The Yale expositor., 1901-05-17
LnNOa MICHIGAN MAlleRs.

Forest fires are doing considerable
damage in Wexford county.
A fine new grain elevator is in course
of construction at Vermontville.
The state convention of w. c. Il. u.
will be held at Marshall, June S.
Gladstone was scorched to the extent
of S35, 900 on the morning of the sth.
Centreville is now ''dry" burg, the
council having suppressed the saloons.
Grand jury has been called at Grand
Rapids to investigate the water scan
dial and other matters.
Coldwater citizens have organized a
humane society for the protection of
dumb brutes from human ones.
The ice blockade at Marine City
broke on the morning of the sth, and
st. Clair river is now free of ice.
The Manchester Enterprise reports
that snakes are plentiful this spring.
Just little early for snake stories.
Manchester has a new institution
where good things without end are
manufactured. 1t is pretzel factory
Wheat is said to have come through
the winter finely in Mecosta county
and to be in splendid condition at
present.
Muskegon and Ludington are to be
connected by an electric line, the coun-
Gil of the former place having already
granted a franchise.
The wool market opens in Tekonsha
at IL to 10 cents per pound. Farmers
are disguised WITH the price and in
clined to hold the product.
The coal dealers of Albion have
formed a trust among themselves, to
do away with all trust" for their GUS
toners Hereafter, they announce, all
transactions will be on spot cash
basis. The combination will also
boost prices up
The spring drouth which has been
annoying the farmers of Livingston
county was broken on the 18th by a
good rain. Glover has not looked bet
ter in that locality for 10 years, and
bids fair to be big crop. Wheat is
looking better than usual.
One of the Howell papers says that
n couple from Cohoctah township
called on one of the undertakers in
Howell the other day and ordered
coffin apiece. Not that they had any
idea of using them at once, but they
wanted TO have them made and ready
when the necessity did arise.
4
the location for the power house of the
Grand Rap;ds-MuslIegon interurban
electric railroad now in course of con-
struction. The location of the power
house, which carries with it the COM
pany's shops, will in all probability re-
suit in a boom for the little village.
Lapeer is hustling after new indus
tries, and has secured several, but
there are no vacant houses in town to
accommodate the workmen who will
come with the new factories 1t looks
like case of having to build more
houses before landing any more insti.
tutions which will give employment to
labor.
The installation of water meters at
Hought ton has resulted in big saving
of water. Since they were put in on
the premises of every user of the city
water the big reservoirs on the hill
above the city overflow every night,
where formerly they were nearly dry
in even the wettest weather of spring
and fall.
Five or six logs rolled from the top
of train in the yards of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad Mt Ironwood
on the 9TH into n crew of laborers who
were standing beside the track, in
stantly killing one and injuring sew
eral others so that there is no hopes of
their recovery. The men were all
! Polanders.
! A fine bed Of mari has been discov-
cred on the farm of Edward Crequc, in
J Genesee township, and report is now
in order that the biggest cement fac
at once. That--the report, not the
| factory-is what usually follows the
/ discovery of mari deposit, big or lit
/ tic, of late.
Miss Dora Mcdonald, aged 20, of De-
troit, was pronounced dead on the
morning of the 18th by the attending
physician, after having lapSed into a
state OF suspended animation for the
second time during her lifetime. A
/ peculiar quIver of the muscles after 40
hours announced the end. Paralysis
of the heart was given as the cause of
her death.
George Brown, the oldest and one of
the most efficient men on the police
force at Lansing, met instant death on
the 9th while attempting TO place u
rebellious prisoner in his cell at the
city Jail. The prisoner was Charles
Tubbs, who was arrested during the
day for using indecent language. lie
was intoxicatc ed and noisy.
1t is good safe rule TO keep out of
other peoples quarrels, and the rule
will apply as well to the quarrels of
dumb animals. A Menominee young
lady saw two dogs fighting and tried
to separate them, and both of the can
I 4