The Yale expositor., 1908-07-31
MICHIGAN BREvITIES.


The Calhoun Fulton Lumber Co. OF
Charlotte, capital $15 1000, has filed ar
ticles of incorporation.
Attorney Frank L. Dodge declares
he will not enter the race for congress
against Sam w. Smith.
While Fostering a horse with a
switch, Eli Daley. aged 4, of Bay City,
was kicked in the head and may die.
Despondent over Ill health Peter
Peterson, aged Sc, Cherry township
pioneer, took nearly half a pound of
Paris green and died.
Ernie Beck, aged 26, employed in
Now township as a farm hand, ended
his life by swallowing carbolic acid
Friday. He was respondent.
The Port Huron school census, Just
finished, shows a total of 5,368, which
would give the city as its share OF
the primary school fund 1894.
Because he refused to get out OF
her cherry tree Mrs. Marion Brown
shot circus hand with a revolver. He
was taken along with the circus.
State factory inspectors report a
ployes since spring and say the num-
Der will be still greater this fall
Saginaw Valley Steamship Co. Of
ficers identified the man known as
Frank Kennedy, who was killed on the
steamer Flora, as John Fitzpatrick, of
Newark, o.
Frank Alors, liking OF Crow island"
despised piece of land in the Sagi-
nav river. which no one else wanted.
celebrated his saith birthday with
dinner to his friends.
Grand Trunk employees were noti-
| fed that the July pay roll would be
the last paid in Port Huron. The
transfer of the shops to Battle Creek
will be made next month.
The auto OF Congressman j. w.
Fordney was struck by a car and he
was slightly bruised. Congressman j..
w. Hippel and Peter Herrig, his COM
! panions, were not injured.
The commission of inquiry into the
state forest and tax lands will prob
ably recommend that the land COM
missioner's Office be abolished and his
work done by a commission.
Henry L. Wilson. formerly Of Sagi-
nav, sentenced to hang in Duluth for
wife murder, has been converted and
now spends his time in singing
hymns and reading the Bible.
A tombstone fell on Frank La
Forge, Of Port Huron, while he was
transferring it from an abandoned
cemetery and several ribs were
broken and his knee fractured.
Hurled from his buggy by a collision
with an automobile, DR.. j. Henry Rio
pelle, of Bay City, landed on his feet
and dexteriously caught his wife in
his arms as she came flying after him.
Despondent because his finances
were running low, John Marks, aged
32, OF Muskegon, attempted to end
his life Friday afternoon by swallow
ing laudanum. The doctors saved
him.
c. r. Miller, Of Adrian was elected
president of the Mackinac Island state
park board and II. l.. Kanter vice
president. H. o. Joplin. of Marquette,
was elected TO the late Peter White S
place.
Trying to save two boys who were
overcome by gas in an abandoned
mine in Lothbridge, Alberta, George
Thompson, of Arcadia township, sacri-
feed his own life. The body was
brought home.
Face downward in six inches OF
water in Little Black creek, the body
of Mrs. Peter Newman was found by
her husband. She had been deranged
and a week ago tried to take her
life by cutting her throat.
Joseph Aldria, a miner at Hancock
is alleged to have invented a new
form OF assault and battery. Gus
Rantianen, another miner. charges Al.
dria with having beaten him over the
head with clothes wringer.
Sheriff Ginger and a posse are
searching Muskegon lake for the body
of Arthur Sprague, the former Sal.
walton Army worker who disappeared
Saturday leaving a note in which he
said he intended killing himself.
Bids opened in Washington show a
surplus of $4,000 for the Coldwater
federal building. George Hickman
Sons Co., OF Kalamazoo, were lowest
with $4,000 and Sherman & Mines
of Coldwater, second with $33,74260
T1OISC SNCdllh6 oil CpluCullC IL
Coldwater, three having been stoler
from different parties within the pas
few days. The last victim is G. A
Preston, proprietor Of the Blacl
Hawk mills, who lost fine horse last
night.
No trace has yet been found of Ar
thur Sprague, the poetical Salvation
Army worker OF Muskegon, who dis
appeared after leaving a note to his
mother saying he was going to shoot
himself through the head, with a lit
tie piece of lead" 1t is believed he
carried out his threat.
Refused a license by County Clerl
Vosburg because he believed they
were mentally unfit to be married
William Kent and Mrs. Emily Shon
telle, of Vicksburg. will carry the
matter into the courts. They engag
ed an attorney who formally served
vosburg with a demand for a license
Col. Albert s. Cummins has retired
from the u. S. army and with Mrs
Cummings will make their home II
Tecumseh. Imposing exercises wer,