The Yale expositor., 1906-03-02
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The American Butter Dish Co., OF
Chicago, has filed articles OF incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state.
Chase s. Osborn and family left for
Europe for the benefit of Mr.. Osborn's
health. He expects to return by
June /.
Kalamazoo proposes to issue a tag
similar to a dog license TO label au-
thorized patriots next Fourth Of July,
at 90 cents a head.
While two men pursued him, Rich
ard Rowe. aged 80, plunged headlong
into pond at Calumet dam and was
drowned. He was respondent.
A new $4,000 theater to seat $50
people will be built in Ironwood, 700
tickets having been sold for the open
ing performance at $40 each.
Lansing Is not to be without ice,
Notwithstanding the open winter. Geo.
ID. Ellis, a retired ice dealer, will estab-
lish a $4,000 artificial ice plant.
o. o. Morse. who came to Lapeer
when it was but trading post in the
wilderness. is dead He was an ex-
county treasurer and one of Lapeer's
wealthiest citizens.
Dennis Murphy and Pat Conroy, the
two Bessemer hunters caught shipping
frozen venison to Chicago in whisky
barrels, were sent to Jail for 80 days
in default of 500 fine.
Rural mail carriers out of Lansing
complain of the frightful condition of
the country roads. They are unable
TO make their trips on time, as the
bottom seems to have fallen out OF the
highways.
The 4-year-old son of ]. F. Barrett,
proprietor of the Reed City laundry,
while playing about slipped and fell
backward into a tub of boiling water.
There is slight chance that he may
recover
While putting on her little sisters
shoes Agnes Rasmussen, aged 3, of
Menominee, was struck in the eye by
one of the metal ends. The eye be-
came so seriously affected that it had
to be removed.
Secretary Morton, of the Graham &
Morton line, announced Friday that
navigation would open from Benton
Harbor the first of this week. Traf-
within a week.
Boys skating on Portage lake dis
covered the body of Yohan Lakso i'm
bedded in the ice 1t is supposed LAX
so lost his way. in one of the big
storms during the winter, lay down,
and was frozen to death.
Samuel Crystler, a young farmer liv-
ing few miles south of Sturgis, was
drowned in Pigeon lake. He started TO
cross the lake, struck a spot Of thin
ice and broke through. Before rescuers
reached him he had gone down.
A new auto car costing $4,000, re-
Gently purchased by Charlevoix com
pany for use on the streets between
the resorts and that city, was de-
stroyed by fire thursday night, togeth-
er with the barn in which 1t was
stored.
Because she had rejected his love.
Ed billiard, of Climax. twice shot May
Burden. aged 43. One bullet penetrated
her left lung and the other entered
her mouth and came out at the back
Of her neck, either wound being fatal
Both parties are colored.
After being barricaded in her home
for week, Mrs. Louise McGarry, of
Grand Rapids. surrendered because she
got tired of seeing an officer at every
door and window. She sought to avoid
service of papers in a damage suit
brought by Charles II. Chick in con-
nection with the estate of her former
husband, Don ]. feathers.
Sheets of pure silver ore running
through the rock of the West Neebish
were found, It is claimed, by work
men engaged in excavating for the
government channel through the rock.
The workmen are greatly excited, and
it is expected that in the spring pros
pecting will start in the vicinity for
the formation similar to that in the
Cobalt region in Canada.
Seventeen beaver skins have been
forwarded TO Game Warden Chapman
by his deputies at Marquette. and will
be sold at public auction. The hides
are worth considerable money, the
game warden says, as there are enough
| to make two overcoats and a fine
| lady's jacket. Some of them were
taken from very young animals. They
were seized in Joe Charbeneau's
possession, an old-time Lake Superior
trapper now over 20 years of age, who
has been fined $50 or 80 days in Jail.