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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Rapid River, Delta county, is to have
a newspaper shortly.
The business men of Mason will
hold a street fair next fall
The Michigan Bell Telephone Co. has
boosted its rates throughout the state.
The public schools at Tustin have
been closed on account OF diphtheria in
the village.
The fire insurance company organ
lied by the grangers Of Sanilac county
has received its charter.
Lapeer county veterans of the rebel
lion viii hold their annual reunion at
Metamora on June II and %.
Saginaw is raising $4,000 bonus
necessary to secure the location of a
So, 600 plate glass factory in that city.
The membership of the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance company of Cal
houn county is $500, a gain of OF dur
the past year.
The Allegan township dog warden
has collected the tax on 243 dogs
amounting TO 1879, and has had to kill
but 3j CANNES.
1t is announced that the American
Bicycle Co. will close its branch fac
tory at Grand Rapids, July 1. They
employ $50 men.
The 9TH congressional district Re-
publicans will hold their convention ut
Port Huron, June 90, to nominate a
candidate for congress.
1t has been definitely decided to To-
cate cement factory at Newaygo
The plant will be the largest in the
United States. Work has already be-
gun.
An additional letter carrier each will
be allowed the postoilices at Pontiac
and Lansing, beginning July 1, and
one for the Flint office, beginning Oc-
tober 1.
Capt. Abbott of the AID regiment re-
Gently met $50 ladrones near Sinaliou.
One American was killed and the Fill
pinos had eight men killed and four
wounded.
An outbreak of smallpox has been
reported to the state board of health
from Huron township, Wayne county,
and cases of suspected Cuban itch
from Flint
The Converse Manufacturing Co.
will open plant in Benton Harbor on
July 10, employing 100 men. The com
pany manufactures heating boilers,
radiators and registers.
Two rural free mail delivery routes
/ has been ordered established at Jones'
vile, June 4. The combined length OF
which are 50 miles; area covered, G5
square miles; population served, 1896.
The state livestock sanitary commits
sion has been notified TO investigate
cases of supposed CHAMBERS at Hillsdale.
Local authorities pronounce the trouble
CHAMBERS beyond doubt. The horses
affected were on city delivery and in
one of the local livery stables.
The heaviest electrical storm in wears
passed over Clio. on the 3lst, lightning
striking in several places. 1t struck
! A. Il. Kelsey's residence, tearing the
corner Off. and jumped into the flowing
well and tore the pipe TO pieces and
knocked the bottom out, drying it up.
The electric light plant had volt
meter burned out and the small motor
in the power house.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
HoMEsEEkERs. EXCURSIONS
Via Chicago 6 Eastern Illinois Ranroa

Via Chicago s. Eastern Illinois Railroad
On the first and third Tuesdays OF
June, July and August the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois Railroad will place on
sale Homeseekers Excursion tickets
to various points in Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Florida, Georgia, Indian Terri
tory, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
One fare plus $500 for the round
trip.
Tickets are limited on going trip
fifteen days from date of sale with
stop over privileges in Homeseekers'
territory. Returning tickets are lin
tied twenty-one days from date of sale.
Remember that we now have in serv-
ice a new wide vestibuled train be-
tween Chicago & Waco & TT. Worth,
Texas, leaving Chicago daily at 1.50
p. m. Through Pullman sleeping cars
and free reclining chair cars. For
further particulars call on or address
any agent Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad or C. L. Stone, G.. p. e T. A,
Chicago.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
FrealS OF lightning.

During an electrical storm on the
3lst Geo. Dunn's house at Sly, seven
miles south of Midland, was wrecked
by lightning. The bolt entering the
bedroom of two boys, knocking the
bed from under them, leaving the mat
Sress and boys on the floor unframed
hut setting fire to the quilts. 1t then
entered the sitting room and broke the
picture frames and glass. Then it went
into Dunn's bedroom, setting fire TO a
partition, going into the kitchen where
IS splintcred the rafters and set fire
and threw dishes around. Finally it
burst ont of the house on all sides,
carrying away sash and glass and
breaking holes through the siding.
Although there were six persons in the
house, no one was injured. The house
Cooks as if dynamite explosion had
occurred. Lightning struck several
places in the city, but did no serious
damage.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
Frisco To be ouarantIned.

At meeting of the board of super
visors of San Francisco, held on the
Goth, and attended by the board of
health, the Merchants association and
the board of trade and other interested
citizens, resolution was adopted en-
towering the board of health TO quar-
antine Chinatown or any other infected
section of the city and county. The
resolution was passed by a vote of Is
20 /, the dissenting vote being cast by
Supervisor McCarty, who stated in en-
phatic terms his belief that plague
does not exist and never has existed in
the city and county of San Francisco.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
COLONEL sutton TR|UMPHAL
Hearty Greeting Extended the AC-
Quilted Man.
JURY WAS OUT TWO HOURS,
HGhen the Verdict was Announced Re-
sPOndent and wife Burst Into Tears
and the Latter Kissed Each of the
Jurors Other Events OF the Week.
Celebrated Case at an End.

After being out one hour and fifty
minutes, the jury in the Sutton case
returned a verdict of not guilty just at
moon on the I'd, and the court room
soon became a scene for general rejoc-
ing. When the verdict was announced
by Foreman Fred Brown, OF Mason,
Sutton and his wife burst into tears,
while his attorneys also found use for
their hCndkerchiefs. Mrs. Sutton went
over and kissed each one of the jurors,
while her husband shook their hands
warmly and thanked them for the
verdict
Gov Pingree, who had been n con-
slant attendant at the trial, was in his
Office at the capitol, when the verdict
was given, but he tclephoned for Sutton
and his wife and they went over to re-
sscivc his congratulations. The gov
'ernor was wrathy over what he termed
the unfairness of Judge Wiest's charge,
and in addition to talking loudly,
punctuated his remarks with some
characteristic language. The jurors
had agreed among themselves not to
make public any of their deliberations,
but after the publications. at the hotel
they forgot all about the agreement.
Three ballots were taken, nine being
for acquittal, one for conviction and
two blank. On the next ballot the
vote stood II to for acquittal, and the
third ballot found the jury unanimous
for acquittal. 1t is said that this re-
suit was arrived at within 20 minutes,
but 4hat il was decided to remain out
until noon as the juror who had first
voted for conviction thought it would
not look well to bring in verdict so
SOON
While Sutton's counsel did not like
Nudge Wiest's charge, they refrained
from making any open comments, and
the verdict made it unnecessary for
anything to be said Prosecuting At
tnrney Tuttle refused to make any
statement regarding the result lie
did say, however, that he stood in n
position to prosecute any man against
whom 4 complaint was made, and
-would do so, though he did not know
that he could convict. This had re-
ference to the insinuations that he had
promised immunity to the directors Of
thc Kalamazoo company. The latter
were discussed by Gov. Pingree and his
friends, and it is not improbable that
they will take steps to make complaints
against the Kalamazoo people.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

Game Warden Morse reports that
there were 1873 cases of violation Of the
game and fish laws investigated in
May, and that there were 70 prosecu-
tons, 81 being for violations of the fish
laws, and five of the game laws. These
resulted in Go convictions and two ac-
quittals, while five cases are pending
There were ID seizures of property of
the aggregate value of Sl1.s2. The
total fines and costs assessed was
SG3G. So.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
FREE GOVERNMENT LANDS.

There are still thousands OF acres or
government lands in the states OF
Washington and Oregon, also prairie
and timber lands near railroad or wat
er communication. that can be bought
for s. per acre and upwards. Finest
climate in the United States. No fall
ure of crops. If you wish to raise
grain or the finest stock on earth, you
will find locations in these two states
where you can do this to perfection.
Take your choice. have no lands for
sale, but If you want information where
it is best to locate, call on me when in
st. Paul or write me at corner Third
and Rosabel streets, st. Paul, MINI.
r. E. WERKMAN.'
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

A Michigan man, whose identity is
otherwise concealed by the school au-
thorities, has given Principal Waldo a
check for 81, 900 to be expended in buy
ing reproductions of celebrated art
works for the northern normal school
at Marquette.
Gysbcrt Van KreilSen, of Kalamazoo.
received word on the 4th that he had
fallen heir to fortune of nearly $780,
600 by the death of rich relative in
the Netherlands. Mr.. Van Kreiken is
n celery raiser and comparatively
poor man. He will leave at once to
claim the windfall.
The Congress gold mine, 60 miles
north of Phoenix, Ariz., has been sold
for 81 800, 900 to New York syndicate
reported to include Warren Miller and
John MaclSay. The mine has been re-
garded as the principal gold producer
OF Arizona.
A $4,000, 900 zinc and lead company,
backed by English capital, is being
formed TO operate in the Missouri Kan
sas district, TO do deep mining where
the largest bodies of zinc ore lay. OPP
tions on nearly $500, 600 worth of min
ing properties have been secured.
Albion high school will have grad
uating class of so.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
S45,OOO,OOO THE AMOUNT
OF Our Trade With the New Pos
sessions for the Current Year.
CUBA'S EXPORTS TO THE u. S.
S15,OOO.OOO in 1898 - Despite the
War Conditions Her Exports VIII
Exceed That of any Year Since 1894
Trade with Our New Possessions.

Facts that are figures for CONNER
cialists appear in the latest output of
statistics form the treasury bureau de-
voted to that art. In the collation. of
figures relating to exports from the T..
>. to Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Ha-
waiian and Philippine islands, it de-
velopes that the sum total for the fiscal
year ending with the present month
will reach s45, 900, 600 This will be
more than three times as great as in
1896 and more than twice as much as
in any year of American commerce
with those islands, except 1924,
when reciprocity greatly increased ex-
ports to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
To Cuba the total for the fiscal year
seems likely to be fully S25, 900, 900,
against s., $50 600 in the fiscal year
1896 and SEA, l57. 900 in the great reci-
procity year 1893. when exports to that
island were more than double those of
five years earlier. To Puerto Rico, the
exports of the year will be in round
terms S2,G00,000 against an average
of 81, 100 900 in the reciprocity years
1892, 1898 and 1894, when exports to
that island were double those of earl
Ter years To the Hawaiian islands
the total for the year will be about
SIS, 900, 900, or five times as much as in
1898, nearly four times as much as in
1896. and more than double the total
for 1898. To the Philippines the total
for 1900 will be about So, 800, coo, or
more than in the entire five years since
1SS5, the date of which the first record
Of our exports TO the Philippines was
made by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics. To the Samoan islands, the
exports of the year will be about S125,-
900, or nearly as much as in all the
years since 1896, at which date the Off
cial records of our exports to those ISL
ands began.
On the import side, Cuba begins to
show something of her old-time
strength as an exporting island, as the
total imports into the L. S. from Cuba
for the full year will show a total OF
S31 900. 600, against $15. 900, 600 in 1898
and Sls. 800 900 in 1897, though they
still are less than half the average for
the reciprocity years 1892, 1898 and
1894, when our imports from that ISL
and averaged over $4,000, 900 per an
mum. From Puerto Rico the imports
of the year will be 81, $50. 600, which is
less than the total for any preceding
year since 1850, and is presumably due
to the destruction by last years tor
nado of the crops which supply Puerto
Rico's chief articles of export From
the Hawaiian islands the imports for
the full fiscal year will be S21, 900, 600,
or double the average annual importa-
ton for the period prior to 1896, and
20 per cent higher than in any preced-
ing year. while from the Philippines,
despite the war conditions which re-
duce producing and exporting power,
the imports will be larger than in amy
year since 1894.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

The Pan-American Medical congress
will hold its next triennial meeting in
Havana, Cuba, on Dec. 20, 81, % and
%. 1900.
President Diaz. of Mexico has desig-
mated 100 picked rurals to attend the
pan-American exposition at Buffalo as
a complimentary bodyguard to the
President of the L. S.
special from Montreal says that
the Dominion government secret SER
vice has discovered that Carl pullman,
j. Nolin and John Walsh. convicted of
trying to destroy the Welland canal,
came TO Canada for the express purpose
of wrealSing vengeance on the colony
for having sent troops to South Africa;
that they threw up positions in Dublin
TO do so, and that at least two of them
were provided with funds by the Clan
na-Gael which obtained the money
through Maud Come.
The ex-oommander in the Philip
pines, Maj. Gen. S. Otis, arrived at San
Francisco en- the evening of the 30th.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
Relief Force has Reached Koomasle.

The London colonial office has re-
ceived dispatch from Cape Coast Cas-
tie. dated May 81, saying it is believed
there that Capt. Hall with a relief
party, entered Koomasie, May GO. The
governor, Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodg-
son. with the sick. wounded and refu-
gees. was expected to arrive at Fumsu.
May 30. Troops, it is added, have been
concentrated at Fumsu to overcome
any possible resistance by the rebels,
who are reported to be to the north
If the report of the relief of Koomasie
is correct, it greatly improves the mill
tary situation. 1t is understood that
Capt. Hall has with him force of 800
men and that altogether 5000 men
have been marching to the relief of
the beleaguered town. The season is
now in full swing and no punitive ex-
petition can be successfully undertaken
until the autumn.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
The Rights of the Tax Commission.

The Rights of the Tax Commission.
An amicable suit will be commenced
to test the right of the state tax com
mission to review local assessments.
Atty.-Gen. Oren was at Lansing in con
1sultatiOn with the tax commissioners
regarding this matter recently, and
while the exact nature of the proceed
fugs TO be taken has not been decided
upou, it is probably that the supreme
court will be asked for mandamus to
compel the Grand Rapids assessors to
correct the assessment as directed by
Che state commission. The Grand Rap
ads officials claim that this provision of
the tax commission law is unconstitu-
tional as the constitution places the
dirty of determining assessments upon
the local officials. Commissioner Free
ynan says that if this contention is sus-
tanned the commission can do nothing
but talk.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
Cholera In India,

The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon,
of Kedleston, telegraphs that good
rain has fallen in Mysore and that
scattered showers have fallen else
where. The cholera in many parts of
Bombay and Rajputana has not abated,
and is causing much mortality and inn
pedes the relief work. There are now
$1,000 persons in receipt of relief.
In the kara district there have been
!, 1880 deaths in seven days.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
Premature Explosion of Nitro Giyoerln.

Four men were killed at Whipple, a
short distance east of Marietta, o., on
the 3lst, by premature explosion of
so quarts of nitro-glycerine which was
being used in shooting an oil well on
the Kelly farm. First reports gave a
list of six killed, but only four were
killed outright, and four others are dy-
ing, while three others are crippled
for life. AS everybody on the ground
was either killed or injured, it is next
to impossible to get a reliable descrip-
ton of the terrible explosion.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
rlint's Assessed Valuation Increased.

The board of equalization and review
of Flint completed its labors late on
the 1st, after being in session for eight
days. The new tax law has worked
WELL and has increased the assessments
of real estate in the city $3.50, $50 over
last year, and of personal property,
81 ,23s, 1854 over last year, total in
crease in real and personal of S1,577,-
634, and raising the valuation of the
city for purposes of taxation to So
s32, 1888.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
Body Found Between Lumber piles.

Robert Black, of Black g. Fox, Bay
City, made a startling discovery on the
morning of the 4th in their lumber
yard. The body of man was lying
between two piles of lumber. The po-
lice and coroner were notified and the
body removed to the morgue. No one
in the crowd that congregated could
identify the deceased. A timebooll
found in one of the pockets indicated
that he had once been employed in the
Estey organ factory at Owosso. A let
ter directed 20 Thomas O'Connor,
Owosso, was taken to belong to the de-
ceased. 1t was written by Miss Mag
gle Curtin from St Johns January %,
1900. 1t was concluded from the con-
tents of the letter that the deceased
lived in the vicinity of st. Johns The
body is that of a man probably 40years
of age. With no evidence to the con-
trary, it is supposed that O'Connor
climbed upon lumber pile on the
night of the 2d or 3D. and rolled oil be-
tween two piles and broke his neck.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

The first straw berries shipped from
Benton Earbor this season were grown
by Adam Kreger, of cambridge town
ship, and shipped to Chicago on the
25th. They brought So per case.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
The Powers Fear Russia.

Twenty-three warships are now at
Taku, nine Russians, three British,
three German, three French, two
American, two Japanese and one Ital-
ian. In addition to their crews the
Russians have on board their warships
IL, 900 troops from Port Arthur, with
field equipment. Fourteen thousand
Russian troops are held in readiness at
Port Arthur
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08

Wheat in Calhoun county will not
average more than five bushels to the
acre
Milan has let the contract for new
public school building to replace the
ono destroyed by fire recently. 1t will
cost SIS, 900.
This board of review has completed
Its work aud the assessed valuation of
real aHd personal property in Marshall
has been increased $3.50, 272 over last
year. There was an increase of S5i4.-
sos in personal and S44, 40 in real prop
4srty. The total valuation of the city
rs 81, 500. 42s.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
supreme Court on Sunday Hall.

The supreme court handed down an
opinion on the Goth reversing the 81 900
Judgment for libel secured by ex-SheriH
.Scougale, of Shiawassee county, against
Rev. John Sweet, who criticised him
over his own signature for permitting
n game of ball to be played at Caledonia
park. between Owosso and Corunna,
ON Sunday. In dlsposing OF the case
the supreme court in n unanimous
opinion, written by Justice Grant, says
that ball playing on Sunday is prohib-
ited by section 59l2 of Miller's statutes,
and is an oifense against the public
peace
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-08

To secure the original witch hazel salve
ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve we'll
known as a certain cure for piles and skin
diseases. Beware of worthless counterfelts
They are dangerous. W. A. aamler.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-08

Thousands of testimonials could be
furnished to prove what Lichtv's
Cough Cure has done in curing coughs
colds, Group, whooping cough, throat
and lung complaints, but by purchas-
ing 25c bottle you will be more quick
ly convinced that it is medicine of
rare excellence and one that you should
always have in the house. 1t is war
ranted to cure. Sold by Nick Doffing
& Co, druggists, Extra; n. G. Bronson,
druggist, Audubon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-08
A Happy Expedfent.

Some few years back a colonel com
handing some marines was much eXer
cised in his mind as to how to deal
with two of his men who were contin-
ually lighting. Threats pack drill and
even cells were tried, but were of no
avail. No sooner were they free than
they flew at one another and were at it
again with worse results than before
AT last he hit on a happy expedient
The next time the men were brought
before him he set them to clean all the
windows in the barracks, one inside,
the other out, and neither to go to the
next window till the other had finish
ed. The next morning they started,
and after glaring at one another for
three or four windows the situation be-
came too ludicrous. They both burst
out laughing and have been good
friends ever since.-London Answers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-08
Notice OF Special Election.

Notice is hereby given that at a
regular meeting OF the Trustees of
the Incorporated Town of Extra,
Iowa, held on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1900, the following resolution
was passed.:
Be it Resolved by the Trustees of
the Incorporated Town of Extra,
that the incorporate lines shall be
extended as provided in Section 615
of the Code of 1897. fixing the boun-
diaries as follows: Beginning at the
northeast corner of Lot IL, Section
3, Township Is, Range IS; running
thence due north forty rods on the
east line of Lot 5, Section 3, Town
ship Is. Range 50; thence due west
372 rods to point in Lot 5, Section
4, Township IS, Range 30; thence
due south 200 rods to the south line
of Lot ID, Section 4, Township IS,
Range 80; thence east to connect
with the present south line.
That in compliance with said res
olution the said question of extend
ing the limits as therein described
will be submitted to the qualified
electors of said Incorporation, as
thus proposed to be enlarged, at a
special election to be held on the
Goth day of March, 1900, at usual
place of voting in Extra, Iowa.
M. THOMAS, G. A. MARLIN,
Recorder. Mayor.
Dated at Extra, Iowa, this 22d day
of February, 1900.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-08

The following is report of the Sec
rotary of the Independent District of
Extra, showing total receipts and dis
bursments of the school funds for the