The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-02-15
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

trolley wire at St Joseph the other
night, $50 telephones were burned out.
A freight wreck on the Michigan
Central at Francisco on the 9th re-
suited in a loss of $40, 900. Twelve
cars and their contents were demol-
/ ished.
An Iron Mountain preacher who is
| quarantined at his home on account of
scarlet fever, did not disappoint his
congregation on the 10th. He used a
monograph.
| At the 6lst anniversary of the Grace
! Episcopal church at Port Huron on the
night of the 5th, the mortgage on the
church building was burned. A ban
quet followed.
At the fire at Colon recently a dog
became so excited that he jumped into
the cellarway of burning building
and was badly scorched about the feet
before he could be rescued.
The request of ex-Gov. Pingree that
the state pay for 10000 extra copies of
| his last message, has been denied by
the state auditors, and the former gov
{
Adrian's council adopted curfew or
dinance on the 4th, and now all chill
dren under ii years of age are forbid
den on the streets after p IN. in the
winter and 0 p. m. in the summer.
The Warren Featherbone Co., of
Three Oaks, has purchased the large
Keller Brass Co. plant at Middleville
and will begin the manufacture o. rib
bons as soon as the machinery can be
put in place.
L'Anse's newest industry, n graphite
mill, was started up recently and in a
few days will be running full blast.
1t is located only four miles from an
, apparent ineXhaustible supply of the
/ necessary raw material.
Sam Alpin, the Greenville murderer,
was on the 9th convicted of the muir
der of Lewis Campbell, an old soldier,
on Aug. is, last. After numbering Camp
bell he hid his body under n barn and
covered it with quicklime.
G.. Il. Woodland, n coal and oil pros
pector of many years experience at
Gaines, Pa, has opened an office in
Ashley, and is forming a local stock
company and leasing land for the pur-
pose of drilling some test wells.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Michigan Cement COM
pany, held at the Office of the company
in Coldwater on the 5th, it was de-
cided to start their plants about March
I. An enormous output is planned for
the coming year.
The Pere Marquette steamer No.
arrived at Ludington from Milwaukee
on the night of the 4th 10 hours late.
No meals were served on the boat and
the crew and passengers suffered great
hardships The boat was completely
enveloped in ice
BY the spreading of the rails on the
Grand Trunk line near Mr.. Clemens
on the night of the 9th, Is new, heavy
laden coal cars were piled up and the
contents strewn along the track for a
! considerable distance. The damage is
estimated at fully $751; 900.
The name Bad Axe has been multi
ated various and sundry times and in
an unlimited number of ways, but the
last straw was added the other day
when a letter arrived that was adj
| dressed TO Eattle Axe. 1t was covered
with post m ,rks, having travelled all
over NJ ichigan.
James Daggett, murderer, vino was
| pardoned by eX-Gov. Pingree, denies
that he paid $3.50 to secure his pardon,
but admits that his attorneys fee was
| $3.50. Said Daggett: Several paid
much more for their pardons than it
cost me. Charley Wright paid S3,OOo;
Henry Stewart, $1,000, and Stevens,
! $3.50"
! Judge Smith of the Ingham circuit
court has declined to consider the Pc
tition filed by JAS II. Brumm, the
Dimondale murderer, who was par
doned eX-Gov. Pingree last December.
The conditions upon which Brumm
was pardoned was that commission
| should be appointed TO determine his
( sanity.
Notwithstanding the fact that the l.
! Stephenson Lumber Co., whose base of
! operations is at Wells, Delta CO., has
sawed continuously there for so years,
it still has in sight sufficient raw ma
terial to duplicate the run, which
would make the phenomenal record of
numbering at a single location for 100
years.
Louis Arno, of Detroit, who was sem
fenced to prison seven years ago for an
assault on Pearl Butler, girl less than
16 years of age, and who was pardoned
just before Christmas by ex-Gov. Pin
gree, is again in trouble The charges
this time are similar to those for which
he was serving time, only his scheme
was discovered by the police before ne
had an opportunity to mature it.
During the funeral services over the
remains of Mrs. Frank Van Eta in the
NJ L. church at Holland on the 9th,
fire broke ont and spread with such
rapidity, that the whole building burst
into flames before the funeral party
could get out of the building with the
corpse. Fortunately all escaped unin-