The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-05-12
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

in Traverse City.
Bellevue has fired all slot machines
out of the village.
A grist mill will be erected at Whit
temore this summer.
Niles public schools are overcrowded
and a new school house will be built.
For the fourth time Eaton county
will vote on the local option question.
Two business blocks at Calumet were
destroyed by fire recently. Loss, Sc, 900.
The state board of health wants
larger appropriations to carry on its
work.
Over 800 chickens were nipped
by thieves ut Royal Oak during the
past week.
The Lowell & Hastings railroad has
been sold to the Grand Rapids, Belding
& Saginaw Co.
The Michigan Salt association esti-
mates the output of salt for 1899 at
600, 900 barrels
The Funeral Directors association
will hold their annual meeting in
Owosso in July.
The plans for st. Joseph county's
new court house have been accepted
by the supervisors.
Four hundred pounds of pike were
speared in Hamlin river by fishing
party in two nights.
Lightning struck the Ridgeway de-
pot building and demolished large
part of the slate roof.
Four of the women enrolled in the
college of dental surgery of the U. of
M. are from Germany.
At Leslie there is a harnessmalIer
who has been in that business in the
same shop for "a years
The people of Ovid will dedicate a
soldiers monument in Maple Grove
cemetery Decoration Day
The citizens of Albion are consider.
ing the feasibility of establishing n
public hospital in that city.
Capitalists Of Ann Arbor are after a
franchise to connect their city with
Adrian by an electric railroad
The only department Of the of NJ.
in which there are no women students
is the engineering department.
OF the 3, los students enrolled in the
L. of NJ, ], 500 are from Michigan, 3?s
from Illinois and 1919 from Ohio.
The ratio of students to instructors
in the y. of NJ. is 14.4 to /. At John
Hopkins university it is So to l.
The Sunday schools at Antrim county
of various denominations will hold a
convention at Bellaire, June : and s.
Seventy-one graduates of the U. of
NJ. have been members of congress, 10
as senator's and 81 as representatives.
Tests for coal are to be made soon in
the southwestern portion of Tuscola
county, beginning near Tuscola village,
The pharmaceutical department of
the U. of NJ. contributed IL men TO the
army and navy during the Spanish war
The 15-months-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Hinkley, of Mason,
was drowned by falling head first into
pail of water.
The annual convention of the Branch
county Christian Endeavor society will
be held at Coldwater, Friday and Sat-
urday, May 10 and 20.
Burglars secured 500 in cash and
other valuables by blowing open the
safe in the Standard Oil company's
Office at Kalamazoo. No clue.
If Pontiac expects to grow in popu-
lation any more, there will have TO be
some building done. Vacant houses
are unknown things in that city.
A lady of Cadillac is serving 30 days
in the county Jail for violating the fish
law by going out spearing with her
husband. They occupy separate cells.
Schoolcraft is to have electric lights
at last, after many months Of waiting.
The council has granted a franchise TO
company which will put in plant,
Three men have commenced drilling
along the F. Il Z. Nj. railroad tracit
| south of Willow near Waltz. r. is az
legged that they are drilling fer lime
stone.
Mrs. Christina Leyer, OF Walden
burg, Macomb county. fel! into q
feather bed face downward and snoth.
cred before her predicament was dis.
covered.
A prominent farmer Of Niles says
that only about half wheat crop
would be harvested in tina: viclnity
this season. The February freeze Is
| the cause.
Mrs. Alexander, of Ann Arbor, has
been arrested on the charge Of aGan
doning her infant daughter in IN out
building The extreme penalty is Il
years Imprisonment.
A new brick yard has been put into
operation at West Branch TO furnish
the brick for the buildings which wit
be erected to replace those destroyed
by FIRE some months ago.
Edward Powers, Of Macomb county
the alleged murderer of VIM. Webber
has waived examination and has been
bound over to the circuit court. Hi:
bail has been fixed at $1,000.
A Calhoun county farmer named
Castleman has begun suit against hi:
| wife for the amount of his wages fol