The Yale expositor., 1909-01-15
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

continued in Howell owing to the
strictness of the quarantine in GER
tain parts of the state.
Rep. ]. ]. Mccarthy has begun his
duties as examiner of inheritance
taxes in the various counties. A salary
of $1,000 and expenses goes with the
Office.
Nick Whelan, former speaker of the
house of representatives., just back
from Cuba, declares himself pleased
with the new home, to which he will
return.
Capt. II. p. Berklay, OF the u. s..
cavalry, who Ia residing in Grand Rap
ids, is organizing cavalary company
which will be attached to the national
guard.
Reggie" Clifford, the Lansing boy
who shot his father five times while
defending his mother, has been for
given by his father, who, IL is thought,
will recover.
A. c. Cook, of Iron Mountain is a
candidate to succeed Judge John w.
Stone as Judge of the circuit court of
Marquette, Iron, Dickinson, Delta and
Menominee counties.
Emery Sneider, a Benton Harbor
street light repairer was electrocuted
while repairing a street light that had
gone out. A short circuit sent 1900
volts of electricity through his body.
J. Palmer, aged 16, of Standish,
ordered off the S. Daniels farm while
hunting, fired three shots at Mrs.
Daniels. The bullets struck her in
the arm and leg. Palmer is in jail.
Upon a plea OF guilty to highway
robbery Charles Stevens, who held up
and robbed Mrs. Elvin Swartout on
December 26 in Grand Rapids. was
sentenced to serve from five to Is
years in Jackson prison.
AS a penalty for accepting rebates
from the Pere Marquette railway on
lumber shipments from Ludington TO
southern points, Justus S. Stearns,
millionaire lumberman, of Ludington,
has paid $4,000 TO the United States
court.
Prosecutor Glare E. Hoffman, OF Al
Logan, has given saloonkeepers and
pool room proprietors who have toll
Grated card playing and dice shaking
for small stakes in their places a
quiet tip that the practice must be
discontinued.
The Muskegon high school faculty
ak fell with a vengeance Monday af-
ternoon, when three boys, all men,
bers of last years football eleven, and
school athletes of prominence, were
expelled from school for belonging to
secret societies.
Earle Bagby, popular '0S law stu
dent, who contracted tuberculosis
while nursing a roommate in Ann
Arbor, and was himself sent home to
California apparently hopelessly ILL.,
has recovered and opened an office
in San Francisco.
When two officers attempted to ar
rest Mr.. and Mrs. Woods. living with
their three children in Mesosta coun-
ty in a hut 10 feet square, the woman,
the officers allege. attempted to brain
one of them with an Ak. She was
dressed in mems clothes.
The Oakland county supervisors
have refused TO pay the bill of ST.
1855 presented by detective agency
for obtaining evidence against the
local option law violators. The de-
tectives were employed by the prose
cutor He Endorsed the bill.
Seven members of the old English
Michigan cavalry dined together at
the home of John Crispe, the meeting
being the first since the civil war.
They are Capt. James Wells, of Los
Angeles Capt. Calkins, of Allegan;
Albert Cornell, of Schoolcraft; Homer
Manvil, of Kalamazoo, and Billings
Randall William Mills AID John
Crispe, of Plainwell.
Members of the Michigan National
Guard at a meeting in Lansing passed
a resolution asking the Legislature TO
pass a bill providing that all vacancies
above the rank of second lieutenant
shall be filled according to seniority,
according TO the rule in the regular
army They declare that unless this
rule is followed, politics count more
than ability in promotion.
With Ave churches holding united
services nightly Caro- is in the midst
OF one of the biggest religious revivals
in her history. The five churches are
the Presbyterian, Methodist Epis-
copal, Methodist Protestant, Epis-
ical and Baptist The meetings are
being conducted by Gable and
L1nRren, TWO eVdnBellSLS OF CnlcdsO.
Mr.. Lingren is directing a chorus of
100 voices. Tremendous crowds are
attending.
A warm fight over the question Of
calling a local option election is ex-
pected at the session of the board Of
supervisors in st. Joseph. A petition
signed by more than the required 30
per cent of the voters will be pre-
scented but the saloon men declare
that they will show that many of the
signers were not qualified. They will
also present counter-petitions from
voters who signed the local option
petition asking that their names be
stricken off.
Miss Ruth Rosenthal, member OF a
prominent family in Muskegon, has
been suspended from the high school
until February, because of the teach.
ers' war on sororities and fraternities
Dinsmore Upton. one of the three boys
spotted" by. the faculty, has been
reinstated in school following his pledg
ing himself to renounce all fraternity
allegiance.