The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-01-14
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

James Leroy, aged 10, was drowned
while skating at Decatur.
The furniture business at Grand Rap
ids is greater than ever this year
Twenty-seven wildcats have been
killed in Arenac county in two mon this.
Joseph Lindley, the pioneer shoe
dealer of Ionia, was found dead in bed
J. Il. Malloy, an Alpena grocer, has
assigned. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$1,000.
The calendar for the Sanilac county
circuit court is loaded down with tax
title cases.
The Ontonagon relief commission
still has $4,000 of the S25, 900 voted by
the legislature.
Petitions are being circulated in
Berrien county for a special election to
vote on local option.
Percy Smith, marine engineer, was
fleeced out of 5000 in questionable
resort at Port Huron.
Joseph Hilberbrandt, a farmer near
Saginaw, was thrown under a wagon
and perhaps fatally crushed.
The latest electric road project is
from Lansing TO Saugatuck. Thus far,
plans have not taken definite shape.
New Michigan postmasters: Chaplin,
Saginaw county, Geo. W. Clark; La
sale, Monroe county, Chas. +. KIRBY.
The second trial of Mrs. Rose Sellecl1
at Adrian, on the charge of burning
her divorced husbands sawmill at Clay
ton, ended in an acquittal.
Two rufiians frightened Mrs. f. II.
Griffith, lone widow living on the
outskirts of Adrian, so that she gave
up So, all the money she had.
Chas. Boyer, aged 30, slipped from a
chute at Kaisers icehouse at Adrian,
fell eight feet and struck on his head,
and was dead in a short time.
1t is said that Grand Army veterans
at West Branch are incensed at Con-
gresham Crump for turning down
their candidate for postmaster.
At the meeting of the United States
Daughters of 1912 at New York, Mrs.
Alfred Russell, of Detroit was elected
president of the Michigan society.
Hon. Mark S. Brewer, of Pontiac,
has been rendered by the President the
position of member Of the civil service
commission with salary of $4,000.
Over 800 residents of Benton Harbor
have signed the petition for a local OPP
ton election, which will undoubtedly
be held. A hot campaign is antici-
pated.
Department Commander Bliss reports
that G. A. r. posts were organized last
month at Mason and Morrice, and
John G. Fremont post, Detroit, dis
banded
Robert Robertson, associate editor OF
the Hancock Progress, and a well
known newspaper man, died at Han
cock at Pfeitfer's hotel of acute alco-
holism.
Senator Forsyth, banker of Stand
ish and author of the uniform text
book law, will not stand for re-elec-
ton, owing TO pressure of private
business.
The deadlock i'm the common council
at Metamora, which lasted seven
months, has been broken and the vii
lage will now borrow money and pay
| its debts.
While in fit Thomas Gray, porter
of the Holiday house at Battle Creek
1 jumped from third story window
His head is badly crushed, but he il
still alive.
VIM. A. Weeks, of West Branch, il
being doomed for state senator by hi
! Republican friends, to succeed George
A. Prescott, of the Twenty-eighth sen
atorial district.
Carrie Griswolds dress caught fir,
from the stove, at Hollywood. She
rushed out and rolled in the snow, bu
was terribly burned before the flames
were extinguished.
Saginaw is to have a handsome new
armory with n seating capacity o
1000 The order known as the Pru
dent Patricians of Pompeii is to cree
the building. Companies + and d
Third infantry. NJ. N. G. have agreed
TO the plans and will have an armor,
in the building.
The Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti motto
line and the Detroit, Ypsilauti & Am
Arbor electric railroad companies hav'
been consolidated. The latter road /
now completed from Detroit TO Dear
born and everything is ready 10 pusl
it right through to Ypsilanti as sool
as spring opens up.