The Yale expositor., 1908-01-24
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.


applied on account.
Fire in the Lake Shore engine works
at Marquette did damage OF $4,000 to
the Office and building.
Hiram Morse, of Flint, Grand Trunk
train dispatcher, has been pensioned
after As years of service.
c. A. Whipple, conductor on the
Pere Marquette, slipped under his
| train and was killed near Colomo.
Requisition on the governor of ILL
nois has been made by Gov. Warner
for George r. Rich, now fugitive
from justice.
! w. A. Comstock, at meeting OF
business men at Alpena announced
that a hotel and an electric line to
nearby summer resorts are projected.
Charles Horitz & Son have been
awarded the contract for the new post
office at Ann Arbor which will cost
$63,700 and is to be completed by May,
1909.
At the meeting of the joint board
of the Michigan asylums it was recon-
mended that butterine be used in all
! asylums and state public schools, thus
saving $4,000 a year
The board of supervisors OF Grand
Traverse passed a resolution to sub
NIT the local option proposition to
| the voters of Grand Traverse county
at the spring election.
Marshall has two representatives
with Fighting Bob" Evans on his
cruise around the continent Harry
Felter, of Lee township, and Karl
| Freed Of EckfOrd tOWnshin
Atty.-Gen. Bird gave his opinion, in
regard to the pay of jurors, that 81 a
day, allowed by the law, is for the
whole "a hours, and they should have
no extra pay for night duty
Rep. Dalzell. of Pittsburg member
| of the house committee on rules, has
taken up the cause of the Indian
schools, and it is likely Mt. Pleasant
will not lose the local institution.
C. A. Cover, Rev. ]. p. Sanderson.
City Clerk NJ. F. Gray and w. c. Hull
! are candidates to succeed the late H..
| G. Storrs, as secretary of the state
board of charities and corrections.
Edward Quackenbush, of Bay City,
and an unknown man were forcing
/ sticks of dynamite into a drill hole
with an iron rod and both were ia
tally injured by the subsequent explos-
ion.
Col Robert Bates has been formally
commissioned brigadiergeneral of the
! NJ. y. G.. and will take command at
once. Capt. Passmore, Third regi-
ment, will be brigade adjutant with a
majors rank.
81 have taken your revolver, and am
going to kill myself is the note that
! Della Robinson, of Lansing, left her
father Sunday, but the father thinks
! that she has gone to New York to
join her mother.
The II. of NJ. has bought tract Of
land near the hospital for heating
| plant, a mile of frontage on the HUI
ron river for park and botanical
! garden and a lot on Geddes avenue for
the botanical park entrance.
George Black, is, of Aberdeen, Md,
I died suddenly in the Jackson Jail from
a disease resembling jaundice. He was
! first taken i'll on Wednesday, being
sick about "a hours. An effort is being
made to locate his relatives. He was
arrested for vagrancy.
After a period of IA years of SER
vice as state travelling nurse, Mrs.
Cora Lamping, of st. Joseph, was ap-
| pointed by the board of trustees as
/ state superintendent OF the Michigan
Children's Home society, to succeed
Amos Barlow. resigned.
As a result of the active crusade
made by the anti-saloon faction at
Escanaba, slot machines have van
! ished and it is declared that it will be
only a short time before the few sa-
looms which don't now observe the
closing law will have to.
Alfred Wright. an Indiana man, de-
frauded farmers in the vicinity by call
| ing himself a representative of Parke,
| Davis 81 Co, of Detroit, and selling
supposed cure-all. He was fined $25,
but could not pay and went to the
Detroit house of correction for sixty
five days.
Two young sons of John Fine, a
| farmer near Kingsley, have died of
scarlet fever, a third is dying and a
fourth very Ill, and his 2-year-old
daughter is also near death. The par
ent buried the first victims at mid
night. There is an epidemic in the
/ neighborhood.
| Inc spence VS.. GreenUelQ case,
heard before Judge Smith, in Hastings,
! last week, is a hoodoo. During the
progress of the case Judge Smith was
taken violently i'll, with an attack of
acute indigestion and had to be as
sisted from the bench, and at dinner
the same day Mrs. Greenfield, wife OF
the defendant, had a serious attack
of heart failure, probably brought on
by the excitement connected with the
illness of the court. The court has re-
covered sufficiently to open the jan
uary term in Charlotte.
Even the cemeteries are booming at
Battle Creek. Stockholders of Oak Hill
cemetery have purchased Is acres
| from William II. Fonda, seven OF
which will be converted into a park
and the rest used for burial purposes
The park purchase consists of beauti-
full woods, which will be connected
with the cemetery by means of rus
/ tic bridge over the Michigan CentraTs
| tracks. At the foot of the bluff con-
! tanning the park lie the famed Fonda
/