The Yale expositor., 1900-10-12
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

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There are two cases Of typhoid fever
at the Jackson prison.
| Battle Creek talks of bonding for
$50, 900 for new sewers and paving.
Rural free mail delivery will be es-
tablishcd at lIarbor Beach, Oct. Is
The INLAY City Fair association
cleared over $1,000 after paying all
bills.
According to the 1900 census Muskc-
gon has a population Of "A ,S63, a gain
OF / ,s95 in 10 years.
The crop of musimelous i'm the vicin-
ity of Grand Rapids this year has been
the largest on record.
The grand jury cases will be called
November II and the jury has been
excused until that date.
ST. Joe has reduced her police force,
and as consequence burglars are hold
ing high rcvel i'm the fruit city.
An Eaton Rapids lady has success
fully raised sweet potatoes and pea
nuts III her yard the past summer.
About co, 600 acres of state lands will
DC offered for sale by Land Commits
sioncr French Nov. s, at public auction.
Strawberries were for sale on the
market at Grand Rapids, Oct ]. They
were second growth berries, and sold
for 40 cents per quart.
ANtcll the Royal Oak preacher
pugilist- farmer barber, has again been
invited to occupy pulpit-this time
the Baptists want him.
Rural free mail delivery is 10 be cs-
tablished at Emmett. ST. Clair county,
Oct ~. Length of route, 24X mics;
population served, GAS.
Last summer IA farmer living near
Chesaning planted one huslcl Of beans.
and this fall he sold tho beans raised
from that seed for SG7,s3.
Rural mail delivery has been ordered
established at Orchard Lake. Service
will begin October Is, and the route TO
be covered measures II miles.
About 100 subscribers Of the Michi-
gan Telephone company at Mt Glenn
ems have ordered their phones ont be-
cause the rates were raised Oct !.
The farmers and stockowners around
St Johns are very much alarmed at
the cholera which has made its APP
pcarance among the swine in that Sec
tion.
Five valuable COWS belonging TO a
Forest Hill farmer came in contact
with some paint, and the owner has
since been been kicking himself for his
carclcSsncss.
A Marquette woman became so
frightened when she thought she heard
a burglar in the house that she jumped
out of sccond-story window, and is
now in hospital.
cheese factory is TO be established
at Catho, a few miles ont of Apena
next spring, the farmers of the vicin-
ity having guaranteed TO furnish the
milk from I25 COWS.
Two rural mail delivery routes have
been ordered established at Charlotte
on Oct. -. The length of the routes
will be - miles, and population of
LIS will he served.
Isaac Russell who abducted a -
year-old girl and was captured in
0ceana county, has pleaded guilty to
criminal assault and is awaiting SEN
tencc, which will be a heavy one.
A freight wreck occurred IN the +.
& Z. NJ. Ry. at Birch Run on the 27th.
and several freight cars were demol-
ished and the main line blocked for
several hours No lives were lost.
Nearly every farm in the vicinity of
Holly now bears a sign, No Hunting
on These Premises" and the farmers
promise to make it interesting for city
hunters who disobey he injunction.
A glib.tongucd swindlcr has been
working the people OF many upper
peninsula towns by claiming TO be an
agent for an accident insurance and
sick benefit company Of Detroit and
selling policies in the same.
A wagon loaded with beans and
drawn by two horses tum bled off
platform 10 feet high at the elevator
1T Alma one day last week, and strange
TO say neither horses. driver, wagon
nor beans were at all injured.
James Bingham, of Greenvillc, while
cleaning out 90 foot we'll was being
drawn ont, aud when within Is feet of
the top the chain broke and he fell 10
the bottom. One leg was broken and
he is otherwise seriously injured.
Mrs William Hospital, an old resi-
dent living northeast of New Boston,
was burned to death at her home on
the night of the 4th. Her clothing
caught lire from lamp and she was
! burned to crisp before help came to
her.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Johnson, Of near Unadilla, had
been sick for several days, and the
mother finally decided she would take
it to n doctors Office in the village
When the doctor started to make an
examination he found that the child
was dead
The tax commissions mandamus pc
tition to compel Mr. Cady, Of Port llu-
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