The Yale expositor., 1899-02-24
STATE GOSSIP.


Electric ears are now running be-
tween Plymouth and Worthwhile.
Traverse City will have new in
dustry in the shape of another iron
foundry.
The annual encampment of the
Michigan G. A. r. will be held at Pc
toslSey, June 21 and %.
One dead and several injured, as the
result of sawmll roof falling, is re-
ported from Ludington.
There is a movement on foot looking
toward the consolidation of Oscoda and
Montmorency counties.
The st. Andrews Catholic school at
Grand Rapids has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, Sc, COO: insured.
The capacity of the $500, 900 sugar
beet factory to be erected at Benton
Harbor will be 400 tons per day.
The Wabash railroad, in its change
of time, has sidetrackcd Belleville.
There is now only one train day
each way.
The right of way and franchises for
new electric road from jackson to
Adrian has been secured for almost the
entire line.
Albert Heysler. of Burkettville, who
murdered his wife and stepdaughter
recently, has committed suicide by
taking Paris green.
The st. Johns Manufacturing Co.
has changed its name to the St. Johns
Table Co., and reduced its capital from
$500, 900 to $780, 600
Large numbers of wild ducks have
been gathered on the ice in Thunder
Bay which were frozen to death dur
/ ing the cold weather
Thirty-three damage suits, aggregat-
ing claims for $500, OOO is on the docket
for the March term of the circuit court
of Washtcnaw county.
Andrew Carnegie has leased the
Michigan Iron Mining company's prop
crty on the Menomince range and will
work it on a large scale.
Stewards big Touring mills, located
| northeast of Ionia, have been destroyed
/ by fire. The loss will aggregate So
600, with partial insurance.
Saranac people are raising fund to
pay the expense of driving test shaft
to see if there is coal in paying guam
titles underlying the village.
! Geo. Dent, of Lapeer, lost 4, 900 bush
els of potatoes by the recent cold snap.
He had been offered soc per bushel for
them before he opened the pit.
! A consolidation of the Bank of Sagi-
nav and the American Commercial and
! Savings bank has been effected. The
! former succeeds to the business.
Menominee people are circulating a
remonstrance against the passage of
! bill by the legislature to establish
state normal school at Marquette
Ionia county fruit growers have
| formed horticultural society to swap
/ ideas and protect themselves against
inscriptions commission merchants
Ingham county people arc keeping
| their mental balance very well of late.
| There has been but one of them sent
to an insane asylum for several months.
Contracts have been let for II large
sandstone buildings in the vicinity of
! n $50, 900 hotel is to be built at Calu-
met.
Isaac Anderson, of Saginaw, claims
/ he has invented a plan whereby cleo
tricity can be generated with oxygen,
and the same will revolutionize the
cost.
Essexville people are all worked up
! 10, I,, 1,a u,
! resentatives to detach n part of the
village and throw it into Hampton
! township.
Congressman Geo Spalding, of Mon
roe, whose term of Office expires March
! 3, has secured the appointment of post
master at Monroe with salary of ST.
200 per year.
One result of the recent cold weather
will be big demand for glass fruit
! jars to replace those broken by the
frost, Judging from reports from all
parts of the state.
1t has been so cold at Grand Rapids
that grave diggers had to give up their
! jobs, as the ground was frozen so
tightly that nothing short of dyna-
! mite would bulge 1T.
Bogus quarters and half-dollars are
being circulated quite extensively at
Grand Rapids. Both bear the date of
1898, and are excellent specimens of
the counterfeiters' art
A movement has been started at
Hastings looking towards the building
of a fine new opera house, and the
chances for the success of the project
are at present first class.
Marshal Frank Dolan, of Mt Glenn
ems, was badly slashed by a knife in
the hands of Phincas Phillip, an in
sane person Phillip imagined Dolan
was conspiring against him.
VIM Conklin, of Battle Creek, aged
&c, committed suicide by shooting at
Charlotte. An hour later his father
died in the Kalamazoo asylum, where
he had been confined several years
The children of VIM. ellis, farmer