Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-09-07
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

Office this week.
Joseph H. Ross. former Alpena SUI
pervisor, is dead of paralysis at Ever
EFT, Washington.
Labor day was celebrated in the
cities of the state with big parades,
sports and general rejoicing.
Directors of the Calumet & Arizona
Mining Co. have declared dividend OF
S. per share and about 100000 will
be disbursed.
Albert Burke, 10, and Hartford King,
20, from Inlay City, are in jail charged
with setting fire to the Grand Trunk
station at Inlay.
Fire starting about $50 Wednesday
night practically destroyed the resi-
dence of Congressman Samuel w.
Smith, of Pontiac.
Saginaw milk dealers have raised
the price of milk one cent to six and
seven cents quart. Dry pastures are
given as the reason.
Oklahoma Republicans have ap-
pealed to state officials of Michigan
for funds with which to contest the
first election as a state.
Deputy Game Warden Thrasher has
offered a reward of $25 for the detec-
ton of parties who dynamited Devils
lake and killed hundreds of fish.
Tariff schedules and circulars have
been filed by the Chicago, Kalamazoo
& Saginaw railroad, though the law
requiring it does not go into effect for
80 days.
Despondent Frank Seplinski, 35,
Slav laborer, hung himself with his
suspenders at his boarding house in
Owosso. A widow and several children
live in Russia.
Insane from abuses received in Rus
STA, Wesd Michelewoski, a cigarmak-
er, is held in Kalamazoo jail and is
under the impression that he has been
dead three years.
Judge Rollin H. Perkins, of Lansing,
after a conference with Gov. Warner,
decided to consider for a few more
days the offer of an appointment on
the new railroad commission.
William L. Allison, aged 50, of Bad
Axe, was caught in a shaft in his faith
ers mills and his right arm pulled out
at the socket, one rib torn out and his
right leg broken. He cannot recover.
A rousing ovation was given the
training ship Yantic, when it arrived
at Portage Lake Sunday. The boat
has been assigned to the Hancock di.
vision of the Michigan naval reserves.
Attorney General Bird holds that the
1887 bond, recently presented for pay.
ment is a just claim, but advises the
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ton on authorizing it's payment before
making it.
Mrs William Tree, Of Wadhams
was seriously injured by being thrown
from a rig on the bridge in Port HUI.
ron when her horse became frightened
at a car. Her head was cut and she
was hurt internally.
Because of his deafness, E. L. Wei
ton, aged 20, a pioneer resident of
Eaton Rapids, did not hear the ap
proach of Lake Shore excursion train
and was instantly killed. He leaves a
widow and one daughter.
When Editor James H. Hallock, of
the Inlay City Times, returns from a
vacation he will find his assistant, Miss
Maude Dunton, away on wedding
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ry Fred G.. Marshall, of Inlay City.
James HILL Chicago stone contrac.
tor who was visiting his son, James
HILL Jr, was stricken with hem
orrhages on q Battle Creek street car
and died in Chief of Police Earring
tons buggy while being taken to a
hospital
Fully 5000 attended the county
Maccabee picnic in Dryden. Seven
tents of the K o. T. M. and five hives
of the l.. o. 7. NJ. were represented.
Band music, sports and good things
to eat, together with speeches, made
up the program.
Governor Warner is out on a trip
of three weeks to visit homecomings
and state fairs. With Senator William
Alden Smith and Congressman Young
he will attend the Menominee county
fair September 10, where military
review and battalion drill will be held
While leading horse by a rope
halter, from the seat Of a carriage, Mrs.
Horace Wygant, of Kalamazoo, had
the forefinger on her right hand yank-
ed off. The horse made a sudden lunge
forward and the woman was nearly
pulled from her seat, before the finger
gave way.
Although it has been voted to abol-
ish the ordination of women as min
listers in the Methodist Protestant
church in Michigan, an exception was
made in the case of Mrs. Addie Dean
Luke of Kalamazoo. She had already
prepared herself, and was ordained
with class Sunday.
Mrs. Nelson Mitchell, So years old,
of South Park, suburb of Port HUI
ron, who was swept from a trestle by
a Rapid Railway limited car from De-
troit, died in the city hospital Sunday
morning. She is survived by her hus-
band and six grown children. Miss
Nellie Mitchell, daughter of the dead
woman, and Miss Frances Sedora, who