The Yale expositor., 1907-10-04
AROUND THE STATE.

ANO MI ne - n u.
Avery Bardslee. aged 10, living east
OF Clarkson, was kicked by colt and
his skull was fractured.
Frank Kukookeski, of Gaylord, who
| got into a slashing scrape, drew 80
days in the Detroit house of correc-
| ton.
William Wampo, of Grand Rapids,
an uncle, claimed the body OF Blanche
| Phelps, who was shot and killed by
James Cross, and her associates raised
money to pay her burial expenses.
Mrs. Jason Pierce, for forty-fve
years a resident of Hart, died there.
A son, Franklin Pierce, travelling
salesman for the Standard Oil Co., of
Grand Rapids, is the only survivor.
Gov Fred Warner will ride in car
riage No. 13 when he goes to st.
Louis to meet the executives Of other
states and President Roosevelt, &C.
cording to the drawing made IN that
city.
Convict Davis, who escaped from
the Grand Marais jail on a Duluth
steamer and held up one passenger
and assaulted another, was captured
at Silver Mountain, near Port Arthur,
by a posse.
Although Peter Olson, of Escanaba,
slashed his throat from ear to ear
Sunday, severing his windpipe, the
| physicians who were called say they
believe they can save his life. He
was respondent from i'll health.
While seven-year-old Hugh Cottini
was carrying a shotgun from one
room to another in the home of his
uncle, Frank Rafello, of Quincy, the
weapon was accidentally discharged,
blowing the top of the boys head off,
killing him instantly.
While on their way to bring the re-
mains of their son nome for burial
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Keller, of Ma
son, were nearly Frustrated by re-
ceiving letter which the young man
had mailed in Grand Rapids a few
hours before he was stricken.
HE don't know he's going, but he's
on his way" This is the case with
Floyd Elmore, of Suttons Bay, who
Friday left for Chicago, where a
stranger is to give him the address
of his mother, whom he has not seen
in eight years. Elmore is 16 years
old.
Birmingham seems to have been
spotted by burglars as an easy mark
OF late hardly a night has passed but
an attempt is made on some store.
Sunday night was no exception, but
the marshal spoiled the plans of some
one irving to break into O'Neil's meat
market.
There is a great crop Of cabbages
grown in the vicinity of Saginaw and
large quantities are shipped to kraut
factories. One day last week a load
was brought to town which weighed,
exclusive of the wagon, four and a
half tons. The farmer received $27
for the load.
School District No. 4, in Colfax town.
ship, Wexford county, which has been
levying school taxes for seven years,
without even having a school house,
and has accumulated 5000, has been
ordered by the department of public
instruction to establish a school or
cease levying school taxes.
In letter to the state military de-
parhtment a naval officer praises the
Detroit Naval Reserves, who brought
the Don Juan de Austria to Detroit
and says, 81 hope to have the pleasure
of fitting out another ship that was
manned with as highly civilized crew
as was sent from Michigan"
A big touring car belonging to a
motor car company of Pontiac, started
out for Detroit Sunday. After TAX.
ing winding course as far as Birm.
ingham, 1t is said the machine stop.
ped there about two hours and took
on too big a load of gasoline" At
any rate, IL was left a wreck in the
ditch near the Bloomfield tollgate.
While the steamer Majestic was
bound from Port Arthur to Sarnia a
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Delaney.
OF Detroit, who in honor OF the cap.
tain, Alfred Montgomery Wright,
named the child Alfred Montgomery
Delaney. Passengers of the ship took
deep interest in the event, and a
purse of $50 for the infant was col.
lected.
Joe Kewaskagun, a Bay Shore In.
dian, was found dead with his head
mutilated on a lonely road, and viii.
lam Horton and Otto GETAWAY, who
are alleged to have quarreled with
him, are held on murder charges
State Highway Commissioner Earle
who has returned from an inspection
trip of eastern roads says that auto.
mobiles work considerable damage to
macadam roads. He says the huge
tires cut a rut, then suck the dust
loose and the low bodies OF the ma
chine whirl the dust cushion of, and
send It broadcast over adjacent farms.
He says he has found a remedy; a
cushion Of tar, macadam and pitch