The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-03-19
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

II is now assured that the electric
line between Saginaw, Owosso and
other neighboring towns will be built.
Lola Cotton, the 11-year-old Alpena
girl who was suffering from paralysis
as the result of fall on an ice-cov-
cred sidewalk, is dead at her home.
The March term of the circuit court
opened in Coldwater Monday. There
are only three criminal cases on the
docket, something unusual for Branch
county.
Without removing his coat or shoes,
c. H. Spring, of Menominee, jumped
into the river and rescued Andrew
Anderson, an employee, after the lat
ter had gone down twice.
Mrs. Violet Wiley, one of the first
settlers of Allegan county, died at her
home in Otsego township Tuesday.
| She was the mother of IL children,
nine of whom are living. She was
widely known.
Owosso township grange adopted
a resolution indoTsing Rep. Whelan's
bill to abolish the Office of state high
way commissioner Sentiment seemed
to favor the old system whereby the
farmers are for the highways.
Charles II. Schaffer a Muskegon
| inventor who has perfected more than
| 80 appliances, is authority for the
| statement that the present method
of building airships, is all wrong, and
promised to invent a machine that
will need neither wings nor gas-bag.
At recent test of fire escape, in
vented by Saginaw parties, the super
| VII nf hn m
| in the shoot-the-chutes-like apparatus
from an upper window of the court
house. and pronounced the experience
! delightful, many of the solons making
several trips.
George Eek, OF Daggett. slipped and
fell in front of the passenger train
which was bearing his aged mother
to Menominee. and was ground to
pieces 100 yards from Daggett station.
| The mother, who was standing on the
platform at the time of the accident,
collapsed and may die from the shock.
When Henry Larvier, a 14-year-old
| boy, was arrested in Menominee re-
Gently for burglary he told the officers
! that he would escape from the jail,
and true to his word he is now miss
ing. He had confessed to the burglary
and also stated that he made bust
ness of picking the pockets of drunk
en- lumberjacks.
Rep. NJ. l.. Agens OF Ludington, is
seriously i'll with pneumonia at his
apartments in Lansing. Agens was
taken sick after the adjournment Fri
day. He is now serving his third
term in the house and because of his
prominence and remarkable likeness
| to Abraham Lincoln has become well
known in the state.
| Heavy voting marked the elections
held in Wayne county Monday, espe-
cially in River Rouge, Highland Park,
| st. Clair Heights, Ecorse, Wayne and
Plymouth, where there were vigorous
| contests to obtain control of the local
| administrations. In the latter two
| villages the fight was on the prohibi-
! ton line, with the "wets" winning out.
Harlow H. Howe, wealthy real es-
tate dealer OF Stanton, and formerly
land agent for the Pere Marquette
Railway Co., pleaded guilty In the fed
eral court TO sending obscene letters
through the United States mails. Sen
tence was deferred by Judge Knappen.
Friends OF Howe think he is insane
and this had much to do with the
court deferring sentence.
Ex-Rep. Johnny" Gordon threatens
| To break into the millionaire class.
Gordon has a suit pending in the u.
8 supreme court over the ownership
of some property in the iron country.
big mining corporation sank shafts
in the land. Gordon watched them do
II. then stepped in and flashed papers
showing he had bought tax titles to
the land. Gordon paid 1915 for his
titles and the land is now valued at
$1O.000.000.
| Mrs. Rebecca Pierce, of Traverse
City. acted as her own lawyer in de-
Tending herself from the suit OF Gin
ton |. Arnold, and, although she was
pitted against an experienced lawyer,
practically won her case. Arnold sued
for S236.75, the value of goods he al.
| legged she took in excess of her
schedule. when she foreclosed the
mortgage she held on his restaurant.
The Jury was out only 10 minutes, re.
| turning a verdict of $S.9S for the plain
tiff-simply because she acknowledged
being indebted to him TO that amount,
but he has to pay the costs.
Karl Solosth, of Spokane, Wash,
who brought action against Gunder
Lieu, of Grand Rapids, for the recov-
cry of his 7-year-old daughter, who
has been in the custody of the latter
for the last six years, lost his case by
the decision OF Judge Perkins, who
says that the child is now in a better
home than her father could provide
for her.
The coal miners in convention in
Saginaw went on record as opposed
to the sentencing of Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison for contempt, and a copy
of the resolution 10 that effect will be
sent to the president and principal
Legislators of the country.