The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Jackson county Prohibitionists are
planning stubborn campaign to force
the submission of prohibition at the
April elections.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, the San
tiago hero. delivered his celebrated
war-with-Japan calamity lecture in a
lecture in Hastings Tuesday night.
An unexpected rush of orders has
caused the announcement that the
Algoma Steel Co. will resume work N
its mill at once. One thousand men
recently had been laid of.
Grand Rapids being one of the big.
gest shipping points for hides in this
state, the embargo just placed on
Kent county, on all hides, horns and
hay will greatly reduce trade.
Charles H. Chapman's investigation
for the state forestry department re-
suited in the arrests of Armour Yohn
and Robert Sweetzer, who are charged
with setting fires in violation of the
law.
E. L. Krause. of Saginaw, is making
an effort to locate his brother, Ed
ward, who left his home two years ago
and was last heard Of in Spokane,
Wash He is heir to a valuable estate
in Germany.
The popularity of the winter short
courses at the Michigan Agricultural
college has led to the addition Of two
courses, forestry and poultry. A reg.
istration of 800 students is expected
on January 5.
Ralph G.. Eggleston, a settler, was
drowned while attempting to cross on
the ice to his home on the shore OF
Stevens lake. His wife heard his cries
and made a desperate but vain effort
to save him.
Benjamin d. Livingston, OF Ada, is
suing his wife Alameda for divorce,
alleging that she devoted so much
time to the Women's Christian Tenn
perance union that she neglected to
get his meals and make his bed.
Alexander Domberse, who had lived
alone in a little hut on the outskirts
of Bay City for 40 years, was found
unconscious by neighbors Saturday.
He was removed to the county house,
where he died Sunday night from tu-
berculosis.
Three Indian couples from the set
Element in Bangor township, who had
been living together without the for
mality OF having a marriage ceremony
performed. came to Bay City at the
orders Of Prosecuting Attorney Hitch
cock Saturday and were legally united.
Two of six young White Pigeon
boys who went on a hunting expedi-
ton with rifles and revolvers, were
wounded by the discharge of a rifle in
the hands of one of their number,
Clare Savage, aged II, who was shot
through the hand the same bullet
striking the knee of Ernest Lottridge,
aged IL.
Both President Angel and Treasur-
er George Baker, of the university,
deny that the scarcity of funds in the
state treasury will affect the univers-
fly or delay it's building plans. Work
on the alumni memorial buildings, the
new chemical laboratory and the alter
atoms of the engineering building are
being steadily rushed.
Many of the men eployed in the
Grand Trunk railway shops, which re-
Gently removed from Port Huron to
Battle Creek, are returning. They de-
clare that since going to Battle Creek
they have been put upon piece work,
upon which they cannot make living
wages. Robert Hammond. a foreman
in the employ OF the company for the
last eight years. is the latest to re-
turn.
The Masonic home, OF Grand Rap
ids, will lose a legacy OF s11 900
through the recent decision of the
supreme court in the case of John II.
McCurdy against the county OF Shia-
wassee.