The Yale expositor., 1906-02-23
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

court for Judge Smith in Oakland and
Lapeer.
A fishing record was made at Me-
nominee by Robert Gramer and Lewis
Sedunksky, who took $500 pounds OF
herring at one lift.
The junior hop at the Agricultural
College on Friday night was the most
successful in years and dancing con-
tinued until 3 O'Clock.
Three Grand Rapids men have taken
a step toward the AUGMENTATION OF
Cuba by forming company TO run a
brewery at CamaguA.
The U. of NJ. regents will establish
a chair of architecture. Emil Torch,
A. NJ, of Harvard, has been appointed
to it at salary of $4,000.
Roy Hutchinson, aged 16, of Howard
City, was instantly killed by falling
timber, which he was drawing for a
new barn on his fathers place.
Seventeen cases of smallpox devel-
oped the past week at Gladstone. The
quarantine is very strict, and all
school children are being vaccinated.
The third district Republican con-
gressional committee voted to refer
the nomination of congressman in the
district to direct vote OF the peo-
pie.
The 3-year-old boy of VIM. Mosier,
of Provemont, fell upon pencil which
penetrated his brain through the eye.
The baby died after two days OF
agony.
Deadly gas still prevents work in
No. 5, shaft 6, the Tamarack mine.
The three men who persisted during
the fire over month ago have not
yet been found.
The Jackson police are searching for
John bearing and wife. of Detroit, who
sent their 3-year-old child to the hos
pital suffering with typhoid fever, and
then disappeared.
Mrs. Elson Wait, wife Of Sheriff
Wait, of Lapeer, has begun suit against
the city for $4,000 damages for injur-
les received in falling from an eleVat-
ed sidewalk on Court street.
Earl r. Church. president Of the
Merchants National bank, Of Char
lotte died in his home in Eaton town
ship from injuries received in run
away accident on February 3.
A young man who gave different
names to different persons from whom
he solicited small loans was arrested
in Lansing Wednesday. The police be-
lieve he is a clever confidence opera
tor.
Rev. d. II. Goodwllie, of Port HUI
ron, has married 1000 couples and
only one divorce has resulted. Mr..
Goodwillie has been pastor OF West
minister Presbyterian church for 20
years.
Miss Elsie Clarke, OF Pontiac, was
injured in the collision of cutter
with a d. u. r. car, when Ray Johnson
was killed, about year ago. She is
now suing the railway company for
heavy damages.
Stanford Culbertson, aged is, left
! his home in Holland two weeks ago
saying he was going to make his way
| in the world. His body has just arrived
from Indiana Harbor, Ind, where he
was killed in the steel mills.
Philanthropic people of Flint will
raise a fund to rebuild the burned
| home of Mrs. Lucy Walker, an indus
! trious colored woman, who had built
I the house with earnings from the
washtub and other hard labor.
Nearly 100 conversions have been
made in the revival meetings conduct
! ed for two weeks by Rev. I. c.. Jones,
of the Lake Odessa Congregational
church. Most of the converts are
young men and women.
Inspector-General Col. A. Wagner
has closed a deal for rife range and
camp grounds at Keewahdin beach,
just north of Port Huron city limits,
suitable for the regimental encamp-
ment as proposed by the state military
board.
Mrs. Henry Lyman discovered her
skirts on fire as she was riding in a
Kalamazoo street car. There was a
lively time for a few moments, while
two men extinguished the flames. The
fire was started by spark from the
motor underneath the floor of the car.
A darning needle was removed from
the leg of the 21a-year-old son of
| Charles lie Barron, of Fenton, by DR..
Wright. The child swallowed the
needle several months ago. He had
never been able to walk and 1t is now
believed he will gain the use of his
legs.
Smallpox is still increasing in Glad
stone. Seventeen cases were reported
during the last week. The quarantine
is very strict. The health officer has
issued an order demanding the i'm
mediate vaccination of school chill
dren. Several cases exist among the
employees of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron
Co. at Kipling.
Mrs. Chester Tousand, of Jonesville,
had a narrow escape from death by
blazing saucer of alcohol which she
was heating over a lamp to give her
invalid husband an alcohol bath. The
sick man arose and wrapped his wife
in the bed clothing until he extinguish-
ed the flames. Her face and hands
were badly burned.
Rep. Loud, of Michigan, who has
just returned from Annapolis, Md, to
Washington, says there will be no fu.
ture trouble at the naval academy from
hazing. He thinks the boys were not
entirely to blame. Former Superintend
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