The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-05-11
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Rural free delivery service has been
ordered at Duraud. The length of the
route is 23 miles
The cash balance in the state treas
ury at the close of business April 80,
was S., 494, 5000.
The little village of Fruitfort was al
most wholly destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 4th.
A postof1ice has been established at
Trimountain, Houghton county, Chas.
S. McLachlan, postmaster.
2The Maccabees of Franklin, have
commenced the erection of a new tenn
pie 20 be 25X44 feet in size.
A class of 60 was confirmed in the
Sacred Heart church, Bad Axe, on the
9th by Bishop Foley, of Detroit.
All saloons in Tawas City are closed
owing to Mayor Nesbitt's refusal to ac-
cept the bonds of the proprietors.
Rebecca Wilkins, of Flint, has been
given n verdict of $4,000 against that
city for injuries received by falling on
a defective sidewalk.
A mare belonging to Ed Davis, the
Tallahassee circus man, foaled colt that
has two bodies and one head The an
imal is almost perfect otherwise.
Marquette will replace her woman
superintendent of schools with a man.
This is done in response to sentiment
which has grown in the past few years.
Hereafter saloons in Manistique must
be located at least 500 feet away from
any school building, the city council
having recently passed an ordinance to
that effect.
The difference between the coal min
ers and operators in the Bay district
are all settled and the men have gone
to work. The compromise rate is 93
cents ton.
Timber thieves are said to be respon-
sible for some of the fires near East
Tawas. They were burning the tops
to conceal their thefts and the fires
spread, doing great damage.
Two hundred miners at the Osceola
mine struck for 10 cent raise TO 500 a
month and three hours work less on
granted by the management
The state game warden's department
investigated 1874 cases in April and Sc
cured GA convictions; fines collected,
! S734Ss. With seasonable weather n
good increase in the game and game
birds is expected.
A coop of English ring neck phesants
has been purchased by the Tuscola
county fish and game protective league.
| These birds will be bred and the young
stock liberated for private shooting of
members of the club.
DR.. Edward Il. Vincent, of Detroit,
| was run down by an electric car on the
4th and instantly killed. His body
was mangled in horrible manner.
Deceased was the surgeon of the ill
fatcd Peary Arctic exposition in 1895.
Two thousand acres of delinquent
tax lands were sold at the annual sale
at Menominee on the LIST, and about
! SIS. 900 realized therefrom. The sale
will be continued for several days, or
until the full list of $500 descriptions
! has been bid in.
| 1t looks as if another Mains Hurlbert
case will be on call for the May term of
! the circuit court of Calhoun county, as
defer dants in the 5000, 600 damage suit
commenced by Charles X. Mains against
s. Hurlbert ct al, have filed their pleas
and notice for trial.
George Knaggs owns farm near
Maybee, and most of it is under cult
walton. The remarkable part of it is
that the work on the farm is all done
by Mr.. Knaggs himself, who is 90 years
old. He is remarkably well preserved
and is the father of 10 children.
Col. n. M. Richardson, who was
several weeks ago relieved from duty
in the adjutant-generals Office, al
though permitted to retain his commits
sion, resigned as assistant adjutant
general, and was given an honorable
discharge, on the 5th. John Atkinson
is his successor.
A free rural mail delivery will be es
tablished at Huron, Huron county, anC
Cedar Springs, Kent county, on the 18th
The length of the former route is 3;
miles; area covered, SO square miles
population served, 900; and the latter
length, % miles; area, "a square miles
population served, 637.
The town of Gerondale, 20 miles
west of Mcnominee, was destroyed b,
fire on the I'd, and 200 families ART
homeless. The aggregate amount o
losses is estimated at S12s,000 In thu
vicinity of Menominee forest fires arr
abating. A crew of 100 men employed
by the railroad and lumber companie
have succeeded in getting the flame
under control and preventing spread
The wheat crop in Oakland count.
this year will undoubtedly prove tn
greatest failure in years. Careful cs
Inmates show that at best the crop viii
not yield over 25 per cent of an aver
age crop, and that the best fields to b
found anywhere in the county will no
go better than 60 per cent. The caus
assigned for the failure of wheat ar
, the Hessian fly and unfavorabl
weather in the early part of the win
ter season.