The Yale expositor., 1898-10-21

500, and will be reorganized at once.
The Seventh U. S. infantry, now at
Forts Wayne and Brady, lost one Off.
Ger, Lieut. Wansboro, and AZ men at
El Capey. Four officers and 1870 men
wounded. Since then fever has in
vaded the ranks, and out of the 1 ere
men in the regiment, over 600 are sick
in the eastern hospitals and at their
homes.
The steamer Peshtigo, bound from
the 500 TO Toledo with lumber, col
lidcd with the steamer Roby off Thun-
der Bay island The Peshtigo was
badly disabled and the life saving crew
put out to her assistance. Leaking
badly. she was started for Alpena har.
Dor. but went down within 100 rods of
the dock
The Seventh u S infantry, San
tiaGo veterans, in command of Maj.
Corliss, has arrived in Detroit. Cos.
A. u. G, L, f, G, II and 1, about 400
men altogether, have been assigned to
Fort Wayne. and Cos. d, X, L and NJ,
about ESQ men, continued on their way
10 Fort Brady, at the 800, where they
were given hearty reception.
Mrs Anthony Doyle. OF Grand Rap
ids, learned by accident that her
father, Chaunccy Smith, from whom
she had been separated since she was a
little girl and whom she supposed to
be dead, was living in Port Huron.
She FASTENED TO find him, but on ar
rival there no trace of him could be
discovered. Later it was learned that
Smith had moved to West Bay City
and reunion of father and daughter
soon followed
Isaac Ellsworth. sent to Jackson
prison from Clinton county. Dec. p,
1897, for -four years for horse stealing,
escaped from prison by cutting hole
through the stoue ceiling INTO the attic
and then cutting through the roof lie
made n rope of his bed clothes and let
himself down into the yard where he
secured ladder and climbed over the
north wall.
Secretary Of State Gardner has re-
ceived inquiries from Chicago capital
lists, relative To the steps necessary for
the organization Of a company 10 con.
struct "a canal FROM Ray de NOcquet TO
Lake superior. across Algcr and
Schoolcraft counties This would con.
meet Lakes Michigan and Superior
The canal would bc about 35 miles
long and would save about 900 miles
travel nuw necessary
The township Of Lincoln. Arenac
county. has sued the Star Wooden
ware Co, n firm which erected build
ings at Standish four years ago and
pledged themselves TO operate IA fac
tory employing 125 men and 10 put
Sl5 900 into buildings and machincry
The township bonded itself at the time
for 1000, rs n bonus, and now sues
to recover, as the firm failed To do as
they agreed in any particular
Col Gardener, 31st Michigan, has
scheme tn give every man in his com
mand furlough, by allowing five Inrn
10 he absent from each company ut
time The colonel is receiving appli.
cations from men of regiments about
10 he mustered out asking that they bc
allowed to enlist in the 3lst These
are placed on file and rs soon as the
war department gives permission the
vacancies in the 3lst will be thus filled
Rodulphus Sanderson, wealthy
citizen of Battle Creek, died Sept 6
One night last week, at midnight. the
body was taken up, and a postmortcm
held by three physicians The stoma, h
was taken to Ann Arbor to be ana.
lyzcd and a sensation is expected An
inquest was held by order Of the prose
cutting attorney There is great secrecy
amoug he officers. as it has not been
made public what ar whom they sus
pect.
The annual report Of II S Land
Commissioner Hermann fo' the liSra'
ycat cuiing June 81. tSos, made public.
shows that i21 acres IT swamp land
were patented in Michigan during the
vrat. making total OF 5,67S67I
acres patented under the swamp grant
There are IN Michigan Incorporated
and unrcscrred. SOS. SOS acres of swamp
lands. reserved. s7.746 acres; appropri
dtrd 26.22S. ASP acres. total area. &c..
sig. 600 acres
The factory of the Michigan Sugar
CO. at Fay City. is now in successful
operation This is the first beet sugar
factory to begin operations in Michi'
gan aud naturally great interest at
tachrs To it. The company has made
contracts for sufficient supplies of bcets
to produce 1000 oo0 pounds Of sugar.
for which s2j5. 900 will be paid TO the
farmers Of Ray and surrounding ccun.
ties The company will receive from
the state a bounty Of one cent pound
op all sugar made from Michigan beets
for six years, aggregating NJ least
$50. 600 per year, under the bounty law
passed 10y the last legislature.
TELEGRAPHIC BITS.