The Yale expositor., 1909-11-19
MICHIGAN BREvITIES.

the u. of NJ, was suspended for two
years for disorderly conduct in hav-
ing taken part in disturbance in a
rooming house.
Because everything else has been
| going up, the Bay County Medical as
ISOLATION has boosted its prices for
medical help to 81 for day call and
| 81 for a night call.
According to figures gathered from
| several sugar factories in the neigh
| borhood of Saginaw, farmers who
raised sugar beets this year will re.
ceive about $l0,000,000 for the crop.
George Baker, OF Chicago. was fined
SIS and $40 costs for hunting deer in
Iron county last year without having
provided himself with a nonresident
hunters license. charge of perjury
may be brought against him.
William Johnson, a Hobart farmer,
| is In a critical condition as a result
OF being kicked in the face by a
horse. His jaw is broken, the face
cut and battered, and both eyes par
TALLY forced from their sockets.
Mrs. Ralph Meyers, of Perry. who
found large pearl at a church oyster
stew few weeks ago, sent the stone
to Detroit for appraisal the other
day, and this week received the cheer
ing information that the pearl is
worth $50 to 500
George Ryan, AZ, of Ludington, who
represented himself as an officer, and,
1t is alleged, passed one worthless
check and was captured while at
tempting to pass another. is in Jail
at Owosso. When searched he had
his pockets full of checks on local
banks, and had bogus warrant, to
use in the officer role.
Daniel Pendergast, engineer Of the
construction train engaged in build
ing the New Haven Coal Mining
Co.'s road north of Owosso, shot
silvergray fox from tho cab of his
locomotive one day last week. The
line runs through long stretch of
woods, and Pendergast carries his
gun with him while at work.
Once more the fight between the
Saginaw board OF water commission
ers and the council has broken out,
this time over the making of q con-
tract for the city's supply of coal for
the coming year. The company that
furnished the fuel last year was de-
prived of its money for some time be-
cause the board claimed the coal was
not up to the required standard.
Mrs. Charles Haynes. who is at the
head of all philanthropic work in Cad
lilac, and who has carte blanche from
a prominent business man to fill in
his checks for all sums needed TO re-
lieve distress. says that there is not
poor family in Cadillac who needs
assistance this year. .'he abolish
ment of saloons is given by Mrs.
Haynes as the reason for the prosper
ity.
George Legg, alias George Martin.
the son Of Contractor William Legg,
of Detroit, was found guilty of hold
ing up and robbing Henry Fenner, Jr.,
in Port Huron June 10. Legg has
served two years in the Ionia re-
formatory for the larceny of watch,
and II he had not been convicted on
the holdup charge he would have
been taken to Flint, where the Off
GERS say he stole a pair of rubber
boots.
DR.. William Hansen, of Greenville,
has in his possession a freak-born
calf The animal is fully developed,
but was born dead. The head and
legs were curled up and the skin was
drawn over the body with the hair
on the inside, and the heart and
other organs were grown on the out
side of the body. The calf was born
on a farm near Sidney, and Mr. Han
sen will have the body preserved in
alcohol.
There will be no assessing any
clerks in any of our departments for
the primary election campaign" said
Secretary of State Martindale. II
speak as a member of the state board
of auditors, and State Treasurer
Sleeper and Land Commissioner Rus
sell are in accord with me on this
matter. Neither in the departments
of which we are the heads nor in the
ones controlled by the board of audi
tors will we allow It,"
One of the mules employed in
building the grade for the new Lans-
ing-Saginaw electric road. rolled down
the 30-foot bank during a kicking ex-
hibition one day last week, and his
harness became badly tangled in the
barbed wire fence against which he
IOilSu. Inc wires were cut ana q
chain fastened around the mules
body. A team hitched to the other
end of the chain pulled the animal to
the top of the grade, unhurt.
The supreme court has decided that
a man who is in jail cannot be made
the defendant in a damage suit. Bur-
will Teeter, of st. Johns, arrested
some time ago on a charge of wife
desertion, was sued for $4,000 dam
ages by George Weale, DuPlains
township farmer, with whose wife
Teeter had eloped. The supreme
court rendered this decision, on an
appeal taken by Weale, when the cir
cult court ruled against him.
According to a report of Secretary
NJ t. Murray, of the state board Of
corrections and charities, who is
making tour of inspection of county
Iails and infirmaries conditions in
some of the institutions are far below
the standard which the state aims TO
maintain. In many jails he says juve-
nile prisoners are kept in with hard
ened criminals. In one county men