The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-09-29
STATE GOSSIP.

Gated their new church on the 24th.
The Cd Michigan infantry will hold
its annual reunion at Hillsdale, Oct. IS.
The Michigan school for the deaf
opened at Flint on the 2lst with 275
pupils.
The annual fair of the Midland
County Agricultural society will be
held Oct 4-6.
An alleged wild woman is said to
make her home in the woods near
Traverse City.
Bishop Foley confirmed a class of 60
at it. Johns Catholic church, Benton
Harbor, on the 25th.
Cars are now running over the new
Detroit, Rochester, Romeo 81 Lake
Orion Electric railway.
The new machinery in the Rapid
Railways power house at New Balti-
more will cost $500, 00O
The f. & p. NJ. Ry. was consolidated
with the D., G. Il. & w. and the C. &
W. M. railways on the 21st.
George Starr and Harry Williams,
awaiting trial for burglary, escaped
from the Monroe Jail on the 2lst.
Horse thieves are working in Wash
tenaw county and farmers are talking
of forming vigilance committee.
The 34th annual reunion of the Goth
Michigan infantry will be held at
Chelsea, Oct. 18th. Out of about LOO
originally in this regiment 400 are now
living.
The little village of Coloma has made
it's main street into n fine boulevard.
The street is very wide and in the cen
ter is row of fine old maple trees
with a driveway on each side.
The vote for water WORKS at a special
election in Leslie resulted in sweep
stake for the boomers. The ballot
stood 229 for and 62 against. A two
thirds vote was necessary to carry.
Kalamazoo is going to have a floral
parade in connection with her street
fair, but as the flowers that bloom in
the spring don't also bloom in the fall,
the decorations are To he made of paper.
DIR. d. Milton Greene, one of the best
known physicians of Grand Rapids,
has been arrested on the charge of
criminal assaulting his 0-year-old
daughter. Feeling against the pris-
oner runs high.
David Watlin, farmer of near Ian
sing. was fined 500 for killing and
selling for food a COW that was suffer
ing with a cancer on its jaw. The
meat inspector discovered the carcass
before any of it had been eaten.
The low price of wheat together
with the difficulty experienced by
farmers on account of the dryness OF
the ground, and the poor crop of the
past season, has sharply reduced the
amount of acreage of new sown wheat.
Gen. r. A. Alger has been invited to
be one of the guests on the occasion oil
the splendid banquet to be rendered
at the White House by President Me-
! Kinley 10 Admiral Dewey on Oct. 3.
The general has signified that he will
/ accept.
The union men of Grand Rapids are
contemplating building a home Of
their own. They had n surplus Of
/ 5000 from tina Labor Day receipts, anC
propose TO use it as nucleus of G
building fund for the erection of {
labor temple.
Sportsmen in different parts of the
state say quail were never more pleu
tiful than they are this year. Every
wheat field and wood pasture is alive
with them and the young birds arr
now full grown. The coming season
of shooting will be the best in years.
The October term of the Washtenav
county circuit court will be a recort
breaker. There are 104 cases on tn
docket. Twenty-one are criminal, in
cludipg eight cases from Ypsilanti 70
violation of the liquor law last Fourtl
of July. Fourteen dissatisfied mar
ried persons want divorces.
One of the features of the fair a
Reed City was the work of a hypnot
list. who placed an assistant under hi
influence and buried him. The ma
was under ground for As hours. Will
he was in the grave some miscrean
dropped a stone down the SXS-inch al
flue and the mans nose was broken.
The decision in the case of Shadfor
VS.. The Ann Arbor Street Railway, i
which he obtained verdict for $1,000
was sustained by the supreme cour
The company appealed from n S4
verdict and got soaked for $1,000, an
then took the case TO the suprem
court. Shadford was knocked fl
platform wagon.
J. Ullerg, a farmer residing nee
Niles. sold several cattle to butchC
, and took the money home with hin
t The first night he became frightene
at the thought of robbery, got up an
hid the money in a crevice in the WOO
shed. The next morning his dog WI
: dead and the money gone. 1t is though
. thieves were watching the house ar
e saw Mr.. Ullery hide the money.
n The entire cucumber crops liz the di
n trict northeast of Eenton Harbor re
v resenting over 100000 bushels
d small pickles per season for the pa
d 10 years, has in the last 10 days bee
" completely destroyed by a foreil
4 email rod hup The new nest althout