The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-05
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


responsibility tests the man and the
race.
Bay county coal mine operators are
again at war, and the price tumpieu
Thursday to $3.50 to So per ton.
James Morn, the Standish lumber
man whose life was despaired or re-
Gently, is slowly improving from MS
illness.
Insane from business cares, John c.
Smith, clerk of Bently township, was
attacked by paralysis OF the brain'
causing death.
George Wheeler, of st. Joseph, aged
50. was found dead in bed by his
brother. Death resulted from rheuma'
tism of the heart.
Mrs. jeremiah Sullivan was struck
| and instantly killed by Grand Trunk
| engine at a Lapeer street CROSSING
She was &c years old.
Mrs. NJ. A. Preston, the newspaper
writer of Charlotte, who was struck
by an auto at San Diego, CAL, last
Thursday, died of her injuries.
Because Of the lack of demand for
barrel slaves, the Michigan Cooperage
Co. has closed down its plant in Stan
dish. 1t has 50 carloads OF slaves on
| hand.
The scarlet fever scourge claimed
nine victims Monday in Calumet ana
| two in Larium. Over rs cases have
broken out and "a houses are quaran'
| tined.
Word reached Kalamazoo of the
| tragic death of Charles Eames at 81.
Louis on Sunday. He is the fourth
member of the family whom sudden
death has reached.
Enos Schaal, of Menominee, While
attempting to separate his two broth
ers, who were in fight, received
deep cash in his leg from an AK in the
hands of Dan Schaal.
Illness arising from a strain which
| she received while decorating
Christmas tree for her three children
has resulted in the death of Mrs. Or
rim Brown. of Greenwood.
The farm barn of Gus Braden. in
Waukesha township, burned Friday
night, with farm implements and
grain. The loss is $4,000, insured for
$500 in the Farmers Mutual.
The cheapest highwayman on
record lodged from an alley in Ira
verse City, seized Carl Blackman,
aged 8, and robbed him of sausage he
was carrying home for supper.
The Cedar Springs flour mill caught
fire from n stove and burned. II. A.
Brown, the owner, will rebuild. The
loss is $4,000 on the mill and S1,OOo
on stock, with $4,000 insurance.
Fred Warren. who married a pretty
milliner at Mishawaka, Ind, after an
acquaintance of a few days, has been
sentenced to Jackson for forgery for
one and half to fourteen years.
John O'Callahan, a vender Of statu-
airy, was found guilty of attacking
Mrs. Thomas Ryan. of Flint, in her
home. Ryan gave the man sound
thrashing and the court let him go.
John Mccarthy, a Syracuse, n. Y,
undertaken, who bet his hearse and
everything else he owned on Grover
Cleveland in 1884, and later supported
w. ]. Bryan enthusiastically, is dead,
aged 50.
Banking Commissioner Moore has
approved the articles of incorporation
of a new state bank to be established
at Oxford under the name of the Farm
ers' State Bank of Oxford with CAPT
taliZation of $4,000.
"They say opals are unlucky, but l
hope this ring will be an exception, "
said Thomas Wiley to Deputy James
Sexton, giving him the present, as they
parted at states prison. You're the
only good friend l have left"
Miss Marie Grout, daughter of a re.
tired lumberman of Saginaw, was sc.
cretly married at Atlantic City to Ed
ward Wiltbank, a hotel clerk The
marriage occurred October 90, but the
news has Just become known.
Miscalculating the speed of an ex.
press, John Kuster was killed at the
depot in Standish when he was about
to take the train. His son, William
Kuster, lately returned from the Philip
pines, witnessed the accident.
Mrs. Nettie Bartlett, of Grand Rap.
ids, has brought suit for divorce, al
leging that she fears her husband
mind is unbalanced by reading &C
counts of a recent murder, and that
he may try the same thing on her.
Johnny Cook, aged II, of Bannister
went sparrow shooting and pumped a
full charge of bird shot in the side OF
the 5-year-old son of Fred Huber, who
accidentally got in range Although in
a somewhat critical condition the In.
jured boy is expected to recover.
Monday afternoon, as Arthur Taylor
a prosperous young farmer, of Morrice
was loading grist to bring to mill, he
was stricken by paralysis. His wife
| found him speeches. beside his team
Summoning his sister, they managed
to draw him indoors in chair. He only
lived few hours. He leaves a widow
and little girl.
: Whether justice of the peace can
commit man for contempt of court
: is question which will be put up 10
the supreme court for decision. The
: case arises through George Wheeler
: a witness who refused to testify AT
the trial of Luther Salisbury. of Ian.
sing, when asked whether he played
cards for money at Salsbury's rooms
A year ago when John Marks. a,
Grand Rapids, was In jail on a charge
OF non-support and his wife was ill In
| bed, she consented IN her 7.vaar-old