The Yale expositor., 1908-12-25
MICHIGAN BREvITIEs.

himself through the heart with rife.
Motorcycles will be used next
spring by the rural free delivery car
riers on routes leading from Kalama'
zoo.
According TO the secretary OF states
report, there were 2,742 deaths and
4,026 births in Michigan during No
vember.
Mrs. Gerrit, j. Diekema, wife oil
Congressman Diekema, who has been
Ill with pneumonia, is pronounced out
Of danger.
Godfrey Addison, who threw a rock
at John Suiffet, of Adrian, and killed
him, was acquitted. Addison pleaded
self-defense.
John Lee OF Marshall. sold $500
hides Of fur-bearing animals. includ-
ing one fox. to C. F. Putt, Of Battle
Creek, Monday for $4,000. He has now
sold him s3,642 worth this season.
Massachusetts has placed an en-
barge on importations of hay, straw,
grain, fodder, meat" cattle, swine
and sheep from Michigan and other
territories where hoof and mouth dis
ease has been discovered.
The wild December winds have re-
vealed the fact that many of the Kala-
maZoo college goods are wearing ho-
siery in the college colors, yellow and
black. The discovery has created con-
siderable excitement at the college.
The opening of the new interurban
line from Saginaw to Flint has been
set for January Is. The road will
make a through line from Detroit TO
Saginaw and negotiations are under
way to run cars the entire distance
without change.
Branch county prohibitionists have
secured 2.700 signatures TO the
petition asking the supervisors TO call
an election for the purpose Of voting
on local option. This is 700 more than
necessary TO compel the supervisors
to call the election.
President Hawks, OF the Detroit &
Mackinac Railrawy, who is a mem
Der of the fire relief commission, says
that the commission will purchase
$50 sleighs for farmers who lost their
vehicles. In the spring, seeds will be
purchased for the farmers.
Henry Koch, farmer in Sumpter
township, evidently has vindictive
enemy. Some time Monday night one
barn and shot. Koch the next morn
ing found the dead body of the animal
lying nearby. There is no clue.
DR.. Frederick Lohrstorfer, a heavy
loser by the defalcation OF William
/. Wilson, former secretary OF the
Home Protectors Fraternity. who is
now serving a jail term, s~ss that he
believes that Wilson has $4,000 or
5000 of the money sailed away.
julius Lazarus, OF Brooklyn, n. Y,
will come Christmas TO visit his faith.
er, whom he has not seen for % years.
The father and son were lost to each
other for long time, and it was only
recently that julius learned that his
father was living in Traverse City.
Prosecuting Attorney Powers has
declared war on the saloons in the
neighborhood of the Soldiers home,
Grand Rapids. 1t is said that the sa-
looms for some time past have been
selling liquor TO the veterans against
the wishes Of the officials of the home.
The supreme court has affirmed the
conviction, In a lower court, of John
Coffee, of Charlevoix, charged with
having In his possession understood
fish. Coffee claimed the fish had
been injured and that was the reason
they were not thrown back into the
water.
A Port Huron bank has asked the
circuit court to determine the owner
ship Of a deposit of $399.31 held by it.
The money was placed to the credit
of John and Maggie Pohe. The latter
is now in an insane asylum and the
husband has made a demand for the
money.
To prevent the spread of disease
in the public schools, the Grand Rap.
ids school board has decided to fur
nish each teacher with blanks on
which she will Immediately report any
suspicious cases. Local physicians
have agreed to donate their services
to the movement
Muskegon people who invested In
the Pacific Wireless Telegraph Co."
Of Los Angeles. Cal. are beginning
to become worried. II was promised
that station would be erected there
before Jan. 8. but so far nothing has
been heard OF the proposition. Over
$500 worth OF stock was sold In Mus
kegon.
The discovery OF two cases OF diph.
iberia at the Suomi Finnish college in
Houghton has resulted in that insti-
tuition being placed under quarantine.
Two teachers and rs students are
locked in and may have to stay there
during the holidays. The institution
is the only Finnish college in the Uni
ted States.
Some new features In initiation rites
were pulled on by the Kappa Iota
Gamma fraternity OF the Marshall high
school In admitting a new member TO
the mysteries of the order Monday
night. The victim was first ducked
in pond. Three gallons OF molasses
were then poured down his back, a
sheet of fly paper stuck Oh each cheek
and In this condition he was sent
home to his doting parents.
The location. OF the Western The
illogical seminary. which is sought by
Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Port Huron
and Grand Rapids, will not be decided
for several weeks yet. Kalamazoo Of
| fers $4,000 and site, <uskegon &c.
600 and a site, Port Huron a good
| bonus and the site of the Somerville
hotel near st. Clair, on the st. Clair
river. and Grand Rapids, the present
| location of the seminary offers addi-