The Yale expositor., 1906-02-16
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The Branch County Agricultural So
ciety has started to raise $4,000 TO
equip the new fair grounds.
Frank Frantz, a pioneer of Ogemaw
county, was instantly killed by a fall
ing tree while cutting timber.
The Pere Marquette depot at Hem
lock was destroyed by fire Saturday
morning, together with its contents.
Eighteen patients from the Pom
tiac asylum have been transferred TO
the new psycopathic ward in the U.
of M. hospital.
Asa Bookwalter was instantly killed
by the explosion of his gun while
hunting Saturday. He kept general
store six miles south of Tustin.
A large black bear was shot east of
Turner by John Perrin, a well-known
hunter. The bear weighed over 800
pounds and the carcass was shipped to
| Detroit
Fire broke out in the Prince OF
Wales, Negaunee, mine Friday even
ing. Three hundred men in the mine
at the time escaped through another
shaft.
The youngest of her other IL chill
dre2,"being 20 years of age, Mrs. T.
Goodsell, of Mayfeld, has given birth
to a baby girl which weighed two
pounds.
Clark Van Vlerah, school teacher of
Onondaga township, who was fined $50
with costs of $50 for whipping Howard
Miller, a pupil, has appealed to the
circuit court.
Sportsmen are advocating the estab-
| lishment of a game preserve OF 20 TO
80 square miles in Chippewa, Luce and
Mackinac counties, to perpetuate the
supply of deer.
The first train between Lawton and
Kalamazoo was run over the Kalama-
zoo, Lake Shore & Chicago electric line
on Thursday. The road is nearly COM
pleted to Paw Paw.
Mrs. John ID. Cannerdy, Of Port HUI
ron, whose husband was killed by a
Rapid Railway car Saturday night, will
start a $4,000 damage suit against
the railway company.
Battle Creek is the first city to or
ganize a good roads club. The Bust
ness Mems association will build their
first road to Bellevue Farmers have
| pledged 500 days team work.
The presiding elders of the seven
districts of the Michigan NJ. e. confer
ence have voted to accept the invita-
ton of Cadillac TO hold the next con-
ference there in September.
While DR.. and Mrs. ]. f. Handy was
spending the winter in Buffalo for the
benefit Of Mrs. Handy's health their
only child, Miss Edna, died suddenly
in Watrousville OF rheumatism.
Mrs. Jos. hatcher, a prominent resi-
dent of Pentwater. was thrown out OF
her buggy Friday evening, her horse
running away. She was thrown
against tree and instantly killed.
Walton Lester, aged -, went to get
a pail of water from a spring in which
a barrel had been sunk. He did not
return and was found drowned in the
barrel, having fallen in head first.
The State Egg Dealers association
! failed to effect combine to divide the
state. c. c. Hubbell, of Marlette, was
elected president, and w. A. Ross, of
Port Huron, secretary and treasurer.
Alonzo O'Dell, an Indiana man who
disappeared at Grand Rapids, and was
believed to have been murdered has
been located in Ross. His relatives
were trying to collect his life insur-
| ance.
A high school building of brick and
stone, TO accommodate $50 students,
will replace the one burned recently
| in Calumet. The Calumet e. Hecla
Mining Co. will erect it on the COM
! panys location.
Miss Abbie Weller, stamp clerk at
the Grand Rapids postoffice, has lost
her eyesight, and physicians say that
her eyes were poisoned by some dis
ease infection carried by money she
had handled while at work.
An increase of $4,000 pupils in the
total enrolment in the public schools
of the state is believed by Deputy
Superintendent of Public Instruction
w. II. French to be the result OF the
new compulsory education law.
Because a jury was convinced that
Mrs. Flora Mercer, of Jackson, was
not given proper assistance in alight-
ing from a Cincinnati Northern train,
at Alvordton, o., December "a, 1yO2,
a verdict of $1,000 for damages sus-
tanned was given Saturday.
The final chapter in the famous
Grand Rapids wafer deal scandal
which has been in the limelight almost
five years was reached Saturday, when
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ward
filed a petition in the superior court
asking leave to nolle pros the remain
ing cases.
Byron Litchard has been kept in
jail all winter by Miss Olive Stevens,
of Ionia, who secured his arrest on
a capias in breach of promise suit.
She has worked in a restaurant to
raise the $3.50 per week to pay his
board. Litchsrd has been divorced
since his Incarceration, and Miss Slev-
ems now ask his release. 1t Is under
stood they will be married after all.
A midnight fire in Elmira which
started in the building occupied as
Webb & Lidbeck's saloon and John
Burke's tavern also destroyed the gen.
eral store OF w. A. Gabrian, and bar.
her shOD of II M Rlakeg,av and two