The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-22
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

A county normal training school
for Sanilac county will be established
at Croswell next year, as authorized
by the board OF supervisors.
George Roberts, of Kalamazoo, aged
Il, was shot below the heart by Ce-
Gil Coleman, aged IL, who didn't
know the gun was loaded" He may
die.
The right hand of a man which APP
parently had been torn from the arm
was fished out Of the river at Pontiac
nv Fart Curtis, who was playing on
the hank.
Anna Kurkeva, OF Austria, who
crossed the ocean to come to her
sweetheart, Frank Nomecik, will be
married to him in the Catholic church
at Inlay City.
Calvin Knapp, of Port Huron Grand
Trunk brakeman, became violent and
his friends bound him with ropes in
the caboOse to prevent him from jump
ing from the train.
William Barnes, a Bedford farmer
and former protege of Indian weather
prophets, says that the muskrats are
building their nests high, indicating
the approach of a severe winter.
A strong indication that the recent
financial furry is fast subsiding came
when the National Body & Box Co. of
Pontiac received word to rush all out
standing orders and put on a full
force of men.
Fire in the Cheboygan Pea Can
| ming Co.'S warehouse did $4,000 dam
age to stock. The factory was not
damaged. The stock was fully in
sured. The blaze started from a stove
! in the building.
George w. Tubs, of Lansing, who
claimed self-defense in his trial for
murder and was sent to Jackson for
| life, made the same plea in asking a
! pardon, but the board refused to over
rule the courts.
Principal Paul T. Hickey, of the Bat
| tie Greek high school, declined the
presidency of the local anti-cigarette
! league, because Lucy Page CASTOR
| charged that nine out OF every ten in
| his high school smoked cigarettes.
Leslie Sutherland, aged II, who dis
appeared August IL, has returned
home at Mt Clemens with a strange
I
Gus people, but his parents believe
he ran away with the circus.
John Bennett. of Hubbardston, a
resident OF the state 40 years, who
has held township offices in Ionia
and Clinton counties. has learned that
he is an alien, because of the failure
of his father, an Englishman, to take
out more than his first naturalization
papers.
In trying to save his cart from the
wheels of a train while picking UP
coal in the Ann Arbor railroad yards
at Owosso, Paul Willoughby, aged 10,
sprang in front of a locomotive, cry
ing, Don't run over my cart" and
was crushed under the wheels, dying
shortly afterward.
George A. Hill, of Ann Arbor, who
lost a watch worth $50. was the only
victim of pickpockets at the Michigan
! Pennsylvania game. Detectives Baker
and Wilkinson, of Detroit, who with II
! railroad detectives were on guard for
dips" arrested George Johnson" and
Harry Sinclair as suspects.
Henry Bell, of Perry, had an expert
ence of the hunter being hunted,
which cost him a severe injury. Bell
went coon hunting ard freed one oil
the animals in a tall oak tree. lie
started to climb up to get his quarry
but when 80 feet from the ground met
the coon coming down. This so star
tied Bell that he let go his hold, fell
to the ground and broke his leg. The
coon got away.
On invitation of the state agricul-
tural board, officers of the NJ. A. c.
alumni appointed the following adj
visory council to act with the board in
matters pertaining TO the college,:
Chairman, Ray Stannard Baker, East
Lansing; William X. Prudden, Ian
sing; l.. Whitney Watkins, Manches-
ter; Prof. Eugene Davenport, Urbana
ILL.,: George ]. jerks, Harbor Beach ;
e. N. Pagleson, Detroit
With flour at $3.50 a barrel, Ian.
sing bakers say that they cannot fur.
nish a 16-ounce loaf for five cents and
will ask the common council to amend
the ordinance so that the weight OF
loaves may be reduced to IA ounces.
Recently James S. Kennefick. OF
Croswell. past so years OF age, a
prominent and prosperous civil en-
gineer of that vicinity, left for his
nativity. ireland, saying, America is
a good place to live in, but | want Ia
die in Ireland" Now comes a letter
from the aged man asking that few
dollars be sent him that he may have
decent burial Needless to say that
purse has been raised and sent.