The Yale expositor., 1906-04-06
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

New directory gives Kalamazoo pop
ulation OF 10000.
William o'Connor, of Lansing, pared
his corns. Blood poisoning set in and
he died.
Much OF the stock OF the Beulah gold
mine at Rutherfordton, N. c., is owned
in Au Sable, so the news or a strike
OF a rich vein causes Joy.
The business of Flint postofilce was
over $4,000 the past year, making II
now a f1rst-class postottice and increas-
ing Postmaster Buttons salary to
$1,000.
The grounds of the Oakland County
Agricultural society were bid in at
chancery sale by Joseph Nusbaumer,
trustee for bondholders, which total
S14,55O.
BLACK Hand" is suspected OF start
ing another fire in Hart Monday
morning which destroyed three bust
ness places and endangered the bust
ness section OF the town.
Charles H. Mcleod, grandson of
Queen Marinette. great squaw
sachem of the Menominee Indians.
died Wednesday of pneumonia. He
had lived in Menominee 50 years.
Herman L. Pierson. one Of Flint's
prominent residents, died at tina home
of his sister in Rushville, Ind, Satur-
day while returning from North Caro-
lima, whence he went in search or
health
Peter Higgins. OF Jackson, sued the
Peninsular Portland Cement Co. for
10000 damages for the partial loss
of a hand in the company's plant at
Cement City. The jury has awarded
him $1,000.
Seward L. Wheaton has begun
suit for $4,000 against the Wagner
Lake Ice & Coal Co. for the loss of
an eye by being struck with pair
of ice tongs while loading a car at
Norvell.
Oscar NJ. Elliott, the Lansing gro
Ger who recently paid a $500 fine for
selling colored oleomargarine, has been
informed by revenue officers at Detroit
that he will have to pay 1912, the rev.
enue tax he is said TO have evaded.
Delirious from pneumonia, Paul
Marin, we'll known cigar manufacture
er OF Grand Rapids, jumped from a
second story of a private hospital and
was found nearly dead from cold half
an hour later He died in short time.
Bert Burbank, of Clio, slept with a
corpse Sunday night, but he didn't
know it until he arose to dress In the
morning. AS he was dressing he at
tempted to awaken his companion,
Charles f. Hinkley, aged 90, and
made the discovery that the man was
dead.
Albert Stabens and Mary Scheckler,
! Of Reed City, were married on the sly
by Justice l.. G. Hewitt, but as they
were boarding train to start on their
honeymoon, Mr.. Scheckler, boiling
with wrath and accompanied by two
constables, seized the bride and drag
| ged her to her home.
At midnight Saturday the villages
of Delray and Woodmere were wiped
! off the map and each, with a portion
| OF the township Of Springwells, be-
! came a part of the city OF Detroit,
which contains seven more square
miles than before and the population
will be from 1900 to 10000 more.
The city will be richer by from $12,-
100000 to $15,000,000.
Detroit has just experienced the
| coolest month of March since 1900,
! the mean temperature being 2S degrees
! above zero or 10 degrees colder than
! the corresponding month last year.
| The average temperature for the
| month in the past sc years has been
| 32.9. The coolest day last month was
| the 23d, when the mercury dropped TO
s above, while on the Sd the thermo-
meter climbed as high as 54.
A. Burton Freeman, of Durand, one
/ of the indicted supervisors in Shiawas-
| see county, claims his constitutional
| right to a speedy trial and has applied
! TO the supreme court for a mandamus
TO compel the judge OF that circuit to
set aside the continuance of his case
over the term in accordance with the
request of the prosecuting attorney.
The court has granted an order re-
curing the Shiawassee judge to show
cause.
At a profit approaching nearly ST.
0O0 900, Thomas Hume, OF Muskegon,
acting for himself and as one of the
executors of the estate OF the late
Chas. II. Hackley, and George Heff-
I eran. OF the Michigan Trust Co., CO.
executor, have sold $4,000 acres of
short-leaf pine lands in southern Mis-
issippi belonging to Hackley & Hume
to the Edward Hines Lumber Co., OF
Chicago. The deal, which is undoubt.
eddy the largest in value of Muskegon-
held property, was concluded during
the past few days and for the purpose
OF acquiring more funds for paying
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