The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
STATE w1RELETs.

The Saginaw Order OF Foresters has
announced that II intends to build
new temple In the near future.
Richard Doyle, of Battle Creek, as
distant superintendent of the Grand
Trunk, has been promoted to master
of transportation, and j. Ehrke, train
master, will succeed him.
William Crandall was found guilty
of numbering his wife in Battle
Creek by jury after the jury was
out only an hour and a half. Gran
dali faces a life term in prison for
his crime.
The tuberculosis convention that
has been held the past week has been
a great success. The county officials
nave erected shack at the county
farm and every precaution to fight
the disease will be made.
DR.. w. A. Stone, who has been as
sistant superintendent in the Michi-
gan asylum at Kalamazoo for twenty
years, rendered his resignation to the
board of directors tonight and IL was
accepted. Stone will take up private
practice
rs that so?" is all Emil Anderson
said when told that the father he had
tried to poison was dead. His cool
ness and indifference is proving
puzzling mystery to the officers. He
is awaiting trial on a charge of at
tempted murder.
THE Governors club" not a politi-
cal organization, has been organized
at Battle Creek with c. w. Post at
its head, for the purpose of cutting
down the use of tobacco and alcoholic
stimulants among its members. Each
excess costs a 81 fine.
Ernest E. Cullen, the deputy state
factory inspector who has been in
jail at Charlevoix for several weeks
on charge of accepting a bride, has
succeeded in having the case post
poned till the February term of court,
and the bail lowered from $1,000 to
$500.
General Superintendent Arnold, Of
the Flint & Saginaw interurban road,
says his company will start work on
an extension OF the line to Vassar.
the first of the year. The line, which
is expected to be completed in five
months, will run through Franken-
muth.
T. w. Atwood, of Caro-, has pur-
chased "a acres Of property in Perry,
and expects to plat IL of with the
intention Of securing a factory for
the place. The new division of the
NJ. u. r., which is being built from
Lansing to Owosso, will pass through
Perry.
William Crandall, the Battle Creek
xuhn rryff
August by slashing her throat with a
razor, has been declared guilty by
circuit court jury. Crandall slashed
his own throat after staying his wife,
but the wounds were not deep enough
TO cause death.
Following the closing of the Sigs-
bee Street school at Grand Rapids
last week because of the outbreak of
scarlet fever, the Colt Avenue insti-
tuition was closed, and the 400 pupils
sent home for a week The epidemic
continues unchecked, despite the best
efforts of the board of health.
AS warning to other tramps who
have for many years made Jackson
their headquarters, local Judge
Wednesday sentenced 13 hobos to 60
days each in the Detroit house of cor
rection. The police recently declared
that they would clear the city of the
travelling brethren" and are making
good.
County Clerk Humphrey, of Sagi-
nav, has received a letter from
Washington asking for information of
the whereabouts of d. B. Cook, form
erly of this city. or his heirs. Cook
was a Civil war veteran. and, the let
ter states. has a small fortune await
ing him. 1t is not known where he
is now living.