The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

gon ladies now to do ones own house
work. The cause is the great scarcity
of girls for domestic service, even the
offer of high wages failing to secure
any.
1t is claimed by numerous attorneys
and others that the new compiled laws
of the state prepared by Lewis NJ. Mil
Ter are full of defects. Not all these
defects, however, are the fault of the
compiler.
The Kalamazoo Sugar company has
secured contracts in Starke county,
Ind, for 5000 acres of sugar beets.
The Wolverine company, of Benton
Harbor, has also secured a large acre
age in Indiana.
When an upper peninsular judge
makes decision, the litigants appar-
emily take it as conclusive Out of the
142 cases on the April docket of the
supreme court but three are from the
upper peninsula.
There have been so deaths in the viii
lage of Homer since the new law for
the registration of deaths took effect
Sept. 4, 1897. Five were in the latter
part of 1897. 20 in 1898, 20 in 1899, and
up to date in 1900.
c. S. Voorhees, is farmer near Orion
who hasn't any use for sugar beets as
long as he can raise tobacco. He Gull
tivated five acres of the weed last sea-
son and has just sold the crop, three
tons, at $40 per ton.
A national convention of the Silver
Republican party will be held in Kan
sas City, Mo-, Thursday, July 4, 1900,
for the purpose of placing in nomina-
ton candidates for president and vice
president of the United States.
Sturgis is liable to lose its shear fac
tory unless "A cash bonus is forthcom-
ing. In return for the bonus, however,
if it is given, the company will double
the capacity of its factory, thus giving
employment to many more persons.
The total amount of logs which will
be foated down the Menominee river
this spring is estimated at 255, 900, 600
feet, besides which about 100000 600
feet will be hauled in by rail. Last
year the boom company sorted PCS, 000,-
600 feet
jeremiah A. Gilman, of Detroit, who
took 81, 1875 of the funds of the Detroit
Savings bank, and saw the elephant"
in Chicago, pleaded guilty on the 18th
and was sentenced to two years inn
prisonment at jackson. Gilman is Is
years of age.
The business men of Niles seem to
have walked up finally, and are hustling
in the interests of the city. So far this
season four new factories have been
secured TO locate there, the latest being
knitting mill that will give employ
ment to $50 girls.
New Baltimore's streets will be
lighted by electricity if satisfactory ar
engagements 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.
A statement made out by County
Clerk Woodwork, of Ingham county,
shows the expenses of the recent grand
jury to have been S3,74521. The bills
for Judge Cahill's services in connec-
ton with the grand jury have already
been allowed by the state.
The Raisin river at Monroe over
flowed it's banks on the 23d and por-
ton of the city was flooded, causing
considerable damage. The ice formed
gorge, and unless the authorities
blow it up with dynamite there is no
fa11;prr baf no result will no
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Women's Press association, which was
to have been held in Battle Creek in
May, has been changed by the eXecu-
tive committee to meet in Detroit May
81 and June 1, when the International
Women's Press association also meets
at the same place.
The Union Telephone Co. seems TO
be strongly intrenched around Alma.
Within a radius of so miles from the
center of the Union system one can
talk to 14S towns over this system, 20
of which the company occupies ex-
clusively. The Union company expects
to soon expend S25, 900 in improving its
present system and in putting up new
lines
Gov II. S. Pingree gave an exhaus-
tive address at Springfield, Mass, on
the problems of municipal government
as seen in Detroit. The governor said
he was in favor of giving the mayor
substantially the same broad and COM
plete powers as are possessed by the
president or head of a private corpora
ton. For this reason he is strongly in
favor of what is known as the federal"
system of city government
The four-foot dam in the Kalamazoo
river that furnishes power for the cider
mill about a mile from Galcsburg pre-
sents singular spectacle. The rapid
rise and terrific current caused thereby
have carried the fish against the dam
with such force as to completely disa-
BILE them, and they have accumulated
| in such immense numbers that they are
now flowing over the top in almost a
solid mass. Over fifteen varieties have
been counted, of all sizes. AS the cur
rent is too swift to admit of their cap
| t,1re. the assembled populace can ONLY