The Yale expositor., 1904-08-26

Gently took her ninth husband.
United States Entomologist Il. NJ.
Webster, Of the department of agri-
culture Is establishing n station i'm Bel
laire for the purpose of observing the
habits and operations Of the Hessian
fly.
Tekonsha citizens are having their
troubles with sneak ,hieves. Several
houses, have been entered and money
and other valuables taken while the
occupants were visiting their neigh
bOrs.
There are 200 more insane patients
confined at the Southwestern Michigan
asylum than at any previous period in
its history. The crowding is still on
the increase, with 1,605 mind-wrecked
inmates.
After being asleep for six days.
Charles Tuppie, Il prominent Finn, of
Negaunee died Friday. This was the
second long sleep he had had in three
months, the first one lasting four days
and nights.
The state board of health has given
warning to many small towns and
cities in the state that they are lay
ing up untold misery and sickness for
their citizens by the use Of old wells
for cesspools.
Quite an important industry In St.
Joseph county is the gathering of
watercress from rivers and brooks for
shipment to Chicago, the income from
this source being several thousand
dollars yearly.
The census for Lenawee county
places the population at 1907, a gain
of 200 over that of 1900. Adrian has
S106S0; Hudson 2.3O7; Tecumseh. p
525; Morenci. 1,47S; Blssfield, 1,425;
Clinton, 1,030.
The potato crop in Mancelona and
vicinity is looking better than it has
for Il number of years past, for this
season of the year, and there is
an extra large acreage, with prospects
Of big harvest.
Frank III. Renihan was picked up at
the i. NJ. depot, in Saginaw. with his
foot badly crushed. He said he sup.
posed he had received the injury while
trying to get on Il moving train, but
he was not sure.
Chas II Brown, representative in
the legislature from the iron district,
has been shot In the right lung while
ON his way from Greenland TO Mass
City. The shooting was done in the
dark, near Piety Hill.
Deputy Huber has returned with
Frank Weidman. whom he had pur.
sued from Marcellus away out into
Minnesota. Weidman was accused of
forging certificates of deposit for
about S1.G1O. his victims being trust
ing widows.
DOwic will hold his annual meeting
at Ben Mae Dhui on White lake the
first Sunday in September. He has
chartered the steamer Christopher Co
lumbus for the occasion, and will bring
his entire flock, including the Zion CITY
chorus OF 1000 voices.
4 cloudburst swamped the little
town OF Maple City, near Traverse
City. 1t came without warning and
many Of the villagers were caught
and carried long distances before he.
ing able to get to high ground. Luck
lily 10 lives were lost.
Geo. Graham, of Niles. a lineman.
working for the Michigan Telephone
Co. came in contact with n live cleo
trio power wire and received a 2.3OO-
volt shock. When taken down he was
thought to be dead, but prompt work
restored him. lie is all right now.
The Porc Marquette railway has
filed in Detroit refunding mortgage
for $65,OO0.OOO, running TO the New
York Security * Trust 60. The mort
gage secures an issue of gold bonds
TO the amount stated TO bear per
cent interest. They mature July /,
toI:.
Juan Yema. Il Filipino hoy who has
been living with Mrs. G. c. FaXon. of
Bay city. about year, has decided
tlat the climate isn't TO his liking and
is on his way home. He was brought
back by Mrs. FaNon after an extended
missionary trip she took in the Phil
ippines.
Mayor George Rockland Of Midland.
Is Offering 4 reward of 800 for the
arrest and conviction of the person
who set fire to his hotel last week.
Work on the Calhoun county farm
buildings is progressing rapidly. and
when they are finished they will be a
credit to the county.
1t cost Genesee county $3.50 or
bout five cents head, for taking the
census of its 1902 inhabitants. The
largest cost was of taking the census
in Flushing and Fenton. The bill Of
the two cnumerators in Flushing, in
Guiding the village, was $1,000, and in
Fenton the cost was $161.10.
Daniel Holmes, a wealthy retired
farmer of Galien, died suddenly Of
heart disease. He seemed to have a
premonition of death, as he had his
coffin made two weeks ago and babe
all his friends goodbye Wednesday.
Holmes had long been resident of the
county. He was rs years old.
The production of salt in Michigan
In the calendar year 1903 was 4.29T, 542
barrels. or 22.6 per cent OF the total
production i'm the United States. The
leading state in the output of that
commodity is New York, which pro-
duced S,1T0,64S barrels, or 43.1 per
cent of the total. Ohio produced about
> 10000 barrels, and Kansas 1,J00,000
barrels
Asa Mills was arrested at his home