle Sam will soon let $40, 900 con-
tract for fitting up the old Fort Brady
reservation at the 500 as park.
James Slocum, of the Star Island
house at st. Clair Flats, was fined $225
for selling liquor without license.
Frank Miller's barn burned near
Dundee with 90 tons of hay, 700 bush
els of oats and 5000 worth of machinery.
Three large barns on the Golden
stock farm near Hart burned and
mans bones were found in the debris
Andrew Jones, aged 25, railroad
boilermaker, out of job, died from a
heavy dose of strychnine, taken after a
spree at jackson.
r. Lee Root, superintendent of the
Bay de Noe Lumber Co., at Nahma,
was knocked down and crushed to
death by tram car.
The new railroad from Van Buren,,
KallIaslIa county, to KalkaslSa and
Grayling, will open up a large terri
tory for Grand Rapids wholesalers.
John Ellison, who killed his father
last spring to avenge the wrongs of his
dead mother, was found guilty by the
Kent circuit court and sent to jackson
for life.
The large refrigerator of A. +. A.
Kolhaus burned at Calumet with loss
of $1,000 A tramp was seen coming
out of shed with his clothing on fire,
and he was fatally burned.
AT least a dozen active candidates
are after the probate judgeship IN Mar
quette county, to succeed the late
Peter Pascoe. 1t is believed by many
that Gov. Pingree will appoint ex-State
Treasurer Hambitzer.
Richard Dennis, aged -, attempted
to cross the Michigan Central bridge
over the Kalamazoo river at Battle
Creek, but was knocked into the river
by the North Shore limited train and
was picked up dead.
City Attorney Beach, of Saginaw,
has returned from the Rainy lake gold
region IN Ontario, and reports that the
Clearwater mine, owned by Saginaw
men, is employing Il men steadily and
finding thick veins of ore, which assay
$40 to the ton.
Thos. McGraw, who for nearly 40
years was prominent in the comner-
cial affairs of Detroit, was run down
by street car near his residence, 1885
Woodward avenue. He sustained Sc
we're fracture of the skull and died of
his injuries within 4s hours
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Woodward, of
Flint, have celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of their marriage at their
home. Both were born in New York,
Mr.. Woodward in Geneva county in
1912, and Miss Elizabeth LaRoue in
Cayuga county in 1917.
In his latest bulletin Food Commits
sioner Grosvenor reports seven arrests
in Detroit and one in Jackson, for sell
ing colorcd oleomargarine. OF 20
cheese factories, 16, and of 10 creamer-
les, IL were in good condition. OF 80
food samples examined only eight
were pure.
At midnight three barns on the adj
joining farms of $. c. Dewey, G.. NJ.
Wood and T. l.. Varnum, near Vassar,
burned with their contents of hay and
grain. Two of the barns were n mile
apart and there is no doubt of incen-
diarism. The leases aggregate $4,000.
with small insurance.
Win Glasson, aged II, fell down the
Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet &
Hecla mine, 3. 900 feet and was killed
instantly. He was stationed at the
second pump, about $50 feet from the
surface, and trying to catch the rope,
was struck by the skip and knocked
whirllng down the shaft.
The forest fires in northern Michigan
and the field fires throughout the state
are ut last under control. Heavy rains
of warm, refreshing nature have
fallen in all parts of the lower PENN
sula after a three to five months
drouth. Beyond extinguishing the
fires, which had already caused hun
dreds of thousands of dollars loss, the
rains have been of incalculable benefit
to farmers in enabling them TO do their
lall SeeulnB.
A map Of the Grand Rapids, Kali
kaslla IL Southeastern railroad from
the G. & w. NJ. line at Barker Creek,
Kalkaska county, to Lake City, Mis-
saukee county, was received at the
railroad commissioners Office aud the
crossing board will meet to consider it.
Thomas Hefferan, of Grand Rapids, is
president of the new company. The
present object is to reach tract of
timber near Lake City, but it is pro-
posed eventually to extend the line to
Alpena.
Amasa Sprague and Mary Amin, of
Hanover, have completed nearly 81
years of married life. Mr.. Sprague
was born in Cayuga county, N. Y,
March 30, 1917. Mrs. Sprague was
born in Geneva county, ~ Y, in 1915
They were married in New York in
1886 and 10 years later they removed
to Hanover, where they have since
continuously resided. Both are hale,
hearty and well preserved. Four
children were born to them, two of
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