The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-12-10
YALE ST. Clair County Mich FRIDAY DECEMBER TO- 1897
General News.

| George Sutten, one of New Haven S
Oldest citizens, died last week.
Edward Smith, aged 81, dropped dead
at his home in Smith Creek, last week.
INLAY City has got new snow plow
and don't care how quick the snow
comes.
Edward Gignac, of Cottrellville, is
utilizing the gas from his gas we'll, in
his house.
On December IL Rev. III. s. Bush,
the new Congregational pastor at AL
mont, will be ordained.
Richmond people had scare with
typhoid fever but the patients, some
half dozen, are all improving.
John Nicholson, of Marine City, had
two of his toes cut off in the machinery
of the steamer Tempest No. /.
Geo. North, of Almont, is held for
the crime of stealing bicycle. He will
take 60 days in the county Jail.
Mrs. Fred G. Parson wants $4,000
from the city of Pt. Huron for injuries
received on defective sidewalk.
Carsonville people have to carry Ian
terms on their main streets on dark
nights. The people there want street
lamps.
Andrew j. Inigley, we'll known
sporting man of Mt. Clemens, has been
left an estate in Honolulu, valued at
$4,000.
The Davidson & Wansey salt works
at Marine City closed for the season
last week. This block has manufactur.
ed 10000 barrels of salt this season.
A body was organized recently in
Cass City, to be known as the Tuscola
County Fish and Game Protective
League for the protection of fish and
game in Tuscola, Huron and Sanilac
counties.
A farm house owned by Thos. Ryan,
sr. about two miles east of Emmett, was
burned TO the ground at o'clock Mon
day night. 1t was insured in the Ger
man Mutual for $500. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
John Jones, aged 80 years, resident
of Sanilac county for SO years, died last
week. Mr.. Jones was the first white
man to settle in the vicinity of Carson
vile. He was the first supervisor of
Washington township and an old
soldier.
Mrs. Emma j. Wallace, wife Of L. o.
Wallace, of Capac, Died Sunday after
noon aged "a years. She had long been
engaged in the millinery business at
that place. Mrs. Wallace was an en-
dowment member of Crystal Hive, l..
o. T. NJ. for $1,000.
Work on the Detroit Il st. Clair
River Railway, between Chesterfield
and Algonac, was resumed last week
Monday morning with sixty men in the
construction gangs. On Thursday it
was reported that the men had struck
for their pay, and work had come to
standstill.
j. &. Quirk, agent for the Barney
Marble and Granite Works of Flint,
was instantly killed in attempting to
cross the &. ~ &. Z. track with horse
and buggy six miles from Flint. The
train cannot be seen on either side and
Quirk evidently did not know it was
near. He was So years of age and
leaves wife and five children.
Assistant Adjt.-Gen. C. V. r.. Pond,
of the Michigan G.. A. r., reports to
Labor Commissioner Cox at Lansing,
that there are 81, 500 war veterans in
Michigan, of whom about 10000 belong
to the G. A. II. and $4,000 draw pen
olOllS, dLlOuuJliiB Ill JHc dBBTeRdJt 10
So, ,248, 900 annually, Their average age
is go. There are 634 veterans in the
Soldiers home.
Adrian ID. Joyce, the grain and pro-
duce dealer of Memphis, has given a
bill of sale and two chattel mortgages
amounting to $500. Mr.. Joyce is a
hustling young business man and will
probably pull through all right. He
lays his embarrassment to having a
large amount of wheat on hand and
not being able to move 1t on account
of the scarcity of cares.
On Tuesday Amel Blemke, aged 20
years, living two miles south and east
of Capac, was accidently shot by the
discharge of his shotgun. The charge
entered the right breast, passing
through the lung and the apex of the
heart. He, in company with his two
brothers, were hunting rabbits. One
had been chased to brush heap. He
placed his gun against log nearby
and jumped upon the heap to drive the
rabbit out, and when reaching for the
gun it was discharged, killing him in
stantly.