The Yale expositor., 1906-03-30
AROUND THE STATE.


Charles Anderson, a young Norweg-
ian in Munising jail, found a knife in
his cell and cut his throat.
The Pontiac council committee on
ordinances has been instructed TO pre-
pare an ordinance to increase the
liquor bonds from $4,000 to $4,000.
The attorney general insists that
the ballot on the question OF revising
the constitution must be on sheet or
paper separate from all other ballots.
Mrs. Paul Goehle, of Sault Ste. Ma
rie, and four of her children were al
flicted with ptomaine poisoning. The
physician who was called attributed
the cause to a lemon pie.
Three new paper companies were
organized in Otsego Tuesday, and the
building of these and the opening OF
the Mac Sim Bar mill. now nearly
completed. will boom that place.
Farnum Bros, of Pontiac, are pro-
noting an electric line to connect st.
Charles, Alma, st. Louis, Ithaca and
Owosso. 1t is proposed to use COM
bination gasoline-electric motor.
Business men and farmers will con-
tribute $1,000 toward building per-
manent model roadway between Lam
sing and Michigan Agricultural col
lege. The state appropriates $4,000 adj
ditional.
A steel rope $500 feet in length-al-
most two mies-is being completed
for the No. shaft of the Calumet
branch of the Calumet a. Hecla mine.
Ii will be the longest rope in the world.
Its diameter is 1 3-S inches.
Arthur A. Cole. the defaulting clerk
of the Menominee circuit court who
skipped out with a widow. leaving his
wife and babe destitute, and was cap
tured in Chicago, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 21s years in prison.
BY eight majority T. S. Martin, Nor
rice, who was indicted by the grand
jury and acquitted in the circuit court,
was nominated by the Republicans for
supervisor to succeed himself. He was
elected president of the village recent
ly.
The crossing gates in Decatur not
being lowered, Harvey Warner, we'll
TODD retired farmer. who was quite
deaf, drove in front of a Michigan
Central train and was almost instant
ly killed. He had but recently moved
TO town.
Foy Poyser was sentenced to Ionia
prison for from one to IA years for
| forgery. Poyser was arrested two days
after his elopement from Kalamazoo
with Miss Laura Grape, and it is said
he forged the checks to get the money
| for his wedding.
Miss Luella NJ. Burton. of Detroit,
woman factory inspector. is just COM
pleting her annual report Generally
! speaking. she reports conditions for
women employed in factories are i'm
! proving. She says employers are
| steadily lettering conditions.
The Standard Oil Co. has dropped
| the mask in Michigan and owns up
| that the Republic Oil CO., operating in
many of the larger cities, is but one
of its creatures. All of the agencies
OF the Republic Oil Co. have been
! transferred to the Standard Co.
Warren Pratt, of Mason. unmarried
and q years of age. died Saturday
| of blood poisoning from injuries re-
ceived at the Oldsmobile works at
Lansing two weeks ago, when two fin
| gers were taken off. Very little was
thought of the accident at the time.
Saginaw bay, IL miles out from Quani-
| cassee, is dotted with upwards Of 90
! fish shanties. The ice is II to Ia inches
| thick, but large cracks have appeared.
Should sudden wind storm spring
up there will be the usual scurry for
| shore by tf9 fishermen. AS Lake Huron
| is open, when the ice let's go ashore 1t
will probably move out rapidly.
Caught in the shafting at the Boyne
| City lumber mill, Charles Allen had
his clothes stripped from his body as
he was whirled around with the rapid
! ly moving shaft. Had il not been that
I his apparel had given away when X
did his career would have been ended.
AS It was his left leg from the hip
to the knee was torn and lacerated
and his flesh pounded almost into a
Jelly where his limbs came in contact
with the shaft.
The examination OF Evangelist Geo.
Allen, charged by Rev. c. II. Ander-
son, of White Pigeon. with improper
relations with the latter's wife, did
not materialize Saturday, the defend
ants counsel, Attorney Knappen, of
Kalamazoo. waving to the circuit
court. Allen was placed under $500
| DOnuS 10 appear LOT ITldl. quite III
audience had gathered. anticipating
that some racy evidence would he
introduced, and they were greatly dis
appointed.
To protect his family from disgrace
and save his aged mother pain. Frank
Hartman" sent to Ionia for slashing
Under Sheriff Warner. of Ann Arbor
in the arm with a knife, will probably
serve the maximum sentence of two
years instead of IL months. He was
supposed to be a veritable ignorant
hobo when sent up, but letters re-
ceived by Judge Kline and Mr.. War
ner asking them to intercede to have
him paroled shows him to be finely
educated man.
Lapeer is still without city physi
clan and is likely to be until after the
new council meets. The council fixed
the salary at $500. but the physicians
: Jointly declared that they would mo-
accept, consequently for the past yeal
the office has been vacant. Finally the