The Yale expositor., 1899-10-06

Fred Bailey, OF Harrison, found a
sealed envelope under his plate on the
morning of his 2lst birthday. 1t con-
tanned deed for 50 acres of land, the
gift of his parents
1t is said the Big Four system will
build a 5000 swing bridge at st.
Joseph, extend the line to that city
and thence along the south lake shore,
tapping the fruit belt
Walter o. Ashley, senior member of
the vessel firm of Ashley & Dustin, of
Detroit, dropped dead on the street
about noon on the 27th. Deceased was
nearly Ga years of age.
Port Sanilac's apple evaporation en-
ploys 10 hands and will double the
number next month. Fifteen thou
sand dollars have already been paid
for apples in the vicinity.
A syndicate of Detroiters headed by
Clarence A. Black has been granted a
| 30-year franchise to build an electric
line at Monroe. The line will eX-
tend from Toledo to Trenton.
The hotel safe in the Commercial
house, Homer, was robbed on the 25th
and 81, 200 in cash and a gold watch
aiken. A man named Mervin Thomp-
son is suspected of the theft
Port Huron is to have a new in
dustry. 1t is a tannery, and the pro-
cess to be used is one where the skins,
with hair on, can be tanned without
destroying the fibre or luster.
Apple buyers are buying up Clare
county orchards at higher prices than
usual. Rates range from 81. 25 to Sl.50,
and some varieties of winter fruit are
contracted for at So per barrel
The League of Michigan Municipali-
ties, in session at Grand Rapids on the
eth, favored constitutional amend
ment which would permit of municipal
ownership of all public utilities.
Mrs. Ida Lehman, of Detroit, is in a
critical condition at one of the hospi-
tails as result of gasoline stove eX-
plosion. She attempted to fill the tank
while one of the burners was lighted.
An iron bridge over the Coldwater
river, three miles south of Union City,
became detached from its abutments
and crashed into the dam just below
it. The damage is estimated at SO, 500.
Never before in the history of the
Marsh company, of Monroe, have there
been so few ducks in that vicinity at
this time of the year. There are
hardly any ducks flying and there is
no shooting whatever.
More than S, 900 persons attended the
second annual street fair at Harbor
Beach last week. Prof. Williams, who
made balloon ascensions, dropped into
Lake Huron one day aud was rescued
by the life saving crew.
Potato digging in Osceola county has
Just started and the outlook for crop
is very poor. Hundreds of acres will
not be dug, as they are so small they
will not pay the digging. Men demand
81. so per day and are very scarce.
Chas. II. Baker and George d. Hig
gins, "yellows" inspectors, report but
% cases of the 'yellows" in Otsegc
township, and 10 of these are in one
orchard. Last year they found 80 cases
and the year before over $50 trees were
discovered.
Gaylord wants flour mill. At pres
ent, farmers have to ship their whea
to Cheboygan, cart it to Boyne Falls
or into their next county, to get i
: ground. 1t is said the present acreage
4 of wheat in Otsego county would b'
doubled if there was a -four mill a
4 Gaylord.
e The state fish commission has pur
chased the stock in C. f. Hollis private
trout hatchery at Cascade and it will
q be removed to the Paris hatchery. Thi
will add about 10000 eggs to tn
Paris output. The Holt hatchery ha
been in operation Is years and was on
of the first established in the west.
In the $40, 900 damage suit of Sherii
II Scougale VS. Rev. John Sweet, ID. d.
, Of Owosso, the jury awarded a judg
ment of 81 900 To- the plaintiff. Rev
e Sweet, through the newspapers dc
e clared the sheriff had violated his oat
of office by allowing a game of bal
l. to be played on Sunday, hence tn
IL lawsuit.
The physicians appointed to examin
into the condition of the mind of Han
:. Roedder, of Ann Arbor, the hig
school student who attempted suicid
when captured by the officers, decide
e on the Cd that he is perfectly sane
n There has been a strenuous effort o
the part of some university inhuenC
st to keep all facts suppressed in the cas-
0; until Roedder shot himself.
The fiercest September blizzard
10 many years visited North Dakota O
ir Sept. eth. A heavy rain early in ii
0. day turned to snow and severe soutl
al west wind added to the ferceness
M the storm.
G. Once in a while we read of ente
-. prising country neighborhoods WI
" are bound to keep up with the time
= The people of the Wise school distric
- near Coleman, have voted to bond IL
district in the sum of 81 900 to pay f
at a new brick school house.
lg In a recent scrap between the Yaq
rs Indians and Mexican cowboys sever
of the latter were killed and sever