The Yale expositor., 1904-06-17
STATE NOTES.


All factories are running and every
thing booming at Kalamazoo.
A scarcity of houses Is the cry in
Harbor Springs and Is causing build
ing boom.
Seth Devoe, OF Saginaw, aged ana
deaf. was killed by a Pere Marquette
train near his home.
The convention of the Michigan
Blind PEOPLES association will be held
in Lansing, June 2l-23.
After running the GIDEON house 40
years OF Beaver lsland, Mrs. Gibson
will suspend operations.
The National Chickory Co., of Bay
City, is building the largest plant in
the state at q cost OF '$S0,OOO.
Burglars practically ruined the safes
of the Emmet Milling Co. and JAMES
COgley x Son, hut got no cash.
Frand Arnold, or Decatur. despon-
dent, tried to end his life by ard of
arsenic. He failed 60 take enough.
Florence Whipple, aged 10, of Me-
nominee, is missing from her home
and her parents fear she has been en-
ticed away.
George Hancock, 1G years old, re-
Gently adopted from the Industrial
school was drowned in Brewster lake
Sunday while swimming.
Adit. Gen Brown has issued orders
announcing that the annual practice
cruise Of the Michigan state naval bri-
gaSle VIII commence August q.
I.ansing's assessed personal valua-
tSon this year lis SO. S99,329 as com
pared with $S,721, 155 last year; real
estate valuation is increased $1,S79.-
.3G5
Two hours and forty miHUtes from
Grand Rapids to MuskegonaG distance
of az miles. 10y road, is the'new auto
mobile record established by DIR. G. j..
Dove
The cl8ss Of 1900 of the Michigan
AGRICULTURAL college has donated a
handsome drinking fountain to the col
lege and it will be in place for COM
mencement.
. Residents Of camden and, other near
by towns are greatly wrought up by
the report that there are several cases
ID smallpox rat Montgomery, four
miles distant.
Frank Murray, 50, a sailor beating
his waygt0 Chicago. fell under freight
train at Niles Sunday and was crushed
TO death. He was going 20 Chicago to
see brother.
AS conditions at Jackson now per-
unit the reception of oorlgicts Gov.
Bliss has withdrawn his request to
the circuit judges that they sentence
them elsewhere.
Over $500, 900 is being expended on
| improvements in Charlotte this year,
mostly for residences, but including
the new Masonic temple and the
Beach Bros. foundry.
To fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation because of Ill health OF
Probate Judge John c. Hanson, Of
Crawford county, Gov. Bliss has ap-
pointed e. L. Turner, of ,Grs yling.
/ The 3,vear-old son of Joseph Helver-
son. living with the family OF Peter
Johnson mt Pt. Oneida, fell ever Il pail
,of hot Mater. scalding the entire front
of his body. The babe died of its III
juries
Benjamin Ferris, Bell telephone
Ene foreman, was Killed at Bridgeport
during Wednesday night. supposedly
by a train. His body was found in
the morning ,on the Pere Marquette
trestle.
The body Jof Mrs. Albert Anderson.
missing since Tuesday. was found Fri
day morning an Muskegon lake. 1t is
supposed she became dizzy and fell
in while fishing alone on Tuesday
evening.
Miss EthGi itMckenbill. OF Venice
( township. took a large dose OF poison
by mistake, thinking it was her medi-
cine With timely assistance of ,physi-
clans the young lady's life was soon
ont of danger.
The Menom nee shingleweRrers'
strike il settled and the 800 or more
men have returned TO their work and
nearly a1l OF the mills in the district
will resu4ne operations after being
idle for weeks.
William Steveks. the alleged IH,fr.
dercr Of Isalph Calkins, of Detroit, il
believed to DE in the upper peninsula
4 man fitting his description in every
way aud acting slIspiciously has beer
in lsnpeming and The environs of Ne
gaunee.
The 9-year-old son of John Dulanda.
of Mapleton was brought TO Traverse
City for an operation tO remove a hard
swelling on his breast. The knife
brought In light a No / shot. but the
boy says lie has NO idea how il got
there.
Edward Pratt. while suffering from
apOplexy. was picked up by the Bay
city police and lodged i'm jail as IA
drunk. 1t was not until l. hours later
that the real state of affairs was dis
covered. aud then it was too late Pra tt
died shortly afterward without recos.
-ering consciousness.
Mai. Charles W. Bennett. Of Cold.
water, has returned from the Uni
versify hospital. where he has been
the past four months. Maj DeDnett.
who "a an ex-Union war veteran. un-
derwent the operation of having re.
moved the greater part of his intes-
tines. and his recovery is something
remarkable. ~
For the first time In his life. which
has covered period of 06 years. Thok.
Bullion. is bedridden in his home. His