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


fees For the four months of July,
August, September and October the
fees received amount to Sll, 176.45.
Gov. Pingree has received from the
U. S. government Sl4, $50 for the sup
port of inmates of the Soldiers home
government contributes 500 per in
mate per year.
Lightning struck the house at the
Arcadian mine, at Houghton, seriously
three carpenters. The bolt travelled
down a water pipe and knocked sense
800 feet underground.
The Mohawk Mining Co., of Hough-
ton, has ordered the steel for an extern
sion of the Traverse Bay railway and
will complete the line before winter.
The new stamp mill, costing $150,000
will be built on Lake Superior.
The evaporation owned and operated
at Pinckney by Rowley SG Rowley, of
New York, burned to the ground with
all its contents. 1t was running day
and night. Loss 81 200, with no insur-
ance, and 80 hands are thrown out of
employment.
Harry Lenheim, two-year convict
from Saginaw, who scaled the Ionia
prison wall March IA last, has returned
and given himself up. He said he was
tired of lodging the officers and con-
cluded to come back until he could be
discharged free man.
While repairing a car in the c. & w.
M. yards at Muskegon Edward De
LANCE was instantly killed by a train
of cars humping into the one on which
he was working. His head was COM
pletely severed from his body. He
leaves widow and five children.
Prof. L. r. Taft, professor of horti-
culture at the Agricultural college,
reports that curl-leaf, disease which
played havoc with the peach crop in
many parts of the state the past sea-
son, can be cured by spraying very
early in the spring with fungicides.
Thus far this year there have been
35 new mining companies organized in
Michigan, while five older companies
have renewed their corporate existence
for terms of so years and increased
their capital stock. This record was
never approached in previous years.
+. C. Lylle, who has been working
the Phoebe Wheelock farm in Superior
township, Washtenaw county, for the
past II years, has been nicely re-
LII 81,
two months ago and in her will be-
queaths him the bulk of her property,
valued at about SIT ,OO0
Gov Pingree's case against the Mich
igan Central railroad to sell family
mileage may not end with the adverse
decision of the Michigan supreme
court. An effort is being made by the
encouragement to reopen the case,
and it will be carried to the u. 5. SUI
preme court if necessary.
New Michigan postmasters Clinton,
Darwin NJ. cambridge; Grand Marias,
John f. Chisholm; Lake Linden, John
Amesse; Milan, Chas. w. Pullen; Sara
nae, VIM. Fitzgibbons; Sparta, Charles
H. Loomis; Weston, John Il. Smith;
Cooper, kalamazoo county, Edward
Hoar; Mckinley, Oscoda county, John
Fox.
Thomas O'Lcary, a lumberman of
DAWSON, was driving to Flint when he
picked up a stranger who wanted a
ride. The stranger offered O'Leary a
drink from a bottle. He accepted and
shortly afterward became unconscious.
When he recovered the stranger was
missing with O'Leary's overcoat and
$3.50
VIM. n. Rowe, manager of the Valley
City Milling Co., Grand Rapids, has
complained to Railroad Commissioner
Wesselius that while the rates for car
rying flour by all eastern roads have
been reduced to % cents barrel for
Chicago shippers, yet Grand Rapids is
compelled to pay the regular rate of
3S cents.
The state board of pharmacy held a
two days session at Lansing, and a
total of 81 candidates were examined,
10 being granted certificates as phar-
macists and six as assistants. The
DOdIu Will lnetJ III lJeJTOlJ III january,
| Grand Rapids in March, Star Island in
June, Houghton in August and Lam
sing in November.
Capt Leonard Ames was on trial at
Vassar for bigamy when a third COM
plainant appeared from Alpena. She
said she was Ames' first wife and that
they were married in 1850 at Port
Huron. They had not seen each other
in years and both broke down and en-
braced and kissed each other when
! they met in the courtroom.
While the 25 members of the 10Th
U. S. infantry who had been left as a
guard at Ft Wayne, Detroit, were
packing up the remainder of the regi-
ment's effects for shipment to Porto
Rico, careless handling of box of am
munition caused it to explode. The
windows were blown out of the base
ment of the building and five soldiers
were severely injured.
James Henry Banks, colored, an old
soldier, was found on pile of rags in