The Yale expositor., 1908-05-01
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

lOWHSnlp, 10 uSuu'
Two OF Hollands police officers have
resigned their city positions and will
work as conductors on the street car
lines.
With 80 subcommittee, a three-day
campaign has been started for $40,-
900 industrial fund for greater Ann
Arbor."
Big Rapids citizens will consider
plans for assisting the Sisters OF
Mercy in rebuilding the hospital re-
Gently burned.
Charles A. Mcclure, OF Muskegon,
was sent to Ionia for two years for
stealing a horse owned by Mrs
Elijah" Dowie.
Prof. j. B. Davis, who resigned as
associate dean of the u. of M. en-.
cheering college, will continue az
head Of the surveying department.
Henry Wallace Clarke, aged SO, su
perintendent of the Calumet q Hecls
Mining Co.'s stamping mills, died sud
| denly of inflammation of the heart
Mrs. William A. Peck, OF Linden,
got $4,000 damages for the death OF
her husband at a Grand Trunk West
ern grade crossing in Swarm Creek.
During a barn raising on the farm
of Thomas Vantine near Watertown
Center, Henry Foster, aged II, fell
from a rafter and may die Of his in
juries.
Benjamin James, a colored stone ma
son, fell down fight of stairs behind
Lansing barber shop and received
| injuries that resulted in his death two
hours later.
Instead Of a huge fish two boys
pulled from the St. Joseph river the
corpse of Charles Carlson, who has
been missing from Berrien Springs fol-
several weeks.
Perjury in securing naturalization
papers is charged against seven men
who must appear in the United States
district court at Grand Rapids and an
swer complaints.
A new bed and couch factory, EN-
| ploying 700 hands, is likely summer
addition to Battle Creeks Industries,
the matter of the transfer being now
under discussion.
Convicted OF cutting out a horses
tongue. Max Minney, one OF the most
mysterious criminals ever convicted in
st. Joseph county, has been denied a
motion for a new trial.
Repair work on the old Buchanan
dam, which was badly damaged dur
ing the recent spring food, will be
completed in about week. The dam
is said to be worth $250,000.
The village of Sparta, Mesaba range,
will be shifted to new location. Ore
underlies the present site, and to per.
NIT OF its economical mining 1t IL
necessary that the town be moved.
While working on a barn, the lad
der on which John Cront, widely
known farmer of Dafter, was standing
turned over, throwing him TO the
ground. killing him almost instantly.
Pere Marquette officials, after an
inspection, announced that $4,000
would be spent at Pentwater for
harbor bridge, track improvements and
a new depot in the center OF the town.
Victor Aho, who was shot by John
Lathi, as the result OF a drunken
brawl, is dead at Marquette. Lathi
who is 81 and has a wife and two chill
dren, is locked up in the county jai
at Alger
Samuel Anger. a Bay City linesman
owes his life to his iron climbers catch
ing on the wires, when he was shocked
and knocked from pole on which he
was at work. He hung head down in
midair until rescued.
John W. Powers was appointed tC
succeed Prosecutor Mcdonald, Of
Grand Rapids, who becomes circuit
Judge. Powers named Rep Colin Camp
bell as his chief assistant. The lid
policy will be continued.
At least one-third of the counties
in Michigan have established county
normal training schools. Berrien coun.
| ty is to have one and st. Joseph is
plugging for all she is worth to have
it located at st. Joseph.
The Michigan Trust Co. OF Grand
Rapids is controlling and operating the
Manistee & Northeastern railroad. The
company got the line along with the
properties of the Buckley & Douglas
Lumber Co. at Manistee. The line is
| 10 miles long.
Contractors at the dam at Berrien
Springs are having some trouble in
securing workmen on the construction
of the big retaining wall. Most of the
Italians have quit and there are few
employed on the wall. IL Is said that
the trouble is over wages.
Charles Prince, of Provement, fell
between the rails in front of M. &
N. E. local freight The pilot ran over
the body and the wheels crushed off
his left arm. A pint of whisky in rear
pocket escaped unbroken. Internal
injuries may result seriously.
II is likely that Port Huron will be
compelled to take the franchise grant
ed to the City Electric railway, a
branch Of the ID. u. r., to the supreme
court on the question as to whether
or not the company is compelled to
keep in repair the roadway between
its tracks in the city. Manager Brooks,
of the company, declined to make such
repairs.
Edward Schweikart Thursday seined
7.412 carp from Lake st. Clair near
the mouth of Clinton river. The haul
was weighed and tipped the beam at
20 tons. Hundreds of the fish weighed
| ovar Q0 pounda Xaatardav,o catch fc