The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-02-22
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Tree rurdl HAL ueiisery rouIcs.
The Bedding Shoe company filed a
chattle mortgage to secure creditors on
the 18th.
There are Sc prisoners in the county
Jail at Marshall, the largest number
on record.
There is considerable talk at Pontiac
at present about erecting two opera
houses there.
Orion is talking electric street lights
to take the place of the kerosene lamps
in use at present.
Cadillac is to have tannery. The
Rice Leather Co., of Petoskey, will es-
tablish one there.
Two smallpox cases were discovered
at Saginaw on the 14th, many people
have been exposed.
The Pingree contempt case will be
submitted on briefs without argument
in the supreme court.
Five st. Joseph people were near
deaths door on the 18th, Us result of
of using condensed milk that contained
poison.
A Capac farmer who raised chicory
last year realized 81, 3s2 from 90 acres
and this year he is going to plant so
acres to the coffee substitute.
The poultry and pet stock fanciers
of Alpena county have formed an or
ganizat ton for mutual benefit and the
holding of annual exhibitions.
The attendance at the farmers in
stitute in Coldwater was record
breaker Ex-Gov. Luce was present
at every session and took an active
| part.
Eaton county grangers are making
| contracts with Altoona county farmers
| for raising field peas for seed They
claim that insects will not permit tn cir
being raised in Eaton.
A new gas company has been organ
! lied at Port Huron, which proposes to
furnish its patrons with gas at 90 cents
per 1000 feet for lighting purposes,
and 40 cents for fuel purposes.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel king, has
offered to build a public library build
ing at Grand Rapids to cost 500, 900 to
$3.50, 900, providing the city will donate
the site and give $4,000 year to sup
| port it.
Fifteen st. Joseph citizens has Of
| fered to put up SIS, 900 electric light
plant and furnish arc lights to the city
at the rate $40 per year, and at the end
of three years to turn the plant over to
the city
A demented woman confined in n cell
in the court house at Grayling, set fire
to the building on the 14th, which
| burned to the ground, causing a loss
of about $4,000 over and above the
| insurance.
The clergy of Niles are a unit in the
crusade inaugurated for the passage of
laws prohibiting the sale of marriage
! licenses on Sunday They assert that
| it is an abominable practice and dis
! grace to Berrien county.
Ex-Gov. Pingree, his son IIazen S.
Jr., and Col. Il. Il. Sutton, left New
York for England on the 18th. The
| governor is going abroad on business
and his son and Col. Sutton are going
/ to South Africa on like mission.
| A wreck occurred on the GrGnd
| Trunk near Richmond on the nth,
owing to carelessness on the part of
Il freight engineer, who fell asleep at
his post. No one was killed but the
property loss will reach about $1,000
The authorities of Berrien county
are trying to find Clarence Wagner,
aged 20, who courtcd Mrs. Mary Schaus
of Coloma, and, it is alleged, skipped
out with $3.50 of her money. The story
leaked out on the 18th when it was
learned that Wagner could not be
| found.
Surveying for the proposed Eastern
e. Northwestern road, to run from To-
ledo to Benton Harbor, via Dowagiac,
is in progress at Sister Lakes. A sec
ton OF about 10 miles of the road is
now built from Dowagiac to Sister
Lakes, for which the ties are now be-
ing purchased.
The farmers Of Midland township,
Midland Co., have organized the Mid
land Township Development Co., with
J. T.. Sayre as president and treasurer
and Frank ii. Olmstead as secretary.
They win begin prospecting for coal
at once and expect to strike paying
| vein of coal at 300 feet.
Great Record Keeper Emma L.
Bower of the r. o. Il. NJ, has COM
pleted her annual report for 1900. 1t
shows disbursement of $2S2, 042. as,
and balance on hand of SIC, 423 81
The membership on Jan. 1 was 57,411,
an increase of 1890 during the year.
The deaths in 1900 were 25s. The
total disbursements in deaths and dis
abilities since organization, was ST.
liz, 1850.
Gov. Nash on the 9th ordered out lC
companies of state troops to stop the
Jeffries- Rubin fight in Cincinnati.
A MOB of 200 men and women, armed
with axes, revolvers and shotguns, on
the 18th totally demolished Schmidt's
saloon, at Winfield, Kan. The saloon
was the finest in the city.
Neuro amed Thomas jackson was