The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1897-07-09
MIcAioAn NEWS ITEMS.

with balance in the state treasury of
S7s3,Sss
The Queen mine at Negaunee started
up with s75 men, and the force will be
increased.
Russell Woodlin, age 90, colored, was
drowned in Spring Lake, near Battle
Creek, while bathing.
The Tappan Shoe Co., has broken
ground for $4,000 factory, to en-
ploy 200 men at Coldwater.
Herbert Townsend, farmer near
Perrinton, was kicked in the pit of the
stomach by horse and he may die.
A. j. Jucket, Homer farmer, has
been appointed deputy oil inspector for
the Ninth district, ending bitter fight.
Mrs. Ernest Maurer, of Niles, acct
dentally cut an artery in her arm and
bled to death before the doctor arrived.
Geo McIntyre was sent from North
Vile to the reform school for four
years for stealing Arthur Buzzel's
bicycle.
Il. b. Arthur and wife have been
chosen superintendent and matron
respectively of the Masonic home at
Grand Rapids.
Harry l.. Williams, of Sturgis, has
invented flying machine, attached to
n balloon, which he says can be guided
and controlled with ease.
A portable boiler used by Kennedy
& Campbell, pavement contractors, ex-
ploded at Bay CITY, but no one was
near enough TO get hurt.
The general store of Willard Smith,
at Yates, a country pOstotilce near
Copemish, was struck by lightning and
burned down. l., SIS 81, roo
Jesse Hainer. aged 10, jumped from
the topmost point of the Maple street
bridge at Manistee. 35 feet to the water
and swan ashore unihjured.
The Dryden roller mills and ceva-
tor burned down. Loss, Sl3.50O; in
surauce, 5000. j. c. Lamb, of Inlay
City. was the owner. Cause OF fire not
known.
Thomas Hall was kicked SO severely
in fight Joseph Bryant. at Dowagiac,
that he died, and Bryant is locked up
on charge of mdnslaughter. Both
are colored.
George j. Howard, aged %, employee
OF the First National bank at Niles,
was drowned while bathing at Barren
lake. The board of directors had just
made him assistant cashier.
A man who registered at the IIar-
rington house at st. Louis, as j. w.
Houcl1s. OF Belding, committed suicide
in his room by taking morphine. Over
$500 In money was found on his person.
President Mckinley has again hon
ored Michigan by naming w. X. An
derson, of Detroit, as consul at Han
over, Germany, and James Shepard,
Of Cassopolis, L, 5. consul at llamil-
ton, Ont.
When the Aragon miners at Norway
learned that the mine had been sold
and would be started up again they
hoisted tlars, shot off firecrackers,
got out the fire department and had a
regular jubilee.
Corunnas council decided TO advance
So, 900 TO the d. X. Salisbury shoe fac
tory. but protects the city by taking q
bill OF sale for five years. If Salisbury
runs his factory all that time he viii
be credited with $500 each year on the
bill of sale.
Archie Gordon, ex-Constable Sellers
and Ernest West were arrested at
| Do
to bride Pro>ecuting-Attorn Lock-
ton, the complainant in case against
West, the cir,uit judge, sheriff and
other officers.
Mrs. Gil Darling and her 4-year-old
child were fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove at Hastings.
| The child died few hours after the
accident. Mrs. Darling was filing the
gasoline stove, which was close to a
hot wood stove.
Prof. Thomas M. Cooley, of the u.
of NJ. faculty, who has been constantly
| growing weaker for the past two
years, has begun to lose his mind and
his condition will soon warrant his be.
ing sent to some private institution
for special care.
Joseph Haynes and wife were lodged
in the Kent county Jail for stealing IL
chickens belonging TO Mrs. James Lar
away, OF Cascade. The chickens were
found in an upstairs room of Haynes
house. They say they stole them tc
keep from starving.
j. ID. S. Hanson, editor of the Hart
journal, was arriving with his wife
and two daughters, when the team be-
come unmanageable. Hanson and the
girls jumped out, but Mrs. Hanson
stayed in for nearly mile, when she
jumped striking upon her head and
shoulders, and receiving such injuries
that she may die.
Several years ago Allegan township
Allegan county, agitated the subjec
of good roads, with the result tina
there are now 30 miles of the hes
graded and graveled turnpilSes, in place
of what were once sandy was es
Other townships caught the fever, PEG
Pile subscribed literally. and in a very
few years Allegan county will hav,