The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-10-07
STATE GOSSIP.
Quail are numerous in the mort

reunion at saginaw.
Niles voted against the free text
book system, 296 to %.
The 18th Michigan regiment reunion
was held at ST. Petersburg.
Burglars secured $40 in raid on the
c. & w. M. depot at st. Joseph.
Harold Rogers, aged 3, was fatally
mangled by street car at Kalamazoo.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. H. Woodruff, cell
ebrated their golden wedding at Ann
Arbor.
Harold Martin, aged 5, fell from
train in the yards at Hudson and was
fatally injured.
Jerry Sullivan was fatally injured by
falling rock in the Tamarack, Jr.,
mine at Calument.
Capt. and Mrs. J. r. Crofoot, pioneers
of Berrien county, celebrated their
golden wedding at Niles.
Carbolic acid, taken with suicidal in
tent. ended the life of Oliver Court
manche, a Saginaw barber.
During family quarrel John How
ard, of Benton Harbor, struck his wife
blow which laid her scalp open and
probably fatally injured her.
Mrs. Emeline Morse Saxton, aged n,
one of the first settlers of Cassopolis
and woman suffragist of national
reputation, died at Cleveland.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
grain and horse barn on Ben Proctors
farm, north of Romeo, together with
700 bushels of grain. Loss $4,000
The barn of Stewart McCreary, at
Prairie Ronde, was struck by light
ming and burned, with all its contents,
including six horses. Loss, 81, 900.
John Marshall, aged 100 years, the
founder of the town OF Marshall, Mich,
has died in the county asylum at Mish-
awake, Ind. lie was once very rich.
Edward McKinder, who attempted
to murder his wife at their home in
Shiawassce county last June, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment in Mar
quette prison.
j. NJ. Wardiow, and his wife, of
Highland, were seriously injured in n
runaway accident at Holly. Each is
more than 20 years of age, and fatal
results are feared.
The Odds gasoline engine works and
the Odds motor vehicle works have con-
solidated at Lansing and will erect
large plant for the manufacture of
horseless carriages.
Two vicious rams on the farm of o
oil IL
and horribly mutilated Miss Abbey
Lewis, aged so, while she was going
through pasture lot.
The Detroit Grand Rapids & West
ern railroad company will at once com
mence prelimiuaries for building an
extension from Grand Rapids to Mus
kegon by the most direct route.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Building and Loan association league
was held at Saginaw with 25 of 81 asso-
Citations represented. Five more asso-
Citations were added to the league.
The state fair was a financial
success but the surplus will be small.
The new board of directors brings in
considerable new blood and attractive
features are promised for next year.
Fire destroyed j. 5. Meacheam's
dwelling and harness shop and MuclIle
& Devlin's livery stable, at Central
Lake. Loss $4,000. John Kassaw and
Cyrus Richmond were seriously injured
by falling walls.
The Mexican War Veterans associa-
ton of Michigan met at Grand Rapids
with ID members present, ranging in
age from 20 TO 90 years. Col. Andrew
T. McReynolds, of Muskegon, was
elected president
Frank Gibson's team ran away at
Utica, throwing Gibson out and crash
ing into rig occupied by Frank Glib
bons, his wife and children, demolish-
ing the rig and fatally in juring Mrs.
Gibbons. Gibson may die also.
The attendance at the state fair at
Grand Rapids was not up TO expecta-
tons, but the exhibits were better than
usual. T. II. Butterfeld, of Lansing,
was chosen president of the association
and Henry $. Fralick, of Grand Rapids,
secretary.
Two years ago, after a sensational
trial in the Ingham probate court, Miss
Henrietta Snow was adjudged insane,
but before she could be sent to an asy-
lum she disappeared. Her lawyers
recently secured a new hearing and she
has been declared Of sound mind. Miss
Sparrow is quite. wealthy.
Charles Braden, aged SO, conductor
on local freight was instantly killed
while uncoupling cars on the G.. r. &c
l. at Walton. His head was nearly sew
cred from the body, the right arm cut
off ana both legs nearly taken off. He
leaves a widow and two young children
at Cadillac. He was on his last trip,
having obtained lay off for six
months.
New Michigan postmasters: White
more, Iosco county, Adam Catalina, Jr.;
Ashton, Osceola county, Chas, j. Grill;
Byron, Kent county, George Bloin;
Summerton, Gratiot county, Charles A.
Vredenberg; Thayer, Oakland county,