The Yale expositor., 1908-05-22
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

The body of Mrs. August Bodtke,
aged SO, of Arden, was found in shall
low pond. She had been melancholy.
At the 273rd anniversary Of the fam.
Gus Boston Latin school, Charles o
Pengre, of Ovid, gave the class ora
ton.
State Senator A. j. futile has an
nounced his candidacy for another
term in the Ingham- Shiawassee dis.
trict.
Mrs. Josiah Thaw, OF Pittsburg, wife
of brother of Harry Thaw, is visiting
her father, John w. Thompson, in Port
Huron.
Because of slack freight conditions
the Pere Marquette has placed all
shop employees and repair gangs on
half time at Saginaw.
Leaving a note in which he said he
did not blame his wife, but was lust
tired of life" Daniel Roe, OF Dimon-
dale took his life with strychnine.
Merry widow" hats displayed in
the window of Bradford's millinery
store at ST. Joseph were stolen. The
police are holding two women as sus
poets.
w. V. Marsh, arrested two weeks
ago on complaint OF the wife he de
serted at Allegan. was sentenced in
Laporte, Ind. to serve from two to
five years for bigamy.
Chauncey s. Boucher, of Marion,
Ind, and Leonard c. Read, of Cheboy
gan, were elected managing editor and
hnc % b.,
Michiganensian, the L. of NJ annual.
The remains of Willis Stone were
found under the Edging dock Wednes.
day night. His body is the first TO be
recovered of the three who were
drowned in Muskegon lake two weeks
ago
Oxford business men declined TO
contribute money for street sprinkling
because of alleged poor business, due
to the local option law. The council
also declined to appropriate any funds
for the purpose.
Sheriff Paquette has started a cru
SADIE against slot machines in Wexford
county. 1t is said that the machines
abound in the little towns and the
sheriff is putting them out of business
as rapidly as possible
In reply TO the charges OF the Law
and Order league that % gambling
places were flourishing in Port HUI
ron, Mayor Bell has offered a reward
of 800 for every gambling place
found doing business in Port Huron.
Mrs. Jessie L. Mitchell. OF Ionia.
Mich, is in hot contest with Mrs.
Eunice Wilbur, Beatrice, Neb, for the
position of supreme receiver OF the SUI
preme council of the Royal Neighbors
of America, whose encampment opened
here today.
Attorney Willis Baldwin, of Monroe
gave notice to the council that the To
ledo, ottawa Beach & Northern rail
way would ask for franchise through
Monroe 1t is planned to extend the
line to Trenton or Flat Rock and pos
sibly Detroit
The "drys" of Lake Odessa won a
victory Wednesday when the supreme
court denied a writ of certiorari in
the case brought in the lonia circuit
court to have declared invalid the vii.
laSe ordinance which prohibits the
sale OF liquor
DR. c. l.. Barber of Lansing, pleaded
guilty of violating the automobile
speed law in the circuit court at Ithaca
and was fined SOS. S. Wilker. whose
team became frightened at the doc
tors machine and ran away with him,
his wife and daughter, made the com
plant
David Philbrick, of San Francisco,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Lydia Walsh,
living near North Star, whom he had
not seen for 80 years. While recuperat-
ing in Vermont from injuries received
in the San Francisco disaster he
learned that his sister was living in
Michigan.
VIM. Huller, the Climax farmer who
was shot by an unknown assailant on
the night of April IA, is in a critical
condition and il is feared that he is
suffering from lockjaw. Should he die
the charge against his son Fred, now
held for the shooting, will be changed
to murder.
Thomas Draper, manager Of the Ora
per Manufacturing Co., has reported to
the Port Huron police that he found
a stick of burning wood in his fac.
tory He believes that an attempt was
made to burn the factory because OF
his connection with the Law and Or.
der league.
Ward Copeland, former hotel clerk,
who was tarred and feathered in
! Charlotte a few years ago because OF
/ alleged misconduct with a waitress
was taken into custody at Lansing "a
| be examined as to his sanity. Broodine
4 over the trouble is believed to have
/ deranged him.
Planning retaliation upon the tenn
perance advocates, saloonkeepers OF
! Houghton county held a meeting today
and formulated plans for closing all
\ drug and confectionery stores on Sun.
day. Under orders from Judge Street
/ er, Of the circuit court, the lid was ex
/ tended TO Keweenaw county.
Given shore leave from the u s.
/ torpedo boat destroyer Hull, in AGA
I pulco. Mex, Roy Gargrove Brooks, OF
1 Saginaw, and two companions missed
/ the boat on its departure. Fearing a
charge of desertion. they started
! overland TO the capital 200 miles