The Yale expositor., 1899-09-15
STATE GOSSIP.

Cured on Sept 5.
A number of cases of typhoid fever
are reported at jackson.
There is not an empty dwelling in
Saranac, and the schools are filed.
Beans in Livingston county are
yielding only five bushels to the acre.
According to census just COM
pleted Dowagiac has 400 population.
The cornerstone of the new $1,000
NJ. +. church at BAD Axe has been laid.
A large deposit of mari has been dis
covered three miles south of Bellevue.
The 11th Michigan cavalry will hold
its annual reunion at Hillsdale, Oc-
tober IL.
Hi lsdale's new court house was ded-
icated on the h. Fully 10000 PEG.
pie were present
The 90 | Michigan volunteer infantry
will hold its oath annual reunion at
St Johns, Sept. 2l.
Cheboygan county was blessed with
a heavy rain on the 10th. More than
an inch of water fell.
Eight thousand cans of tomatoes is
the average daily output of the Dun
dee canning factory.
A number of skeletons of Indians
! have been found in the sand pit, seven
miles north of Royal Oak.
Colon, st. Joseph county, will build
second school building to accommo-
date the increase of pupils.
A trunk and valse factory will be
started in Bad Axe shortly by John Ii.
Cole, formerly Detroit man.
The h annual fair of the Albion
Fair e. Driving Park association will
be held at Albion. Sept. 10 %.
On account of the short peppermint
| crop, growers are holding their OIL in
anticipation of rise in price.
Fruit growers around Paw Paw COM
plain that their grapes are being de-
stroyed by small yellow birds
An important meeting of the health
| officers of Michigan will he held at
Grand Rapids on Oct. &c and p.
Eagle River. Keweenaw county, will
! become summer resort. Calumet
capitalists are pushing the scheme.
1t is believed that 500 Oddfellows
from Grand Rapids will attend the
great convention at Detroit Sept. 16
The Bad Axe school opened last
week wi h an enrolment of 400 chill
dren out of so school children in the
| town.
Lamson e Crowley, Marshall sewer
contractors, are compelled to blast
their way through IA feet of solid
sandstone.
lightning struck barn on the old
Crouch farm, near Jackson on the 7.h,
killing four horses. Neither the barn
nor contents caught fire.
The ir IN mining companies of the
Marquette range have announced a
voluntary raise in wages of 10 cents a
day, taking effect Sept. 1.
Work has been renewed at Cheboy-
gan on the test salt well, which was
started some months ago. Results are
expected before snow flies.
new DOlcl, WIFI Recommendations
for 100 guests, is to be erected at Saug.
atuck in time for next sum ner's resor,
business. 1t will cost $4,000.
Walter and Lawrence Verdier, Of
Grand Rapids, must answer TO the
charge of violating the fish law. They
are charged with using dynamite.
Kalamazoo is suffering from short
age in the local milk supply, caused 10y
the recent long drought, and conse
quent lace of pasturage for the cows
The survey for the electric railway
connecting the various cities of the
copper country has been made ano
work will probably commence at once
A special election was held at Holl,
on the 9Th TO vote on the question o
bonding the village for So, 000. to sinh
new wells at the wafer works. Tn,
election was holly contested and re
suited in defeat for the proposition
by n vote OF 104 to "a.
Oliver Tenny, of Highland Station
was driving corn cutting machin,
when the horses ran away, and he wa
thrown under the knives Both hi
legs were cut and mangled in a terri
BILE manner, and he is in a critical con
dition. The horses were also injure,
so badly that they had to be shot.
: Railroad Commissioner Osborn !
now sending out fine new railroa
: map of the state of Michigan TO tn
people of the state who are sufficiently
| interested TO ask for a copy. The ma
: is good one and shows all the neN
lines of railroad which have been con
structed up to within very short time