The Yale expositor., 1901-06-28
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Alma is to have a new bank.


Baroda wild They feared murder.
The Flint Lumber Go. has increased
its capital stock from $4,000 to 3d.
00c.
Subscription books for the Pingree
memorial are being distributed in De-
troit.
The berry yield in the vicinity of
Watervleit will be very light this sea-
son.
Sunday, June 16, was 'dry" day
at Houghton, for the first time in more
than 10 years
Former Secretary of State Justus S,
Stearns is to make Grand Rapids his
home after September /.
The fund for the Pingree memorial,
to be erected in Detroit. grows and ii
is hoped will reach 100000.
Striking machinists at the f. & 2.
NJ. shops, at Muskegon, to the num-
Der of ID, have gone back to work.
Rev. DR.. w. III. Rees, NJ. Il. pastor ut
Adrian, receives notice from the bishop
that he will be transferred TO Pittsburg
July 1.
Mark Hirschburg. n Morceni tailor,
mourns the death Of Russian uncle,
a nobleman, who leaves to his nephew
! $4,000.
John Manchester, a resident of OF
| terpurn. Flint township. is charged with
attempted assault on his little Swear
old step-daughter.
A disastrous fire in the Peters Lum-
Der & Single Co, Benton Harbor. Sat
urday evening destroyed property val
ued at S125,000.
Col. Eli Sutton, who accompanied
Ex-Governor Pingree on his African
trip, has returned to Detroit, where he
will practice law.
Five new outbreaks of smallpox
were reported to the state board of
health on the nth, and one outbreak
was reported ended.
| A severe electrical storm passed over
| Allegan county on the night of the
! 10th, and considerable damage was
! done in many places.
All kinds of building material are
being dispatched to the Champion
! stamp mill site. Work on the new mill
will be hurried forward.
Miss Laura Burdick. OF Sturgis. has
started for Honolulu where she will he
married to II. NJ. Stevens, civil en-
| gineer in the Hawaiian islands.
Rural free delivery service ordered
established at Kent City. Kent county,
| Mich. A route was also ordered estab-
! lished at Marshall Calhoun county.
The prosecuting attorney and police
4 off nf
| menced a crusade for a better OBJ
servance of the liquor law of the state.
Miss Myrtle Mudridge. the young
woman from Sanilac Center who dis
| appeared from the Hotel Detroit. De
troit. about June 1, was found in Mt.
Clemens Saturday.
The machinists' strike in Saginaw
valley was settled on the night of the
| Goth. Although the men did not get all
they contended for, they are jubilant
over the outcome.
Mrs. Cooper, of Permissible, six
Niles from Wayne. was found 5cad
Monday morning with scalp woun
and an indentation in her forehead.
! Foul play is suspected.
Nellie Foster, pretty 20-year-old
| milliner who was out of work, grew
| Respondent and tried to drown herself
| in Muskegon Lake. She was pulled out,
but her condition is serious.
Dan Smith, who lives near Orville,
| is the oldest man in the state. He was
born January 21, 1871. at Portland.
Ne. He goes to Saginaw regularly and
draws pension for military services.
Three bodies, supposed to have be-
| longed to the crew of the Baltimore,
are held at East Tawas awaiting iden-
LITIGATION. They are embalmed. and will
be held a few days longer. Any partic-
ulars can be obtained of the marine re-
! porter.
The Germans of Albion are looking
| forward with great expectations to the
state encampment of the society
! known as the Deutscher Landwehr I'm
tersteutzung Verein, which will be held
July 4, > and g. There are fourteen
companies in the state.
Two of the largest timbers ever
shipped have arrived in Grand Haven
from Washington. They are yellow fir,
40 by 40 inches and 56 feet long,
weighing II tons each and costing 81
000 They are to be used as anchor
posts on large steel dredge.
The bodies of Beatrice and James
| Bailey. the two children who were poi
soned few weeks ago, supposedly by
their mother, Mrs. Sarah Quimby. of
Ithaca, have been eXhumed. Since her
confession the mother has made state
ments discriminating her husband.
1t is expected that the attendance
at the second National Social and Po-
litical conference. which begins a five
days session in Detroit next Friday,
will reach the 1000 mark or nearly
double the number present ut the con-
ference held in Buffalo two years ago.
Ernest Hartwick. OF Oxford, is af-
flictcd with an affair of the heart,
caused by young lady refusing to ac-
cept his hand and future prospects, so
he hied himself off to Chicago, leaving
note under his pillow at home stat
! inc that he would upvpT rpftfrn olivp