The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-12-18
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

Mrs. Emma Harris, of Batavia,
while temporarily insane, took dose
OF paris green, which killed her.
Ben Carlson, aged AZ, laborer, fell
through the ice while crossing Pere
Marquette lake, and was drowned.
Two Traverse City saloonists are
looking for the person who stole their
red license card. They have petitioned
the county clerk for a duplicate.
While working or a drain near Bear
creek Saturday afternoon, former
County Drain Commissioner Charles
Meade dug up the skull of masta.
don.
Edward Earl, a civil war veteran,
of Niles, was asphyxiated in his room
Saturday night. He turned on the gas
thinking that he was turning on the
electric light.
Rev. John A. Wander Meulen, pastor
of Hope church, Holland, asserts that
the wearing by women of large hats
keeps many men away from the Sun
day services.
c. II. Waters, of Saginaw, probably
will be chairman of the house liquor
committee this session. Although he
stood sixth on last years committee,
he is the only member to be returned
Attorneys for the Rev. William
Cummings, convicted of wife deser-
ton, have made a motion for arrest
of judmgent in the Ionia circuit court.
Mrs. Cummings was in Ionia Friday in
| consultation with his lawyers.
B. F. Tobin, of Muskegon, chartered
a special interurban car from Muske-
gon to Grand Rapids, hoping to reach
the bedside of his dying brother, w.
A. Tobin, who was in a Chicago hos
pital, but death won the race. The
widow is critically i'll from shock in
the same hospital where her husband
| died.
Sherwood Clemens, the young book.
keeper in the Grand Trunk depot at
Bay City who pleaded guilty to burn.
ing down the station to hide a short
age In his books, will be sentenced
December 81. In the meantime many
| gushing young women are supplying
him with flowers and dainties for his
dinner.
B. r. Barber, brother-in-law of
Grand Trunk Ticket Agent Clark. of
Port Huron, will probably receive a
handsome reward from Sir Andrew
Fraser, acknowledgements Of Bengal,
whom he saved from death at the
hands of an assassin some weeks ago.
Barber received a bad scalp wound
while doing his heroic act.
| Mrs. Joseph Desonia, of Saginaw.
who underwent the terrifying expert
ence of being tipped over in an ambu-
lance while on her way to the hos.
| pital with her babe, has been success
fully operated upon. While under the
influence of the opiates she imagined
herself plunging into the ditch and
was restrained only with the greatest
difficulty.
Judge Hess has refused to dismiss
the case wherein DR.. II. L. Schulz,
dean of the Grand Rapids Veterinary
college, is charged with cruelty in al
lowing his students to cut up a live
horse to which no anesthetic had been
administered. The dean said no an
esthetic was necessary. K. N. Booth,
publisher Of the Press, swore at the
trial that Schulz had asked him to
suppress all stories of the alleged
cruel act, and added that the dean ad
mitted the charges.
II is said that the Rev. Richard
Sidebotham, of Lapeer. who died from
injuries received In a gasoline explos.
ion last week, In his youth declared
that he wanted ito live on earth Just
as long as our Savior did" His parents
always remembered the expression
and since he met his death just after
passing his 33d birthday. they believe
his boyhood wish was gratified.
Senator Huntley Russell. land com
mlssioner-elect. has stirred up the @
A. r. members in Lansing by giving
notice to William Youngs, janitor In
the land department for several years
that his services will not be required
after January /.