The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-10-09
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

U. of NJ. campus October 9.
The partridge season opens October
1. but this species of game will be
scarce owing to the forest fires.
John Lissila, OF Painesdale, has
been bound over for trial on a charge
OF attempting to cut off the head Of
Isaac Martikkala.
Receiving no response to her call
for breakfast, Mrs. David S. Buss, OF
Owosso, found her husband, an en-
ploye OF the Ann Arbor railroad for
Fl years, dead in bed
Charles Forester, OF Grand Haven,
In reaching for an article in the water
fell from a rowboat and Charles Me-
sick, his companion, jumped in to save
him. Both were drowned.
John NJ. Ward, who killed the wife
he deserted % years before and was
caught after hiding in the swamps
near Bitely for a week, was found
guilty of second degree murder.
The Bay County Agricultural So
ciety elected as officers: President,
George Schindehette; vice president,
George Hastings; secretary, T. l..
Fox; treasurer, Jas. c. McCabe.
One month ago the Soldiers home,
against the wishes of the board, gave
the inmates all their pension moneys.
The first monthly report shows that
drunkenness has increased 70 per
cent.
Frank Vogli, aged 20, of Kalkaska,
shot himself through the heart. He
pressed the trigger of the shotgun
with his toe. He was found by a neigh
Dor In a nearby barn. He left a note
saying: II am sick and cannot work,
so must die"
Judge Chittenden instructed Cad
lilac jury to bring in a verdict of
guilty of violation OF the local option
law by William Peterson. He admit
ted serving beer to his guests at a
recent surprise party. The Judge holds
you cannot treat friends in the county
to liquor.
"Damme, they could have done Il in
10 minutes" declared Thomas Will
Jams, of Houghton, aged wife murder
er, when the jury brought in a verdict
of second degree murder. Williams
killed his wife because she elected
him from the house when he came
home drunk.
This is nice day. but II is dark to
me; II has been ever since / buried
my loving wife six months ago. l
hate TO do this, but il is the only
way" wrote Grin Parish, young
Allendale farmer, in local rooming
house before shooting himself dead.
His wife died last May.
"A bank examiner should be as good
a banker. as good a business man, as
good a Judge of credit and as good
an accountant as the officers in the
bank he examines" said Lawrence o.
Murray, comptroller of the currency.
only such men will be appointed ex-
aminers while | am comptroller"
The private bank at Bentley owned
by Gladwin parties was robbed by
yeggmen Tuesday night, who blew
open the safe and got away with the
contents without leaving any clue.
Bentley is in the extreme northern
corner of the county. The amount of
money secured has not yet been
learned.
Candidates on the Republican ticket
have been notified that this year they
will be expected to contribute real
cash to the campaign fund. The mat
ter of assessments has been left to
the newly appointed executive COM
mittee, and it is rumored that there
will be a raise all along the line. The
practice of allowing candidates to
work out" their assessments by taking
the stump, will be done away with.
After six weeks of married life
Wallace B. Patton, aged %, and Miss
Verne Upp, aged II, of Port Huron,
have decided TO part and the groom
has asked for an ;Alnulment OF the
union, asserting that at the time of
the marriage his wife gave her age as
IL, whereas she was less than 16. The
couple went to Sarnia in August, hav-
Ing just met, and their relatives were |
kept in ignorance of the union for sew
eral days.
Workmen using rakes to clean the |
bottom of the mill pond at Three Riv- |
ers solved a disappearance mystery. |
The dead body of Alfred Hall, %, was
brought to the surface. Hall, farm |
hand whose home was In town, but |
who was employed on a place about |
two miles out, was about town Satur- I
lay evening, and was finally advised /
by friends to go home. He started, /
a bundle of laundry. He was |
never seen again alive. When his I
body was taken from the water the /
laundry bundle was also found.
The payment of SIS to Engelbert
by order of the probate |
court marks the closing up of hero
fund established In Saginaw 20 years |
ago. The boys father, Engelbert 4
lost his life in trying to
rescue two boys from the river, leav-
ng a young widow and two baby boys
N destitute circumstances. The sum
)f $1,000 was raised for them by pop
liar subscription. Part OF the money
was paid at once to the widow, and
he balance was put out at interest
'or the two boys. 10 be paid to them
when they attained their majority.
DR.. Charles w. Marshall, head of
he meteorological department Of the
Michigan Agricultural college, will
lead a report on "A Preventative for
Hog Cholera" at the international tu-
congress In Washington.
DR.. Marshall has discovered that II
20 grains of blood from an animal
which has survived an attack of
,holera is injected into the circulatory
Vstam of an animal auaoanfihIa 20 tbo |