The Yale expositor., 1899-11-10
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

| 5Wyandotte is to have a new salt plant,
which viii give employment to 20 peo-
Pile
The supreme court has decided that
Eikhoff's home rule bill is unconstitu-
tional.
About 81, 900 worth of damage was
done to private property in Jackson on
| Halloween.
Deer hunters are flocking north by
the thousands. About 500 licenses
have been issued at Menominee.
A genuine school row is on at NUNS
ing which will have to be settled at
the November term of the circuit court.
A mammoth wildcat was trapped
near Traverse City the other day. 1t
measured six and half feet from tip
to tip.
South Haven is picking nice. lucious
strawberries. Plants bearing blossoms,
green and ripe straw berries, were found
there on Nov. 6.
The new courthouse at Cassopolis is
rapidly approaching completion, and
will probably be ready to turn over to
the county by Dec. l.
A heavy snow storm at Coldwater on
the Sd practically caused the suspen-
sion of business, hardly a team ven
turing on the streets.
The National Milling Co.. of East
Tawas, has received an order for so
tons of prepared vegetable soup for the
English army in Africa.
The Michigan Fanciers' association
will hold it's annual poultry and pet
stock show at Battle Creek for one
week. commencing December Is.
Dawson is assuming city airs. Two
blocks of paving have been laid il
Main street and cement walks are be.
ing put down at street crossings.
The Kings County Fire Insurance
company, of New York, has been adj
mitted TO do business in Michigan by
Commissioner Stevens.
A new $1,000 pipe organ has been
placed in the Catholic church at Paris
! Vile, Huron county. 1t is the only
pipe organ in the county.
There are just 700 veterans in the
| Soldiers home at Grand Rapids
This is much in excess Of the usual
number at this time of the year.
Although e. NJ. Harris was defeated
| at the polls last fall for the position OF
! prosecuting attorney of Ogemaw county
! by Mrs. Abbott, he now fills her place.
! Portland people seem to be free from
superstition. A literary club has just
| been formed in the village, the mem.
! bership of which is to be l3-no more
! and no less.
There are some queer people at Bat
| tie Creek. One of them has just been
! arrested for burning up the sidewalk
in front of his own and his nei ghbors
houses for fuel.
The gang who worked off lot of con-
| federate bills on the people of Oceana
county have been rounded up at Hart
| Their plan was To buy cattle from In
dams and ignorant whites
r. The Pittsburg syndicate who have
| leased 5000 acres in Frankenust town.
ship, six miles from Bay City, began
operations on Nov ON what will DC
! the largest coal shaft in Michigan
! Santiago. the new town in Areuac
! county. is taking ON n good sized boom.
! New stores hotels, mills, etc. are 60
| ing up at a rapid rate and a new school
house has also been erected this fall.
! The Lenawee Farmers Mutual In.
/ surance Co. S report shows 800 mem
! bers; amount insured, SIS T0S sac. rate
| of insurance, Sol. Edgar Morse has
been reelected secretary for two years.
The date of laying the cornerstone
of the new building at the school for
! the deaf, at Flint, has been postponed
until Nov 16. The ceremonies will be
under the guidance of the Masonic or
/ der.
An attempt was made to blow open
the safe in the exchange bank at BY
ron with nitroglycerin on the Cd, but
the burglars were frightened away
only securing SIS in pennies for their
trouble.
A Calhoun company to be known as
The Wolverine Developing company
has been organized with a capital
stock of $4,000. The object of the
company will be to explore for gas,
coal, oil, etc.
A Hillsdale capitalist by the name of
James S. Galloway has purchased 394
square miles of Canadian pine timber
land, located in Morgan county, Ont
He expects to cut 100, 5000 feet of
white pine from the tract.
The 23d annual convention of the
w. c. T. U. for the Sd district, COM
posed of the counties of Eaton, CAL
houn, Barry and Branch, and repre-
senting 80 cities and towns, will be
held at Battle Creek, Nov s and o.
A Lowell fiddler made an engage
ment to furnish music for a dance at
Ada, some 10 miles distance, and drove
over on the appointed evening. When
he got there he found that he had for
gotten his violin, and the dance had to
be postponed.
Ovid people tried to make their 600
light electric lighting plant furnish
sufficient current for 800 lights, and
the plant broke down under the strain.
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