The Yale expositor., 1901-08-23
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

in Niles and vicinity.
Oceana county farmers have 5000
acres of beans growing.
The Sebewaing Sugar Co. has start
ed the canvass for the 1902 acreage.
The Grand Rapids water boodling
cases will not be tried till September.
Sebewaing, for the first time in her
history, will be lighted with electricity
this week.
Thirteen saloOnkeepers are under ar
rest at Owosso on the charge of sell
ing liquor illegally.
Inmates OF st. Joseph questionable
resorts have been ordered to leave
town within 10 days or go to Jail.
Mrs. Arthur Bailey, aged "a OF
Adrian township, was so badly burned
by a kerosene oil explosion that she
died.
Roy l. Taylor, OF Mt. Pleasant, has
received notice Of his appointment to
the position of second lieutenant in the
regular army.
Charles Richie, an inmate of the
northern asylum, eluded the vigilance
OF brother, and hanged himself from
n tree in the woods.
The annual camp OF Seventh Day
Adventists has commenced in Lansing.
There are 400 tents up. Ten thousand
strangers are expected.
While walking on the railroad track
in Saginaw Wednesday night, William
G. Dalke was struck by switch en-
CINE and instantly killed.
Alfred Erns. held in Jail in Standish
on charge OF horse stealing, escaped
by way Of skeleton keys. His mother
struggled them in to him.
OF the persons of school age in Mich
igan Detroit has 91.771: Bay City,
1885; Grand Rapids. ~2T.371; Jackson,
6,T57, and Saginaw, LOO.
The Bloomingdale Cheese Factory
received over 27.000 pounds of milk
during the month of May and paid the
patrons for the same S1.GT2.
The agitation over the smallpox
scare i'm Three Rivers has about sub
sided and all the patients will shortly
be released from quarantine.
Harry Lanham. of st. Joseph, was
shot just below the heart while rowing
on the river. 1t is believed the shot
was fired by careless hunter.
No more wooden sidewalks can he
built i'm the fire limits of Tekonsha,
under the terms of Il new ordinance
recently passed by the council.
Holly is still endcavoring to secure n
good water supply and has Just closed
contract with Ohio parties to put
down an eight-inch deep well.
The schoolhouse at Mattawan, which
burned n week ago, will be rebuilt inn
mediatcly. 1t is believed the fire was
caused by spontaneous combustion.
G. +. Raymond. OF Grand Rapids,
has recovered n watch stolen from him
two years ago. 1t was found on the
person of Il crook arrested for burglary
in London. Eng.
The Battle Creek council has n lum-
Der purchase scandal 1t is alleged that
overcharges and short deliveries
have been made, fleeing the city out
of $500 to $1,000.
The ThOrnapple drain. rs surveyed
by Commissioner Sewers of Charlotte,
was approved by the jury. 1t will cost
$50,00C and those interested will carry
it 10 higher court.
Owing to the continued dry weather,
the water in the st. Joseph river is
so low that the Niles Board e. Paper
Co. have shut down their plant, throw
ing about 100 men out
A. Il. Cummins. eX-register of deeds
of Hillsdale county. has been arrested
on a charge OF forging mortgage
upon farm in Camden township
while register of deeds.
Frightened at the belief that burg
lars were attempting to break into the
place. 14-year-old Peter HogG dropped
dead Friday morning. in Il room over
his brothers drug store.
William English. of Albion. middle
aged man. painter by trade. was ar
rested. charged with assault upon the
wife of q Mr.. Whitman. employed nj
the malleable iron works.
Edwin McClane, of Eau Claire Wis,
and Lou Hooker. of Lake City. Mich,
were married at st. Joseph Tuesday
midnight. They thus escaped prosecu-
ton for illegal cohabitation.
Albert Ryan, who shot his wife at
Litchfeld Il short time ago. was cap
tured i'm Butler. Branch county. We'd
nesday night. Immediately after his
capture he shot himself dead.
Miss Eva Rosenfeld. n Detroit girl
is now considerable of n heroine at
Arverne beach. near New York. for the
rescue of Or. Julius Rosenberg from
death by drowning in the ocean
The. aggregate values of real estate
and personal property. as equalzed by
county boards this year. are as fol.
lows: Real estate. S923. STS.5S3: person
al. $311 ,907 .442: total. 81 go. S0G.02J.
Lightning struck the house Of VIM.
Knott. i'm West Niles. Monday. tearing
off n portion of the roof and doing con
siderable other damage The occu-
pants Of the house had Il close call.
As yet Encke's comet. which has
been observed by some Of the astrOn-
omers i'm the west. has not been seen
by those ut the university observatory.
although they have been looking for it.
The state eneampment at Manistee
is over. the soldiers have all returned
on belated trains. tired. hungry and