The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

The tussoch moth has made its APP
pearance in Saginaw and shade trees
are endangered
William Schauch, an Owosso far
mer, fell 30 feet out of his haymow
and is dying of paralysis
Lawrence Edwards, 10, of Standish,
was drowned while trying to recover
the oars lost from his rowboat.
Charles Hill. SS, who with his three
brothers surveyed the streets OF Fort
Huron in 1856, is dead at his home.
The 5-year-old daughter of John
| Ealy, of West Branch, fell into a pig
pen and was seriously injured by the
animals before she was rescued.
The rain which visited Niles and
vicinity Thursday will do much
| toward saving the fruit crop of south
ern Michigan, which had begun to
suffer from drouth.
| The binder Irvine plant at the Jack
| son prison will resume operations
next week after the two weeks shut
| down. There are now orders ahead
| for 100000 pounds of Irvine.
| The Allegan county Jail is empty,
the first time in many years. The
officers ascribe the lack of prison
| ers 10 the local option law which was
adopted at the spring election.
Mrs. Lenora Nardka has begun
habeas corpus proceedings TO get her
two daughters. aged l and 2, out of
! the state school at Coldwater. where
they were placed by their father.
Editor Baldwin, of the Escanaba
Journal. is suing the local Liquor
Dealers association in the circuit
court for damages. alleging that his
business has been badly hurt by a
| boycott.
Walter Reynolds, of Saginaw, G5,
and very feeble, pleaded guilty to the
charge brought by his little daughters
and was sentenced TO from three TO
ten years in the Ionia reformatory by
Judge Gage.
Children playing with matches set
fire TO a barn on the farm of Andrew
Cartridge, near Flushing, and the
building and contents were destroyed.
The loss will amount to $4,000, par
| TALLY insured
Capt. JSO. Parker, OF Owosso, has
notified militia members Of his COM
pany that unless they report for the
encampment August they will be ar
rested, imprisoned for eight days and
subject TO courtmartial.
| The GERS of Ionia county
are having their troubles enforcing
the local option law. Numerous COM
plants are being made of the alleged
increase in drinking and several
cases are being investigated now.
The state railroad commission has
withheld decision in the case of c.
H. Jackson, Sparta, who refused to
pay fare on a crowded Pere Mar
quette train. Jackson says his action
was advised by Senator William
Alden Smith.
Cornelius Geddes has started suit
against Saginaw township for $1,000
damages, alleging that he was severe
ly injured while crossing a ditch in
Saginaw township that was swollen
| by the floods last spring. Geddes
says the bridge was washed away.
William Edwards, graduate of the
NJ. A. c., whose home is in Hastings,
has been appointed an inspector of
agriculture In the Philippines, and
will soon sail for Manila. He expects
TO remain there three years and
then return to enter the department
OF agriculture at Washington.
Because Ernest Herpel, aged far
mer OF Saginaw county, decided his
property to his son in return for care
and support he didn't get, the
younger Herpel is ordered by the
court to pay his father $25 a month
for maintenance. 500 a year extra
rental and s717 for failure to provide
for him heretofore.
Mrs. William Nagelkerke, of vries-
land, did not see one OF her seven
children place quantity of turpen-
tine in kettle of linseed oil which
she later placed on the kitchen stove
to boil, and in the explosion which
followed her clothing was burned of,
and her body so badly burned that
physicians say her chance for recov-
cry is slight.
The saloonists at the st. Clair Flats
are paying their liquor taxes and TAX
ing out their red cards. They should
have done this four months ago, but
Sheriff Wagenseil has failed to en-
force that portion OF the law The
present activity is said to be the re-
suit OF Prosecuting Attorney Browns
taking the matter up. Each man pays
s416.6S for 10 months card.
In an address to Normal students
at Kalamazoo, DR.. Charles Eastman,
full-blooded Sioux Indian, declared
Gen. Custer and his command were
not massacred at the Little Big Horn
but wiped out in an open battle with
the Indians.