The Yale expositor., 1903-08-14

STATE NEWS IN bItEF.
Dr A. W. Adams has been mp
pointed postmaster OF Sault Ste. Marie
10 succeed Mrs. VI. &. PIN. resigned.
The latter had held the Office % years.
The losco County Agricultural assoc
citation has appropriated $500 for an
eXhibi, OF the counly's product at the
state fair.
Much sympathy Is felt for Miss Jen.
ME Mitchell. a popular school teacher,
who Is dying OF cancer at the Branch
county house.
4 loaded" cigar IN the hands OF a
fool friend nearly deprived Lee Embo-
den. a popular young man OF st. Jo-
seph. OF his eycsight.
Governor Bliss denies any ambition
TO succeed Julius G. Burrows as Unit
ed states senator lie claims his only
desire now is To leave behind him a
record as governor satisfactory 10 the
people.
The Holt Lumber Co. Of Oconto,
Wis. is operating n summer logging
camp I'm Ontonngon county. About
sevcnty-iive men are employed and
twelve carloads OF logs are being
shipped daily.
Charles Conroy. a lineman working
FOR the Michigan Telephone Co. fell
from a pole In Fenton. Saturday, q
distance of - feet and broke both
arms below the elbow. Ills home Is
In Port Huron.
Harry Bell. of Muskegon. son OF II.
T. BELL. OF the Alaska Refrigerator
Co. who was appointed as candidate
for West Point. passed the exnmina-
tons ana has left To join the summer
camp on the Hudson.
samuel Carries. OF Battle Greek.
went hunting sunday and has not re-.
turned. He is only II and is unaccus.
toned 90 being away from home. 81 II
Is surmssed that he has accidentally
killed himself In the woods.
Melvin Bishop. who was release
from Jackson recently after serving 4
nvc.yeur term. Is locked up on the
charge that he stole horse and bug
~ from Charles Ostrom. ~ fostorid.
u Is said that he has confessed.
Some prominent citizens here are
moving TO secure pardon for Albert
of Hillsdale county, now serving "A
fve.ycar sentence nj Jackson for Oh.
tanning money under false pretenses.
Albert BurdIck. OF Kindcrhook town.
ship. went after the county snake
killing record few days ago. lie
started To pick berries at Gilead. but
the snakes got started. and when he
was through 81 blue racoss were dead.
Five Italians were drowned sunday
at Vulcan. two miles from Norway.
The accident was caused by the cap.
sizing OF the boat containing the men
loo yards from shore. All were single
men except one. who had wife In
Italy.
The body OF Mrs Gilbert Taylor. OF
Sarnla. who was drowned last week
while trying 10 save little Isabel
Thompson from drowning, was found
floating In the river ~ Port Huron
Tuesday. The little girls body was
found Monday.
J. s. Stevens. II years old. cashier
OF the Swift Beef Co.'S local branch
in lshpemlng has confessed 10 en-
bezzling $1,000. stealing regularly each
week by chsnglng bills he collected
from local meat firms TO their account
IN the beef company.
on Daniel IIadaway's farm In Cas-.
co. an experiment IN snake-ralslng Is
being tried. Mr. Hadaway found, while
blowing ffty.siX snakes eggs OF the
blue racer variety lie placed them In
sand on a sunny hillside. covered them
aud awaits Developments.
a colony OF hoboes estimated at
500 have infested the lake shore. i'm
81. Joseph county from Watervliet on
the north TO New Buffalo on the south
for the past three months. They live
i'm camps and enjoy lie OF their own
ideal
Deer are said 20 be quite numerous
I'm the upper peninsula this year. Re
Gently two tine specimens OF the fam.
liz came 20 farm near Sldnaw.
graZed FOR some time. and although
they were seen by number OF per.
sons. no one got gun and they went
away unframed.
Governor Bliss has appointed
Charles l.. Benjamin. OF Saginaw.
state oil inspector. dating his commits.
sion August =. 1903 The governor
said thar there would Ice practically
no chasges among the deputies as only
one. aud that contemplated by the late
Inspector William Judson. would be
made.
The fierccst southwest gale OF the
season swept over Berrien county
early yesterday morning. II is feared
that the loss TO fruit growers will
reach thousands OF dollars. Uncon
firmed reports from various inland
fruit points say that thousands OF
bushels OF pears. peaches. plums AMI
apples were shaken from trees.