The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-07-05
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Detroit has on it's books $149,000 of
back taxes.
Galesburg has one taxpayer who
hands over $500.
Five thousand fish hooks are sold
in Alpena annually.
Petoskey is up in arms to become the
county seat of Emmett.
Free rural mail delivery will be es-
tablished III South Haven.
The postoffice mt Ingersoll has been
discontinued. Mail goes to Delta.
The postoffice at Ellis has been dis
continued. Mail will go to Marshall.
Miss May Lawton, u. of NJ, 1901
will go to the Philippine islands as
teacher.
The 500 line steamer Hennepin was
damaged $4,000 by fire in Buffalo
Thursday.
Indiana capitalists are organizing
company TO drill for oil near Three
Oaks, Mich.
Some one poisoned eight head of cat
tie near Montague, belonging to Butch
or Fred Herren.
Alfred William Balch, of Saginaw,
has been appointed an assistant sur
geon in the navy.
\ Muskegon firm gets the contract
for the addition to the Mt. Pleasant
normal school for $1,000.
One hundred and five applicants
for teachers positions in Huron coun-
ty wrote the examinations.
Thirty boilermakers in Bay City are
on strike for II nine-hour day and
12h per cent increase in wages.
The last smallpox patient in Bay
City has been discharged. The cpl
demic has cost the county $4,000.
\ gold mining company. of which
Gov. Bliss is president, is reported to.
have made rich strike in Colorado.
Huron county has IS liquor sellers.
yielding her the neat sum of $4,000.
Only six lave refused to pay this year.
W. L. Scott, aged 20, who pleaded
guilty to passing II forged check OH
Bronson bank, was sentenced to two
years.
The increase in real property OVER
last year in Adrian was but So, $50. and
in personal SS,424,' making total of
$11.5IS.
Promoters of an electric road, to con-
meet at Adrian with the Toledo & Jack
son line, are seeking Il franchise in
Hudson.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers
have ruined the hay crop in Martin
township. Farmers say it is the poor-
est crop on record.
The assessed valuation of Washte-
nav county this year is placed at $33.
939, $50. a decrease OF $36l ,91I as COM
pared with last year.
Dundee thermometers registered 1O2
in the shade Tuesday. An electrical
storm in the evening put nearly all the
lights out of business.
Lightning struck in numerous Mich
igan towns Tuesday. While consider
able damage to property is reported.
there was no loss Of life.
The million dollar suit for damages
brought by M. B. Church against the
Anti-Kalsomine Co., of Grand Rapids,
resulted in a disagreement.
Will AInell the Beaverton murderer.
has been brought to the Bay county
Jail for safekeeping and an extra
watch will be kept over him.
The eighth annual meeting of
sheriffs, chiefs Of police and prOsecut-
ing attorneys Of Michigan will be held
in MuSkegon. July IL and IS
David A. Elliott, of Greenville. aged
20, once prominent in Montcalm coun-
ty. was on Saturday taken to the Trav
erse City asylum, raving maniac.
ID. :. Etherdge. ii Quincy farmer,
made and sold in one month 4j0R
pounds of butter, the product of II Jer-
sey cows, 9 of which were heifers, not
yet years of age.
The oleomargarine dealers of Detroit
are to stop the sale This action will
be taken as the direct result Of the
oleomargarine law passed at the last
session of the legislature.
The Lima, o., jury, in the case of
| Glenn DicK-lan, charged with man
slaughter in the killing of JON Car
roll Saginaw telegraph operator, re-
turned verdict of guilty.
| Chas. $. Biller and JAY l.. Weinberg
! caught Il muskalonge Mt Mills Lake
which weighed 81 pounds. When
opened a half pint bottle of bourbon
whisky was found inside the fish. VIII
/ owner prove property. etc?
Two libel suits for $4,000 each have
been started against the Grand Rapids
/ Democrat by the Old National bank
| and Cashier ii. j. HOLSTER. The suits
| grew ont of the water scandal.
Fruit in the vicinity of Lawton has
! been injured to n great extent recently.
! Some peach orchards will bear no fruit
! at ALL while but very few will produce
more than half the usual crop
Orsemus l.. Bates. of Coldwater.
! paid no attention to an order of the
/ court to pay his wife $3.50 pending the
/ result Of divorce proceedings brought
by her, and will spend 80 days in jail!
Joe Atkinson's stock of fireworks at
| Fremont exploded, blowing out the
! store front. burning the face of Frank
! Bisbee and leaving him perfectly bald.
! The explosion was caused by a small
boy with cigarette.
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