The Yale expositor., 1900-02-02

engine. LOSSi SlOtVpV, NO one WAS
hurt.
Twice inside of six months the dam
across the Pine river at Milbrook has
given away. The first time the dam
went out it cost the taxpayers 81 900,
while the accident on the 23d will cost
$500 more.
The Central Telephone Co.. with
headquarters at, KALAMAZOO, has been
sold to the Erie Telephone Co. for $780,
600, the face value of the stock. This
is hard blow to the independent com
panies of Michigan.
Recalcitrant members of the Meth
odist church at Oxford, who are OPP
posed to Rev. Lowry, will try a freeze
out game, and say they will furnish no
more fuel and light while he remains
pastor of the church.
Four wooden store buildings valued
at SIS, 900 was destroyed by fire at
Muskegon at an early hour in the
morning on the oath. Heroic work by
the fremen saved the buildings on the
opposite side of the street.
The voters of Springwells township,
Wayne county, on the cath decided by
ballot TO bond the township for S20,-
900. The bonds viii be issued at once,
and it is expected will all be taken by
residents of the township.
The farmers in the vicinity of Holly
report that the wheat crop is in very
poor condition. While the ground has
not frozen and thawed enough TO do
any damage, the wheat seems to be of
a yellow, dead appearance.
Tha Port Huron Salt Co. has filed
articles of incorporation with the
county clerk. The stock has been di
vided into 5000 shares at $40 per.
share. Just $40, $50 of the S350,0oo
capital stock has been paid in.
BY the explosion of timers gaso-
line pot in the plumbing shop of Boyer
& Reisig, at Monroe, on the Esd, Mr..
Reisig and a young man were badly
burned about the head and arms, but
their injuries are not dangerous
The Uline & Yarian Manufacturing
Co., of Nappanee, Ind, has decided to
move its stave, heading, box manu-
featuring plant and machine shop to
Berrien Springs 1t will furnish en-
ployment to 30 men the year around.
The beet sugar manufacturers de-
cline to agree to pay the farmers SIS
ton for beets, but are willing to pay
S4.75 for II per cent beets, providing
the bounty law is dec Jared valid; other
wise they will continue to pay 81 ton.
The Newaygo improvement Co., in
addition to rebuilding the dam which
went out last fall, will put in another
one further up the river with capacity
of 10000 horsepower, which will he
transmitted to Grand Rapids for the
Holland electric road 49,"
Two miners named Kraft and Sweet
dropped nearly 1000 feet in the Allan
tic mine at Houghton on the ped. The
accident was caused through another
accident at the engine house disabling
the hoist. Both men We're horribly
mangled. They leave large families.
For some time past some person has
been committing all kinds of depreda-
tions in the vicinity of Burlington.
The climax was reached few nights
ago when shades and ornamental trees
were girdled, street lamps broken,
windows at the school house broken,
and other school property malieiously
destroyed.
Default has been made in the libel
suit of Gov. Pingree against the Port
Huron Times, no declaration having
been filed in the case within the time
limit fixed by the statute. The suit;
however, can be renewed on the gov
ernor's behalf by the payment of the
costs which accrued up to the time the
default was taken. .s ..t .:.s
Here's peculiar verdict rendered by
conorner's jury at Houghton in an
accident in which two men We're killed
at the Atlantic mine recently: by
the evidence given we attach no blame
to anyone. 1t was purely an accident,
for whom no one is accountable. We
recommend the company to employ in
the future petent engineers" E1
The route of the proposed Detroit
and Toledo electric railroad is now
practically completed and the first as
surance of settled weather will see the
work of grading and laying of tracks
rushed to a speedy finish, as the com
pany propose to have a finished and
fully equipped road ready for the sum-
mer passenger business between Toledo
and Monroe.
Geo. A. Nye, for the past five years
manager of Alderman Tony Weiler's
saloon in Detroit was on the 25tl con-
victed of perjury in the recorders
court. He swore falsely to secure the
acquittal of Johns, Mclaughlin and
LYLE, who are each serving 20 years in
Jackson prison for having assaulted
and robbed Nelson Cunningham in De
troit last February.
News was received on the cath to the
effect that John Smith, aged 81, a for
mer resident of Detroit, was devoured
by wolves about eight miles from
Pressure Isle. That Smith fought des-
perately for his life is shown by the