The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-01-12
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Frank Lewis, of Pontiac, went to
husking bee and while operating the
machine husked his handsome gold
watch.
Insane from business cares, John G.
Smith, clerk of Bently township, was
attacked by paralysis of the brain,
causing death.
A smooth stranger operated in Ann
Arbor Saturday and cleaned harvest
of $40 as a result of few hours work
and handy pen.
Mrs. Jeremiah Sullivan was struck
and instantly killed by Grand Trunk
engine at a Lapeer street crossing
She was &c years old.
Thomas Hill, of Bay City, aged 40,
married, a saw filler, swallowed an
ounce of carbolic acid because he
could not secure employment.
Mrs. NJ. A. Preston, the newspaper
writer of Charlotte. who was struck
by an auto at San Diego, Cal, last
Thursday, died of her injuries.
Coldwater business men have organ
lied to work unitedly for the industrial
interests of the town. The organiza-
ton starts out with III members.
All of the schools and Sunday
schools south of Black river, in Port
Huron, have been ordered closed be-
cause of the epidemic of diphtheria.
The Michigan Orangemen are figur-
ing on Port Huron as the place for
holding their annual state reunion and
celebration July -. A bonus Of $1,000
is asked.
For saving two lives many years
ago in Germany, Joseph Stang, brew
master in a Menominee brewery, has
received a silveEpedal from Emperor
William.
The body of Reuben Goliath. old
hunter and trapper, was found in the
bayou at Bell, Pressure Isle county.
He had fallen into an air hole cross
ing the ice.
Bread and water diet and no tobacco
or playing cards are the regulations
Of lngham supervisors for tramps who
are seeking shelter at the county Jail
in large numbers.
Word reached Kalamazoo of the
tragic death of Charles Eames at st.
Louis on Sunday. He is the fourth
member of the family whom sudden
death has reached.
Dynamite placed in the oven OF the
kitchen stove TO be thawed exploded,
killed August II. Schroeder's 2-year-
old daughter and injured himself and
wife, of Menominee.
Enos Schaal, of Menominee. while
attempting to separate his two broth
ers, who were in a fight, received a
deep cash in his leg from an AK in the
hands of Dan Schaal.
Theodore Durkee, aged Is, of Of
sego, was found bound and gagged in
Lake Shore box car in the Elkhart,
Ind, yards. He said he had been robbed
and thrown into the car.
John Gongaw, of Bay City, was bad
ly stabbed in a row among men who
were stealing a ride from Grayling. He
was taken from the car at Roscommon
and had his wounds dressed.
Nearly 175 shot entered the groin
and abdomen of Delmar Kibby, of Bat
tie Creek, who discharged his gun as
he stepped into a buggy while on a
rabbit hunt with Capt. Chandler Lu-
cas-.
II. NJ. LIQUIDS Sons Co. have secured
the river rights for nearly 100 miles
of the Au Sable river and, it is said,
propose to utilize the steady, strong
current for a huge power and light
plant.
"The first man in western Michigan
to be made a Mason" was the distinc-
ton claimed by James d. La Bar, who
Gied in Battle Creek, Saturday night,
of old age. He was in his ninety-ninth
year.
All the cars Of the Port Huron
street railway have been equipped
with compressed air brakes. Port
Huron is said TO be the only city OF
it's size in the country having these
brakes.
Finding her husband in iail on a
charge of larceny so overwhelmed
Mrs. Florence Murray, of Lansing,
with grief that she attempted to end
| her life with poison. Murray got Go
days in prison.
By mistake Sadie Neal, of Muske
| gon, gave her 6-months-old baby broth
| er a dose of gelseminum, a deadly poi
| son, and although it was sufficient tC
| kill man instantly it had no enect
| on the babe.
Bitten in the cheek by mad dog
| 11-year-old Leon Halleck, son of Mr.
and Mrs. +. X. Halleck, of Plainwell
was fastened to Ann Arbor, there be
ing fears that he might not live long
enough to arrive there.
Returning from hunting trip, Chas
Kantz, aged IS, of Hesperia, laid his
gun on a table and, forgetting it wa:
loaded, started to clean II. The bulle
struck him in the abdomen and he ha!
little chance for recovery.
Bert Frisbie, aged -, of Kalamazoo
after an operation for diphtheria, wa!
supplied with a silver tube for breath
ing through while the wound healed
The tube became displaced at nigh
and the boy strangled to death.
Port Huron is trying to secure tn,
headquarters of the Woodmen Of tn,
World, which is to be moved from
Omaha because the Nebraska suprem,
court says the order must pay an an
nual tax on a $4,000 reserve fund.
Thomas Comhe 52 vearo old Ora m,