Charlevoix county herald., 1906-12-01
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

Politicians at Lansing will have a
coon hunt.
movable dam is to be built at
Traverse City.
Flint demands S-for-a- quarter tickets
from d. F. & S. road.
There are $40 miles of electric inter
urban railway in the state.
Two women took examination for
embalmers' license at Lansing.
A big flock of white swans lowered
around Portland all day Sunday.
Typhoid is on the increase in the
state according to report at Lansing.
A bronze cross Is to mark the spot
in Chippewa county where Marquette
trod
Because of unprotected railway
crossings, Albion had seven deaths in
seven years.
The merchants of Pontiac have or
ganized to list deadbeats and refuse
credit to all who do not pay.
Boyd Pantlind, owner of the Pant
lind and Morton hotels, has bought the
Herald Square at Grand Rapids.
Orchards were uprooted at Standish
and the front OF n. b. Weaver's brick
warehouse blown down by the storm.
Earl Foutz, convicted of burglariz-
ing Bugg's jewelry store at Jackson,
has been sentenced from two and
half TO five years in state prison.
Frank Sperbeck, Of Coldwater, is
moving his house. The family continue
To reside in 1t, and the mail man de-
livers mail as they travel along.
Michael O'Neill, of Ypsilanti, who
was said to have died from heart fail
ure, Is now thought to possibly have
been poisoned. Coroner Burchfield is
investigating.
Simon Boston, of Sutton's Bay, who
lost both limbs through being frozen
so years ago, has given up the strug-
gle and entered the soldiers home in
Grand Rapids.
Miss Olive Martin, of Ishpeming,
who last year was one Of the few
women of the upper peninsula to shoot
deer, has brought down a 100-pound
doe this season.
A burglar who was shot at by Night
watch j. w. Sanford, of Farwell, while
attempting to rob a saloon left trail
of blood which led to the buggy In
which he escaped.
The Randalls, father and son,
charged with aiding Bert Kemp to
escape after shooting Chief OF Police
Masten, OF Ann Arbor. have been freed
on motion of the prosecutor.
+. w. viederman, said to be from
Detroit, told the Traverse City coun.
all do I'd o. OF q Mt
| to build an electric line through that
district. He wants franchise.
Harry Besterman CLewis), charged
with murder. as the result OF the
death of Mike Ward following the box
ing match at Grand Rapids. pleaded
not guilty today and was held under
$4,000 bonds
Mrs. ]. II. Daverman, wife OF q
Grand Rapids architect, met Jhr. H
DeMarees Van Swinderen, the Neither
lands envoy who visited here. after a
separationqof SO years. She was his
nurse when he was only years old.
Forty-one candidates for registered
pharmacist and 10 for registered drug
gists took the examination before the
state board OF pharmacy at Grand
| HdpluS. rOI tuc Al Of tihO IL cS'S'"a
years there are no women among
them
Four new free delivery routes will
be established at Midland January 1,
making In all IL in Midland county,
eight of which start from Midland, and
practically cover the entire county
The new routes will cause four small
postoffices to be discontinued.
After being lost AZ years. her en-
gagement ring Is to be returned to
Mrs. Calvin 8. Dlount, Of Washington
ID. C.. IL was lost by her sweetheart In
the grass at friends house, and was
found when her brother turned a spade
of earth In the garden last summer.
A Virginia oil man has secured op
tons on several thousand acres and q
test well will be sunk for oil at Leoni
das
The sale of carbolic acid. iodine
laudanum and other poisons In gen
eral stores is forbidden by state inspec
tor of pharmacies.
A pig on rampage ground a dos
To death beneath its feet and helC
Charley Albrough, farmers son, neal
Owosso, prisoner in tree for nearl,
three hours. The boy was finally dis
covered, and his father, with the aid o
neighbors, drove the maddened ami
nal of with clubs. pitchforks ant
shotg'lns.