The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-02-02
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Herman Tamel, OF Rapid River, be-
lieves he has solved the problem OF
perpetual motion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Sherman, aged
10 and 16 respectively, living in Ian
sing, are parents of three children.
A Lansing man was seriously In
| jured while caring for a horse. The
animal rolled on him and kicked him.
The River Rouge Savings bank has
been authorized by Banking Commits
sioner Moore 10 transact business. II
has $4,000 capital.
Ira Delaney's l-year-old daughter, OF
Romulus, found some medicine intend
ed for her 9-year-old brother, and died
after eating several pills.
The 3-year-old son of Samuel
home in Wells township. The father
is working in the north woods.
William Leek, aged 62, of Alpena, a
| prosperous farmer, father Of fourteen
children, dropped dead as he was
about to take a drink of milk.
Camille Leonard, popular Monroe
teacher was married at Erie to Frank
Yer Sraten, of Port Huron. The
groom is well known in marine circles.
Eugene Kratz, aged II, and Sam
and Charles Titus, aged IA and 16,
are under arrest on complaint Of a
12-year-old girl. All live in Rich town
ship.
+. ID. Ford's hardware store at Sa-
line was burglarized, the side door be-
ing pried open and the stock of knives
and razors taken. and the pennies in
the money drawer.
Among the requests in the will OF
Marshall Field was one for $4,000 TO
a cousin, Miss Dencie Field of Jack
son, sister of the well known dry
goods merchant of Jackson.
The Hemlock Association for North
ern Michigan has raised the price of
hemlock lumber from 90 cents TO $3.50
per 1000 feet, owing to the big de-
mand for it and its scarcity.
Milo Keep will receive a life SEN
tence for the murder of Bert Miller.
1t is not expected any further move
will be made for a new trial or to car
ry the case to the supreme court.
A megaphone has been placed in the
| pulpit of the First NJ. E. church, OF
Saginaw, and several Detroit friends
Of Rev. Gwylym Griffith, the Welsh
evangelist, hear his sermons each
evening over the long distance tele-
phone
A "horse-buyer" spent the day with
Farmer Ray, near Vassar. and after
| having dinner and supper with the
| family said he guessed he'd stay all
| night. He then revealed the fact that
he was John Ray, son who had been
away 10 years.
Register of Deeds F. w. Wilson
slipped on the courthouse steps at
! Traverse City, and striking his head
and hips, lay unconscious for half an
hour before being discovered. Only
the day before County Clerk Robert
Walker was taken with appendicitis.
Murderer Jim Hathaway, who es.
capped from Jackson prison and was
captured in Detroit a few hours later.
| has been put at work in the trip-ham-
mer shop of Wilmington & Cooley, the
hardest work in the prison, and in
sharp contrast TO his easy Work as a
"trusty."
Five men of Battle Creek were bit.
ten by a bulldog before the animal
was killed. DR.. Vary has disInterred
the animal. and on order of the state
board of health, will send the brain
and spinal cord to the laboratory at
the U. OF NJ. to determine II the dog
had hydrophobia.
Wooden molds. apparently intended
for making counterfeit money, have
been placed in the prison museum
at Jackson. 1t is said that they were
found during the building of the new
cell block, prisoners evidently having
tried to turn out lead dollars. The eff.
fort was rather crude.
Burrell Trip, OF Allegan. was
awarded 1859 against the Standard OIL
Co. He brought suit In Justice Zick's
court, alleging that that amount was
due him as a rebate, oil being sold to
the Grange store at 915 cents while
he paid 10 cents gallon. The trust
representative will appeal the case.
The Durable Cement Butt Co., oil
Battle Creek, has been reorganized
with 100000 capital, with Cortland d
Camp. of the Great Lakes Shipbuild
ing firm, as president. Capitalists Of
New York and Pittsburg are back oil
the enterprise, and plants will be es
tablished throughout the United
States.
Boston has come to Michigan FOL
large quantity Of its favorite food
beans. From 20 to % carloads Of beans
are shipped from this state to Boston
every week. Secretary F. <. Kelsey
OF the Michigan Bean Jobbers' asso
citation, which held its midwinter meet
ing in Detroit, proudly told Of Mich
igan's connection with hub culture.
Andrew Patterson, alleged wife de
serter. who has been missing since
November q. apparently escapes pun
ishment through novel technicalities
He was a former United States sol
der in the Philippines, and in 189.
married Miss Dora Bradt in Por
Huron. They recently moved Il
Sarnia, and there, it is alleged, tn,
wife was deserted.
State Dairy and Food COMMISSIONS
Bird, while in Washington to appea
before a committee concerning a ger
eral pure food law, secured a rulin
from the postoffice department 70
the acceptance of the department
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