The Yale expositor., 1899-09-08
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The bootblacks of Calumet have or
ganized n union.
The state house at Lansing will be
lighted by electricity.
Marsh fires in Calhoun county have
done considerable damage.
PetoSkey has granted a 30-year fran
chise for street railway system.
The long continued drouth in the :
lower peninsula was broken on Sept 1. .
Frank Ives, of Grand Rapids, the
champion billiardist of the world, is
dead.
Fifty thousand packages of fruit Z
were handled at Benton Harbor on
Aug. 2s.
One of the largest steam grist mills |
in the state will be erected at Pontiac |
this fall.
The balance in the state treasury at !
the close of business Aug. 81 was
1854 $40 40.
A firm at Lake Ann, Benzie county,
are building a cold storage warehouse
for handling farm products.
At Horton on Aug. 2sth 500 bushels
of wheat were thr,s ed in one day and
the machine moved iour times.
Forest fires are burning in TIoughton
and Ontonagon counties. 1t is not
thought they will do much damage.
Turtle lake, near Union City, is be-
ing drained so that the mari which
aboundS its banks and bottom can be
used. 1t is said that the mari is of the
finest quality.
About 2)O applicants will take the
examination for clerical positions in
the pension office. The examination
will be held in Lansing some time be-
tween sept. Is and 20.
The annual report of the superin-
tendent of schools, shows that the
total cost Of conducting the schools of
Lansing for the last school year was
| $40, ,s23 %. or SIS 81 per pupil.
Arthur Ganong, alias Frank Temple,
he alleged Roval Oak burglar, who
was shot at A. w. Wilcox's house, was
~ecently arraigned, waived examina-
ion and was bound over for trial in
| % 900 bail.
The Portland Water Co. has agreed
to accept SO 900 for the plant and an
lection will be held to decide the
question The company wanted S45,-
90 originally. The proposition will
Undoubtedly carry.
The largest advertising poster ever
printed in the world was recently
turned out by the Cox Duplex Printing
ompany, of Battle Gre, k. The poster
vas mile in length and was posted
between the street car tracks.
Gov. Pingree has appointed r. M.
Kellogg, of Three Rivers; f. Il. Will
ANS, of Kalamazoo, and o. c. Howe,
# Lansing, delegates to the national
irrigation congress, which will meet
1t Mispula, Mont, Sept. 25 to %.
The ninth victim to sacrifice their
ife by the explosion of kerosene in
Detroit died on Sept. 1. The victim
was an old man named Frank Pequig-
,ot The oil was purchased from the
standard Oil company on July 30.
David Turnbull laborer employed
on the farm of Spencer Clark, near
Wayne, was arrested by a United
tates officer on the 90 h on the charge
If sending ob ,cene letters through the
nail. Wayne young ladies received
he letters
living in Grand Rapids, shot himself
the left lung on Sept /, but claims
he shooting was accidental. He was
a widower and lived alone. He says
re was cleaning his revolver when ii
was discharged. 1t is feared the wound
s fatal
st. Clair and vicinity is suffering
with one of the worst drouths ever
known. Corn and other crops are dry.
ng up in the fields. and the grass sc
hriveled that on many farms the stock
equire feeding In some places the
! rrasshoppers are destroying what little
I | left from the drou h
1 The board of state auditors refuses
to pay $4,000 to Mrs. Betsy j. Haight
2 widow of the Jackson prison keeper
b. Who was poisoned Ivy Convict Latimer
rhe legislature authorized it by join
resolution, but the auditors want tn,
I supreme court TO act upon the right o
he legislature to make such bequests
Entomologist Petit, at the agricul
tural, says the green worm supp SCI
y to be doing so much damage TO suga
beets at Three Rivers and other place
T. in the state, is the garden web worm
the natural food Of which is the com
% mon pig weed or lam IS quarter 1t |
not expected that the damage will b
+ erious, but the affected fields shoul
= I've promptly SPRAYED with paris gree
/ and the pest will disappear.
9 The Copper Range railroads agen
y who has charge of building the trac
near Houghton, has gone to Tennessee
lie to hire 200 Negroes, it being impossihl
to secure white labor in needed force