The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-30


The increase in assessment values at
Kalamazoo has lowered the tax rate
81. 81 below that of 1899.
The little steambarge Myrtle NJ.
Ross foundcrcd in Lake ST. Clair on
the 21st. Her crew of six was saved
The Michigan Central bridge across
the st. Joseph river at Niles was COM
plctcd on the 2lst. The bridge cost
over 500 900.
piWithin five days time poultry buyers
of Hudson bought and shipped over
100 tons of turkeys. which represented
a cash outlay of over $4,000.
Two Ionia boys, aged 7 and 5, were
buried alive on the 21st. They were
victims of cavern while playing
around a sand bank.
At the present term of the Gladwin
county circuit court there\ are three
criminal cases on the docket, while
Van Buren, county has nine on her
hands
OF the 1,957 patients admitted to the
University hospital of the U. OF NJ. dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1000.
l,C35 or So 81 per cent were natives of
the u. ).
1t is said that The Carnegie interests
will purchase the Newport and the
Ashland mines, giving them control OF
90 per cent of the output of the Goge-
bic iron range.
beet raisers of Caro- 10 get them to
agree to contribute 10 cents per ton on
their crop for the bcttcrment of the
roads in the vicinity
The great success OF the big beet
sugar plant at Caro- makes II necessary
for the company to double its capacity
next season. In one day tanners de-
llvered 800 loads of bcets.
Berricn county now ranks as seventh
in population in the state. 1t IS past
Calhoun. Lenawee and Washtenaw,
while Houghton has advanced from
almost nowhere to fourth place.
There are more than 1000 applica-
tons, it is said, for the appointing nts
as deputy oil inspectors in the 90 dis
tricts This Office pays well and does
not interfere with other business.
While Tightening the cargo Of the
stranded steamer Isaac Eliwood in
Mud Lake on the 25th, tho forward
boiler Of the lighter Stewart blew up.
killing three men and iniuring several
others.
Returns from 81 counties Of the state
have been received by the secretary of
state. From the returns received it is
estimated that the constitutional
amen dmcnt was carried by a vote Of
10 to
Smallpox Is now prevalent at 10
places IN Michigan. LittIclcId town
ship. Emmett county, and Allcndalc
township, Ottawa county, arc the lat
est places to report cases of this dreaded
disease.
Monrocs city council on the 10th
granted Il franchise to Detroit part 'cs
for an electric railroad system through
that city, connecting Detroit and To-
ledo The line must bc III operation
by July ] next
Mrs. Tom Beech, Of Brooklyn. tho
only woman in Jackson connty who
took out IA deer license recently re-
turned home from the northern part Of
the state with Two deer which were
killed 10y herself
Geo. Braidwood, of Flint, who was
convicted in the circuit court recently
Of taking improper liberties with a
deaf and dumb giil 10 years of age ON
Sept. 4, was sentenced TO live years al
Jackson on the 23d
The tax rate at Flint this year is
only 81 30 per 81 900, winch Is the
cheapest in many years. The total
rate for the year is only about 81. 75.
while in Caro- it will not be far ON
double that amount.
In his next message 10 the lcgisla-
turc it is understood that Gov. Pin
gree vii, recommend the appropria
ton of $4,000 foi monument at
Chickamauga, in honor of Michigan
soldiers buried there
There rs Il baptist church near Hes
pcsia having Is members mostly
women The women unaided are
building comfortable Scvcn-room par.
sonage and have 1t yearly completed.
With their own hapdS they have pain
both the church building and parson-
age.
Enoch Larkips. colorcd, who was
serving life sentence in the jackson
prison for the murder Of an old lady IN
Monroe county, for which Larkins and
his wife were convicted, died Of con
sumption ut the prison hospital on the
Goth. aged 80.
The upper peninsula seems TO be in
for siege Of smallpox majority Of
its counties have already rcportcd
eases Marquette comfy has been hit
| pretty hard There are 80 or more
cases within its confines OF this mum.
Der Marquette city has Is At Nrgam
ucc there are five and at shpem ing
Que.
Cassopolis furniture merchants show
| that even the worm will turn They
| announce. owing 10 the large business
done by Chicago furniture houses IN