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The Yale expositor., 1908-08-14
HAPPENINGS
IN OUR STATE
THE MYSTERY WHICH STARTLED
SAGINAW is PARTLY
SOLVED.
WOMAN PROTECTS MAN
Refuses to Tell Who Was Responsible
for Her Disgrace and Claims That
Drowning Was Accidental.

The police have discovered the
mother of the baby who was found
drowned in the river at Saginaw. She
is Miss Mabel Lennon, who resides
with her widowed mother at 873 North
Fourth street. She has been working
as a telephone operator and helping
to support her mother. She has been
placed under arrest, together with Jo-
seph Duffy, who is suspected OF hav-
ing been the go-between, carrying
money and messages to the girl from
the father of the child. Miss Lennon
admits to the police that she is the
mother of the child She did not make
the admission, however, until the two
nurses from the woman's hospital, who
attended her there as Mrs. J. c. Os-
ton, were taken to police headquarters
and positively identified her as the
mother of the infant and the woman
who had taken the baby away in n
coupe the night ii was drowned.
Miss Lennon declared the drown
ing was accidental. denying almost
Historically that she had murdered the
baby. She said: II left the hospital
with the intention of going away from
Saginaw for a time until | could leave
the baby at some institution or find
home for II. | intended taking a train
from the Pere Marquette station for
Flint, but as l was known here | de-
cided to have the cabman drive me
across the river at Mershon, which is
an out-of-the-way place, and just be-
fore the train arrived, cross the bridge
and board it. The night was dark and
after the cab left | walked with the
baby, which had awakened and was
crying. | was afraid some one would
hear II crying and carried il up and
down the street as | had seen the
nurses do at the hospital to quiet il.
After l had succeeded in quieting the
baby / walked to the bridge and laid
the baby on the rail of the bridge to
rest myself Then the baby suddenly
awakened and rolled off into the wa
ter"
She still protects the name OF her
lover, and has defied all the efforts
of the police to wiring his identity
from her.
The Yale expositor., 1908-08-14
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR.
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.
PERSONAL.

President Roosevelt believes there
is great need of Improvement in the
sanitary, economic and social condi'
tions on farms in America, and wishes
to send a message on the subject to
congress next year To obtain facts
and recommendations he has asked
five experts on country life to conduct
an inquiry into the matter and report
to him.
Harry X. Thaw, through counsel,
filed a voluntary petition in Pittsburg,
his assets being put at $12S,Ol2 and
liabilities at $453, 140. The action was
taken because Thaw disputes the
claims of a number of lawyers and
doctors.
Candidate Taft drove 40 miles over
the mountains, lent himself as the
chief feature of Greenbriar county S
first horse show at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, and in the evening
led the german at the Greenbriar
hotel.
President Roosevelt made a state
ment assuming all responsibility for
the discharge OF negro soldiers for
the Brownsville affair and saying Mr..
Taft had nothing to do with 1t.
The shah of Persia pawned his
crown Jewels with the Russian bank
for $250,0O0.
The condition of Col. William F..
Villas Of Wisconsin has shown so little
Improvement that his family and
friends now fear that he may not re-
cover.
Moses c. Wetmore of St Louis was
appointed chairman of the finance
committee for the Democratic cam
paign.
A warrant was issued in San Fran
cisco for the arrest of Frederick Dorr,
the broker, who recently closed his
Offices, on the charge of embezzlement
Count Zeppelin started on 24-hour
journey in his great dirigible airship,
his course being from Friedrichshafen
to Mayence and return.
Robert Eastman, New York stock
broker was arrested in Chicago on
charge of obtaining money by false
pretenses.
President Fallieres returned TO
Paris after his series of visits to Eu-
ropean monarchs.
Miss Amanda Murphy of Lima, o.,
died at hospital from the effects OF a
religious fast which she had main
tanned for six weeks.
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GENERAL NEWS.

Father George Valley, pastor Of st.
Columbkill's church, Cleveland, and
Charles w. Pohlmann, a wealthy mer-
chant tailor of the same city, were
instantly killed when their automobile
plunged over an embankment near
Sylvania, o.
Striking miners at Blocton, Ala,
fired on a Birmingham Mineral road
passenger train, killing three men and
wounding IL others. OF the latter
three are likely to die.
Two police officers Of Methuen,
Mass, were found beaten to death,
presumably by chicken thieves.
Gov Wilson of Kentucky issued a
statement scoring the county judge
and county attorney of Bracken coun.
ty for disregard of their oaths and
open sympathy with might riders"
Mrs. Bertha Hood, 80 years old, was
shot and instantly killed at her home
in Brooklyn by Ernest Seitz, "a years
old, who also shot her baby and him
self.
The Gloucester fish schooner Mag.
gle and May was run down by the
German school ship Freya 60 miles of
Halifax harbor and nine of her crew,
including Capt. Erick McCarthoran,
persisted.
Four children lost their lives and
five persons were seriously injured in
a fire which practically destroyed a
five-story tenement building in New
York.
Charlie Lokie, a negro about Is
years of age, was lynched at Triton
Ga, for making insulting remarks to
a young white woman.
Receivers were. appointed for the
Pillsbury-W ashburn Flour Mills com
pany at Minneapolis, incident to re-
organization.
Cleveland Brown, aged IA years, of
Deane, KY, eloped with Frona Bel.
wins, aged IL, and married her.
Myths Erickson, Danish explorer
and two companions perished in a
storm on an ice foe on the northeast
ern coast of Greenland.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, charged
with forgery, who escaped from the
sheriff in the swamps near Bay City
Mich, was recaptured.
"Ty" Cobb, noted bSllplayer Of the
Detroit American league team, was
married to Miss Charlotte Lombard
daughter of wealthy citizen of Au
gusta, Ga
About 10000 mechanics OF the Cana
dian Pacific railway went On strike
every shop in the system being closed
The battleship Virginia took or
board 1867 tons of coal in four hours
at an average of 416.75 tons an hour
at Puget Sound, Wash. setting a new
coaling record
Three German military balloonistt
who landed near Warsaw were arrest
ed by the Russian authorities.
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Mrs. Barnett Is Found.

After having broken through a cor
don of sheriff's deputies and lodged
a posse of 40 farmers who were hunt
ing for her in the wilds of Bay coun-
ty, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett has beer
captured through the cleverness of
John Mcdonald, who keeps the vii.
lage hotel in Crump, Baldwin county.
Mrs. Barnett had travelled so miles
across country living on what she
could pick up for three days and two
nights and sleeping in the open. She
arrived in Estey, Baldwin county, We'd
nesday, and to avoid suspicion made
inquiries about some relatives who
she said, had squatted in the north,
western part OF the county.
Samuel Walker, a resident of Estey
said he was going about 20 miles in
that direction and offered to give her
a lift. Mrs. Barnett accepted and
drove with him to Crump. There she
put up at McDonald's hotel and was
recognized by the hotelkeeper, who
had seen her In jail when he was on
visit to Bay City recently.
He betrayed no suspicion, but when
the woman had retired for the night
he quietly telephoned to Sheriff Hart
ley, who Immediately got a team and
brought her back. She says she did
not escape from the sheriff, but that
he went away and left her in the
swamp. She was coming back any.
way, she says, TO give herself up.
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Girl Suicide.

Captola Henderson, 20, daughter Of
John Henderson, tenant farmer liv-
ing near Charlotte, committed suicide
by injecting carbolic acid into her sys-
TEN. The attitude of the body when
found showed that she had died in in
tense agony The young woman left
the house about $3.50 o'clock, telling
her parents that she was going to
pick blackberries. At IL o'clock. when
she did not return. search was made
for her, and her dead body was found
face downward, with a half empty
bottle Of carbolic acid nearby. A short
distance away was the instrument
with which she had injected the fluid.
A scream was heard coming from
the direction of the berry patch a
short time before she was found. but
the girls parents paid no attention
to II.
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Greatest Strike on Record.

The biggest labor dispute which the
industrial history of Canada has
known eliminated Wednesday in the
form of a general strike when EN-.
ployes OF mechanical departments OF
the Canadian Pacific railroad from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, some 5000 in
number laid down their tools and
quit work because the decision Of the
cancellation board which was appoint.
ed under the Lemieux act of the Ca
madam parliament was not in accord
with what they wanted
Not merely in the number of men
involved is the magnitude of the walk.
out indicated, but in the fact that II
involves the greater financial interests
and covers more territory than any
other strike which has heretofore been
recorded in railway circles
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ThaW's Money.

Harry Kendall Thaw's voluntary pc
tition In bankruptcy marks the first
move in his definite intention to d.
vorce Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Once he
is free, according to a close friend of
the family, Harry intends entering
on a new era. which comprehends the
renouncing of his former methods of
life. With tears In her eyes and her
voice trembling with emotion, Mrs.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw denied that she
is responsible for her husbands des-
perate financial condition. In sorrow
rather than in anger she refuted the
statement of ex-Gov. Stone, of Pitts
burg, who filed the petition In bank
ruptcy in behalf of Thaw, that her
extravaganza resulted in Thaw's en-
barrassment.
Attorney Daniel O'Reilly, who is
credited with doing much of the work
to keep Thaw from the chair, and
who has been a close friend of both
Mr.. and Mrs. Thaw throughout the
long case, was astonIsned when he
heard that Thaw had filed a petition
in bankruptcy. He said: Il am going
to take steps at once to protect my
claim. He says he owes me $4,000. He
owes me more than that and what is
more, he will pay It,"
O'Reilly may ask to have Mrs Thaw
appointed guardian OF the estate and
person OF her husband.
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lonia Has Fire BUGS.

Six fires of incendiary origin in as
many weeks have put Ionia people in
a state of apprehension closely border
ing on terror. The work of the fire.
bugs eliminated Sunday in the burn
ing Of the abadoned city hall, which
spread to the city opera house and the
residence of Benjamin Shuts, doing
about $4,000 damage on those two
places.
The identity OF the incendiary and
his motive are puzzles to the local
officials. 1t was thought that the mys-
terry was solved when William Cicero
was arrested three weeks ago and was
said to have confessed to firing the
hall over Phelps grocery store. Cicero
has been confined In Jail ever since
and there have been two fires Of the
same character as the others.
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The Woman's Choice.

There was a dramatic interruption
to the marriage of VIM. J. Hildebrand
and Mrs. Nettie Chestnut Cleveland,
of Hillsdale. When the officiating min
lister asked the usual question as to
whether anyone knew of any obstacle
to the wedding, the woman's first
husband, from whom she was d.
vorced several years ago, arose,
claimed her as his wife and said he
wanted her. The minister told the wo-
man to choose between the two men.
When last seen the three were walk
ing away together.
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CONDENSED NEWS.

John W. Kern will be officially noti
hed of his selection by the Democrats
tc run for the vice-pre~ idency August
25 in Indianapolis and on the state fair
grounds.
Yeijiro Ono, a Japanese banker in
New York, has received a telegram
from his native country saying trade
shows a great revival and finoncial
conditions are much improved.
Winding up his campaign for Judge
Judge George A. Vandevear, of Hutch.
Inson, Kas., was instantly killed when
his auto was STRUCK by a train. Primar.
les were Tuesday.
Henri Farman is planning a public
hight at which he will endeavor to bet
ter the worlds aeroplane record of IL
miles in 20 minutes and 20 seconds,
made by him. He says the United
States government requirements are
absurd
Samuel Mccullough, Galeton, Pa,
was bitten on the finger by rattle
snake while alone in the woods, and
with a revolver shot of the end OF the
finger. While the treatment was effec-
tive his doctor told him IL was I'M
necessary.
Because she refused to tell what she
had done with 25 cents Lizzie Macy
aged 4. had her hands wrapped in pa.
per by her mother in Cleveland and
the paper lighted. The hands were
burned to a crisp. I'VE we're so poor
and need the money so much I was
crazed when the quarter was gone,
walled Mrs. Macy on trial. She was
sent TO the workhonse.
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The Sultan Stabbed.

The sultan of Turkey was stabbed
In the breast on Monday night by a
minor police official. The coat OF mail
which the sultan always wears defect
ed the blow. The would.be assassin
was arrested. Apparently he had been
bribed to commit the act, as he had
large sum of gold in his pockets and
his baggage was packed ready for
flight.
The Yale expositor., 1908-08-14
Big Wheat Crop.

Michigan has one of the best wheat
crops in recent years, according TO
the bulletin issued today from the sec
rotary of states office. The average
yield was II bushels to the acre, and
the grain was of excellent quality.
Lack Of rain during July is said to
have seriously affected corn, potatoes
and beans, but nevertheless the pros.
poets are good for an average crop,
provided there is sufficient rain from
now until they are fully matured. Oats
were a fair crop. the average yield
being 81 bushels TO the acre.
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Edward Lean, farm hand, and Leila
Healer, aged 4, OF Battle Creek, were
badly bitten by bulldog.
Joseph Whiteloon, an Indian from
Sugar Island, fell from sailboat near
the dyke, 16 miles below the 500, and
was drowned.
Anthony Grobbel, Warren farmer,
was caught In a separator while ad-
1usting a belt Thursday and his left
arm twisted nearly of.
Gov Warner has issued his requisi.
tion for Robert Campbell, the Jack
son lawyer arrested in Philadelphia on
charges OF embezzlement.
Gladys Robinson, aged s, OF Traverse
City, was struck by a locomotive and
tossed IN the air, but escaped with
only slight cut on her ear.
Attorney General Bird has notified
the Michigan Institution for the Blind
that IL cannot under the law admit
blind persons from other states.
The pupils Of Longfellow school,
Saginaw, earned $25 by wedding the
lawn OF the United States Graphite
Co.'S plant. and spent the money on
an outing at Riverside park.
long string of cattle sheds on the
Eaton county fair grounds were de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday causing a
loss of 5000. Tramps sleeping in the
buildings are believed to have caused
the fire.
Mrs. I. Fl. Beckett, of Lansing, who
mysteriously disappeared from her ho-
s.I d. Do
was located Wednesday in Erie, Pa,
where she had been working In a res
taurant for several days.
Roy Guenther, the Ann Arbor cleo
trician who reported to the police last
week that he had been robbed of dia-
monds worth $500 for which he offered
reward of SIS. has confessed to the
police that his story was a fake.
Walter Holmes, a young Dundee
farmer, was stabbed in the side by
Denis Smith, a man of 76. They had
spent the day together and Holmes is
said to have attacked the old man
while under the influence of liquor.
Abijah Paine, the man who had the
point of an umbrella poked into his
eye about three months ago at the
Grand Central hotel, Bay City, for
which John Mcconnell was arrested,
Is dead at the county farm and his
assailant may have TO stand trial for
murder.
During the fair to be held beginning
September 10, Menominee will enter
tain the greatest number OF noted per
sons ever assembled in a city of lis
size. Among those who will be pres
ent are Vice-President Charles w.
Fairbanks, United States Senators
William Alden Smith, of Michigan
and Isaac X. Stephenson. of Wiscon.
sin; Hon. Chase Osborne and Briga-
dier-General Robert Bates. of the 500 (;
James Russell and James McNaugh-
ton, of Marquette, and many others.
Benjamin Weaver. son OF a former
sheriff of Midland county, visited the
Bay county jail and after looking at
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett declared that
he believed she was the same woman
who was arrested a number of years
ago. together with another woman, for
stealing team of horses from Ithaca.
Miss Margaret Sleith. matron at the
Methodists' Orphan home at st. Louis.
Mo-, was spending her vacation in
South Haven when she was notified
that khe had been charged with Grim.
inal carelessness I'm connection with
the death OF child who was burned
in the orphanage. She left at once TO
meet the charge
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Careless Hunter Killed.

With the lower part of his face
completely shot away and a charge
of shot in his brain, John Cattell, of
Grass Lake, lived six hours Saturday,
dying in Jackson hospital Cattell
went hunting in the afternoon taking
with him for company two of the
Grass Lake village boys. They had
gotten about two miles from town
when Cattell. pausing to rest. leaned
his chin on the muzzle of his gun. AS
nearly as can be determined from the
story told later by the excited boys,
Cattell's leg accidentally came in con
tact with the trigger of the gun, and
IL was exploded.
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Week Ending August Is.
TEMPLE THEATER VAUDE E.
VILLE-Afternoons, 2:15, 10c to Csc.
Evenings. s:15, 10c to soc. The Kountry
Kids.
NEW LAFAYETTE-Movi pic
lures and vaudeville. and 10 cents.
ELECTRIC PARK Belle Isle Bridge.
furnishes entertainment for all. Free
vaudeville by high class talent, a spe.
cial feature.
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Grain. Etc.

Detroit.-Wheat-Ca No 2 red CSC
September opened with a drop Of 1c
at &c, fluctuated within narrow limits
and closed at 97c; December opened at
May opened at si.Cs. declined . to
$1.02A and advanced to $1.03; No 3
red 93c; No l white. csc.
Corn-Cash No 8, soc; No 3 yellow, 3
cars al sec: No 4 yellow, | car at sic.
Oats-Cash No 2 white. cars at
81 nc; No white, old. soc; new. cars
at 5Ohc;- August, 5000 bu at soc. 5000
bu at 49Rc; September, 5000 bu at
acc, 5000 blu at 4shc; No 4 white, /
Rye1cash No 2, cars at 7sc; Au-
: Bea1s-cash, sass; October. s2.lO;
Cloverseed-Prime October. 100 bags
at $500 March. 200 bags at $3.50:
sample alsike, II bags at 50. at $3.50,
s at SIS, II at 81.
Timothy seed--Prime spot, 40 bags
at $1.95.
Feed-In 100-lb sacks, iobbng lots:
Bran. $26: coarse middings, $27; fine
middlings $2S: cracked corn and
coarse cornmeal. $34; corn and oat
chop, s31 per ton.
Flour-Michigan patent best. $500;
ordinary patent, S4.75, straight, $4.40;
clear. s4.15 per Dbl I'm wood.
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TREE METHODIaT

Service hours:-Class meeting 10 Q.
m; Sunday school IL a. m; Preaching
at 100 p. m. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday. All are cordially invited
TO attend these. E. b. Call, Pastor.
The Yale expositor., 1908-08-14

The North Michigan Carriers asso-
citation meets ut Tawas City on Labor
day. Sept Z, with the postmasters OF
The district.
Fred. A. Baker, OF Detroit. has
brought mandamus proceedings in the
Oakland county circuit court 70 test
the constitutioaality OF the Michigan
mortgage tax law Jacob Stumpf of
Royal Oak, who was assessed $4,000
on mortgages held by him. is named
as relator and the defendants are
Louis Stors. supervisor OF Royal Oak
township, and Henry N. Lavery and
John Benjamin, members OF the board
of review
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METHODIST PROTESTANT.

Service hours:-Class meeting at 10
.. m; preaching at 1920: Sunday school
at IL 80; Junior c. K. at 3p. M; preach
ing att. Prayermeeting every Thurs.
day evening at 1880.
All cordially invited to attend these
services. w. S. Ostrander, Pastor.
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! 9BURcB NOTES.
= The Pastors Of the Various Churches Of
Y the Village Are Invited to Hand In
Church Items Each Week
CHURCH OF CHRIST.

Communion service at 1890 a. m.
preaching at IL 90; Bible School at 90;
9. K. at $50 p. m; and preaching at 7:30;
Prayer Meeting Thursday evening at
1880. A ialinvitation to these sery.
ices Is extended to all.
J. A. Bullock, Minister.
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Charles Tralkalke, OF Grayling, was
run over by a train at Pinconning
and both legs cut off. He will die.
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steamer. Ie.x,,p De,ro,,.

DETROIT & BUFFALO STEAMSHIP
CO-Foot of Wayne St For Buffalo
and Niagara Falls daily p. m. Week
end trip, $3.50.
WHITESTAR LINE-Foot OF Girls
void St For Port Huron and way
ports. week days at $40 a. m. and 2:30
p. m. Sundays at 500 a. m. and $3.50 p.
m For Toledo daily at S:15 a. m. and
100 D. m. Sunday at S:45 a. m. and 5
p. m.
DETROIT AND CLEVELAND NAVI-
CATION CO.--Fott OF Wayne St For
Cleveland and eastern points daily at
1890 D. IN. For Mackinaw and way
ports: Monday and Saturday D. m,
Wednesday and Friday at $3.50 a. IN.
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Ty Cobb Is Married.

Rev. George Walker Thursday
morning united in marriage Ty Cobb
and Charlie Lombard, the ceremony
taking place at The Oaks" the pref.
ty summer home OF Miss Lombard's
parents.
Extreme simplicity characterized
the ceremony. Miss Lombard had no
formal attendants and wore a simple
but becoming travelling costume Mr.
Cobb was attended by Mr.. Will Sheer
on. local friend.
Both bride and groom sought TO
avoid publicity but the scores of adj.
mirers OF the great ball PLAYER fairly
forced themselves into the place
where the marriage was performed.
The couple left In the afternoon for
Detroit, the honeymoon trip being
postponed until the winter.
Mrs James L. Franks. of Muskegon.
was taken to the Northern Michigan
asylum at Traverse City Monday. Her
condition is believed to be due to the
excessive heat Several attendants
we're needed to convey her to the asy-
lum.
Membership in the Socialist party
is growing rapidly in Ann Arbor and
many of the professors I'm the univer-
sity are among its most active mem
bers. James Williams, national organ
izer OF the party addressed a large
crowd on the courthouse square Mon
day evening, and was enthusiastically
received.
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PRESBYTERIAN.

Regular services In the Presbyterian
church next Sunday. Preaching at
1890 a. m. and 100 p m. Sunday school
ct ii AS a. m.
Prayermeeting every Thursday even
Ing. All cordially invited to attend
these services. K. II. Douglass, Pastor