The Yale expositor., 1908-09-18
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


Shepherd is TO have a complete
water and sewer system and electric
light plant.
Judge West said the bonds only re-
quire Glazier to appear at trial and he
can leave the state IL he so desires.
West Michigan fair officers refused
a permit for the exhibit of 20 women
in sheath gowns In Art hall, holding
sheath gowns are not art"
Michael H. Moriarty, OF Iron county.
will represent the thirty-first district
in the state senate for still another
term. He was unanimously renomin.
ated by the Republican convention.
Arrested a year ago as a tramp anu
given IL hours to leave town, Jack
Mccall returned aud conducted ser.
vices In the Dowagiac Methodist
church. He was converted in a Kala.
mazoo mission.
To save her son, aged 10, from the
alleged unfeeling taunts and pranks of
playmates, Mrs. j. J. Seat, colored, OF
Lansing, has asked permission to at.
tend school and daily spend her entire
time by his side.
Mrs. Carl Schultz, who disappeared
from her Owosso home several DAYS
ago, wrote to her husband from De.
troit that she was weary of home and
intended to wander until she found a
good place TO rest.
Mrs. Essie Madison. aged 81, OF
Grand Rapids. sprinkled gasoline over
the floor while cleaning house. A
dropped match ignited it and she was
probably fatally burned in trying TO
extinguish the flames.
While trying to rescue a horse from
an Infatuated bull. William Hollis,
aged IS, of Owosso, slipped and fell
He was in danger of being gored when
Leon Barley, a NJ. n. G. member on
his way to practice, shot the bull
from a distance of so yards.
Five horses persisted in a fire which
destroyed the large barn of William
Teska, FIVE miles southwest of Lenox.
The years crop of hay and grain was
also burned The loss is estimated at
$4,000. 1t is suspected that the fire
may have been of incendiary origin.
In the heart of an old pine tree cut
down in Lansing were found a well
preserved buckle and strap. The tree.
which is believed to have been at
least 100 years old. stood on what was
formerly an old Indian trail, and 1t is
thought the strap and buckle be.
longed to some early settler who had
tied his horse there.
Press
Grape growers in southwestern
Michigan will be unable TO market
more than half their crop because of
the inability of basket manufacturers
to furnish baskets and of the railroads
to furnish iced cars. The grape crop
is one of the largest I'm tho history OF
the industry, and II is estimated that
more than $1,000.000 worth OF grapes
will be lost
During family quarrel Friday
Fitch Cooper, aged So shot and killed |
his wife with a revolver and then
killed himself at their farm home near
Nunica. Children who were away dis |
covered the bodies soon afterward. |
The couple had quarreled frequently |
and were having trouble when the |
children left home Friday morning. |
The family is well known In that 10
cality.
A billy goat threw CONSERVATION |
into the officials In the Washtenaw |
county building by eating the notices
OF the sale OF the Glazier Stove Co.'S
plant and then starting in on the tax |
roll books in County Treasurer |
Luick's Office.
George Mitchell. who was stabbed |
seven times Tuesday night in a |
drunken fight over a woman, died |
Wednesday afternoon in Mercy hos
pital, Muskegon. Charles Rutledge, his |
assailant. is still at large. Dollie King.
the woman over whom the men quar-
relied. has also disappeared and IL Is
believed by the sheriff that she is with
Rutledge.