The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-11-25
STATE GOSSIP.


All state property has been removed
from Camp Eaton.
Alamo schools closed because of an
epidemic of measles and scarlet fever.
Curtis Waffle, of Ottawa Station,
found diamond in spool of thread.
Fifty per cent of the Kalamazoo
celery crop has been ruined by early
freezes.
Mr.. and Mrs. DR.. John II. Richard
son, of Niles celebrated their golden
wedding.
The West Bay City Coal Co. struck
coal at a depth of only 90 feet in Frank
enmuth township.
Roy Lewis, aged II, accidentally
shot and killed himself while ont hunt
ing near Ridgeway.
The campaign expenses of Congress
man-elect Edgar Weeks, of the Seventh
district, were S., 900.
News of the death of Charles Tyler,
of Maple Rapids, at Dawson City, Oct.
10, has been received.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Eldred, of Bat
tie Creek, celebrated the 5Oth anniver-
sary of their wedding.
1t is now stated that Kalamazoo will
be the terminus of the Detroit, Toledo
81 Milwaukee railroad.
j. C. Light, superintendent of the
Berrien county poor farm is accused of
gross mismanagement.
DR.. Chas, d. Colby, of Jackson, has
been appointed surgeon of the 31st
Michigan with rank of major.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas b, Skinner
celebrated the 5Oth anniversary of
their marriage, at Battle Creek.
VIM. A. French files a statement
showing it cost him only S175 to be
elected land commissioner for a third
term.
Solomon Richardson, aged so, sui
cided at Vicksburg by taking NOR
phine. Ill health and financial re-
verses.
The remains of Michigan soldiers
who died in southern camps and in
Cuba are being sent to their homes for
burial.
Eugene Topper, of Otterburn, was
ground 20 pieces by fast train at Bel
say, where he had gone to visit his
mother.
Kalamazoo horsemen will build a
$4,000 mile track, with club house
and grounds suitable for the best har-
ness events.
There has not been frost at Frank
fort this fall. Dandelions are in bloom
and second crop of Strawberries are
nearly ripe.
The three-year-old son of Davis Den
mis-, of Dowagiac was burned to death
by his clothes catching fire from a gas
oline stove.
Congressman Sam W. Smith is try
ing to interest Sixth district manufa C
turers, millers and wholesalers in the
Cuban trade.
Extensive beds of mari are found on
the outskirts of Owosso and it is said a
cement factory will be erected to en-
ploy 1000 men.
A $4,000 estate left by Nicholas Nc
earthly, of Dexter, has been in court
for IS years. 1t will finally be divided
among 90 heirs.
The Michigan Sugar Co., at Bay City,
is running to its full capacity and is
turning out an average of over 30 tons
of sugar per day.
Hon. Benton Hanchett, of Saginaw,
declares that he is not in the field as a
possible compromise candidate for the
u. S. senatorship.
The dwelling of John Nyhuis, of
Overisel, Allegan county, was destroyed
by fire, with all its contents. Loss,
| 81, 900; no insurance.
Casper Bros, clothiers at Manistique,
lost 1000 by fire. Blummen Bros.
Rosenthal g. Co., next door, lost 81 900
by smoke and water.
A. l.. Davis, of the u. of NJ, was
chosen president of the American Re-
publican College league at the conven-
tion at indianapolis.
A famous group of 81 walnut trees
on the farm of John M. Newton, in
Cass county, has been sold to Goshen,
! Ind, firm for SIC, 900 cash.