The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-01-27


ing year.
Athens is getting too big for the
bucket brigade method of fire fighting,
and village fire department will prob
ably be organized.
George Gorum, of st. Johns, is dying
from gangrene in its most horrible
form. The flesh has been almost eaten
off the upper part of his body.
Bay City fishermen are preparing to
take hand in the Legislative fight for
the repeal of the section of the fish
laws providing for closed season.
Wife beating will probably not be
popular pastime in Cass county for
awhile. One man who INDUCED in it
was given five years in the state prison.
Secretary of War Alger has appointed
Chas. w. Watkins. of Grand Rapids,
the chief of new bureau of the war
department at a salary of $4,000 per
year.
Pretty soon Spring lake, in Ottawa
county, will come to be considered an
unluclSy spot. Eighteen persons have
been drowned there in the past 20
years.
Martin Siebert, of Muskegon OBJ
tanned divorce and five minutes after
wards, while he was still in the court
building, he was reunited to another
woman.
Secretary Alger has appointed f. Z.
Huyck, of Grand Ledge, commissioner
TO the West Indies, TO prepare the
bodies of soldiers for return to this
country.
Several brick yards will be started
near West Branch to supply brick for
the new brick blocks to be built to re-
place the buildings burned in the re-
cent fire.
Justin L. Cooper, of Schoolcraft, is
dead; aged %. lie settled there in "a;
was a pensioner of the Black Hawk
war, and owned the farm on which he
first settled.
The Wolverine Beet Sugar Co., of
Benton Harbor, has ordered 65, 900
pounds of sugar beet seed from Ger
many. The factory will begin business
next september.
James b. Wise. of Ypsilanti, has fled
a bill for divorce against his wife,
Clara Wise, mainly on account of her
alleged "austerity of temper and vio-
lent sallies of passion"
John II. Gotshall, of Flint. has been
found guilty of arson by jury. He
was charged with burning Lee &c
Atkins barn. He will appeal the
case to the supreme court.
Frank Miller, of Brooklyn, aged 25,
who had been suffering with the la
grippe for few days, put an end to the
malady by putting a 32-calibre bullet
through his head. The cure was eff
fective.
Gov. Pingree has appointed c. c.
Vaughan, OF st. Johns, editor of the
Clinton Republican, as a member of
the executive board of the Ionia re-
formatory, to succeed J. ii. Bishop, of
Wyaudotte.
A new laundry has been placed in
the University at Ann Arbor, which is
claimed will save that institution be-
tween $40 and $40 per month, besides
being great convenience to the hos
pital service.
Funeral No. ., over the remains of
the late Fr. Kolasinski was recently
held by his followers in Detroit, when
the remains were transferred from
grave TO a new mausoleum, which was
recently erected.
The state has appealed to the SUI
preme court in its case against the A.
p. Cook Co. Ltd. The state sued for
returned taxes and the company won
on the ground that the lands were ir-
regularly assessed.
Postmaster Sharp, of Litch6eld, mus
tered his forces and moved the post
Office fixtures from the old building to
the new in the night When the men
who opposed this change awoke they
were as mad as hornets.
Gov. Pingree has appointed DIR. How
ard A. CRUDE, of Coldwater surgeon,
with the rank of major, to succeed DIR.
Barber, of Saginaw, resigned. Albert
II. Eber, of st. Clair, succeeds DR.. Cru.
Der as assistant surgeon.
The estimates for the Portage Lake
ship canal, near Marquette, show that
2.176 vessels passed through the canal
last year. The total tonnage was l.
ss7, $40. This is an increase of 421, SAL
over the tonnage of 1897
Miss Matilda Wicoff, of Grand Rap.
ids, who answered VIM. Kessler's adj
vertisement for wife and married
him, is now suing her husbands father
for $4,000 damages, charging him
with robbing her of his sons affec-
tions. The Kesslers live in Indiana.
d. NJ. Estey, president of the Estey
Manufacturing Co., Owosso, has re-
ceived a letter threatening his life,
and the lives of other prominent bust
ness men of the city, in case he does
not accede to certain labor demands
by Feb IS. He is not in the least
alarmed.
The state veterinary sirpeon and