The Yale expositor., 1900-05-25
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.
Mason is infected with flrebugs.


standard time.
Ithaca's high school will graduate
class of II this term.
Electric cars have commenced run
ming from Detroit to st. Clair.
The thermometer registered los de-
grees at Kalamazoo on the 18th.
Mt Clemens will raise S37, 900 for the
expenses of the next fiscal year.
Olivet's prospects for an electric light
plant and water works are excellent.
Heavy rains have quenched the fires
at Fisher. The losses foot up $500, 900.
The annual reunion of the Goth Mich
igan infantry will be held at Williams
ton or June IA.
Cut worms have done considerable
damage to fruit trees in the vicinity of
Niles, but the danger is said to be
about over
Maple Rapids has raised the neces-
of the Lansing, st. Johns & st. Louis
electric road.
Six business men of Battle Creek re-
Gently returned from 10 days fishing
trip in northern Michigan, bringing
with them 700 trout.
An epidemic of clandestine and quiet
weddings is sweeping through Adrian,
which threatens to blast the entire
crop of young widows and old maids.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Pioneer and Historical society will be
held in the senate chamber, Lansing,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June and 6.
A new electric lighting and power
company has been organized at Plain
well, its capital being $50, 900. This
and the old company are to consolidate.
A case of dog eat dog" occurred at
Lake Linden, the other day, when n
canine was noticed by several towns
men carrying n bologna sausage from
prominent market.
Miss Estclla Long, teacher in the
high school at Albion, has resigned her
position to accept the position of SUI
perintendent of the boys school at
Montevideo, Uruguay.
The family of Edin Tucker, of Tray
erse City, were victims of tyrotoXicon
poisoning resulting from milk used at
dinner. 1t was Il close call, but it is
believed there will bc no fatalities
Capt. Jack OConncll, of Escanaba,
claims to have invented a rifle that
will fire 121 cartridges in II seconds
The record is 400 per minute. He will
not allow anyone to get near enough
to examine the rifle.
Sheep shearing has commenced and
the wool crop will soon be moving to
the market The man with the hoe is
not an uncommon sight, but the man
with the sheep shears is most in de-
mand since warm weather arrived.
w. II. S. Banks, u wealthy soldier So
years old, was remarked at Allegan on
the 10th. His bride is IS, and they
were married year ago in Wisconsin,
but as her parents had not given their
consent an attorney advised that they
be remarked
During heavy thunder storm on the
| 18th lightning struck the barn of A.
Alexander, located near Mayville, kill
| ing one horse. Two other horses were
standing on either side of the one
| killed, and three men, sitting near by,
was nninjured.
There is a complaint that many fish
| ermen in the state take home speckled
| trout under the regulation six inches
| in length. 1t is poor encouragement
for the honest sportsmen TO have these
&c, toll tsyh nr,1t
and four inches long.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
| association, of Port Huron, are going
after the Bell Telephone Co. on its new
! S4s per year telephone contract. The
present rate is S24 per year. If they
cannot get satisfaction from the Bell
people they may purchase the Harrison
| system.
DIR. Yuill. charged with carrying
! concealed weapons and threatening to
shoot, has been arrested. Yuill lives
at Yale and is prominent physician,
| but drink ruined him. He was arrested
some time ago charged with living I'M
lawfully with Olive Wiley, and it was
her mother whom he threatened to
shoot.
Mrs. Tracy DeFrance, wife of Stone
wall DeFrance, the forger, who was
convicted in Kalamazoo seven years
ago, and who is now serving 13-year
term in jackson, was in Kalamazoo on
the 18th. She said that she expected
that DeFrance would be pardoned in.
side of two weeks, but declined to say
on what grounds.
dispatch from Kalkasl1a tells of q
case of wholesale poisoning there. A.
+. Holmes, a farmer living near there
is i'll but will probably recover Hi:
wife is in n critical condition, and II
III. Swane, the hired man, is dead. A
man named Hudson is under arrest or
suspicion. The family became sich
after dinner on the 18th.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia. ton
sillitis, bronchitis and influenza in tn,
order named caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the past week
Cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported
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