The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-11-24
STATE GOSSIP.

]
next state convention.
A white deer was shot nine miles
east of Gaylord on the 10th.
Many deer, lynx, wildcats, etc, are
being killed around Standish this fall.
The Gait house, an old land mark at
Niles, was reduced to ashes on the 10Th.
by the explosion of a lamp $1,000
worth of property at Ann Arbor was
destroyed on the 10Th.
Chicken thieves have commenced
their annual crusade against the roosts
in the vicinity of Royal Oak.
Ubly is to have condensed milk
factory next spring The buildings
are now in course of erection.
Another case of smallpox is reported
at Carrollton. 1t is feared that another
epidemic is about to break out.
New machinery to the amount of
1,475 has been purchased for the en-
geneering shops of the L. of NJ.
Durand has disposed of her 100000
waterworks bonds to Chicago firm,
receiving 81 900 premium therefor.
The school population of Eaton
county is SAL. Charlotte leads with
957. Oneida has s52 and Sunfield $50.
9Chas. G. Cavanaugh, of st. Ignace,
who was editor and publisher of the
st. Ignace News for Is years, is dead.
Ex-Patrolman James j. Spillane, of
Detroit, committed suicide by cutting
! his throat with razor about midnight
on the 10th.
on the 18th a Holly firm shipped A.
is probably the largest shipment ever
made in Oakland county.
Wallace Witchell, of Escanaba, fell
into a vat of boiling water at the Es-
canada Woodcnwarc Co. and was in
stantly killed on the 18th.
An order has been issued to take
! effect February ] next, establishing
free delivery at Monroe, with three
carriers and - letter boxes.
Three Rivers will be entitled to the
free mail delivery service next year, as
the gross receipts of the local postollice
The soil around Three Rivers must
be very poor. One fruit grower near
there has spent 81 600 for fertilizers for
his land in the past four years.
! A Touring mill will soon be in opera
ton again at Lake Odessa, Il new mill
/ having been built on the site OF the
one that was burned last winter.
Worthwhile is to have bell foundry
again, company having been organ
lied and the buildings, patterns, etc,
of the old bell company purchased.
An operation performed on Jellibad
! Jolison, of Kalamazoo, showed the
( lungs to be lined with stone-lille sub
stance nearly an inch thick, and hard
| as iron.
The registration in the law depart
/ mcnt of the University of Michigan
has past the 500 mark. This is the
| largest enrolment in the history of the
/ department
Contrary TO the announced made last
/ spring that the state treasury would be
busted" about this date, there is in
reality S7Gl,377.G4 to the credit of the
/ several funds.
Marquettc's county clerk has issued
/ 1,O23 deer licenses this season and
/ could issue more if he had them. The
secretary of state reports that he has
no more to give out.
| In former years the county clerk at
/ Houghton has sold less than 100 deer
hunters licenses, but this year he has
/ already disposed OF 400, and the season
is only fairly started.
c.. Il. Ferguson, of Almont, raised 90
acres of chicory this year by way of
experiment. and got nearly 81. 800 for
/ the crop. II went over II tons to the
acre, and brought Sc per ton.
Emerson A Holmes, proprietor of the
| Cross Roads Weekly, got six cents dam
sued for libel. Judge Smith directed
the jury to bring in the virdict.
by the breaking in two of n freight
| train on the L. q p. NJ, near Milford
| on the 14th, 10 cars were badly dam
| aged and several were landed in the
mill pond. No one was injured.
A lady in Oakland township is the
mother of twins-a girl and IL boy.
She has named the boy Henry and the
girl Eta, and when she speaks of them
collectively she calls them Henrietta.
Battle Creek will sue the county for
81, 900, the amount of the smallpox bill
which the Calhoun county superin-
tendents of the poor turned down, al
lowing but SO 900 of the $1,000 spent.
Burglars entered the house of S. w.
Reed at Big Rapids on the night
of the 14th and stole Sl,165 in
cold cash. He was awakened, but be-
fore he got down stairs the thieves had
fled.
The physician who has been attend
ing smallpox cases at Chase. Lake
county, has been attacked by the dis
case himself This makes the sixth
case in the village. All have been
mild.
The ministers of Flint are protesting