Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-08-10
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Gov. Warner refused to approve a
rate of 40 cents per diem for maintain
ing patients of state asylums and 1t
will be reduced to as cents.
Arthur Bryant and VIM. Wright,
electricians, charged with larceny,
were discovered preparing to burn
their way out of Mason jail with an
electric wire.
Judge John B. Shipman, aged rs,
of Coldwater, has just become a mem
Der of the Elks. He is probably the
Oldest man ever initiated into the or
der in this state.
Co. ], NJ. N. G., of Ann Arbor, Is to
haveethe third rife range in the state,
according to the promise of Gen. Nc
Gurrin. Grand Rapids and Detroit
have the other two.
Roy Ravens, the 14-year-old son of
e. r. Ravens, of the state land Of
fee, jumped off street car backward,
and fell, sustaining serious concus-
sion of the brain.
Charles Bromstra, 81 years old. of
Muskegon, while working complained
Of pain in the region of his heart, said
he thought he would die, and at the
supper table suddenly expired.
An Ann Arbor extra freight was
wrecked in a cut near the depot at
Lucas by marine engine rolling off
fiat car. Nine cars were piled up
in a scrap heap. No one was hurt.
A woman witness in the Martin
Golden murder case has failed to iden-
tify Alcohol Bill" Schimmel as the
man she saw near Golden's store in
Denison the night of the crime. Things
look good for BILL"
Mrs. Elizabeth Meydriech, of st. Jo-
seph, pointed her forefinger at bur-
glar she found in her house and
threatened to shoot him. The man
thought she had a revolver and after
dropping his booty, fed.
Separated for 20 years and then
brought together through a copy of
the city directory, David Bechtel, en-
ployed by Dibble & Latta. coal mer-
chants, and Mrs. Emma Alice Bechtel
his sister, who recently moved to
Flint, have been reunited.
The concurrent resolution of the
legislature ,appropriating SIS to repair
the Michigan memorial tablet in the
was never enrolled or presented to the
governor for his signature. Payment
on the resolution has been stopped.
Look straight up in the air or we,
will blow out your brains" said two
highwaymen to Archie McKillips, Of
Sault Ste. Marie, who was on his way
with $240 in savings to buy real es.
tate. While he was looking at the
heavens the men took all he had and
then made him walk away still looking
at the stars.
The feature of recent ball game
in Lapeer between Goodrich and La
peer was the errorless game pitched
by Rev. p. E. Edwards, for the Good
rich team. The Goodrich boys say his
sermons are as forceful as his pitch
ing, the only difference being. he
leaves the curves at the door on en-
tering. Score, 8 to in favor of Good
rich.
Robert Featham, 26, mason con
tractor of Alpena, died of lockjaw af
ter an illness of two days. He ran 6
rusty nail into his foot a week ago
He was unmarried. His father, Lay
Featham, died over a year ago from 9
bullet wound fired during a family
dispute by Peter J. Wood, his son-in.
law, who is now serving 25 years in
Marquette prison.
Fire Quilted the store of the Don
sereaux Dry Goods Co. in Lansing,
starting from a rubbish burner in an
alley. The flames were famed by a
high wind and swept through the store
in a short time. The stores of Mrs.
NJ. A. Sternberg, milliner, and ]. r.
Everett, grocer, were damaged. A
general alarm was turned in and the
firemen succeeded in preventing a
further spread of the flames.
Three persons were killed and two
injured, one probably fatally, in col.
lision between an electric car and an
automobile in Jackson Friday. The
dead are Mrs. Emily Pulver, 60 years !;
Bernice Oliver. years, grand-daugh-
ter of Mrs. Pulver; Mrs. Levi Palmer,
45 years. The injured are r. Adelbert
r. A. Oliver, who is slightly hurt, suf.
fering mostly from the shock.
At meeting of the Joint prison
boards and allied boards held on
Mackinac Island, resolution was
adopted approving OF the way Michi'
gan voters have voiced themselves in
favor of industrial pursuits in the
prisons. Warden Fuller. of Ionia, sub
mitted in his annual report a state
ment showing a decrease of $60, 900 q
year in the cost of maintaining the
reformatory since 1894, although the
number of prisoners has increased 81
per cent.
Lew Brooks was arrested in Flint
for the government authorities on q
charge of desertion from the United
States navy Wednesday afternoon. He
gave inconsistencies as his reason for
leaving the federal service without
permission.
Mrs. Belle WEIGH, of Royal Oak
is charged with assault. The Welches
are what the neighbors term squatters
and the Wilcoxes their nearest neigh