The Yale expositor., 1899-07-07
STATE GOSSIP.

MOnlluOIcuSy Guilty pOOi iui IL
will be in operation by August 1. 1t
is located three miles west of Atlanta.
Carleton & Cole, of Port Huron.
dealers in machinery supplies, have
closed their doors. Liabilities, $4,000
A fence factory will be established
will subscribe for a portion of the
stock.
Just south of Chesaning there is
barn which was built AZ years ago.
Every timber in the structure is black
walnut.
Chester Loomis 81 Son, of Grand
Rapids, have a Shropshire lamb that
weighed 72J9 pounds when it was SO
days old.
The board of health at Flint an
nounces that signs will be posted on
business streets forbidding splitting on
sidewalks.
After 16 years of idleness the Taylor
iron mine, five miles east of L'Anse,
will soon be reopened and worked to
its fullest capacity.
more, this year sheared 300 pounds of
wool from % yearlings, an average of
IL pounds per head.
All of the mason tenders at Bay City
are on strike for an increase of wages
to S1.75 per day. Work on all the new
factories is at n standstill.
Bears are so numerous in the imme
date vicinity of Marquette that wo-
men and children are afraid to go into
the outskirts of the city alone.
James Meyers, n Thetford township
brute, Genesee county, pleaded guilty
in the circuit court to debauching his
l9-year-old daughter. He broke down
in court.
At the close of the fiscal year, June
30th, there was a balance of 81, 402,-
O55 So in the state treasury. This is
Sls5, $40 81 more than the balance one
year ago.
Diphtheria has become epidemic at
Cassidy's Corners, little hamlet near
Niles A half dozen cases now exist
and one death from the disease has
thus far been reported.
Saline people think that all that is
necessary now for their happiness and
the prosperity Of the village is local
band, and accordingly such an organ
ization will be form d.
Bay City wheelmen have been given
the right to ride on the sidewalks of
every street in the city that is not
paved or planked The mayor and
nearly every alderman rides wheels.
: John X. Eileivein, residing near
Three Oaks, was thrown from his
reaper by his team running away on
the lst The sharp knives of the
reaper literally cut his body to pieces
The wheat crop of Newavgo county
this year is almost total failure
Hundreds Of acres were plowed under
last spring. and what was left To grow
will not yield one quarter of an aver
age crop.
Dairy and Food Commissioner Gros-
venor is collecting statistics concern
ing the cheese and butter factories of
Michigan. in order that he may be allie
TO respond to the frequent requests for
this information.
The building of the new power house
at New Baltimore for the electric rail
road which is to run through from De-
troit TO Port Huron has been begun.
The plant will be one OF the finest of
the kind in the country.
Senator Burrows is negotiating for
the purchase of residence in the
SWEETEST part of Washington in which
to live and entertain while congress is
in session during the next six years.
1t is said he has offered $50, 900 for a
house which suits him.
On one acre of ground Frank Clark,
a well-known farmer of Vernon, raised
this season four tons of good timothy
hay, and is willing to make an atfida-
Wit to that effect and on one of his
five-acre lots cut on an average of
three tons of good hay to the acre.
Geo. Cooper, an old resident of White
Pigeon, committed suicide on the eth
by taking dose of poison. Domestic
troubles are said to have caused him to
end his life. This was his third at
tempt at self-destruction within the
past 12 years, and it proved a winner
Rockland is experiencing genuine
"boom. The houses are full and
many people are living and doing bus
mess in tents. There are three times
as many professional people and trades
men there as the place can support.
The mines are rich, but the town itself
is being overdone, and reaction is
sure to follow.
Richard Floyd Nicholl, former
Marquette county miner, was arrested
May Is at johannesburg, South Africa,
and placed in Jail in Pretoria on a
charge of high treason against the
Transvaal government. Nicholl is
seeking to establish his American citi-
zenShip.
Bay City capitalists have taken leases
of land near Atlanta and will explore
for coal, iron and gas. There are sew
eral places in large swamp two miles
east of that place where gas escapes
constantly, and when ignited burns
with a steady flame. Operations will