The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-05-18
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.
Z Ninety-tive in the shade at Marquett
on the 13th.


Isle county, suffered fire loss of $780,
900 on the 14th.
The Automatic Carpet Sweeper Co.,
which was established at Marine City
little over year ago, will remove to
Detroit.
Fruit in Altoona county, if indications
do not disappoint, will be the best crop
in years. Wheat looks fair; much bet
ter than last spring at this tune
At special election in Capac it was
decided to purchase chemical engine
and accessories, at an expense of So
300. At present the town has no fire
protection.
Wheat and clover fields are looking
very poorly in Jackson county. Wheat
has mostly been killed by insects and
clover was badly heaved by the early
thawing and freezing.
Quartermaster-Gener Atkinson on
the 10th stated it as his opinion that
no state encampment would be held
this year owing to the refusal of troops
to waive their per diem pay.
prisoner recently lodged in the
county Jail at Mason was taken sick,
and an examination showed he had a
well developed case of smallpox. He
was removed to the pest house.
John Ryland, of Benton Harbor, on
the 18th was a hod carrier, but the day
following he was a capitalist. An un-
Gle in Chicago had died and left him
half of an estate valued at $40, 900.
A vote was recently taken in the
churches at Chesaning to decide
whether or not the postoffice should
close Sundays, and now Chesaning peo-
pie will get no more Sunday mail.
A new pest house for women is being
hurriedly erected at Marshall, indicat-
ing that it's use is Immediately de-
manded. The scare arises from the
case of smallpox which broke out in
the Jail.
A new law recently passed at Muske-
gon will not allow boys under n to go
in a saloon. The saloons are to be
closely watched, and any saloonkeeper
violating the law will be arrested and
vigorously prosecuted.
The Marine City Sugar Beet Co. laid
the corner stone of it's factory building
on the 18th. All business houses were
closed and citizens generally took part
in the ceremony, which means much
for the future of the town.
Heavy winds on the 14th brought
forest fires dangerously close to lumber
Al.
of Boyne Falls The only thing that
saved Wolverine from destruction was
the timely change of the wind.
Hon. j. S. Stearns, of Ludington, has
made another liberal donation to edu-
cational work, this time presenting
Olivet college with his check for 81 600
Mr.. Stearns has always been free
sgiver to religious and educational work.
Public baths under the control of the
city government will soon be in opera
ton at Hudson. 1t has been ascer-
tanned that baths can be established at
little expense at the waterworks,
system having been carried on for sew
eral summers as private enterprise.
There were 3,040 deaths reported to
the secretary of state as having occur
red in Michigan during the month of
April, 1900, corresponding to a death
rate of 1916 per 1000 estimated popula-
ton. This number was slightly less
than the number returned for March.
The Michigan Telephone Co. filed
supplementary mortgage for S., 900
in favor of the Old Colony Trust Co., of
Massachusetts,, in the Office of the reg
lister of deeds Office at Marshall on the
14th. The loan was for the purpose of
securing the payment of its bonded in
debtedness.
1t is reported from careful observa-
ton that the entire wheat crop in
Springfield township, Oakland county,
will prove failure. Many of the fields
are already turred under and the con-
dition of the seeding, timothy and
clover, will determine the fate of the
other fields. Fruit, however, was
never more promising.
Insurance Commissioner Stevens has
required all Wisconsin fire insurance
companies doing business in Michigan
to pay retaliatory tax of 9 per cent
on Michigan premiums to offset the 2
per cent fire department tax charged
Michigan companies in that state.
Under this the Wisconsin companies
on the 14th paid $4,000.
The banks at Cedar Springs and
Rockford, which were both owned by
Frank l.. Fuller, of the former place,
have been closed up to satisfy a $40, 900
mortgage. Manager Peck, who con-
Quoted the Rockford bank, is blamed
for the misfortune, The whole farm
ing community of Kent county and
financiers generally are affected by the
sudden closing of the banks.
Six hundred miners at the Arcadian,
near Houghton, struck on the 14th for
an advance of Is per cent in wages.
Surface employees of the Quincy mine
Joined in the strike, demanding 10
per cent increase, the same as prom
ised the miners. The miners were pre-
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