The Yale expositor., 1899-05-26
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

! rourtH Oh July celeDrdJlon.
The first American flag was planted
on Cuban soil by u. of M. man.
onaway capitalists are going to pros
pect for coal in Cheboygan county.
There will be a reunion of the Sd
Michigan cavalry at Owosso, June IA.
Nearly all of Carsonville's business
places are now lighted by acetylene
gas.
Tekonsha supervisors has stirred up
dog owners by imposing a tax of SO on
dogs.
The Goth Michigan infantry will
hold its annual reunion at Ithaca,
June 15
The Shiawassee supervisors have let
a contract for an addition to the county
poor house.
The Choral Union of the Z. of NJ. is
said to be the largest students chorus
in the world.
The board of supervisors of Altoona
has authorized the investigation of the
county's books.
Worms have stripped nearly every
apple orchard in the central part of
Van Buren, county.
1t is said that Is per cent of the
wheat fields in Huron county will have
to be plowed under.
Rochester is to have n Masonic tenn
pie soon, an association having been
formed for the purpose of building one.
George w. SiclSles, of Pontiac, has
! gone to Manila, having accepted
position in the commissary department
of the army.
Ypsilanti will celebrate the 18th an
niversary of the foundation of the city
with glorious old-fashioned Fourth
of July celebration.
Four members Of the class of '9S in
the U. of NJ. have gone as foreign mis-
sionaries-one to Asiatic Turkey, one
to Africa and two to Arabia.
A rich deposit of mari has been
found on the farms Of NJ. Carey, r. +.
Kay, and j. G. Marsh, in Woodruff
township, Shiawassee county.
The Weary Willies" will not enjoy
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Jail at Port Huron in the future. A
plain hard board awaits them.
The fish in Sugar Loaf lake, near
Schoolcraft, are dying by thousands,
due to some obscure disease. Some
say that explosives are being used.
Dwelling houses are so scarce at
Caro-, and so much in demand. that
even barns are being fitted up for liv-
ing places, and are readily rented at
good prices.
Mrs. Jerome Moore, aged so, of Clay
ton township Genesee county, COM
mitted suicide by cutting her throat.
She was respondent and leaves a hus-
band and family.
In southwestern Michigan many
pear orchards are so injured it is feared
they will not stand the heat of sum-
mer. The foliage is not of n healthy
color and growth.
Escanaba was visited by n binding
snow storm on the 18th, which may ac-
count for the chilly condition of the
weather in the southern part of the
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The Branch county soldiers and sail
ors' annual reunion will be held in
| Coldwater June II. Gen. Duffield, of
Detroit, and Hon. George L. Yaple
will be among the speakers.
James Burns. of L'Anse. was in
formed the other morning, for the 2sth
time in his life, that he was a proud
papa. Sixteen of the children are
boys, and the other - girls.
The Saginaw Salt & Lumber Co. has
shipped 100000 feet of lumber so far
this month, and contracts for the sea.
sons cut already amount to 5000, 900
feet, with other deals pending.
The French Catholics of Calumet are
going to build fine new stone church
this summer. The building will be of
gothic design, modelled after the an
cient cathedral at Amiens, France.
NJ. Germon and wife, of Butler, were
attacked by two immense blue-racers
recently and the reptiles were only
vanquished after Germon had run into
the house and secured his revolver
DIR. j. A. Van Ripper, of Laingsburg,
while blowing up stumps with dyna-
mite, was struck by a fragment and
killed, He was IS years old and we'll
known throughout the central Mich
igan.
The skins of two tamarau COWS which
were secured in the Philippines by DR..
j. Ii. Steere in 1ss7-ss, have been
mounted and placed on exhibition in
the museum of the University of Mich
igan.
While John Fitzmorris was blowing
on his farm in Mt. Haley township,
Midland county, recently, a bolt of
lightning struck him TO the ground.
He was killed instantly as was the
horses.
The big cement factory for Newaygo
is a sure thing and the old buildings
which now occupy the site where a
mammoth steel and iron structure is