The Yale expositor., 1904-08-26
STATE NEWS NOTES.


The village Of McBain will spend
$1,000 on improvements this year.
The Zouave companies ut Jackson
and Kalamazoo have gone to the
Worlds Fair.
Port Huron hotelkeepers have been
ordered by the labor commissioner to
get older boys for bell-boys.
Delta county is to negotiate loan
of $4,000 for the purpose of settling
several pressing obligations.
Detroit has been selected as the place
for the next national gathering OF the
Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.
Hold-ups are so common in Detroit
that the morning salutaticn among
friends is: Were you held up last
night?'
Tekonsha is building new cement
walks on the principal thoroughfare
out of the money received for liquor
licenses.
Mancelona is making great prepa-
rations for the northern Michigan odd
fellows convention, which is TO be held
Aug. % and II.
Edward +. Benson escaped from the
Coldwater Jail Saturday evening by
prying up the boiler plate floor Of the
corridor with a bar from the railing.
by vote of 1916 to 5,535, the
Michigan grand lodge of the y o. L.
w. voted Thursday afternoon to adopt
the supreme lodge PLAN of advanced
rates.
The secretary of states Office is now
engaged in preparing the notices of
the coming election which are to be
sent TO the sheriffs of the elghty-four
counties.
4 st. Joseph county man was ar
rested at the request Of his wife and
placed under bonds not TO hurt her.
Later in the day the woman furnished
the bonds.
Mormon elders have again begun
PROSECUTING in Branch county and they
have succeeded in making a number of
converts-mostly among the female
contingent.
The thiry-ninth annual reunion Of
the Twenty-third Regiment Michigan
Volunteer Infantry, will be held ut
Freeland. Saginaw county, Tuesday,
September 10.
The total number Of deaths reported
in Michigan for July was 2,510. or o.
more than the number registered for
June. The number was 143 less than
for July, 1908.
Battle Greek. Mich, company No. l..
uniform rank, Knights of pythias. was
awarded first prize. $500, in class Il
in the drill contest held in Louisville
Ky, last week.
Jacob Schaber almost totally blind
and somewhat deaf, was killed by
Michigan Central passenger train Of
the Saginaw division, at Jackson, Sat
urday afternoon.
Lightning struck a flock of sheep be.
longing to Fred Stoll, farmer, living
10 miles northwest of Monroe, while
they were standing under tree, kill
ing them instantly.
Homer Scott. the boy who forged or
ders on an OrtOnville man and cashed
them at Il store in that village, was
sentenced to - days in the Detroit
house of correction.
James Eaves. of Saginaw. was driv-
ing with his daughter. when the road
slid away from under them. rolling
them down an embankment. Mr.. Eaves
bad three ribs broken.
Benjamin Bclmore. Marquette
young man of 90. was literally ground
to pieces under the wheels of train
Monday night. He attempted to boarl
il while it was in motion.
Fairgrove will try to worry along
for while longer without saloons. At
special election the application OF
Byron Alley. of Bay City, for liquor
license was turned down.
Depositors in the Montagues' inso-
vent Exchange bank. Of Caro-. are now
receiving cnsh dividend OF 10 per
cent, less the taxes paid on the real
estate held by the trustee.
Adolphus Rivard is % years old and
his wife, whom he married n year ago.
is go. She is seeking n divorce from
her nonagenarian spouse, claiming that
lie doesn't support her properly.
Nicholas A. Causley. n lineman en-
ployed by the Bay City Gas & Electric
Co.. came in contact with n live wire
and hung suspended i'm the air, unable
to 1t go. Before the current was turned
off and he was rescued by fellow en-
ployes both his legs were burned to the
bone.
Frank Judd. Of Forest township.
found vicious bull running in the
road near his farm. Knowing that the
animal was ugly and liable to do dam
age, he drove him into his pasture lot.
a short time afterward he found a
valuable yearling colt standing in n
corner of the fence with its abdomen
torn by the bulls horns.