The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-10-28
STATE GOSSIP.

SOhl'ioIS SSWSt Sy oIcht.
The Bloomingdale Milling Co., will
rebuild Bloomingdale's burned grist
mill.
The sea serpent in Indian lake, near
Dowagac, proved to be an otter and a
muskalonge.
Geo. w. Shelters, of Sebewaing, was
sent up for IL years for assaulting a 49,
year-old girl.
A cooperage plant with a capacity of
GOO barrels day will be established at
Traverse City.
The project to build an electric rail-
road from Lansing to Pine lake has
been abandoned.
Berrien county has another diph-
liberia epidemic, Benton township
schools are closed.
The report that the f. & p. M. and
the Hooking Valley railroads are to
consolidate is denied.
Monroe county farmers and business
men propose to erect large sugar
beet factory at Monroe.
The third victim of the Pentwater
boiler explosion was L. l.. Palmer, en-
gineer at the bedstead factory.
Col. Milford Harmon, a prominent
manufactures of Jackson, an uncle of
Mrs Grover Cleveland, is dead.
Rev. A. j. Comden, Methodist, of
Entrican, took dose of aconite by
mistake and died in short time.
About 60 members of the Seventh
Michigan cavalry met at Lansing on
the anniversary of Sheridan's ride.
The National General Passenger and
Ticket Agents association convention
was held at Detroit and was big
affair.
Ed earns, of Three Rivers, has been
he accidentally shot himself in the
woods.
Mrs. Lillian Pratt, an attractive
young woman of Woodstock. was ar
rested at Hudson charged with passing
forged orders.
A third dividend of ~ per cent has
been declared in favor of the creditors
of the defunct First National bank of
Mt. Pleasant.
The planning mill property of VIM.
A. BlaIely in Petoskev, was com
pletely wiped out by fire. Loss 1000;
no insurance.
The North American Chemical Co.,
of Bay City, has received orders from
headquarters in London to double the
size of its plant
Fire destroyed the house belonging
to Miss Nancy Simpson at Milan. 1t
was occupied by che Milan laundry.
Loss about $1,000.
w. w. GUNNER has sold 10000 acres
of hardwood timber lands adjacent to
Cadillac to Delos f. Diggins. The tim
Der will be cut this winter.
Holly fears another gang of firebugs
is at work. The destruction of Morri-
son Beardslee's cider mill is the second
incendiary fire in a short time.
A new light produced by chemical
battery and much stronger than in
candescent lights has been invented
by James Whitcomb, a laborer of
Hudson.
Bay City has offered $4,000 and a
site to l.. L. Woodward, recently
burned out at Owosso, if he will build
a furniture factory in that city. He
may accept.
The national civic philanthropic con-
ference at Battle Creek was attended
by prominent scientists, educators,
preachers and reformers from all over
the country.
The shop and barns, with contents,
and several stacks of hay and straw,
on the John Gorndry farm, near Belle
Vile, were destroyed by fire. Loss
about 81, 100.
The Belt mines, at Houghton, valued
at $500. 900, have been transferred to
company of Houghton capitalists who
will reopen the mines which have been
idle since 1887.
Work is in progress on an extension
of the Prescott division of the ID. & NJ.
railroad, which will open up a large
tract of pine timber which will be
taken to Tawas City.
The Houghton county election board
decided by unanimous vote not to place
Sam Stephenson's name on the official
ballot as a candidate for congress in
the Twelfth district.
The directors and stockholders of
the busted Peoples Savings bank at
Mt. Pleasant will be sued to recover
an assessment on the stock of the insti-
tuition to meet its debts.
Benz. f. Powell, of Birch Run, APP
piled for divorce from his wife, Ber-
| tina, on the ground of extreme cruelty.
The couple were married May II, and
lived together two weeks.
The crownsheet of the boiler on the
tug Arthur ID. Capt. Lillis, blew out at
Alpena, killing Arthur Pontwood, the
fireman, instantly, and badly scalding
deck hand named Peppler.
The furloughs of all the Michigan
men run out Nov. 4. The war depart
ment has instructed Capt. Irvine TO
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