The Yale expositor., 1899-01-13
STATE GOSSIP.

exploding.
The "Prohibs" of Kalamazoo county
have held their convention and elected
delegates to the state convention.
The Pilgrim Congregational church
of Lansing which was just completed
has been destroyed by fire. Loss SlS,-
COO
Auditor General Dix is authority for
the statement that the tax sales will
be smaller this year by nearly one
third
Circuit Judge George NJ. Buck, of
Kalamazoo. is candidate for re-elec-
ton. II. +. Hecl1ert, of Paw Paw, is
also candidate.
Gaylord can no longer boast of hav-
ing one of the largest men in the state,
rs big Bill" Morton, who weighed
nearly 400 pounds, is dead.
w. G. limerick, of Saginaw, cashier
OF the American Commercial & Savings
bank, resigned to organize the Sagi-
nav Beet Sugar Co., with "a capital of
$3.50, 0Oo.
A proposition to bond Shiawassee
county for $40, 900 for the erection of
county building on the poor farm will
be submitted to the voters at the next
election.
Michigan will be represented by two
men in the next graduating class at
West Point Military academy. They
are Leon b. Kroner, OF Grand Rapids,
and Thomas II. Jackson, OF lonia.
During 1898, the Flint & Pere Mar
quette railway steam car ferry Pere
Marquette crossed Lake Michigan $40
times Three ferries now run, and
one or two more are said to be needed.
Saginaw merchants are formulating
plans whereby debts can be collected.
They propose to have a bill introduced
in the legislature by which any person
earning 81 day or over can be gar
nisheed for debt
John G.. Tucker, receiver of the De-
troit & River st. Clair railroad, has is
sued another block OF S35, 0O0 worth OF
certificates, and the money will be
used to pay up the Indebtedness and
complete the equipment.
Frankfort citizens are very wroth
because the Ann Arbor railroad COM
pany makes South Frankfort Its stop
ping place, and the Franliforters have
to go three miles TO catch a train or
ship their freight. They will appeal
to the state authorities.
The 35th Michigan quartermas;e err
has been ordered to put in acquisitions
for four months supply of rations,
equipments, etc. All requests for
leaves of absence or furloughs arc de-
MED. The boys now feel sure they
will soon start for Cuba.
Incendiary fires have occurred so fire.
quently at Negaunee that the citizens
are becoming desperate and threaten
to lynch the firebugs if caught. The
latest was the burning of the barn of
the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with 300
tons of hay. Loss $4,000.
The Arcnac County Farmers insti-
tute will be held at Au Ores, Jan. 81
to %. 1t will be conducted by c. b.
Charles. Sugar beet raising will be
one Of the topics under discussion.
The Bay County institute will be he'd
Jan. 20 and "a at Bay City.
While Vernon masous and $50 guests
were dedicating new temple the
floor sank eight inches. A catastrophe
was averted by Worshipful Master IL.
i. Mclaughlin, who announced a fic-
! tition banquet across the street and
succeeded in clearing the building.
Fred Linstead, charged with murder
ously assaulting James Davis, eluded
the Port Huron police by Disgusting
| himself as woman. He was arrested
! and jailed at Sarnia, and extradition
proceedings are now necessary. He
admits assaulting Davis, but denies
that he robbed him.
Secretary Baker of the state health
board, thinks the reporting and isola-
! ton of consumption overshadows all
| other Michigan questions at the pres
cnt time, not excepting the increase of
railroad taxation. He says consump-
ton annually causes n money loss of
! $4,000, 0J0 to the state.
The biennial report of the upper
peninsula hospital for the insane,
located at Newberry, shows the aver
age daily cost of maintaining the in
mates TO have been 49.9 cents per
capita. The cost decreases as the mum
Der of inmates increases. There are
about 800 patients under treatment.
ST. Joseph county voters will be
asked to vote at the next election on
the proposition of raising $4,000 by
taxation to build n new court house at
Centerville, the present county seat.
A scrap will doubtless follow as Three
Rivers and Sturgis have been fighting
over the disposition of the county
buildings for the past three years.
John Gressel and Joseph HELEN.
ecker, recently discharged by Heusel
Bros, Ann Arbor bakers, were ar.
rested on the charge of maliciously
placing drugs in the flour and flooding
the basement of the bakery. Gressel
pleaded guilty and was given 60 days
in Jail Helzenecler will stand trial
on Jan. o, although the confession oi
Gressel implicated him.
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