The Yale expositor., 1898-09-02
General, News.

On August 30 base ball tournamen
was held at Armada.
The Rochester Clarion is new paper
edited by Chas. S. Seed.
A soldiers monument is to be erected
in the cemetery at Capao.
The Ubly Courier now prints its
whole paper of four pages at home.
Prof. g. II. Sturgis is conducting q
successful musical convention in Cass
City.
Sanilac Centres new school building
will be a handsome structure, costing
| $40, 000..
j. j. Jerks &c Co., of Sand Beach,
raised 278 bushels of wheat on five
acres Of land.
Mrs. Nancy King, resident of St.
CLAIM fon over 80 years, died last week
at the age of so years.
Henry Holtz. of Novesta, has passed
| his sixtieth birthday but has recently
cut three double teeth.
A.. Mooney, who has conducted a
hotel in Minden City for twenty years,
retired to private life last week.
Richmond's electric light plant will
be a success from the start. One hun
dred patrons are now using the lights.
| Fred Locke, of Capac, received some
severe burns on his arms and legs from
droppin & motion iron out of ladle in
the foundry,
The body of nude baby boy was
| found in Black river at Port Huron
last Friday. An investigation will be
made by the police.
A scamp entered the peach orchard
of George Case at Sand Beach tho
other night and made away with ten
bushels of peaches.
w. d. Ross, of Imlay City, while
loading grain into q car at the elevator,
fell down the elevator shaft, sustain
ing serious injuries.
In Cass City mob got together one
night with COW bells, dinner bells, tin
pans etc., and made night hideous for
blocks around in an attempt ut a chart
vari.
Five frame business structures in
North Branch were reduced to ashes
one night last week. The loss is sew
eral thousand dollars, partly covered
by insurance.
A son of +. Peronne, of Capac, had
the flesh torn Off his wrist by an acct
dental charge from shot gun in his
own hand. The arm will be slightly
deformed hereafter.
Fred Roth was caught and hurled
around u shaft in the evaporation at
MayYille, several times, and nearly all
the clothes torn from him but he
miraculously escaped injury.
A large new barn belonging to Wes-
ley Schlichter, of Brown City was des-
troyed by lightning last week, together
with all its contents. Dougal Nickel
lars barn at Omard was also struck by
lightning and destroyed.
Columbus and Casco townships are
haylng trouble over building a bridge
across Belle river between the two town
ships. Casco has voted to pay for one
half but the vote in Columbus was de-
feated. The matter will be taken into
court.
Asa Newton was walking on one of
CroswelPs sidewalks last week with his
year old baby, when he tripped on n
loose board and fell, the child striking
on the back OF its head. 1t lay uncon-
scious for a day but was finally report
ed better
A delicate operation was performed
on Mrs. Gramer, Of Casco, last week.
| ABOUT HVe weeks ago pug One-half
inch long crawled into her ear and fill
ed the auditory canal. 1t was diff
cult thing to remove but was done
without injury to the organ.
II. J. McPhee, of Brown City, is the
| loser of $50 taken from his pocketbook
i'll his vest, which lay by his bedside
while he was asleep. The bold robber,
who was probably concealed in his
house, the rest of the family being
away at the time, escaped unknown.
A grand old time was enjoyed Mt
Croswell last week in the reunion of
the Soldiers and Sailors. Such promi-
nent men as Pingree, Whiting, 0'Don-
nell, Wagner, Atkinson, Bancroft, Pat
rick, Wagstaff, SnoYer, Austin, Weeks
and many others were the speakers,
and the program as carried out was
beyond praise.
The steamer Greyhound has been
laid up for the rest of the season hav-
ing received damages to the amount
of $50, 900 while coming from Detroit
to Port Huron. The engine is wreck
1t is supposed that the connecting rod
broke. The passengers were panic
stricken for time. The boat was tow
ed back to Detroit.
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