The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-06-28
AROUND THE STATE.

Carl Miller, aged -, was drowned
while bathing in Shiawassee river.
Margaret Conlan was appointed
postmistress at Munith. Jackson coun-
ty, vice Paul Cross, resigned.
The sixth annual convention of the
Michigan Rural Carriers association
will be held at Flint, July % and "a.
The state tax commission will meet
July to hear complaints of alleged
Unequal assessments.
While Detroiters were simultaneous.
ly lodging sunstroke and deluge Sun.
day, II. inches of snow fell in Butte,
Mont.
Owosso's homecoming celebration
will begin July IS, and continue four
days. A barbecue and athletic games
will be features.
While shearing sheep on his farm
F. T. Robinson, of Ludington, found
a rusty pair OF sheep shears imbedded
in the animals wool and lying near
the hide.
Cyril Mccarthy, 1S-year-oid son OF
Rep. j. ]. Mccarthy, OF Standish, has
obtained a position in the secretary OF
states Office at Lansing, at a salary
of $1,000 per year.
Land Commissioner Rose visited
Locke township, Ingham county, to ex.
anime and appraise a 160-acre tract
of land on which over $4,000 delin.
quent taxes are charged.
Frank II. Ring, living near Decatur,
tried to run off the belt of a gasoline
engine with his foot. The pulley
caught his foot and crushed it so as
to necessitate amputation.
Sixteen thousand volts of electri-
city passed through the body of Jo-
seph Piche, an employe of the Cham
pion Mining Co., and killed him in
stantly. He was splicing wires.
f. L. Belvin, living near Dimon-
dale, while drilling for water struck
16-foot vein of soft Coal il feet down.
He has been offered a royalty of IS
cents a ton for all coal mined on his
premises.
Bayard Wyman, OF Michigan, has
pulled down a $4,000 plum at Wash
ington. He gets the job OF superintend-
ent of postmaster appointments. The
place was created at the last session
of congress.
When George Duckett went to work
at the Jackson Novelty Manufacturing
Co.'S plant Monday morning he was
given his discharge. Duckett is the
man who wouldn't bury his father be-
cause he Is paying for a new house.
Over 800 guests thronged the On.
sted opera house and witnessed the
wedding ceremony of Miss Hazel Tus-
sing and Wallace G. McUmber, of Hud-
son. There was no other place in the
village large enough to Accommodate
the guests.
Mrs. VIM. Miller, of Flint, says she
does not desire to prosecute her hus-
band, who she charges tried to force
carbolic acid down her throat. She
says he has an ungovernable temper
and all she asks is that he keep away
from her. She is still confined to her
bed.
A trunk which John Smith checked
in Lewiston on November 20 to go to
Farwell, Glare county, has just turned
up after a trip across the ocean and
back. II happened that another party
was leaving Lewiston at the same
time as Smith and the wrong trunk
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buy a new outfit of winter clothing.
While Conway James and Carl
Daley, of Detroit, were enjoying a
launch ride on Mace Day lake, their
gasoline tank caught fire and the
craft was soon enveloped in flames
They jumped overheard and swan to
shore.
Clara Gosh, daughter of prominent
Freeport farmer, was badly bitten by
mad dog and will be sent to Ann
Arbor for the Pasteur treatment. She
was picking flowers when the brute
rushed upon her. IL is said the dog
ran all the way there from Grand
Rapids, 80 miles distant A half
dozen men pursued and shot the ami
! NAL.