Charlevoix county herald., 1907-10-05
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

| county Iarm burned, loss @o,UVu.
| Twelve paroles were granted by the
/ state board OF pardons at the meet
ing held n Jackson last week.
South Michigan was visited by a
severe frost and late corn and vege-
tables ruined In some sections.
Abe Druax, of Henderson, was
crushed between a threshing machine
engine and separator. and died.
]. F. Platt, 79, for the past fifty
years one Of the most prominent busf
ness men OF Coldwater, Is dead.
The biggest fair In the records of
Arenac county closed at Standish Fri
day with an attendance of 5000.
A heavy frost has visited Muske-
| gon and Oceana counties destroying
crops worth thousands Of dollars.
Joseph Boylan, aged II, of Benton
Harbor, was asphyxiated. He left the
burners in gas range wide open.
Reed City's Tri-County fair opened
with excellent attractions but poor at
| tendance because of heavy rains.
Henry Weurding, aged 72, living
near Forest Grove, was struck by an
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! killed.
| Nine tramps who refused to obey
| trainmen's orders to leave freight
train were met at Vassar by officers
and seven arrested.
William Herrick was arrested in
| Gaylord by Detectives Maynard and
Cunningham, of Saginaw, charged with
abandoning his child.
After writing a farewell letter to
his grandchildren, George Jewett, aged
72, of Jackson, shot and killed him.
self because of i'll health.
|. Prof. M. E. Cooley, of the U. of M,
has been selected as a member of the
interstate commerce commission board
to test railroad signal devices.
Mrs. Mary E. Fitzsimmons, of Mum
Gle, Ind, died while upon a visit to
her sister, Mrs. James Cook, of Ann
Arbor. She was 73 years old.
Mrs. Lorinda Dennis, widow of a
Civil war veteran, is dead at the age
of 70 at Muir. She leaves three sons.
Her husband died last December.
General Manager Bramlee says the
receipts of the M. u. r. lines will
a
pass law goes into effect January !
Atty.-Gen. Bird began suit against
the Postal Telegraph Co. for penalty
of $4,000, charging that the company
has not filed articles of incorporation.
Within the next two weeks, the
new shoe factory, which has been
completed at Hopkins, will be in op-
Grafton. Thirty men will be given
employment at the start.
Harlan Page Smith, Ga, one of the
best known real estate dealers in the
Saginaw valley, graduate in the law
department in the u. of NJ, is dead.
A widow and one son survive.
Tillman's store in Houghton was
entered by safe-blowers during Sat
urday night, who cracked the safe,
securing a small amount of plunder
for their trouble. There is no clue.
From the sale of delinquent tax
lands at the land commissioners Of
flee last week the state realized $780,
900. Some of the lands sold are of
considerable value, and brought good
prices.
Martin Poultney, the Detroit man
arrested in Gaylord some time ago on
charge of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm, has been found
guilty in the circuit court and remand
ed for sentence.
Oscar Labadee, not yet 20, has
been bound over on a charge of steal
ing $50 from Paul Delisle, of Flint.
with whom he spent Thursday night.
He has been within the clutches of
the law twice before.
The two children Of Mrs. Althea
Desmond, who was recently refused
a divorce from her husband, have been
abducted from Port Huron by
strange man. 1t is said the woman's
husband has disappeared.
Catherine Carver, of Grand Rapids,
wife Of Robert j. Carver" the dentist,
who, 1t is charged, married II times
and is now wanted in Battle Creek and
Port Huron has sued for divorce, al
leging desertion and non-support.
Charles Loder, Al years old. who
confessed to having committed an as
sault on his 11-year-old daughter was
sentenced by Judge West, of Lansing,
to the extreme penalty in such cases,
minimum of five and maximum of
ten years.
Although he has lived with his girl
wife but short time, Clarence Walk
er, of Detroit, has signed bonds to
pay $3.50 per week to support their
child. In 1906 Walkers married Miss
Bessie Hanson, then Is years of age.
in Windsor.
After she had failed to find her
son in the morgue, Mrs. G. w. Messen-
ger, of Battle Creek, went to police
headquarters and swore out war
rant for his arrest, charging grand
larceny. She hopes to locate him in
this manner.
In two addresses, one before the |
young men, and one before the young
women of Olivet college, President
Lancaster denounced the college mat |