The Yale expositor., 1908-10-02
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Nule ueHtHleu, mTS. MARY CidIh,
aged ", Grayling, hanged herself in
her room.
While driving one of his horses on
the West Branch track, A. l.. Shrig-
ley was attacked by heart failure and
fell dead from the cart.
Prof" Howe, claiming to he an
expert palmist. was fined s25 and or
dered out of Sturgis. He is said to
have obtained money under a pre-
tense of administering cures.
Presented with the alternative OF
signing the pledge or going to jail
for year each, John and Charles Cor
don, of Battle Creek, inebriate broth
ers, chose the former.
John Vogt, AZ, of Jackson, is dead
as the result of being struck by a
piece of timber he was feeding into a
saw, and which kicked back and
struck him in the stomach. He leaves
widow and two children.
Battle Creek claims the dubious dis
tinction of possessing the meanest
man in Michigan in the individual
who held up the young son of a wash
erwoman and took from him 1925 of
his mothers hard-earned money.
When Mrs. Minnie Mitchell divorced
wife of Isaac Mitchell, met the second
wife on the street in Cottreville there
was an alteration in which the sec.
ond Mrs. Mitchell was badly bruised.
The divorced wife paid $40 fine.
While fishing from a canoe near
Thompson, John Burglund hooked a
big fish and in trying to pull it into
the canoe the craft was overturned.
He plunged into 25 feet of water, and
as he could not swim, he was drowned.
After an absence of nearly three
months J. Clinton Frye, the young
Saginaw business man who myster-
iously disappeared and who later To-
Gated in Indiana, returned to the city
barely In time for a reunion with his
wife.
While reading a Detroit paper d.
G. Constable, a Milwaukee travelling
man, saw an account of the death OF
his sister, Mrs. Grace Durham, the
Detroit woman burned to death in
Strasburg's dancing academy there
He collapsed.
Gov Johnson, of Minnesota, has
honored the requisition for George A.
Hamilton, who is accused of sending
a bomb to sheriff August Beck, OF
Houghton, who once arrested him
Hamilton has been held in Duluth on
! forgery charges.
James Parrish, of Lansing, is nurs
| ing broken leg as a result of birth
day celebration. Some of his friends
! began pounding him once for eyerJ
year that he was old. In trying &c
elude them, Parrish fell and broke his
! leg in two places.
A boy shouting Fire" when the
film on a moving picture machine
caught fire precipitated a panic in g
Kalamazoo theater Friday night
John Farnieau, operator on the ma
chine, was badly burned about the
neck and ears and an usher who at
tempted to stop the rush for the ex
its was knocked down and trampled
upon.
The committee making a canvass
| of the private homes of the city tC
secure accommodations for the visit
ors to the state teachers convention
to be held in Saginaw Oct 20, 30 and
81, reports that they have secured
accommodations for 4,263, with toe
canvass incompleted. With the no
tells, IL is thought that $500 can be
taken care Of
When Rev. and Mrs. ID. @. Barry, o.
the South Park Baptist church, Port
Huron, returned to the parsonage
Sunday night they used the oil stove
to prepare a lunch and forgot 10 turr
II of when they retired. They were
awakened by an explosion and found
themselves surrounded by flames
They succeeded in escaping anC
though one part of the house wai
wrecked neighbors aided the pastor
to save the rest.
Frank Washington and Edward
Wells, two negroes confined in the
st. Joseph Jail. hit Turnkey Johr
Humphrey on the head with an iror
bar as he was locking up the cells
Monday night, rendering him uncon
scious. They then made their escape
The Sixteenth Michigan Regimen
OF Volunteers in twenty-eighth annua
reunion elected as officers: President
ID. w. Green, Greenville; vice-presi
dent, Thomas r. Stockton, Flint; sec
rotary and treasurer, James A. Nc
Knight, this city; executive commit
tee, George Hilton, T. s. Stockton, r
@. Ormsbee, all of Flint. The next re