The Yale expositor., 1899-11-03
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

A white deer was seen near Cheboy-
gan on the cath.
A smallpox hospital has been estab-
lished at Saginaw.
There are now 10 students from
Japan at the U. of NJ
The state taxes for Barry county
have been estimated at $4,000.
Calhoun county was visited by a
40 hour rain on Oct. 26-27.
The River Rouge, suburb of De-
troit, will be Incorporated as village
Roscomnon county will raise S12,
SEQ this by taxation for all purposes.
Therveneer factory at Saunders Iron
county, will be in operation by Nov 1.
The debt of 81 600 on the Niles NJ. L.
church was. raised by subscription on
the Goth: T.
Thresholds and churches at Durand
are closed on accounted the: prevalence
ks$l ssHs,s.s ...~-.
There are five insane persons con-
fined in the st. Clair county Jail at
Port Huron.
An immense brewing plant will be
established at Lake View, few miles
from Calumet.
The farmers in the vicinity of Mt.
Clemens are satisfied with their first
sugar beet crop.
1t takes three cider mills running
overtime to keep Tekonsha people
from going thirsty
All Migrants who are now arrested
at Bay City will be compelled to work
80 days for the city.
Three store building at Gaylord
were destroyed by fire on the 27th, en-
failing a loss of about $40, 900.
The first wildcat skins of the season
were brought into Gladwin last week
for the collection of bounty thereon.
The Wolverine Sugar company, of
Benton Harder, will shortly begin the
manufacture of sugar from the sugar
beet.
Saginaw is to have a muslin under
wear factory which will cost SEQ, 900.
The factory will be in operation in six
weeks.
Two prominent Ypsilanti ladies mar
rowly escaped death by suffocaton on
the evening of Oct. 30. The folding
bed shut up.
A planning mill and $4,000 feet of
lumber was totally destroyed by fire
at Bay City on the cath, entailing
loss of S27, 900.
A Shiawassee county house charge
by the name of Frederick Bhanze was
run over and instantly killed by ID. e.
M. freight on Oct. 30.
A new three-story brick hotel, with
all the up-to-date improvements, is one
of the good things down on the bills
for Cadillac next season.
The smallpox cases at Benton Har-
Dor are not malignant according to the
inspector of contagious diseases for
the state board of health.
The state board of pharmacy has So
cured eight convictions OF druggists in
different parts of the state for viola
ton Of the pharmacy laws.
What timber there is left in Cass
county is being gobbled up by buyers
this fall, the high price of lumber
making the demand strong.
Oil has been struck in the vicinity of
Fowlerville, and there is great excite
ment among the farmers and conse-
quent rise in the price of land.
The session of the October term of
the circuit court for Huron county,
lasted only two days, but in that short
| time $3.50 in fines were collected.
There are 1000 Hollanders in Grand
Rapids and they are much stirred up
over the Boer war. They will doubt
less create fund for their friends as
| sistance.
Judge Newman, of the superior
court of Grand Rapids, announces that
there are five members of his family
who were born on Queen Victoria's
birthday.
Temperance workers in Allegan
county have organized to bring about,
| il possible, another vote on the GU es-
ton of local option in the county next
spring.
In view Of the fact that Admiral
Dewey will not come west this fall,
the unwilling of the Dewey cannon at
Three Oaks will be postponed until
next spring.
Notwithstanding the high wages Of
fered for men to work in the woods,
lumber operators in the upper PENN
sula are compelled to work their camps
shorthanded.