The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-02-10
STATE GOSSIP.
G. w. Kent, of Albion, has purchased
the Vassar Times.

new hchoOl building.
The State Dairymen's convention
will meet in Detroit next year.
The beet sugar factory at Bay City
so far has received $3.50 from the
state as bounty.
Montcalm was the first county to
come to the auditor-general with its
taxes for 1898.
The annual convention of the State
Bar association will be held at Jackson
on June 90 and 81.
The balance in the state treasury
January 81 was 81 ,2s5, COG. so, or S3O,-
515.@2 more than last year.
The Village of st. Johns will spend
SO, 500 on an airlift to double the ca
pacity of the water works.
A 100000 beet sugar plant may be
built at st. Louis. New York capital
lists are becoming interested.
A fine new union depot will be built
at Grand Rapids if all the roads run
ming into that city will use it.
About quarter of the wheat grow
ing on clay lands in Tuscola county
has been killed by severe weather.
Jas. Westfall, of Pennington, al
leges that he was assaulted by officers
of the law, and has caused their ar
rest.
VIM. S. Brown, of Chicago, left s1O,-
900 to Albion college two years ago.
His estate is now ready to pay over
Sc, 900.
About SIS, 900 has been subscribed
for the erection of n cement manufac-
turing plant at Mosherville, Hillsdale
county.
BY the drowning of Albert King at
Port Huron damage suit may result.
1t is claimed no sign was placed on the
dangerous hole left by ice cutters.
Samuel Blitho, of Jackson, who
pleaded guilty to larceny of sac worth
of whisky, was sentenced to four years
and six months in the state prison.
Saginaw will ask the legislature for
permission TO adopt the stone road sys-
TEN and issue 5000, 900 in bonds to ex-
tend stone roads in Saginaw county.
Within four weeks, four mothers liv-
ing in a radius of four miles of the ham
let of Montgomery, Hillsdale county,
have each given birth to twin babies.
ST. Joseph will experience build
ing boom shortly, as a result of the
Compound Door Factory company To-
eating there. 1t is estimrted 25 houses
will be built.
IooI,eo, ,-ounoe4ar e-.allo,yoJ N
brass chain six inches long. which he
| pulled off from the collar of an over
coat, and at last accounts the child
was getting along nicely.
by the quick working of the air
brake on an f. &; p. NJ. freight at Cros-
we'll, Fireman VIM. j. Minnie was
thrown from the tender and two trucks
passed over his body killing him in
stantly.
Port Huron is awakening from its
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and its indus
tries will probably be increased in the
near future. A chance has been Of
fered to secure six new manufactur-
ing institutions.
John I. Murphy, the veteran fruit
grower of st. Joseph, gives it as his
opinion that the recent cold snap has
not injured peach buds in the least,
Notwithstanding unquiet rumors to
the opposite effect.
Geo. Lyons, a farmer of Exeter
township, Wayne county, lost his barn
and contents by fire. Twenty hogs,
three horses and four cows were Gre
mated. Loss, 81, 500; insurance, $3.50.
Cause of fire unknown.
Recently one of the most popular
young ladies of Brighton laid her false
teeth upon the shelf upon retiring.
The next morning they were missing
and the young lady is confident it was
the deed of pesky rat.
From the number of rooms already
engaged at the leading hotels in jack
son for candidates, indications are that
there will be lively contest for the
nomination for supreme justice by Re-
publicans February 2sth.
Romulus was visited by fire recently
that threatened to wipe out the bust
ness portion of the town. A strong
4 bucket Drlgdue cOnuucu Jne names 10
the Reichwage block, which was
totally destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
The state fair board have signed a
contract to hold the next fair at Grand
Rapids the last week in September.
Eugene Fifield, of Bay City, was made
general superintendent, and II. r.
Dewey, of Grand Blanc, succeeds FIRE.
mont Skeels as superintendent Of
booths and privileges.
The supreme court has granted an
order directing the Wayne circuit
court to show cause why mandamus
should not issue to compel it to quash
the capias recently issued against o. A.
Wright, of Detroit in the damage case
recently commenced against him by
Kittie Shingelmeyer of the same place.
By head-on collision of two passen-
ger trains on the c. & q. T.. Ry. at In
lay City, three persons were killed out
right and seven injured. Both engin-
| GERS had orders tn mass at that nlaco