The Yale expositor., 1899-12-08
STATE GOSSIP.

A new opera house is one of the pos
sibilities for Saugatuck.
Hollanders at Holland on the 25th
donated $500 for Red Cross aid for the
Beers.
The postoilce at Five Lakes was
broken into on the Goth and about sos
taken.
There is a poultry dealer at Otsego
whose name, appropriately enough, is
Cacl1ler.
Romeo can secure stave factory if
suitable building is donated for the
purpose.
Diphtheria seems to be epidemic in
Florence and Northwest township,
Hillsdale county.
Wreckers made two attempts to
wreck trains on the Michigan Central
near Mason recently.
Geo. Kerns, Dalton saloon keeper,
has paid a fine of $50 for keeping his
place open on Sunday.
Four carloads of stock were shipped
from Bad Axe, Huron county, to east
ern markets on the 25th.
The annual reunion of the veterans
of the 9th Michigan cavalry will be
held at Ionia on December ~
A cement factory to cost 100000 is
projected for Homer Lake, where plenty
of mari Of good quality exists.
5IIorses around Vienna, Genesee
county, are dying of some disease, the
symptoms of which battles the farmers.
The first hard snow storm of the sea-
son in the upper peninsula started on
the Sd. Sleighs were out at Marquette
on that date.
Rails on the Grand Rapids, Belden &
! Saginaw railway have all been laid,
but regular trains will probably not be
! running until Jan. /.
1t costs Calhoun county S3.s9 per
week to care for her paupers, double
the amount paid by any other county
in southern Michigan.
How many people know that Jackson,
now one of the leading cities of the
state. was once called Jacllsonburg?
The burg was dropped in 1888.
Lowell people seem to be very fond
of dogs. The dog warden collected S65
in four days last week, and covered but
a small portion of the village at that.
Mary Vicllery, aged 90, an inmate of
the jackson county house, set her
clothes on fire with her pipe and be-
fore help came she was incinerated.
Farmers in the vicinity of South
Haven are sore because their sugar beet
crop did not pan out and small acreage
will be planted with beet seed next
season.
Two deaths from diphtheria was re-
ported at Lansing on the 26th. There
is one other case in the city, and the
school in close proximity to that case
has been closed.
! Arrangements are almost completed
for the establishment of q daily rural
delivery of mail south from Quincy into
! Algansee. This will wipe out several
country postoflices.
The Kalamazoo Minstrel alliance on
the eth drafted resolutions petition
ing congress against the seating of
Congressman Roberts, of Utah, on the
grounds OF polygamy.
The docket for the December term
of the circuit court in Wexford county
contains seven criminal cases, an unus-
ually large number for that ordinarily
law-abiding community.
Wife beating seems TO be a cheap
form of amusement (?) in lIillsdale
county. An Allen township man who
was found guilty of that offense was
let off with only 20 days in jail
Hillsdale county brags that she
stands third on the list of counties of
the state for the number and strength
of her Sunday schools, being eXcelled
only by Kalamazoo and Calhoun.
OF the 200 heirs of the estate of the
late Jacob Baker, of Germany, which,
it is alleged, amounts to $4,000, 900,
principally in real estate in Philadel-
phia, 12 or 10 are living in Huron
county.
Secretary Gage, of Washington, on
the eth forwarded to eX-Congressman
Stephenson at Menominee draft for
81, 200 in payment for the lot at that
place, on which the public building is
to be located.
After n session lasting since Nov. 10,
the grand jury at Bay City, finished its
work on the 10Th, returning three in
dictments to the circuit judge and sub
hitting typewriter report of its do
ings, covering IL pages
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Cary Durham, of Lawton, who mys.
teriously disappeared at Minneapolis,
has returned very i'll. He says he
started for the depot and then remem.
bered nothing until he found himseli
on train near San Francisco.
Gen. Israel c. Smith was instantly
killed while quail shooting just east OF
Grand Rapids on the 27th. He was go
ing through n thicltet and it is sup
; posed that he stumbled. his gun dis
charging the full charge in the back
of his head.
The first death TO result from small