The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-08-07
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

Peter lie Boux. trustee of the Kala
mazoo asylum for twenty-five years, Is
missing.
v. S. Clark, aged "a, and deaf, was
struck by a train at Galesburg and
may die.
Lost for three days and nights,
Mrs. John Smith, aged 20, wife OF
McAllister farmer, was found uncon-
scious in the woods from exhaustion.
Scaling the rear wall of the Indus
trial school, Anna Hull and Mary Fred
ericks made their escape, but were
caught by two Upton farmers and
brought back.
Drouth conditions in Galesburg and
throughout Kalamazoo county are fast
becoming calamtous. Pastures are all
dried up and corn and potatoes are In
danger Of being ruined.
The balance in the state treasury
at the close OF July was $2,76S, 1885.
This includes deposits in the Chelsea
Savings bank and various amounts on
deposit by bank receivers.
At the point OF revolvers Sturgis Of
f1cers forced seven tramps from box
car and hold them on suspicion OF
being implicated in the robbery OF the
night operator in Vicksburg.
Her mother an invalid, the clothes
Of Anna Wutebenga, aged IA, of Hol-
land, caught fire while she was cook
ing for the bedridden woman and
eight children, and she died OF the
burns.
Warned that he wo I'D be tarred and
feathered II he did not move from
the vicinity, Theodore Scott, living IL
Lapeer road near Flint, turned over
the threatening letter to Sheriff Zim.
| norman.
The Washtenaw county local option
committee is hard at work lining up
the county for the proposed dry"
election and about 10000 pieces Of lit
erature have been sent out with $4,000
more ordered.
Dorsi Smith, 16, daughter of Ezra
Smith, of Alma, stumbled into a deep
hole while wading in Van Ettan lake
and was drowned. Her companion,
Jennie Smith, contrived to scramble
to shallow water.
Edward Shirky, whose wife is In the
Detroit House of Correction for opera
ting resort in ST. Clair, has been de.
clared insane and will be sent to Pom.
tiac. He recently returned from serv-
| ing term in Jackson.
Chased by bear, a young deer, ap.
parently about a year old. sought re-
fuge in Calumet Wednesday. 1t was
nearly exhausted and was captured on
Lake Linden avenue and turned over
10 he ctrin ord
When Fred. Parker was arraigned in
Port Huron on the charge of attacking
| Miss Elizabeth Pelger, cripple, the
latter had disappeared. Relatives have
! been working hard in the interests of
Parker, a former railroad employee.
Fire in the Sawyer-Goodman yards
at Menominee destroyed 100000
feet of lumber Saturday night, doing
| damage estimated at about $175,000
The mills of the company were saved
by heroic work on the part of the fire
| department.
Charged with using the mails to de-
fraud by selling alleged fraudulent oil
| stocks, John B. Jones, of Quincy, was
arrested by order of postoffice inspec-
! tors He was married in June to Mrs.
! Frances Ramsdell, prominent
| Quincy resident.
Senator William Alden Smith Sun
| day night entertained Vice-President
and Mrs. Fairbanks at dinner at Mac
| kinac. Auditor General Bradley. DR..
! Wylie, of Washington, d. c., and Mr..
| and Mrs. Pasche, of Rock Ledge, Fla,
were the other guests.
Angered because he had been chas-
| tised for misbehavior, Anthony Spella,
| aged s, of Grand Rapids, fed from his
! home in a rage, crying. You'll never
see me any more" A few hours after
ward his body was found in a swim
ming hole in the river.
The state labor department has is
sued figures showing that 33 coal
mines in the state during the six
months ending June &c. employed
3,096 men, and produced 975,463 tons
| of coal at a cost Of 1893 ,54S.44. More
than $1,000,O00 was paid out in wages.
The average wage is $500 a day
According to an opinion handed
| down by Attorney General Bird, the
sale of malt, brewed or fermented
liquors regardless of whether they are
| intoxicating. is prohibited in all coun-
| ties under the prOnlDltlOn law. III Is
| probable that this will put a stop to
the manufacture and sale of beverages
which seem so popular in prohibition
| towns.
Warren Meredith, farmer. objects
to paying $75 annually for the main
tenance of his daughter as a private
patient in the Kalamazoo insane
asylum. He asked the court to trans
fer her from a private to a state pa
tient, but when the Judge learned that
Meredith owns a farm valued at 3d.
1 600 on the tax rolls and has unencum-
bered personal property worth more
than $4,000, he gave him a severe
| lecture instead.
The manufacture of butter and
cheese is making steady progress In
upper Michigan. Creameries have
sprung up in various localities within
recent years, and all appear to be In
successful operation. The most re-
cent industry of this kind is one now
being launched at Bargara. Farmers
are principally interested in II. Stock