The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-09
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

has been settled and the miners have
returned to work.
Scores of horses in the vicinity of st.
Joseph have caught the deadly pink
eye and many are dying,
G. II. Nash, of Palmyra, is cutting
from the field on his farm a second crop
of oats from the same sowing.
Scarlet fever is prevalent at Royal
Oak, principally among children, but
no fatalities are yet reported.
Albion's new postoflice was opened
TO the public on the Sd. 1t is said to
be the finest second class Office in the
state.
Five Dowic converts, members of the
| Christian Catholic church, were i'm
mersed in the st. Clair river at Port
| Huron on the 28th.
! Up'to Nov. there had been received
| by the state treasurer $9i4 a. for the
| Galveston sufferers, in response to
Gov. Pingree's procla appealing
| for aid.
The large plant of the Initial Toe
Pad Co., at Three Rivers, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of Oct.
| 30, and over 30 hands are thrown out
of employment. Loss, $4,000
Jas. II. Brumm, convicted murderer
of Mollie Flagler, of Dimondale, has
been sentenced TO Ionia prison for the
! remainder of his life. His attorney
will appeal to the supreme court
The Swedish United Sons of Amer
lea, the home Office of which is at Man
istee, has been licensed to do business
under the fraternal laws of Michigan
by Insurance Commissioned Stevens.
Safc-crackcrs made an unsuccessful
attempt to blow open the safe in the
Bcllevillc bank on the night of Oct. 80.
They left town on hand car which
they stole from the Wabash section
house.
Both contcnding forces for an cleo
trio line from Ann Arbor to Jackson
are building their road-beds, the
IIawkes-Angus people grading on n
private right Of way west Of Ann
. Arbor.
Rev. j. ]. Axtell, of Royal Oak, has
disposed of his barber shop and will
now devote his time TO the optical bus
optician - he will travel about the
country.
l.. n. Olmstead. of Muir, thinks he
is ace high as potato-raiser, and il his
figures arc correct he probably is. He
says he has dug Gls bushels of the tub
ers from little less than two acres of
ground.
Thos. Pcntland, ST., an aged farmer
living six miles south of Ncwberry,
while in drunken stupor on the 9Th,
shot his wife and missed his son. Mrs
Pcntland will recover. Domestic trou-
bic was tine cause.
The fact that the reports for the
past week show that typhoid fever is
present at l0l places in Michigan has
induced the state board Of health to is
sue a warning regarding fruitful
source OF contagion.
Extensive mari beds. located two
miles north of Schoolcraft, will be
worked. A plant for making Portland
cement will be erected. The company
will spend $500, OCO in buildings and
machinery, it is said.
According to Labor Commissioner
Cox the coal mining industry in Mich
igan is in Il healthy state. There are
30 mines in operation. For the nine
months covered 10y this bulletin GLIB, 40S
tons of coal were produced at cost
of $S3S, 939
Chas. Il. Mains, one of the leading
actors in the famous Mains llulbert
ease, which created II sensation at Bat.
tie Creek Il year or two ago, and who
was dcbarrcd by the supreme court,
has left that city, and is said to have
located in Chicago.
Henry H. Proctor, of Grand Rapids,
county treasurer of Kent county, sui
eidcd bv the laudanum route on the
night OF Oct. 81. He was the Republi-
can nominee for state senator in the
18th district, and his death caused
much excitement in political circles.
IIubbardston people pledged So 900
for the proposed electric railroad from
st. Johns to Crystal, and thought they
were doing exceedingly well. The pro-
motcrs of the road have announced
that they want Sis 900 from them, how
ever. but whether they get it is an
other thing
The state treasury balance at the
close of October was SSH $50 II. A
big hole i'm this will be made Nov. 10,
when the scm-annual apportionmcnt
OF primary school money will he made
among the varied counties. This will
be the largest seni-annual apportion-
meut ever made, the rate being 81 81
per capita, making the rate for the
year g.. Is.
All the stories of strawberries and
raspbcrries being picked in the past
few days are discounted by report
from Marquette TO the effect tat
boy of that city found lot Of trailing
arbutus in bloom in the woods near
that city on Oct. %. May flowers in
October--and the latter part of the
month at that-are something which
may well occasion genuine wonder.