The Yale expositor., 1909-09-24
MICHIGAN 5REvIrIEs.
Monroe will establish paid fire de-


Monroe will establish a paid fire de-
partment.
Mrs. t. ]. Church, of Flint, having
lost faith in banks, hid $120 in the
stove. It's missing
Mrs. Bertha Haker will be arraigned
in ST. Johns for the murder OF her
husband at Victor.
Eight cars we're wrecked and a
mogul engine ditched when two
freight trains on the Pere Marquette
road collided at Salem. Nobody was
hurt.
John Bagley, who died at Grand
Rapids at the age of IS, from heart
failure. was one OF the founders OF
the National Biscuit Co.
Pontiac's council will order a spe-
cial election to vote on the issuance
OF $125,000 bonds for a new water
supply system and reservoir.
Demented through loss OF her lover,
who died several months ago in the
old country, Mary Staltsack, a Polish
girl, was taken from the home of j. j.
McTRvish, of Saginaw, where she was
employed, raving maniac.
]. T. Owen, of Flint, reported to the
police that strange man gave his
1-year-old girl candy on the street. A
few minutes after eating the candy
the child was taken with commissions
and she is now in serious condition.
Sheriff Schultz's investigation has
convinced him that the half-witted
son of Joseph Malowski, a farmer
living near Saginaw, put poison in
the family WELL and he will try to
have the lad sent to a state institu-
tion. 1t is said the boy poisoned a
neighbor's well and has been putting
poison in his fathers we'll for several
years past.
Despondent because the wife from
whom he had been estranged refused
to give him an interview or 10 ac-
cept overtures for a reconciliation,
Patrick KERN, of Arenac county, at
tempted to end his life by cutting
veins in his wrist He was taken to
Standish for treatment and is in the
county Jail, but ii is believed that his
recovery is impossible.
Mrs. Edwin Dickson, of Chief Lake,
Manistee county, was removed dying
from Pere Marquette train at Hart
Saturday morning and died two hours
later. She had been taken suddenly
Ill in the cars while on the way TO
visit relatives and grew worse rapid
ly. The physicians called to attend
her state that the woman was poison
ed by food eaten on the train
For a week or so John NJ. Cody, the
mentally unbalanced Detroit man who
arrested" DR.. Fritch and gave him
a merry chase few nights ago, had
Pontiac excited by his plans for a
big auto plant, the lifting of the debt
on the city hospital the boosting of
local bank by a milIion-dollar de-
posit, and other stunts of like magni-
tude. Then Pontiac found out.
One full weeks operation of the
amended local option law in Van
Buren, county shows two drug stores
closed up and out of business. In
five of 22 remaining places no liquor
sales are reported The total num-
ber of sales in the entire county was
81, considerably less than one sale
per day for each drug store, as
against an average of "a sales per
day for each store under the old law.
George o. Scott, of Port Orange,
Fla, and William Rogers. Of Albion,
veterans of the Eighth Michigan
cavalry, met at Traverse City Thurs
day at the reunion of the Grand
Traverse Soldiers and Sailors associ-
alton, for the first time since 1865.
The two parted at the door of Ander-
sonville prison, where they were fell
low prisoners for seven months,
Feb 2S, 1865, Scott to go to Annapolis
hospital in feeble health, and Rogers
to reioin his regiment.
Attorneys for F. c. Hook. Of Adrian.
father of Wallace Hook. the boy who
refused to sign an "anti-fraternity"
pledge, and was denied the right to
enter the local high school, were
granted a mandamus by the circuit
court Monday to compel the school
board TO show cause why young Hook
should not be allowed to enter. The
action is the first result of a rule
adopted by the school board several
weeks ago, whereby all students were
10 pledge themselves not to join a
fraternity or society considered per
nicious by the board.