The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-05-04

POSITIONS OF pOSIOIllce ClcTA anu CdiIlSI,
will be held at Ypsilanti Ionia and
jackson, Mich, June G.
Mayville has a chance to embark in
municipal ownership the proprietor of
the local electric lighting plant having
offered to sell out TO the village for
So, 800.
Several business places at Brighton
were visited by burglars on the night
of the 25th, but the latter were evil
IDENTIFY amateurs, as they did not secure
any booty.
Oscar l.. Curtis, the 1o-year-old son
of Grin Curtiss, of Coloma, committed
suicide by drowning himself in the
Paw Paw river at Watervliet on the
23d. He was out of work and discour-
aged.
Hereafter saloons in Manistique must
be located at least 500 feet away from
any school building, the city council
having recently passed an ordinance to
that effect.
The Michigan Central contemplates
about $50, 900 worth of improvements
at jackson in the way of a new boiler
shop and an electric light and steam
heating plant.
The First State Savings bank, of
Breckenridge, was visited by burglars
on the night of the 24th, who blew up
the vault, but could not blow open the
burglar-proof safe.
Marcellus is becoming a center for
the marketing and shipping of water
cress to the big cities, and the result is
quite an increase in the per capita cir
culation of the coin of the realm in the
little village. ''-
Romeo is without police protection,
the office of village marshal being
vacant, owing TO the fact that suitable
person cannot be found for the place,
the meager salary of 500 year being
no inducement for good man.
Railroad Commissioner Osborne won
an important case in the supreme court
on the cath against the Wabash rail-
way, which compels that company to
reduce its passenger fares from three
cents to two and one-half cents per
mile in the this state.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
! Arthur Lyons, of Hudson, was attacked
by a vicious bulldog, belonging to her
! father, on the cath and was frightfully
lacerated about the arm before the
brute was killed. 1t is feared the arm
| will have to be amputated.
The Judgment of 1000 given to Miss
Mary L. Shaw, of NIilietts, against the
Chicago 81 Grand Trunk Railroad Co.
by an Eaton county jury has been af-
| frmed by the supreme court. Miss
Shaw was struck by pieces of glass
broken by a mail sack being thrown
the station window and her eyesight
destroyed.
6Lowell thieves are not troubled by
any great amount of modesty. One of
them walked into the kitchen of local
hotel the other day and carried away
II dozen of eggs and pair of trousers,
right in broad daylight, and then went
to grocery store and sold the eggs.
And the local officers haven't been able
to get any trace of them since.
A Reading boy chased rabbit into a
hole while out hunting and after dig
cling while he tried to reach it with
his hand. He got hold of what he sup
posed was root and pulled it out. The
root proved to be a blue racer, and the
haste with which the boy dropped il
was caution. After killing the snake
he measured it and found it was fiv,
feet and seven inches long.
There is so much patriotism at Kal
lkaslxa that the residents are not abb,
TO vent il sufficiently on the Fourth o
July, so they are going to make theii
celebration of the nations birthday
this year cover two days, the same a
they did last year Another thing
too, is that by having a two days cele
bration the saloons are able to assis
on one day without violating the law
Charles II. Mains, of Marshall, VIII,
; gained notoriety throughout the stat
a year ago by reason of his connection
with the famous Mains Hubert case
/ has filed his bonds for security for cost
| in the 100000 damage suit recent,
commenced by him against Stephen S
! Hubert ct al. The bond is in the sun
5 of $500, and benjamin f. Morgan, VIII
, signed his bonds in the other case,
on IL.
{ A good roads convention held a
Traverse City on tue 25th was largel
E attended. The Grand Traverse Road
| makers association was formed. Off
| GERS: President, A. p. Gray; secretary
t Robt. Barney. Five delegates wer
{, chosen from the county TO the goo
roads congress at Port Huron in July
2 and five from Leelanau county. Othe
h counties in this section will be aslxe
+ to join and send delegates.
e Galesburg has sprung up as a rivs
il to Three Oaks, of Dewey cannon fame
o The former place is TO have a capture
u Spanish cannon and Gen. w. X. Sha
ter is 70 DO present at the dedication.