The Yale expositor., 1903-07-17

ana the bushes are now loaded.
Charles j. Moore. a berry picker.
WIS murdered az Hartman station
sunday night. Moore's head was hor
ribly crashed with some blunt instri.
mcnt ana Ills body was thrown on the
Biz -Four track to cover up the muir
der
Hendrix Ten Braak and wife. Of
Grand RaDlds. are 40 and go years
old respectively. and have lived to
gether In peace and harmony 10.
many years until about n year ago
Now tho aged wife e. suing for a di.
vorce.
\ man named Iloyt has pitched =
tent 40 the Verona miii dam near bat
tie Greek ana IL trapping mud turtles
which hc ships To Philadelphia. TIA.
turtles weigh from ten to forty pounds
FOR which hc receives seven cents q
pound.
Three Rivers people have organized
with capital stock OF SECOND. AM
expect tu hc ready FOR the munufuc
turr Of peat fuel early in the fal
They have options ON several hundred
acres ct low lands where the peat Wiz
hc dug.
The FIRE company at Mason made
S25 the other day. monkey escaped
from a circus which was showing
there. and took refuge at the top of a
tall tree. The boys turned the hose
on the monk and II camc hack 10
captivity.
Tuniine Dunkswiue. aged 49,. was
accidentally shot with a revolver held
10y Henry Junke. Junk" exhibited an
old revolver hut didn't know 10 was
loaded. The bullet penetrated Dunk
>winc's breast. Death was almost IN.
Simultaneous.
Lightning struck the factory OF the
Traverse city Canning Co. ripped of
the Flagstaff aud shattered the tower
IN short but severe storm winch
broke the intense heat Wednesday at
tcrncon. The go employees were bad.
~ frightened.
While Ezra Grover. wife aud child
were coming home from North Lake.
one Of their horses was Killed by
lightning Mrs. Grover was severely
shocked hut not injured. The wagon
was iil!cd with feather pillows, which
probably saved them
The second cargo OF white pine lum.
Der ever shipped into Menominee was
received there this week billions OF
feet have left the port in the past
thirty or forty years. but the tide has
turned and from now on most Of that
used will have 20 be shipped In.
There has just been organized at
Kalamazoo the Lee PIANO. company
with u cspital OF Si.OOO.OOO. for the
purpose at manufacturing book and
writing paper The Mill will hc erect
eel az Nickshurg. a village about
twelve miles south of Kalamazoo.
The notable Increase IN the Michl.
Gan earnings OF the railroads contin-
ues. the increase FOR the first i've
months over the same period last year
being over H. per cent For May. the
earnings were S4.3Gl.02gu7. an in.
crease Of S,.O.lli.l4 over May OF last
year.
The state board Of auditors informs
+. J. Nayin of the Jackson prison
board. that II has no authority TO pay
the expenses OF the prison board and
warden FOR an inspection Of southern
and eastern penitentiaries preliminary
TO awarding the contract FOR the new
cell block
There Is man a.: Schcwalng who
II on the pension roll az Sc, per
month. but refuses to accept his quur
terly check. claiming hc was paid FOR
his service, during the war aud can
get a.jng without the help ur Uncle
sam now. That man ought to have
Il gold medal.
Farmers around GIlcsburg are jubi.
liant over the wheat crop now being
harvested. While the straw Is only
medium In respect tu growth. the
quality Of the berry aud the we'll
Tiled heads promise a Yield in decided
contrast tu that of last year. or ln
fact. to that of any recent season.
The rule of extremes has prevailed
In the berry market at Galcshurg this
season. For many years and M To- the
last, there was u surplus production
that reduced the profit to producers
to nothing. This year berries OF all
kinds have been So scarce ~ 90 Ice
considered IN actual treat This II
owing 60 the simultaneous retirement
OF once enthusiastic fruit growers.
A new bunco game is being worked
on unwary merchants throughout the
country. 4 man enters the store dis.
plays what purports To be a govern
mont badge and credentials showing
himself TO be one OF the secret service
men In search OF counterfeit money.
He looks over the cash drawer and I'm.
varlably finds five or six counterfeit"
pieces. which he "confscates"
Ray sheets was pncking apples In
the Milford evaporation last fall and
put some notes in several Or the crates
requesting the finder To let him know
the tlnal destination OF the apples.
lie has recently received replies from
scVt raj places. among them one from
Rotterdam. Holland The writer l. u
young man of that city who wants Co
exchange views OF local scenery.
Edward Hall alias George Hubbard.
who sawed his way out OF the jall
and took Mabel Baldwin Mead with
him. has been arrested with tho