The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-05-10
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Inc Gideons, an organization OF
travelling men. has gone on record a.
opposed to the sale or use of cigar
cites.
The Christian church, once the larg
est In Oxford, has decided IL is nc
longer able to pay minister $1,000 q
year.
Perle. 4-year-old son of Jacob Bens
ley was drowned in posthole al
hopkins, where he was visiting with
his grandfather.
Robert Douglas and VIM. Smith, OF
Detroit, were arrested for CATCHING
black bass out of season at Cass Lake.
They were fined $3.50 each.
The Sault Ste. Marie Gas e. Electric
! Co. has fioated its 100000 bond issue
In Chicago, and the company will now
continue the extensions of the plant.
special election has been ordered
Al Otsego for May 20 to vote upon
the question of bonding for $500 to
Duild pump house and fiume for the
village waterworks.
1t is stated that the recovery of Mrs.
Augusta Sayre, who recently came
from California to Flushing, and fell
down stairs in that village, Is doubt
tul. She was injured internally.
Charles Reeves, one of the best
known negroes in the state, for many
years janitor of the governors of
nee at Lansing, died in the Soldiers
home. No one knew how old he was.
Capt. julius A. Penn. of the general
stan of the U. s. army, has been ap-
pointed by the war department to
make the annual inspection of the
orchard Lake Academy about May "a.
Munising township board, after a
hard tight, raised the liquor bonds
from $4,000 to $4,000. Only two men
In the township can qualify. In the vii.
lage eight of Fl applicants were re-
fused
Flint teachers received a boost in
their salary. A special meeting of
the board of education decided that
the growth of the city demanded a
better paid corps of instructors in the
schools.
longing to see his sweetheart
caused Jack Laurie, a fugitive from
the police to come to Muskegon from
Grand Rapids. He was caught and
given GO days in Jail for assaulting
bartender.
An unknown man displayed gigan.
tic nerve in Flint when he walked
into J. c. Ellis bicycle store, picked
out a fine wheel and rode off with 1t.
The frame was found later dumped in
the river.
The annual tournament of the. Up
per Peninsula Firemen's association
will be held at Ontonagon August 20
to %. Fire departments from all over
upper Michigan will take part in the
tournament.
Men in Au Sable are paving the way
for future delight of little folks by
planting 70,250 regular Christmas
trees. They are imported from France.
Carl L. Schmidt, of Detroit, is the
prime mover.
lonia board of supervisors have pur-
chased site for the new poorhouse,
at cost of $4,000 The county farm
house recently burned. The old farm
was six miles out and the new one
is but three miles.
John Siebenquist, aged 20. an en-
ploye of the Ford River Lumber Co,
was caught by rapidly revolving
shaft, and his body was literally torn
to pieces, both arms and legs being
jerked from the body.
1t is thought that an unknown man,
killed by a Michigan Central train at
Michigan City, was the burglar who
robbed the home of Myron Crafts at
Grass Lake. The name Nolan" was
written on his shirt band.
James Ranger, of Midland, has been
taken to Ann Arbor that an opera
ton may be performed on his skull
in an effort to remedy an injury he re-
ceived years ago, and which has now
resulted in his going insane
The sentence of five years in Ionia
which was passed on Arthur Bald
win, the 14-year-old Port Huron bur-
glar, is great shock to his aged
mother, who was in feeble health, and
1t is feared she may not survive.
Mrs. A. Shaylor, aged 50, of Stan
dish, was thrown from a carriage
when her horse ran away, and she
was killed. Mrs. Grace Whitney, who
was standing beside the carriage when
the horse started, was seriously hurt. |
MIS-. EdlJy MllleIs WluOW OIL OdpL. |
Dan Miller, who won a gold medal
from congress for bravery in saving |
members of the crew of the steamer |
Healy G. Akeley, which went down in |
1888, Is dead at her home in Grand |
Haven.
A gravel train on the Wabash rail- |
road ran into fast meat train about |
a mile from North Morenci Saturday |
morning, causing considerable OF |
wreck. The caboose on the train ahead |
was burned, and traffic delayed sew
eral hours.
Jay Brott, husky young Battle |
Greek farmer. has been arrested on |
complaint OF Miss Anna Hayes, a |
school teacher, who declares Hayes |
whipped her. The affair arose over |
the teachers ill-treatment of little |
Matte Henry, aged years, friend |
OF Brott's.
The Mackinaw division OF the Michi- |
gan Central had its troubles one day |
last week. The southbound passen-
ger train due to leave Mackinaw City !
was derailed near Topinabee and de- |
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