The Yale expositor., 1899-11-03

dead from the effects of taking arsenic
in mistake for quinine, her husband
having purchased the deadly poison at
drugstore for quinine.
The attempted murder case of Mrs.
Marie Butterfeld Sanderson, which
was called on Oct. 80, has been adj
journed until the December term of
the circuit court in Calhoun county.
A tract of 100 acres of hardwood tim.
Der located near Vernon, one of the
few such tracts remaining in the
county, has been sold TO Bay City lum-
Der operators and will be cut this win.
ter.
1t is announced that the new Detroit
&c Northwestern Electric railway will
have cars running between Detroit and
Pontiac by Dec. /. A double track
will be built between Detroit and
Pennington.
Calumet capitalists will build an
electric lighting plant at Lake View.
1t is the purpose of the new company
to furnish lights for business houses
and residences in Calumet, Red Jacket
and Laurium.
The new HON eopathic hospitalat the
University of Michigan will contain
six wards; two for men. three for
women and one for children. The
normal capacity of the hospital will
be from rs to 50.
Harland Houghtaling, who has
farm north of 5tandish, harvested
sugar beet the other day which meas
ured four feet and three inches in
length, and thinks he has done about
as well as the next man.
Fred LemplSe, aged So, of near Trav-
erse City, suicided on the cath by the
strychnine route. Four different times
previous TO his last act he had tried to
hang himself, but was discovered by
members of his family and cut down
in time to save his life.
ID. p. Markey, of Port Huron, SUI
preme commander of the Maccabees of
the World, on the 25th issued a special
dispensation, allowing members who
enlisted in Canadian regiments, to par
ticipate in the Transvaal struggle
without forfeiture Of policies
Alpena county farmers might profit
by the experience of an Allegan county
man who some years ago planted the
'wdste places on his farm to chestnut
trees, and is now reaping the benefit
by selling the nuts from them, which
always command good price.
The first trainload for this year OF
western sheep for farmers around
Vernon arrived at that village recently.
1t was made up of "a carloads, or
5000 sheep in all, from Montana
These will be taken in small lots by
the farmers and fattened for market.
The Metropolitan Opera company,
which recently completed a three
nights engagement at Detroit, carried
away S17, 900 of that city's good money.
There are 1877 people in the company
and it requires 10 cars to transport
them and their baggage from place to
place.
1t is doubtful if there is another
place in the state which can show such
a record in the way of quick growth
as Onaway has made. Two years ago
it was hamlet OF 100 population, but
now there are 1900 residents, with
mills and numerous industries to
match.
Farmers all around Tekonsha are
suffering from the depreciation of
thieves, who do business on a whole
sale scale. One farmer lost six fine
I,,,,, q, 4
unregenerate state prison candidates,
and another farmer $40 worth of Glow
erseed.
The price of dogs is variable guam
tity at Milan. One resident of that
place recently sold II pups at prices
ranging from $40 to SIS apiece. but an
other man who sued his neighbor for
shooting his pet canine got but Sl.5O
at the hands of the jury which sat on
the case.
Ithaca business men and other citi-
zens having the welfare of the city at
heart have organized an improvement
society, and being sensible men, they
have decided that the first thing to do
to promote the prosperity of the city is
TO improve the highways leading in
from the country roundabout.
Instead of giving a bonus to some
outside company to locate in the viii
lage-and stay until some other place
offered it another bonus-the business
men of Minden have organized stock
company, leased factory building
which has been standing idle in the
town, and will run the business them
selves.
A number of Durand residents re-
fused to pay their polltax, and the
village didn't do thing but begin suit
against each one for the amount due.
The original tax and fee amounted to
J 81. 04, but those who waited to be sued
had to put up So 10 each, the costs of
ipstituting each suit bringing it to
that amount.
President Brown of the state live
stock sanitary commission was at Lam
sing on Oct. 30 on his way to Water
| town, Clinton county, where n case of