Charlevoix county herald., 1907-09-28
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

Burglars cracked two safes at Palm
er and escaped with valuables worth
about $500.
who was married five weeks ago, ate
poisoned mushrooms and died.
Fifteen students will enter the U. Of
M. from the June graduating class OF
the Kansas City, Mo-, high school.
An auto driven by Frank Woodward,
vice-president of the Owosso Casket
Co., turned turtle and Mrs. Woodward
broke her leg.
Michigan ranks first in this county
in the number of sleighs manufactured
and third in the amount spent for car
riages and vehicles and it's pleasure
vehicle output
Mrs. William Osborne, of Kingsley,
accidentally gave her 15-year-old
daughter, who was i'll with diphtheria.
caybolic acid, instead of medicine
causing her death.
In a fit of remorse after debauch,
Alfred Taylor, a printer and Spanish
war veteran, threw himself in front
of street car in Sault Ste. Marie and
was instantly killed.
A Pere Marquette train rushed tc
Grand Rapids from White Cloud, AZ
miles away, to get James Atwater, an
employee who was crushed under a
| freight train. He died on the way.
Because of conflicting evidence pro.
duced before the coroner's inquest in.
| to the death Of Brakeman Fraker.
| found dead in freight car at Menom.
inee, foul play is suspected. Two no.
| bOes are in Jail awaiting further in.
vestigation.
For the first time in % years, James
and Henry Dalrymple, brothers, met
| in Port Huron and talked over their
boyEood days. The two were separat.
ed when young, Henry remaining in
Port Huron and James going to Ply.
mouth, Mich.
The recent completion of the grad
ing operations of the Chicago, Milwau.
kee & ST. Paul railway extension
southwest from Green postoffce to
Iron river, means the near opening
of vast era of virgin timber in On,
tonagon county.
Secretary Smith, of the University
Y. NJ. G. A, who is registering stu
dents who need financial assistance in
completing their college course says
that about 1000 young men will put
themselves through in whole or in
part by their personal efforts.
News has reached Muskegon from
Bear Swamp, telling of lightning
| prank that visited the home of Frank
Beebe. A bolt struck his 20-year-old
daughter and without harming her in
the least ran down her left side and
tore the shoe from her left foot.
After getting on a Grand Trunk
train in Battle Creek to return to
| Owosso, Mrs. Jerome Markham, an
elderly lady, fell dead in a car seat
Her daughters, whom she had been Wis
iting and who had accompanied hel
to the train, were overcome with the
shock.
Elks' island, at Lake Gougac, was
rallied to raise funds for the new
building of the order and went to 6
pool Of fifty men who bought $50 tick
cts and paid Asa Converse $500 fol
his chance when the contest narrowed
to his and another ticket. The receipts
were $4,000.
If a certain industry, which Bay
City claims the distinction of beins
the originator, continues to grow
the way it has the past two
years, the city will soon be
known throughout the country
as Peanutville. Tons of that commod
ity are shipped from there to every
state in the union.
With a disposition that does moi
| tn 70 &c
parents, too good to be sent to a re
form school, because no charge car
be placed against him, yet too bad tc
stay in any of the homes found fol-
him, not wanted by his mother, who
iS destitute, deserted by his father, il
the sad plight of Allen Bisbee. o.
Grand Rapids. Temporarily Allen i.
in charge of Police Matron Mary linn
pending some solution of the situa
ton.
The scheme to reform drunkard.
and confirmed booze artists as out
lined and put into execution by Judge
Adams, of Kalamazoo, within the pas
year, by farming them out instead O
giving them jail sentences, has proven
big success, as far as 1t has gone
Jim" Hawley, a notorious firewatel
consumer, mas emerged from MS ST.
months sojourn at the Stoddard farm
and has been pronounced a model citI
zen. He has even lost his taste To-
spirits.
Henry Hess, II, and Frank Link, 16
under arrest In Port Huron, have con
fessed, the police say, to having start
ed out with the intention of becoming
regular desperadoes, with horse-steal
ing as their long suit They ar
charged with breaking into the RESI-
dence of Henry Brown by forcing tn
door with the butt of shotgun. /
is alleged they took two revolvers an,
some cartridges.
A pet calf rugged up to sulky b,
Miss Matte McCardy, of Ann Arbor
ran away and in trying to dodge
tree threw her against IL, breaxin,
her nose and knocking out severa