The Yale expositor., 1909-04-16
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

After the spring vacation the Michi-
gan Union plans TO give banquet in
honor Of President Angel who re-
signs.
The proposition to bond Cheboygan
county for a sum sufficient to build
new county jail was lost by large
majority.
Shiawassee county has but six
towns now in which liquor is sold.
The local optionists are gaining
ground almost daily.
Ross Musson, Is, son OF an Irving
township farmer, has been convicted
of showing the barrel of a shotgun
through the door of the district school,
thereby causing panic among the
pupils.
The body of George Mention was
found in the little cottage in Buena
Vista, where he had lived alone. A
post norton examination was ordered
and showed death was from starva-
ton and exposure.
After a search which lasted years,
Charles p. Bruen. of Denver, Colo,
has located the other members of his
family, living on farm near Allegan.
Charles left home IL years ago, and
soon after lost track of his kin.
Hubert Stein. so, and for over go
years a resident of Muskegon county,
has sold his 2,900-acre farm and will
go west to start life anew. He says
that for young" man, like himself,
the west offers great opportunities for
making a fortune.
Noah Goodman, II, fell from an
electric car in the Watcher coal
mine, where he was employed, and
died of his injuries. One hip was
crushed in the accident, but the boy
was so weak from loss of blood doc
tors could not operate.
Because they fear that the coal min
ing operations in the southern part
of Saginaw are making their property
unsafe, the mayor will appoint a COM
mittee of citizens and aldermen to
investigate the matter and take steps
to correct the alleged evil.
The girl arrested in Muskegon a
few days ago, who by her continued
silence puzzled the local officers, was
taken to Grand Rapids Wednesday.
She is believed to be Harriet Talket,
who disappeared a month ago from
utT III hdDlub.
When Joseph Lafalla, of Bay City,
returned home and found his wife
was away, he ate two sandwiches
which he found in the pantry The
sandwiches had been sprinkled with
arsenic to poison rats. and the SER
Woes OF a physician and stomach
pump were required to save Lafalla's
life.
William L. Payne, well-known Lam
sing horse dealer who has been in
Nevada purchasing a number of the
animals. was killed and his body Gre
mated when the caboose OF the stock
train in which he was riding was
wrecked and burned A coroner's jury
has decided that the Union Pacific
was responsible for the death.
When James Whipple made his.
rounds on rural route No. / out OF
Hillsdale he found that his patrons,
or rather their chickens, had been
Laying" for him. Each patron on the
route presented him with three eggs
for Easter and when he got back to
town he had such load of eggs that
he had to hang his feet outside of his
rig. He has 100 patrons and received
$50 eggs.
George Compton Leade, an English
baronet, and claimant of the 2.000-acre
estate of Shipton Court in England is
dead at his home in Dexter township,
where he had lived for so years. The
English estate has been in litigation
for years and II is said that the last
of the heirs who stood between Leade
and the title died January %, 1890.
Leade was SO years old and is sur
vived by a widow and 10 children.
Mrs. Martin Nolen, 81, who has
been i'll in Menominee for several
weeks. and who had expressed a wish
that she might reach her home in
Clearfield, Pa, before her death, had
the desire gratified, as she died in
sight of her home where she was be-
ing taken.
The appointment of j. w. Patterson,
a colored baseball player, as substitute
patrolman, on 30 days probation, has
stirred up strenuous discussion. This
is the second appointment OF a colored
man to the force. but the first man
did not qualify. as the negro popula-
ton objected to his hue. he being a
mulatto and they wanted real black.