The Yale expositor., 1900-10-05
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Lansing has raired 500 for the Cal
weston food sufferers
Sheep killing dogs are again at work
in the vicinity of Willow.
The merchants of Port Huron are
agitating the cash system.
Saginaw has raised over 81, 800 for
the Galveston flood sufferers
The Marquette county fair was the
largest given in several years.
On Nov. s 81, 900 acres Of swamp land
will be offered for sale by the state.
The tax commission has increased
assessments of personal property in
Marquette county over S7,7OO, 600.
The storchouse OF the Detroit Cotton
Batting Co., at Detroit, was scorched
to the extent of SO, 500 on the 25th
Clares public school building was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
Goth. Loss, S25, 900; insurance, Sl4, 900.
Some o2e stole horse and buggy
from in front of The postoffice at Farm
ington on the night of the cath,
while its owner was taking in the
sights at tent show.
A freight wreck occurred on the f.
g. f. M. Ry. at Birch Run on the 27th,
and several freight cars were dcmol-
ished and the main line blocked for
several hours. No lives were lost.
George Funk, of Niles, and his son
were bitten by horse on the Esd which
is thought to have been afflicted with
hydrophobia. The animal died that
same night, and his victims are on the
anxious seat
BY head-on collision between a
freight train and yard engine at Dur
and on the 2Sth, two men, an engineer
and fireman, were killed, and "a valu-
able cars were burned. An open switch
was responsible for the accident.
Henry Hamburger, of Detroit, who
is serving life sentence for the muir
der of John NJ Reindel, will bc granted
new t~ial in the supreme court.
Hamburger is now confined at Ionia,
and it is said, follows his keeper around
like dog.
Isaac Rossell, the hobo who abducted
the little son and 13-year-old daughter
of Mrs Martha Franks, of North Mus
kegon, was captured on the 9th on a
fruit farm near Shelby, and he and his
girl companion were lodged in the
county Jail.
Although less by nearly $500. 600 than
the tax levy of 1899, the state tax for
1900 apportioned by the auditor-gen-
eral is still the largest, with this eX-
ception, in the history of the state.
This year the total state tax levy is
S., DOS, 6sOG6.
lied at Hillsdale to be known as the
Michigan Rubber company. The cap
ital stock is Si2 1000, all paid in. The
company will manufacture rubber nov
elites and goods, and also "A patent
washing machine.
During the past six months 265 per-
sons have been confined in the county
Jail at Charlotte. OF this number 210
were drunk or disorderly, and the re-
naming So were charged with burg
larry, larceny, violation of the liquor
law and long line of petty offenses.
Two Battle Creek boys who are
bound to get an education earned
enough by actual manual labor upon
the paving of some of their home city's
streets the past summer TO take them
through the University of Michigan
the coming year. If such as they do
not get along in the world all prece-
dents will be at fault
Grand Rapids people might just as
well give up hopes OF living to see their
city a port for steamers, unless they
can spur their congressman to hustle
things along little more lively at
Washington in the way Of increased
appropriations. The engineer now in
charge Of the deepening of the chan
mel in the Grand river says that at the
rate the work is now, and has been
proceeding for some time past, it will
take 100 years 10 complete even 10
foot channel.
The day seems to have come when
the farmer who cultivates but a small
patch Of ground, and doesit thoroughly
makes better thing financially than
his neighbor who slaves TO attend to
200 or 800 acres. Theodore Bond, OF
Wayne, Cass county. gathered 10 tons
of tomatoes from one acre of ground,
and got 81 per ton for them, while
John Sugden. of Commerce, Oakland
county, planted three-quarters of an
acre to onions and attended to them
carefully, and as result has harvested
600 bushels of Al breath perfumers.
The potato crop in the vicinity OF
Lee is rotting badly. FOO much rain.