The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-06-02

Mutual FIRE insurance Co., or Lansing,
and will proceed To wind up its affairs.
Kalkaska county farmers report
dearth of potato bugs this spring. 1t
is thought that the intense cold of last
winter was too much for even these
hardy pests
George Smith, employed by the Hall
& Munson company at Bay Mills, was
killed while unloading saw logs from
n car. He was struck on the head by
a falling log and instantly killed.
Never since Van Buren, county was
settled, has the outlook for crop of
wheat been as discouraging as at pres
ent. The Hessian fly having practically
completed the destruction of the crop.
Hon. Peter White, of Marquette, has
been selected to make collection of
copper specimens for the Paris eXposi-
tion in conjunction with Senators VOL
colt, of Colorado and Clark of Montana.
Fire and water badly damaged Peter
j. Nappa's store at Calumet the other
night Mr. Nappa was sleeping above
the store and was badly burned about
the head and body in making his es-
cape.
Kalkaska is suffering from an cpl
demic of measles, which has reduced
the school attendance about 80 per
cent. Many who are supposed to have
had them before are having a second
dose.
While Mrs. Silas Squires, of Albion,
was smoking her pipe the other day
her clothes caught fire, and before the
flames could be eXtinguished she re-
ceived burns, which, owing to her ad-
vanced age of 81, will probably prove
fatal.
Sheriff C. J. Phelps struck large
flowing well in front of his livery
stable in West Branch at depth of
49, feet It flows 60 barrels of water
an hour. A small vein of coal was
also struck.
Many of KalSaska county farmers
who hung on to anywhere from 100 TO
1000 bushels of potatoes when the
price was 40 cents and better are now
sadly watching the price slip down to-
wards nothing.
VIM. Davis, colored, aged So is dead
The old man was formerly slave but
since the war has resided in Niles and,
until few years ago was an express
man. lie was widely known among
travelling men.
The route of the proposed electric
railroad between Lansing and Cold
water will be from Coldwater through
Union City, Burlington, Tekonsha,
Marshall. Bellevue, Olivet and Char
lotte to Lansing.
2The Worlds Fair Columbian organ
at the University of Michigan has
1901 pipes and 1l6 stops. The largest
pipe is 80 feet long. 1t is said To be
one of the most complete concert or
gans in the world.
Frank Nichols, farmer living one
mile north of Camden, committed sui
eide by the opium route on the 2Sth.
Nichols was 80 years of age and was
regarded as rather eccentric. 1t is al
legged that the rash deed is the sequel
of an unfortunate love affair.
Peter Craig, alias John A. Smith,
bought 50 worth of goods on the in
stallment plan at Ann Arbor. An hour
later he sold them at a secondhand
store for 81, and inside of three hours
he was serving a 60 days sentence.
The spring in northern Michigan is
very back ward and discouraging. For
the past week or so cold northwest
winds and frosty nights have prevailed,
and wheat and grass have been held
back and injured, while fruit has been
mostly killed.
Workmen are engaged in tearing
down the old Calhoun mills at Homer,
on the site of which an electric light
plant will be built. This mill was one
of the first built in southern Michigan.
1t was erected in the wilderness in
1890 by stock company at cost of
S35 900.
The universalists of Bay City, have
decided to sell its church property,
pay it's debts and disband. The church
society was organized in 1864. Twice
their edifice has been burned, the last
time about five years ago. Inability
to raise money to complete the new
building is the cause of the disband.
ment.
A former resident of Three Oaks re-
turned to that village the other day
after an absence of IS years. He
hunted up the widow of man from
whom he had borrowed some money,
but she refused to take the cash be-
cause she knew nothing of the debt.
She thought the death of her husband
cancelled the obligation.
Lem s. Washburn, of New Buffalo,
baggage agent on the Michigan Cen
trail road. was arrested at Chicago
charged with rifiing le RS on that
road between Chicago and points in
western Michigan. During the last Is
months from 200 to 500 letters per
week have disappeared, containing in
the aggregate large sum of money.
The house labor committee reported
bill to allow old soldiers to peddle
without license.
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