The Yale expositor., 1909-01-29
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The ice in the Grand river has dis
appeared and not one particle re-
mains.
Hira c. Moore, of Columbiaville. has
been appointed state banking commits
sioner.
James Jeffries and Alice Monroe,
two Detroit negroes, are under arrest
in Battle Creek charged with attempt
ing to hold up Frank Wilde on the
streets Saturday night.
The members of the state board of
auditors have decided to retain Supt.
Bennett as overseer of the capitol
building. Former Land Commissioner
Rose was after the place.
Schuyler c. Carskadden. who died
with his wife in Norfolk Va, Monday,
as the result of a death pact, was
superintendent of Bay City manufac-
turing company Is years ago.
The Indians are rapidly dying off at
Saganing, about six miles from Stan
dish on the bay shore, owing TO expos
ure and lack of proper food. Consump-
tion and pneumonia are the chief
causes of death.
lHtIt were NdludDle DlOOutu
cats at the cat show in Grand Rapids,
but the costliest was Romeo Y. Brenin
Gwynn, which took first prize In the
white male long-haired champion
class. His owner, Mrs. G. Dollhouse,
values him at $1,000.
Declaring that he is Benjamin, the
Seventh angel, possessed of divine
powers, Hubert Newlands, one of the
charter members Of the Benton Har-
Dor Flying Roller colony, has been
taken to the insane asylum on an en-
Urgency order from the probate court.
A Breckenridge man has invented a
sugar beet harvester, which is attract
ing much attention. 1t is claimed that
1t will pull, head and pile beets in
the fields, all ready for the market.
All of this work is now done by hand.
A patent has been granted the inven.
tor
The action of Rev. F. H. Clapp. pas.
tor of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in advising his congregation to boycott
merchants who are opposed to local
option, has stirred up a merry row in
Niles. One of the local papers severe
ly criticizes the minister for his ac-
ton
Lester Thomas. a rural mail car.
rier of Alma, disappeared two weeks
ago and his wife is now doing his
work to support her two children and
herself who are practically destitute
Creditors of Thomas seized his auto
mobile. His accounts with the govern
ment were square
Prof Filbert Roth. of the forestry
department of the university, and Sec
rotary Shirley Smith are working out
in the state securing subscriptions in
an effort to land the new government
forestry laboratory. Regent Sawyer,
of Hillsdale, donated $4,000, and 9th
ers have given smaller sums.
Berlin Van Dyke, a 5-year-old Hol.
land lad, fell from stepladder Fri.
day His tongue was caught between
his teeth and nearly severed. PROMPT
medical attention saved his life. The
physicians were unable to give him an
anaesthetic and ii required four men
10 hold him while they were taken
stitches in the mutilated tongue.
Reuben Walker, Port Huron Ia.
borer. was arrested Tuesday night.
charged with having made a brutal
and unprovoked assault upon his sick
wife. II is alleged that the man went
to his home where his wife had been
Ill with pneumonia for 10 weeks. and
savagely beat her with his fists. He
then left saying that he would BE
back in little while TO finish the lob"
I'll as she was, the woman ran TO a
neighbours, and summoned the police.
Mrs. Jerome Newman, living near
Galesburg, was arrested charged with
bigamy. The complaint against her
was made by ]. Heller, who claims TO
be her first husband. The woman Is
said to have admitted that she mar
ried three different men without OBJ
tanning a divorce from any of them.
but says that she did not know that
she was doing wrong.
Low water in the Menominee river
has caused a shutdown OF the Menom-
inee and Marinette paper mill No. 1 i.
No relief is expected until the spring
floods. says President August Spies.
Only three machines in mill No. are
grinding pulp.