Charlevoix county herald., 1906-10-13


have been committed by James His
cox, aged 81, arrested in FentOn.
The Standard Fish Co. shipped 1000
live carp to New York in a car, winch
was made for the purpose ut cost
Of $1,000.
Gov. Warner has been invited to
participate in the campaign In ILL
nOis and Ohio, but he will be unable
TO accept.
Joe Hiscox, of Fenton, arrested on
the charge OF petty burglaries, drank
poison in the jail, but a physician saw
ed his life.
Harrison Breed, a noted hunter and
trapper, of Mason, died Wednesday,
aged 60. He is survived by a widow
and three children.
John Watson, aged 73, watchman on
the Grand Trunl- at Grand Haven for
20 years, and TO- 40 years an employee
OF the road, died Wednesday.
George, ,Kalmbach. of Jackson. was
fined IS with 30 days in Jail and 20 ad-
ditional days II the fine is not paid.
for shooting one of the Loomis park
squirrels.
Miss Viga Fench, aged 16, Of Memo
minee, one of those injured in the col
lapse Of the footbridge at Oconto Falls.
is dead. In all. two are dead and
twenty-eight injured.
After an absence OF 40 years from
his home, spent in prospecting. Henry
Smith, aged 67, has returned IN Ka'a-
mazoo to find all his friends and rela-
tives dead He was sent TO the poor
house.
A story reaches Battle Creek from
Brantford, Ont, that w. G. Sands, a
former employe of the Advance
Thrasher shops, has been left an es-
tate valued at nearly 100000, by his
grandfather.
Fire in the warehouse of William
| Curtis and at Guigrich Bros.'s grocery
store simultaneously at l o'clock Sat
urday morning did 81 900 damage. Cir
cumstances indicate that both fires
were incendiary.
An option on the water rights Of
Paint creek and Stringy lakes, near
| Oxford, has been secured by Detroit
capitalists, and they will form COM
pany to build a power plant and de-
velop the water power.
j. II. X. Hinckley, aged 10, for sc
years paymaster on the Lake Shore,
| died in Chicago. He had become a
stockholder in the road by over half
century steady employment. He will
be buried in Adrian today.
DR.. S. w. Van Sickle, for many
years a resident of Saginaw and one
of the widest known veterinary sur
geons in eastern Michigan, died in
Saginaw Monday morning after few
days illness from congestion of the
lungs.
Miss Madelon Paterson, daughter
| Of ex-Mayor w. A. Paterson. of Flint,
was attacked by ruffian while return
ing home from call last night. She
screamed, broke away and ran to the
home of ex-Mayor ID. ID. Aitken for
refuge.
S. A. Baker, of Kansas City, Mo-, Sc
years ago delivered an address on edu-
cation in representative hall to the
Michigan legislators. He has Just writ
ten for copy of the speech. 1t was
found among the state records. Baker
is now 80 years old.
Il am going to die within the next
week." said Mrs. Gilbert Delisle. of
Flint, to her husband. On the follow
ing day she was dead. She had tuber-
culosis. Saturday afternoon her little
six months old daughter died from an
attack Of cholera infantum.
Two months ago Minor Wells, far
mer of Excelsior township, gave q dog
to some friends visiting from southern
Michigan. They took the animal as
| far as Howard City, where he escaped,
and nothing more was seen of him UNI
til he appeared at his old home.
A tentative agreement has been
reached between miners and opera
tors as 20 chain mining in the Wenona
and Wolverine mines in Saginaw coun-
! ty, by which both make concessions.
! The miners are to vote on the propo-
sition this week. About 200 miners are
! affected.
Robert Wilkinson, a prominent far
mer living near Flint, was in local
saloon and broke his leg in a peculiar
manner. He turned to walk to the bar.
when the bones in his lower right leg
| snapped like pipe stem. To necrosis
| of the bone is attributed the strange
! fracture.
Della Keller, sent from Mackinac
! county to Jackson prison for from one
to three years, has been ordered trans
ferred to the Detroit house Of correc-
ton. Judges frequently send women
convicted of crime to Jackson, three
such cases having occurred within
three months. There are no accommo-
dations at Jackson or Ionia for wo.
men.
William F. Notely, the first presi-
dent of the First National bank of
Vicksburg, has sued the bank for 81,
900 salary while he acted as president.
He says when a new president was
elected he was given no money for
what he had done for the bank. He
was reelected president I'm January.
Because of offending the directors he
was discharged.
Martin Berg, an employe in a Sag
NAV tannery, was the victim of a Sc.
rious accident Saturday morning, ne.
cossitating amputation of the right
arm above the elbow. Berg, who is
40 years Of age, was working at one
of the machines which strip the hair
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