The Yale expositor., 1898-09-02

ingdale Milling Co., at Bloomingdale,
was destroyed by fire, together with
a stock of wheat and oats. Loss SILL
600, insurance. $1,000.
The Detroit & Lima Northern Rail-
road Co., has increased its capital stock
from IS, 900, 900 to Ss,0OO, 900 and paid
81 800 into the state treasury as an adj
ditional franchise fee.
w. j. McKone, for six years superin-
tendent of the public schools at Mason,
has been appointed superintendent of
the Albion public schools, to succeed
w. c. Hull, who goes to Flint.
Sylvester Wise, sawyer, was killed
in a sawmill, three miles from Tustin.
He was struck from behind by board
that caught in the carriage block. He
leaves widow and baby 10 days old.
Alonzo Potter, of Eaton township,
Eaton county, took paris green with
suicidal intent. Potter, who is 81
years of age, had been drinking heavily
and quarreled with his wife, who is a
young girl.
DIR. Mary Green, of Charlotte, presi-
dent of the American Household Eco
nomic association; and an authority on
foods, has been appointed a special
food examiner for the war department
and is inspecting the food supply of
the southern camps.
John w. Maynard, who secured the
location of the University of Michigan
at Ann Aybor, died in that city at the
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he had lived continuously for "a years.
He leaves a widow and three children,
one of whom is Atty.Gen. Maynard.
During heavy gale at 2 a. m, while
off Frankfort, an unknown schooner
collided with the schooner L. A. Fitch,
of Benton Harbor, bound for the
northern ports with load of peaches.
cued the Fitchs crew, but the vessel is
a total wreck.
A destructive rainstorm, which con-
tinued eight hours, washed out streets,
flooded store easements, wrecked the
telephone, telegraph and electric light
wires, and in all did over $40, 900 dam
age at Iron Mountain. The c. & NV.
railroad was tied up by washouts,
Two men were reported killed by
lightning on Quinesec road.
When the transport Santiago arrived
at MontaulI Point with $50 men and %
officers of the 34th Michigan regiment
they reported that Private Robert Nc
Kellup, Co. l., Marquette, and Private
Albert Gihooley, Co. b, Manistee, had
died on the trip north from Santiago
and were buried at sea. There were
1870 on the sick list, ID of whom were
very i'll.
The auxiliary cruiser Harvard from
Santiago, arrived at Camp Wilkoff
bringing Gen. Chaffee and staff and
67O men of the SD Michigan. Diph-
liberia made its appearance on the voy-
age. Brydc Breede, of Co. A, 33d
Michigan, died of the disease, and was
buried at sea. Three other men have
the disease. There were 30 other sick
men on board.
In attempting to fill gasoline stove
while it was lighted, Mrs. Milo Gains,
of Leslie, was frightfully and prob
ably fatally burned in the blaze that
resulted. Her clothes caught fire and
in attempting to assist her, daughter
was terribly burned. w. L. Stillson,
a neighbor, ran to Mrs. Gains rescue,
and his hands were literally cooked in
his efforts to save her. The house was
saved.
During a heavy gale of wind, fire
broke out at ID. b. Buffers large saw
mill at Frankfort, spreading to the
Frankfort Hardwood Mfg. Co. S broom
handle factory, near by, completely
burning both to the ground. This is
the third time Mr.. Butler has lost his
mill by fire in the same spot. The loss
on the broom handle factory is S1O,0 900
and on the sawmill $50, 200, with very
little insurance. Mr.. Butler expects
| to rebuild.
Traverse City suffered severely from
cloudburst and a terrific electrical
storm. The damage in the city is said
| to be $4,000 while thousands of dol
lars damage was done to fruit trees and
grain. In the city nine bridges were
swept away, several families had to es-
cape from the second story windows OF
their homes by boats, scores of cellars
were flooded to overlooking, several
dwellings and barns were struck by
! lightning, and huge washouts sus-
pended operations on all railroads.
A collision which might have been
dreadful catastrophe occurred, through
someone's gross carelessness, on the
L. & p. NJ. railway, near the tunnel
station at Port Huron. A trainload of
excursionists on the Almont division
was crashed into from the rear by
Saginaw express train. Most fortu-
nately both trains were moving at
low rate of speed, but four cars of the
crowded excursion train were over
turned in the ditch and a dozen Almont
and Memphis people sustained injuries
from broken ribs to severe sprains and
bruises. The accident caused an indie
scribable panic on the excursion train.
The Knights of Pythias supreme
| lodUe at Indiananolis elected. Sunreme