The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-13
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

the 9th at Hart.
Edward Keller, of Vicksburg, has
been elected superintendent of schools
at Glendine, Mont.
Hon, w. C. Maybury, of Detroit, is
said to be the choice of Eaton county
Democrats for governor.
The Eaton county Democratic con-
vention has been called to meet at
| Charlotte on the JHly 81.
Col. A. T. Bliss has appointed Her
bert l.. Johnson, of Grand Rapids, as
his private secretary
John ID. Mershon, of Saginaw, has
been commissioned assistant paymaster
of the Michigan naval brigade.
Sugar beet wedding in Bay county is
about ended. The crop looks 100 per
cent better than it did last year at this
season.
The water works at Traverse City is
now run under municipal control, the
plant having passed into the city's
hands.
The First Baptist church of Owosso,
Lyon, of Cleveland, to become its
pastor
The registration for the summer
quarter at the Normal college at Ypsi-
lanti has reached 37l, and more are
expected
The taxpayers of Olivet have de-
feated the proposition to bond for S20,-
900 for an electric light and water
works plant.
Albert Horner, aged 35 years, COM
mitted suicide by drowning at Milling
ton. Disappointment in love was the
cause of his act.
Joseph Greise, fireman on the tug
Ralph, disappeared on the 9TH. Two
days later his body was found in the
river at Alpena.
All telegraph wires north of Grand
Rapids are down owing to terrific
wind storm that took place on the
night of the 9th.
VIM. Henkc has been postmaster of
River Raisin for "a years. He was APP
pointed by President johnson is 1866.
He is rs years old.
The young son of p. II. Irish, of Mt.
Clemens, while playing on the banks
| of the Clinton river, was drowned in
three feet of water.
S. D. Snyder's two-year-old son was
killed at South Haven on the 9TH by
being run over by a wagon in which
he had been riding.
The first week of the IT, of NJ. sum
mer school shows a registration of 306,
which is So more than the total regis
tration last summer
Joseph L. Cox, state commissioner of
labor, and his brother, Paul Il. Cox,
have decided to start new morning
paper in Battle Creek.
Banking Commissioner Maltz has
| called on all state banks for report
of their condition at the close of bust
ness on Friday June 80.
Bishop Foley, assisted by Is priests
| from the Detroit diocese, confirmed a
class of 81 at st. Mary's Catholic
church at Royal Oak on the 9th.
In collision in the Michigan Gen.
trail railroad yards at Jackson. Engin-
| eer Mitchell and Brakeman Lewis +.
Tacey were more or less injured.
Albert Haner, 80, single, committed
suicide by drowning in a lake three
miles west of Fostoria. Dependency.
His parents reside at Otter Lake.
The bodies of Donald Delamarter
and Harry j. Cooper, who were
drowned in Lake Michigan on June %
off Muskegon, have been recovered.
The Lansing Arbeiter society cele-
brated its Goth anniversary on the nth.
Delegates were present from Grand
Rapids, South Haven and other cities.
Rev. Archibald Wheaton. of Mystic,
Mass, has been called to the pastorate
of the First Baptist church at jackson.
He will begin his new duties in Sep
| TENDER
Out of SO applicants for certificates
at the June examination of teachers at
Kalamazoo, only 25 per cent passed the
/ requirements, % certificates being
granted.
! Ann Arbor passenger train No 3
| was wrecked on the night OF the 9th
by fallen tree near Shepherd. No
one was injured but the loss was
quite heavy.
Wallace Allen of Hartford. was
killed while driving an omnibus near
Watervliet. A dozen passengers were
also more or less injured. The bus
was overturned.
G. Freedland was caught in shaft
in saw mill, at Bad Axe, while
changing a belt on the 9th. One arm
was broken and his skull crushed His
condition is serious.
The residence of John Mutart, of
Bay City, burned on the 9th, together
with its contents Loss 1900 Mr.
Mutart and his two sons saved them
selves with difficulty,
The supervisors of Delta county have
voted TO build a new Jail at an expense