The Yale expositor., 1901-12-20
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Smallpox has closed the schools of
Birch Run.
Graham Pope. of Houghton. will
give 5000 for u free public hospital
Cars over the new Toledo. Adrian
and Jackson electric line are now run.
Ming into Adrian.
The longest drain In Michigan Is .
hc dug In Eaton county along Thorn
apple river next spring.
Bcets that have tested u per cent
OF sugar have been raised by farmers
In the vicinity of ~. Louis.
James Tate was killed at Muskegon
sunday by the bursting II fly wheel
nj the Central Paper Co.'S plant.
Carl Snudbcck. Swedish soclologisi.
Will visit the upper peninsula To- study
conditions among his countrymcn.
VIM. Wheeler. Of Saginaw. aged ~.
Is charged with attempted criminal as.
sault on his l2-year-old daughter.
The farmers clubs In session In
Lansing resolved THAT we do not Ia
vor the calling OF special session"
The wheels In the new sulphlte mill
OF tie Marinctte X Mcnominec Paper
Company have started. The new mill
= said to have cost 100000.
Isaac OUsterout. OF PottervIllc, has
left Tor parts unknown, leaving num-
crous accounts unpaid. His stock OF
machinery has been attached for debts.
VIM. Olson. Finnish lnborcr In the
Aragon mine. near Iron Mountain.
was horribly mangled by the prcma-
turc explosion OF blast. lie cannot
live.
\ log house built In Batavia.
Branch county. In 1919. and later
moved To the Coldwatcr fair ground
whore IL served a. a museum was
burned last week.
There Is a fight ON between the city
! of Detroit aud the gas company over
rates. The council has passed an ordi-
nnncc making the rate zoe instead oi
81 Per thousand feet
Sufficient funds have been raised 10y
| the friends of Howard Burchfield. who
| Is now serving time M lonia Tor Kill
/ Ing Howard Green. to assure an an
| peal to the Supreme Court.
I Beginning with January | Eugene
I Holt will pat In 10000 feet of logs
/ which amounts 10 lG or IL ears every
/ day until spring for the Bay Shore
I Lumber Co. of Menominee.
Canvasscrs who have been ont
among 10" farmers the past week re-.
port having secured acreage for sugar
\ hcets enough 10 warrant building OF
/ q beet sugar factory In East Tnwas.
John McCloy. conductor ~ the
I freight ear Of the Wyaadottc electric
/ line. was killed. hy the collision of hls
ear with Detroit Southern engine M
7 the Monguagon crossing Thursday
evening.
Major n II Lamb former resident
! ~ Iapccr county. who has been scrv-
iug as surgeon In the Philippines. has
had hls contract with the government
annulled and Is on his way 10 his home
10 Owosso
Many farmers along the Iiarbnr
l Beach digls.on OF the Perc Marquette
! fear they VIII have Co feed their sug-
mr. hccts to their stock. as they are un-
able 90 secure ears Co ship them 10
the factory.
ON February I rural free delivery
service with i've routes will Ice cstab-
llshed from Mt. Pleasant. ana the
pOsiotiiccs at Caldwell Bnyden. VIM,
Z Erununcld. Conner and Alcmb!c viii
bc discontinued.
4 number of deer .clonging to n
Lawton party Of hunters. are being
hclG In quarantine at Flood Wood In
the northern pensinsula because the
agent ne that place was taken sick
with the smallpox.
For the first time In number 81
years the full rains did not fully re.
plrDish the water supply IN Sanllac
county and hundreds of farmers are
compelled To- haul water long dis.
tanccs for their stock.
Game Warden W. \. McGoycrn
dropped into Howard City and took
Landlord NJ. Austin. of Columns Tx.
change. before Justice Whitney for
serving vcnison Ia his guests. Austin
was fined $40 and costs.
4 Niles policeman named Ullery has
published In local paper challenge
10 l.. w. Cook. editor OF another pa
per. 10 fight n duel to the death. the
weapons to be revoivcrs OF b cnllhre.
and the distance 10 PAGES. 'S'death.
Relud,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. aged %. of
Eaton Rapids. discovered her home ON
IRE. The men were ON the farm. sO
she blew the dinner horn ms mn alarm.
Then she fell To the ground dead II
Is supposed the excitement brought ON
heart failure.
A Cadillac carpenter erC.ted the
sides. ~car and roof OF carriage shed
backed the carriage under aud then
completed the building leaving door
Just large enough for n man Ca enter
His scheme does away with the ne.
cesslty Of Yale locks.
schooIcraft merchants have suffered
for some time past from numerous
small thef,s. ard nc last searching
investigation was made which devel
oped the fact that the Offenders were
seven young boys Of families In good
! standing Ia the village.
] Kent county u several thousands Of
dollars short and II borrowing the
money that II now does business on.