The Yale expositor., 1899-06-23
STATE GOSSIP.

that did SIS, 900 worth of damage.
A company capitalized with 500, 900
will erect a fine five-story hotel at
Houghton.
The proposed improvements on
the Branch county poor house are to
cost SIS, 200.
Lambertville, Monroe county, is
quarantined owing to an epidemic of
scarlet fever.
The Michigan fish commission has
planted 1900 black bass in Barren
lake, near Niles.
At Flint 20 business men have formed
company to run an electric railroad
from that place to Fenton.
Reed City officers gathered in gang
of IL hoboes on the 13th, and took
them to the Jail at Hersey.
The sawmill of Hamilton, Merryman
& Co., at Menominee, burned on the
18th. Loss SIS, 900; insurance $40, 900
The waterworl<s are in running or
der at Jonesville, and with the new
electric lights the village is quite citi-
| fed.
In many apple orchards of Volinia
township, Cass county, worms have
completely stripped the trees of their
foliage.
| Reports indicate that huckleberries
will be a big crop in Calhoun county,
which will partially compensate for
short peach crop.
Vernon bicyclists have decided TO
construct bicycle paths from their vii
lage to Corunna and Durand, and work
will begin at once.
The annual state convention of the
Church of Christ will be held in Dowa-
giac, Sept. 1917 Speakers of national
reputation will be present.
Oceana county's fair this year will
do away with all gambling schemes,
| the management to be placed entirely
in the hands of the farmers.
Labor Commissioner Cox has APP
pointed VIM. Atwood, of st. Charles.
! deputy inspector of mines. Atwood
will commence work at once.
Leon J. Cole. instructor in the ZOO
logical department of the U. of NJ, has
! gone to Alaska with the Edward Ii.
Hartman scientific exposition
The main building of the govern
ment Indian industrial school. located
one mile northwest of Mt. Pleasant,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Highwaymcn are working Benton
| Harbor. A man named Pitkin was
held up in the heart of the city at mid
/ night recently and relieved of his cash.
Mrs. Rcbecca j. Hull, living near
North Star, Gratiot county, stepped on
a rusty nail, and died within a week
from the blood poisoning which re-
! suited.
Banking Commissioner Maltz has
! granted charters to the Old State bank
| at Fennville, capital $4,000 and the
Brown City Savings bank, capital
SEQ, 900.
A biological survey of Lake Erie will
be made the coming summer for the
! u. S. commission of fish and fisheries
under the direction of Jacob Reighard,
professor Of zoology in the u. of NJ.
From nearly every place in the state
where extensive building operations
are going on come reports OF shortage
in the brick supply and inability to Sc
cure as much material as is needed.
On two different occasions recently
| prisoners have escaped from the village
! Jail at Leslie through assistance rem.
dered from the outside, and the author
tiles are now trying 10 find out who
the guilty person is
Mrs T. L. Palmer, OF Peutwater,
whose husband lost his life in the
furniture factory explosion there last
October, committed suicide while in a
fit of temporary dependency, by
drinking carbolic acid.
Michigan farmers who had begun 10
think that the severe cold last winter
had frozen out the potato bags are be.
ing undeceived for the little pests are
putting in an appearance by the mil
lions, ready for business.
Sumpter township, Wayne county,
has granted a franchise TO the Detroit
& Toledo Electric Railway Co, which
about completes the right or way. 1t
is understood that work will shortly
be commenced on the road.
The last of the dense forests that
once covered Ottawa county is now he
ing cut down. 1t is located on Grand
river in Allendale township and is n
regular forest primeval. Some OF the
trees are veritable mouarchs
The Grand Rapids Holland & Lake
Michigan Electric Railway company,
of Grand Rapids, capitalized at $780,
900, has been incorporated and will
build a line from Grand Rapids to
Holland, distance of 81 miles.
After seven years of local option,
Eaton county voted on the 10Th to re-
return to the old high license system.
the latter resolution carrying by 3s5
maj )rity. Local option has been any
thing but success in Eaton county
Potatoes at 90 cents bushel are n
drug on the market at Oxford. At