Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-17
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

steam valve in a lumber mill.
Muskegon county officers will abide
| by Attorney General Birds ruling,
holding the juvenile law invalid.
Re-entering a burning building near
| Atlantic to secure some personal bag
gage, John Hill was burned to death.
Joshu Minard, a Lansing driver,
formerly of Detroit, was struck by e
Lake Shore train and will probably
die
Fire destroyed the general store,
house and barn of George Kwialkow-
ski in Beuna Vista township. Loss
$4,000.
August IA. Is and 16 are the dates
| for Frankfort's Homecoming. The
Business Mems association is back of
the affair.
Alforious Parsons, aged 9, waded
beyond his depth and was drowned.
1t was Kalamazoos first drowning of
| the season.
While blowing at the Michigan In
sane asylum, Edward Gwisdalski, an
employe, was kicked by mule and
may not recover.
The body of fully developed In
FAINT was found in Saginaw sewer
with the head crushed in. Officials are
making an investigation.
Wellington Decker, aged II, of Cad
| lilac, was caught under a wall that
his father knocked down in making
repairs, and fatally injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kuite, ST., have
just celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary. They have lived in Hol.
land nearly of their lives.
Judge Shepard has decided that the
Petoskey ordinance taxing auctioneers
| $500 a year is excessive. A new or
dinance will probably be passed.
William Blanchard, of Ann Arbor,
was arrested on technical charge of
assault for tattooing the body of Rus
sell Wallace and was fined $14.75.
Jay Hart. aged %, of Shepard, a
brakeman on the Ann Arbor railroad,
fell from his train near Forest Hall
and was mangled under the wheels.
Mayor John j. Bell, of Port Huron,
has designated August % as civic
holiday. Business will be suspended
and an outing held at Tashmoo park.
The child of Christian Borason, of
Menominee, was chased and bitten by
a pine snake over six feet long, which
invaded the city. The snake was
killed.
Patent medicine tablets were eaten
by the two young children of William
Rinchart, Ludington farmer. One is
dead and the other in a critical con.
dition.
Alonzo A. Smith was killed in an
automobile accident at Hartford,
Wash, where he was engaged in lum.
Der operations. He at one time lived
in Saginaw.
Battle Creek business men and
farmers who are paying for the new
road to Beadle lake will hold an all.
day celebration next month, when il
is finished
The summer term of the North
ern Normal is closed. The attend
ance reached 400, and showed the
best gain Of any summer term since
the institution was opened.
A canoe, occupied by Harry Marx
Clare Petit and John Callahan, was
overturned when one of the trio
rocked the boat in Lake Huron, but
the boys contrived to reach the shore
Alfred Burke, aged years, of Port
Huron, deserted by his father, who is
in unknown parts, and abandoned by
bis mother who refuses to support
him, will be taken to the Coldwater
school.
Directly following the funeral ser
vice over the remains of Mrs. William
Brayer, in South Haven. Rev. Clark
S. Wheeler, who oficiated, baptized
the little week old and motherless
daughter, Leone.
The first women ever arrested In
Kalamazoo on a charge of exceeding
the automobile speed limit. Mrs. Var
Urk, wife of leading physician, was
hailed into court Friday. She is saiG
to have been going some 20 miles al
hour within the city limits.
Two men were injured by flying
debris and several thousand dollars
worth of damage was caused when 6
big thirty-five ton calander crashed
through the floor of the Eddy Paper
Co.'s mill in Three Rivers. The mil
will be shut down for some time as
, a result.
A census Of the city is now being
completed by the postoffice force
There are upwards of 10000 people, II
appears, from these returns. compared
with 10000 in the spring of 1905, thus
giving Marquette the distinction o.
/ being the largest incorporated city IL
, upper Michigan.
The Paw-Paw grape juice factory
, was burglarized Tuesday night. The
outside door of the building was
broken in, the combination knocked
; off the safe and an iron rod driven
! through the lock. There Is no clue
!. to. the burglars, but 1t is thought the
r work was done by home talent.
Friendless and unattended JohI
? Cherry, an aged civil war veteran
Z died in a little hut near Highwood
where he found refuge for a number
= of wears HOW long he was ILL Is no.