The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-03-16
MICHIGAN NEWS.

been purchased by John e. Riker and
w. G. Grigware, of Cass City.
The Lansing Pure Ice Co. will erect
an ice plant. 1t is expected operations
will begin in June. Thomas Ellis is
president of the new company.
Fred Twining, of Twining, will erect
machine shop and implement and
carriage shops in the spring. The
building will be 100X150 feet, two
stories.
The Chicago &c Northwesterns tie
picking plant at North Escanaba is
preparing for the heaviest run it has
had since its installation. Operations
begin April /.
Robert, 13-year-old son of ex-Treas-
urer Frost, of Grand Rapids, dropped
dead while crossing the railroad tracks
within block of his home while re-
turning from school.
The Clippert-Spaulding Co., of Lam
sing, commenced making brick last
week, the date being the earliest by
thirty days on which the company has
ever opened its season.
The settlement that has formed
about Michigan Agricultural College
wishes to be incorporated as village
TO be named Collegeville, and will
ask for a special charter.
Suit has been brought against the
Pere Marquette in Pontiac for $4,000
damages for the death of Earl Coy
Kendall, who was killed in the col
lision at East Paris in 1903.
The case against Geo. Polasky, form
a Of 10 nj
charged with getting $4,000 of the
banks funds by fraudulent means, has
been appealed to the supreme court.
The daughter of o. l.. Vantassel ar
rived at Walled Lake to visit her aged
father. and found crepe on the door
announcing his death. He was "a years
of age and formerly lived in Charlotte.
George Bates. of Melta, who was
arrested by Sheriff Wademan on q
charge of assault on the 13-year-old
daughter of Z. A. Harrington, plead
ed guilty and was given GO days in
Jail.
There is a movement throughout
Hillsdale county for appointment OF
county game and fish warden. Petit
tions are being circulated and will be
presented to the board of supervisors
next week.
Edward Bruen, former kalamazoo
newspaper man charged with steal
ing three breviaries from FIR. L. l..
Brancheau. pleaded guilty. and was
sentenced to G5 days in the Detroit
house of correction.
Mary Burden. of Grand Rapids, who
was shot by Ed. billiard, the ex-Iack-
son convict. is dead. He will be
charged with premeditated murder.
Both he and the woman are colored
He shot because jealous.
The Bromfleld- Colvin-Ries Co, Ltd,
has been organized at Bay City. The
company will import seeds and engage
in handling field and garden seeds in
wholesale quantities. The warehouses
will be erected in Bay City.
Edgar Ellsworth, a Windsor town
ship farmer, pleaded guilty to assault
and battery preferred by his father-in-
law, S. Schemerbow. and Justice
Phinney, of Dimondale, sentenced him
10 60 days in the county jail.
Capt. Lysaght. of the Big Point Sable
life saving station, has been eXonerat-
ed of the charge brought by his crew
of brutality, incompetency and inatten-
ton of his duties, and has been direct
ed to sign an entirely new crew.
A meeting of the residents in the
vicinity of Rosebush has been called
for March il by Thomas Trumpour.
who operates a cheese factory at Mid
| dleton, relative to the establishment
of a similar plant at Rosebush.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
! has refused the request of the knights
! of the Maccabees of the World To bar
| the Knights of the Modern Maccabees
from doing business in that state, be-
cause of the similarity of names.
Alexander Cadart, who once served
In the French army of the second re-
public. facing the mobs in Paris in
| June. 1S4S, when it is said upwards
of 10000 persons met death, is resid-
ing on farm in Johnstown township.
A grist mill will probably be in
stalled in the plant of the defunct
Triumph Food Co, at Finntown. The
nearest Michigan mill is at Stephen
son, "a miles away. There is one near
er than that on the Wisconsin side OF
the river
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clean up its numbering operations at
West Branch in May and the mill will
then be removed TO the upper PENN
sula, where the firm, in connection
with Saginaw parties, has purchased
large body of timber.
Twining is greatly excited over the
discovery of coal bed near that place
on the farm of George HOLSTER. The
vein is five feet thick. The Arenac
Land Co., recently organized, will
commence Investigations at once to
see how far the bed extends.
A glass factory, the first industry
secured TO Allegan by the new board
of trade, is TO remove to that city
from Chicago. The concern agrees to
employ so hands the first year and
75 for ten years thereafter. The an
nual pay roll will amount to $4,000.
John Beck has closed a contract
with the Huetteman & Cramer Co.
of Detroit, for the installation OF 9
Acton ice plant in his brewery at AL
pena. The plant will cost $4,000 and