Charlevoix county herald., 1906-12-08
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

probate of Schoolcraft county to I'LL a
vacancy.
Orson A. Butts. a New Haven far.
mer, was fatally shot by acct
dent while hunting ducks.
Prof. Taggart, aged IS, phrenolog'
list and seller of patent medicine. was
run down and killed by train near
Boone.
While hunting cartridges. Edgar
Brown. surfman of Thunder Bay
island, was badly wounded. His home
is in Grindstone City.
Edward Foust, of Ann Arbor, a farm
hand, lies unconscious with scalp
wound as the result of being kicked
by colt, and may die.
Mike Mittle, Muskegon Heights
Hungarian, was brutally beaten with
an iron pipe at a dance Wednesday
night. His alleged assaulters have left
town.
An injunction has stopped the "St.
Joseph of the Maumee drain" and
more litigation is in sight, after a
year in court. The drain runs into
Ohio.
Hunters brought into Calumet the
largest moose ever seen in that re-
gion. Eighteen bullets were in it's
h'dy. Horns measured 57A inches
across.
At the remarkable age of 101 years,
Mrs. RoXanna Powell, better known as
Grandma Powell, died at the home OF
her daughter, Mrs. l.. X. Maynard,
this morning
Mike Bolovich, who has been lying
in Calumet hospital for three years
with a broken back, shows signs of
recovering and hopes are entertained
for him. He was injured in a mine.
Louis Vessels, OF Flint, while work.
ing in pipe works at Ballard. Wash.
was struck and fatally injured in the
head by pipe from. machine. He
had been married only few days.
A Tower housewife, Mrs. John Ber-
nard, found a pearl in an oyster she
purchased in a local market. She will
have 800 extra Christmas money, as
the pearl is a beautiful one worth
that sum.
The Michigan Forestry association
will probably ask the Legislature to
abolish the homestead law, place a
minimum price of S. an acre on state
land and provide an effective fire war
den system.
Miss Emma Butrick, one of the
triplet daughters of J. s. Butrick. If
Adrian, was married Thanksgiving day
to John A. Bailey, of Upton. Her trip
let sisters, Elsie and Edith. were her
bridesmaids.
While three workmen were engaged
on the steel somestack of the Strable
Manufacturing Co., in Saginaw, high
wind caused a guy rope to part. The
stack fell, killing one and fatally injur-
ing the other two.
Latimer hall, an historic Fsnton
building, was burned to the ground.
The cause of the fire Is unknown. Thir-
ty years ago it was used as an Epis-
copal military academy. 1t had been
unoccupied for several years.
The Lansing common council having
practically decided to spend the PR.
mary school money recently received
from the state in the payment of city
expenses, the matter has been referred
Maj. A. G. Vernon, formerly inspec-
tor OF the state militia for the war de-
partment and military instructor at
the Agricultural college, who resigned
on account of illness. writes frora
Naples, Italy, that he has recovered his
health.
The first step to develop the ac-
tically unlimited water power of the
Menominee river will be taken by
Chicago, Oshkosh and Green Bay cap
italists, who will organize a 100000
company to build power dam and
transmit electric power TO Menonlinee
and Marinette.
The 1S-months-old child OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Baumler, living on a
farm near Menominee, met death in a
peculiar manner. During the momen-
tary absence of its mother, the child
pulled the plug from washing ma
chine. Boiling hot water rushed forth,
scalding the little one to death.
Mrs. Rosa Eckerman. a prominent
w. c. T. U. worker and a member of
the Central Methodist church in Mus
kegon, was convicted of unlawfully
SSlllHS DIduoy 10 GeOTSe Feu0y, aSeQ
II. Mrs. Eckerman is proprietor of a
drug store. The boy didn't have an
order for the liquor. She will appeal.
Ex-Mayor w. B. Mershon. Of Sagi-
nav, offers to be one of 10 persons to
raise 5000 to purchase and liberate q
few pairs of Hungarian partriC yes, pro-
vided farmers and hunters will agree
to protect them. He says that they are
harder than quail, and are sometimes
known as German quail. Market hunt
ers. he says, exterminated flock of so
or 70 at Orchard lake.
While out hunting Charles Sculley,
eyed 80. Of Almont, shot his bosom
friend, Alvin Harrington, aged 10, I'm
the right eye. Harrington was crouch
Ing behind some brush when Sculley
shot In his direction at a rabbit. Soul
ley accompanied the injured boy to
Ann Arbor, where an attempt will be
made to locate the three shot which
went into his eye. He Will lose the
sight Of that eye.
The trial of William Dunnegan for
murder will begin in Hillsdale this
Il.