The Yale expositor., 1900-04-06

the railway yards are jammed full OF
hay awaiting shipment.
Secretary of State Stearns has sent
his personal check TO Sheriff Porter, OF
Ingham county, as reward for the
arrest of Gen. w. l.. White, the missing
Michigan acknowledgement.
Citizens of Midland threaten a GER
tain farmer living near there with a !
coat of tar and feathers for hiding be-
meath sidewalk leading to bridge |
that school children have to pass over
An effort is being made to move the
Sanilac county poorhouse, now located
near Croswell, TO the county seat at
Sanilac Centre, and number OF tax
payers are registering big kick
against such action.
Iron ore in what is supposed to be
paying quantities has been discovered
along the Ford river, about 20 miles
from its mouth, in Delta county, ana
preparations are now being made 10
develop the property.
The proposition to bond Traverse
City for $43, 6G7, TO purchase the Camp
bell water works plant, carried on the
2Sth by vote of AS for to 256 against.
The plant will be improved and eX-
tended to the outskirts.
In two of the townships of Nissan
kee county women have been nomln-
ated for the Office of school inspector,
and the opposing party in each case
has been gallant enough not TO put up
a man to run in opposition.
The trial of DR.. Charles 7. Bennett,
of Detroit, charged with the killing OF
Mary Richards in Grand Rapids last
July, was commenced before the jury
in the superior court on the Goth, two
days having been spent in getting n
! jury.
The Daniel Scotch & Co., of Detroit,
branch of the Continental Tobacco Co.,
or in other words, the factory which
was the product of Daniel Scotch S
years of labor, is to be closed up by the
trust which purchased it little over
year ago.
New Baltimore's streets will be
lighted by electricity if satisfactory ar
ranpements can be made with the cleo
trio railway company to furnish the
current for the lights from its mann
moth power house in the village, now
nearly completed.
The sugar beet fever with which the
farmers surrounding Utica were sc
thoroughly infected has left them as
quickly as it came. They claim thai
beet crops require more care than any
other crop and pay them less, so they
refuse to try them again.
Pine and hemlock stumps and ole
, logs which were supposed to have be
come worthless years ago are being
gathered together up in Wexford
county to be manufactured into lath
, The exceedingly high price for the lat
, ter article is the cause of the activity
$ At the recent election the people o
of Mayville voted against liquor beini
sold in the village, and now the pre-
prietor of the only decent hotel in tn
place is trying to sell ont and leave
o claiming that no business can be don
without a bar attached TO his hostelry
/ The laugh is on the attorneys of Ca
houn county. They recently organize
C county bar association and sent TN
articles of association TO Lansing to b
= filed with the secretary of state,
provided by law The articles hay
n been returned for correction, with tn
y statement that they were not legal
drawn.
d The military board met on the 2St
II and resolved to ask the auditor-generi
for the refunding of an aggregate
~ ST., 900 which was paid out of the n
"a tional guard fund by the White a
ministration, but which should ha'
been paid from the war fund. Unit
- this matter is settled there will be ]
" decision as to an encampment this yea
!. Little Vera Maynard, of Litchtiel
is the possessor of a freak of nature
-. the shape of little lamb with ii
> legs The extra leg is not of much us
unless the animal can learn to h
e along on it with its other four feet
III the air. as it is attached to the back
en- the lambs head the animal is app;
emily perfectly healthy and bids fair
grow to maturity.
I'e A canvasser is finding lot of victii
~ in Berrien county with swindli
scheme he is operating. He poses a
-ly merchant tailor and takes orders
&C. clothing to be made from samples
NV displays On every order he cole
81 in advance Ito bind the bargain
ul- and after the customer has waiter !
ats til long after the specified time for
Use clothes to show up, be comes to
conclusion that he was an easy ma
ac- With the opening of spring Dura
the will experience another building boo
ng, As near as can be estimated, about
dwelling houses have already been C
hi tracted for. There is a great demi
lee for residences, many of the railr'
ich people living in rooms and two fami
in one house. There are four br
for blocks contracted for, all two-st
ma structures. There are two projects
Will foot for an opera house, and one
vi them will materialize. The main ar
'ex- tectural improvement of the season