The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-02-19
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

roe counties.
Having attained the age OF 104, Mrs.
Jane Cosley died at Sault Ste. Marie,
The woman remembered many events
of the war OF 1912.
George Green, 55 years old, fell
from the top of lumber tramway In
Menominee, and was instantly killed.
His son was killed in the same man
ner last year.
As the result Of the running amuck
OF a mad dog. the Menominee police
are killing all unmuzzled animals.
The six victims are in the Pasteur in
stitute at Chicago.
President Dlckie, OF Albion College,
has been chosen by the national pro-
hibition party as the man to debate
the liquor question with Mayor d. s.
Rose, OF Milwaukee.
The State Association OF Grocers
and General Retailers in session In
Bay City, went on record as being op
posed to Postmaster General Meyers
proposed parcels post law.
Taking advantage OF the mild
weather of the last week. many far
mers are doing their spring blowing.
The oldest inhabitants cannot remem-
Der OF similar happening.
Salvation Army officers stopped the
marriage of Annie Klink and Law
renee Unbody in Grand Rapids. An
investigation has disclosed the fact
that the girl is but IS years OF age.
Mrs. Hannah Angel, Oldest pioneer
in Calhoun county, died Sunday night.
She was 80 years old. and came to
the county in 1888. The population
of Battle Creek was II at that time.
Mrs. Kate Chapel has started suit
for $1,000 damages against a Muske-
gon furniture dealer alleging trespass.
She says that the man took a cook
stove containing her dinner out OF
her home.
Much comment has been occasioned
by the many deaths in the Flying Rol-
Ter colony of Benton Harbor, this win
ter. The Israelites believe in immor-
tally and in the past few months
have had 20 deaths among their mem
bers.
Among the prominent speakers who
will be heard at the annual banquet
Of the Zach Chandler Republican
CluD III l@duSlnk vi AldlCn ~ 10 OCnd-
tor Albert j. Beveridge of Indiana.
Senator Dolliver of Iowa may also be
present.
William II. Burletson. cashier of
the defunct Parma bank, who has
been in jail 144 days, on a charge of
making a false statement to the state
banking commissioner as to the con.
diaion of the bank, has been released
on $4,000 BAIL
Andrew Jackson Smith, who used
stone in the toe of his sock. as a
weapon, was convicted of assault with
intent to do great bodily harm. Keep.
er Moore, OF the Big Rapids poor
farm. vast he victim, and a glancing
blow saved his life.
The trail of George F. Kenny, twist
ing through two hemispheres, has
come to a stop in Washington. ID. c.
The man who fed Detroit, leaving
multitude of debts and throng of
enemies who had been friends, is
under arrest for forgery.
1t was $50 Wednesday night when
Charles Johnson, farmer, drove over
the G. r. & /. tracks, at Traverse City.
His sleigh was struck by a snowplow
going 80 miles an hour. and he was
thrown 80 feet and landed head first
In a snowbank, uninjured.
That all the homestead lands id
Michigan have been withdrawn from
the market has been announced by
State Land Commissioner Huntley
Russell The lands will be kept out
until they have been reappraised, as
pert he recent resolution OF the lower
house.
Repulsing his mother in the probate
court. when she came to kiss him,
Willie Browning, son OF Gideon
Browning, who was slain by Rev. John
M. Carmichael in the Rattle Run NJ. r.
church, made a scene. declaring that
he would kill himself rather than live
with her.
The remains OF John H. Shuts, with
out friend or relative to accompany
them, were inferred in the cemetery
at the Oakland county poor farm. The
man had two married daughters, liv.
ing In New York, but they seem in
different to his affairs, and refused 10
come for the funeral.
Robert Ryene and Rodney Bevee
WtIC dithCO III ANoPiuo
Thursday. charged with burglarizins
the postoffice at Cedar Springs. Reyne
and Bevee had been confined since
Christmas without complaint being
made against them owing to the
change in the prosecutors Office.
Rev. Eli Wigle has begun suit for
divorce from Mary z. Wigle, of Ma
son. The married life of the couple
lasted but three years, since the wife
left in 1890 and has since not lived
with the complainant. The Rev. Wigle
has been an evangelist and has es-
pecially preached against divorce.
A Cass county man who was recent
ly released from Jackson prison, af-
ter serving a sentence for embezzle-.
ment, is determined to lead an honor
able life and re-establish himself in
business at the scene of wrongdoing.
He declares he will take a course at
the Michigan Agricultural college and
then return to the county.
Not a trace OF the bodies of the
children burned in the Haskell home,
Battle Creek, have been found, al.
though the WOrkmen have removed