The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-09-04
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

herself in her best clothes, Mrs. JEFF
rey Nichols, a Kalamazoo boarding
house keeper. took morphine and died.
Grant Meirell, a young aeronaut,
landed on the glass roof of a green
house while making parachute drop
at Reeds lake and was painfully cut.
AS a result OF the reform epidemic
which is sweeping Grand Rapids, the
council Monday night passed an or
dinance closing the city parks at 8
o'clock.
Playing with matches the 3-year'
| old son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John Greitz,
South Saginaw, set fire and burned
the house and was himself badly
burned.
Surrounded by 60 descendants, In
Guiding four children, Is grandchildren
and 13 Observation-Disclosures, Mrs. So
phia Ship, OF Bellevue, celebrated
her Tooth birthday.
Ann Arbor "drys" after making a
canvass OF the city report Go per cent
of the residents in favor OF prohibi-
ton, II per cent wet" and about 10
per cent non-committal.
spark from a locomotive set fire
to and destroyed $500, 900 feet of lum
Der in the yards of the Lake Superior
! corporation recently bought by the
Saginaw Lumber Co.; loss $4,000.
A heavy loser in the Cameron Cur
rie & Co. failure in Detroit, VIM. +
Matter superintendent of the Shaw
! Walker Co, applied to the u. S. court
in Grand Rapids to be declared bank
rupt.
Edward Guskie, residing on a farm
just outside Flint city limits. was
kicked in the face by a vicious colt
Monday. The entire left side of his
face was torn of He is i'm the city
hospital in a critical condition.
Held up on lonely spot in Travers
road and threatened with death if he
did not give up his money, Frank
Hagen. wealthy farmer jumped from
his wagon and fed. Charles Bachtle,
a former employe. was arrested.
Immediately after his release from
the Washtenaw Jail. Frank John, full
blooded Pottowatomie Indian, filed up
on "firewater" again and put women
at Whitmore Lake into panic by
chasing them. He was taken back.
The embalmed body of Corp. Harold
Poole arrived in Battle Creek from the
death. He was driven insane by the
climate and shot himself few days
before his enlistment in the signal
corps expired.
Mentally unbalanced by recent
sunstroke, John Ross. aged So. OF
Grand Rapids. attacked and badly
slashed his wife Neighbors came to
her assistance and Ross fed toward
-. &c half IN
drowned himself
John Slingerland, aged %, an en-
ploye of the Manistique iron works,
was killed Monday when a half-ton
hammer fell on him crushing his
body to a pulp. II is thought that
the mans sledge hammer struck the
trip of the big hammer, releasing il.
Pinkerton detectives charge they
have traced the sending OF an infer
nal machine to Sheriff Beck, OF Hough
ton, to George Hamilton, an alleged
forger now awaiting trial in Duluth.
Several years ago while in the jail
here Hamilton tried to escape, but was
discovered by Sheriff Beck.
Work on the Michigan United cleo
trio line connecting Jackson with Lam
sing by way of Leslie and Mason Is
progressing rapidly Grading TO with.
in mile south OF Leslie is completed,
and a second gang is working near
Rives Junction. Most of the line be-
tween Lansing and Mason Is graded
and the rails laid.
Fire OF unknown origin destroyed
two houses, FIVE large barns. consider
able machinery and nearly all OF the
seasons crops on the farm Of NJ B.
n
Four horses were cremated. A farm.
ers' bucket brigade saved the farm
residence and one other house The
loss is $4,000, partly insured. The
Bradleys charge incendiarism.
Still another case OF the swindling
methods of William l.. Wilson, former
secretary of the Home Protectors fra
ternity, now serving time in Ionia.
came to light Monday. Mrs. Carrie
Rowe. an aged woman. made the
charge In circuit court that an $500
mortgage on her home. which she paid
March 4, had never been discharged
She will be allowed to intervene in
the suit between the state banking
department and the receiver of the
association so that she will not have
10 lose her home.
The Soldiers Home board struck
from the rules references TO taking
any portion of the soldiers pension
money as ordered by Gov. Warner
The board also decided that veterans
drawing SIS a month or more In pen
sions shall not be admitted except by
special showing.
Martin Feighner, son of a Cass
county farmer. has been arrested In
murder case. VIM. DELPHI, the &C
cused. alleges Feighner threatened to
shoot him and that he fred at Felsh- |
ner. but instead lift his motherin- |
law, with whose murder he IL
charged.