Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-03-30
MICHIGAN BREvITIES.

Chris. Bassie, a well-known German
resident of Lansing, and the father Of
IL children, has been missing since
Saturday.
Frank Mcclellan, of st. Joseph. lay
down on the street car tracks and
was instantly killed. 1t is thought he
was intoxicated.
Mrs. Matilda p Stock. of Benton
Harbor, lie asking for a divorce on the
ground that her husband smokes
cheap, foul-smelling cigars.
Ralph o. Daughtery, of Mt. Pleasant,
and Phil Eichorn, of Port Huron, have
been appointed members of the board
for the School for the Blind.
Under the new charter OF the city
of Flint, the women taxpayers will
have the right of suffrage in municipal
financial questions in the future.
Valentine Beadle, the first white
child born in st. Joseph county, is
dead at his home in Fabius township,
that county. He was born April 10,
1881.
Mrs. Amos Hemstead, of Flushing,
aged 60, was found by her daughter
unconscious on the floor and died be-
fore physician could reach her. Heart
disease.
Senator Huntley Russell has accept
ed tbe challenge of Gerrit j. Diekema
for a joint debate in their campaign
for the nomination for congress in the
fifth district.
John Minue, aged So, Of Bay City,
was fatally injured by the breaking
Of ta1 an@ Loo
of machinery to fall upon him. His
back was broken.
With very short crop of hay which
started in last fall at 81 per ton, the
dried grass has steadily climbed until
now 1t is $40 ton in Negaunee and
very scarce at that.
Mrs. Maud Moreley says she will sue
Pontiac city for $4,000 for injuries
received by falling in a hole in
sidewalk, February l. She has served
notice on the city.
Transfers found Ernest Ellsworth,
aged 81 years, dying in an Alpena
stable, where he had gone TO attend
to his horses He died soon after. His
home was in Prescott.
The number Of houses infected with
measles, which have become epidemic
in Whigville, have become so numer-
Gus that the authorities have given up
trying to placard all of them.
Forest Morris, aged 10, son of
Bellevue preacher. and Miles Barhite,
aged II, are under arrest charged with
stealing $43 worth of cloverseed from
Peter Mulvaney, a Marengo township
farmer
VIM. Soule has been arrested in
Ann Arbor on charge OF bigamy.
Soule is now living with wife No. /,
and wife No. shows a wedding GER
tificate, and claims she was never d.
vorced.
While Mrs. John Lyon, of Ionia, was
spending a few minutes with a neigh
Dor her house took fire and was de-
stroyed. Several men were burned in
rescuing the babe which had been left
at home.
Joseph Anthovoic, an inmate of the
Kalamazoo county poor farm, has run
away He objected to too much water
on the outside and too little on the in
side. Half dozen people were neces-
sary to give Anthovoic bath.
Rev. Ezra Moorehouse, the Delton
evangelist who recently kidnapped his
two daughters from his wife, who is
suing for diovrce. has returned to
Delton to live. He says he will not
modest his wife or the children.
Ten Hubbardston dogs, supposed to
be mad have been killed within a
few days. Thos. O'Connell lost
number of sheep. which were bitten
! by mad dogs. Pigs ate the sheep be-
came mad and had 10 be killed.
Battle Creek aldermen held two
rather spectacular enforced sessions
/ there to settle the resignation of AS
I SCISSOR Henry, and pass the $4,000
! paving appropriation. The appropria-
ton had originally been $4,000
The removal of the freight division
! of the Pere Marquette railway, from
| New Buffalo to Benton Harbor, means
the removal of large. number of fam
lilies to that city, and the benefits of
this move have already been felt.
No lands will be sold for delinquent
taxes in Isabella county this year on
account OF an error which was discov-
| cred Just as the list was about to be
published. The mistake was in the
dates of publishing and day of sale.
John Harrison. of Battle Creek, was
held up by two men, who tried to rob
him. He chung 10 two IS bills with
such a grip that the money was torn
in halves. Harrison is now wondering
whether he or the thieves got the best
of the bargain.
Sheriff Johnson is investigating the
story of an alleged shooting ARRAY
at Interlochen. 1t is claimed that
Charles Cook shot up saloon there,
breaking the fixtures, causing a panic
and incidentally putting hole in a
man named Garrison
John Eaton, aged 60, of Port Huron.
coughed up a bullet during a severe
coughing spell. He shot in the back OF
the neck more than 40 years ago.
Walter Fitch, Of Salt Lake City, has