The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-12-09

AKElt " II Nli 'dAiN AAA AiAS hdl
from Ireland TO Pontiac to wed her old
sweetheart. Dennis Mummy, but found
that he had wife and four children.
The new 100000 smelter of the
Quincy Mining Co, at IIoughton is
now in blast. IL is the most modern
and complete in the world, and is eX-
pected to refine copper for half the
former cost, effecting saving of fully
$50 600 annually.
Last spring Joseph and Barnard
Blust, of Tawas township, losco
county, planted six acres TO sugar
beets as an experiment They har-
vested 10 tons, which analysed 1917
per cent and yielded S522, or an aver
age pr &S7 per acre.
John Marble, aged SO. an eccentric
citizen Of Buchanan township, Berrien
county, committed suicide by taking
morphine. In his younger days he
was Methodist minister, but he de-
serted his church and became a most
confirmed infidel. Some years ago he
lost his sight.
Editor Dingley, of Kalamazoo, was
elected a representative, but held
50, 00O clerkship on his fathers com
mittee at Washington. The law says
that if n candidate for the legislature
is n federal ofliceholder. all votes cast
for him are void. Frederick Cellem
will contest his election.
There are many reports of violations
of the law limiting to five the number
of deer to be killed by any one hunter.
One sportsman at Alpena is said to
have boosted of the fact that he bag
gcd - deer, and another claims TO have
shot 30
Pontiac's prospective beet sugar
moguls have 'trun down" the Chicago
promoters because they wanted too
large a graft and local capitalists
will erect the factory for bonus of
40 acres of land and pledge of 1000
acres OF beet annually.
The 1000 employees of the Norrie,
Pabst and Tilden mines. near Iron
wood, operated by the Oliver Mining
Co Ia Carnegie corporation), has been
given an advance in wages averaging
fully 10 per cent. Further advances
are expected before spring.
VIM. Arts, foreman of the Gogebic
Powder Co., prevented an explosion
which would have caused several deaths
and would have shaken up the entire
city of Bessemer. In SO doing he was
terribly burned on the face, hands and
arms, but he will probably recover.
People in the Saginaw valley accuse
the railroads of discrimination against
coal operators there, and say that
freight rates are SO high that products
of the coal mines cannot be shipped
100 miles from Saginaw and compete
with coal from Ohio and West Virginia.
Andrew J. Smith, of the Nineteenth
L. S. Infantry, who is home at Ian
sing on furlough, reports the death
of two Michigan boys at Ponce, Porto
Rico VIM. Walters. of Mullets, and
ED Talmadge, of Bath, of the 18th.
Neither of these men have heretofore
been reported among the dead. Both
succumb bed TO typhoid fever.
The d., G.. II. IL NJ. railway has dis
NOhblhuNu 10 oNtN ilhSb lNdiliOdd
Comm issioner Wesselius and has paid
disputed taxes into the state treasury
The company was assessed under the
Merrinan law, and the company
claimed that its charter provided for
lump sum OF S25 900. The Merriman
law soaked it for Ss,72l more.
VIM. A. Pack of Centerville, was re-
Gently elected to the >.atc legislature
and was the only Democrat in the
county to escape defeat. He was Il
member of Co. X, 33d Michigan, and
was wounded i'm the back at Santiago,
but never told his wife or friends of
his injury until few days ago when
he became i'll from the wound
Lew Baurley, of Jonesville, was
hunting with companion named Fred
Cutler, when the latter's gun was ac-
cidentally discharged, the charge strik-
ing Baurley in the left leg below the
knee He was taken home and ampu-
tation decided upon, but before the
operation could be performed he died
from the shock. He was - years old
The anticipated trouble with Beaver
island fishermen has commenced. Dep
uty Game Warden brewster has cap
tured the Beaver island tug Cisco eff
High island, securing IL boxes of Neil
Gallagher's nets and 1000 pounds of
lake trout, and both Capt. JAS. Gala
Cher and Engineer Frank Left were
taken prisoners for violation of the
law which prohibits fishing before
Dee. Is. Other nets were picked up off
Beaver island. The fishermen say that
as this is their only means of liveli-
hood and this is their most profitable
season they will suffer severely by the
enforcement of the law