The Yale expositor., 1909-03-26
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

Representative citizens, at a recent
mass meeting, organized the Central
Lake Improvement league, and will
begin an active campaign.
Frank c. Houghtaling, an Urbandale
farmer, is under arrest charged with
feeding his hogs with refuse from the
operating room OF sanitarium.
Cornelius Hiesje. OF Holland, was
sentenced TO 60 days in the Detroit
house of correction for not being able
to refrain from drinking liquor.
G. z. Houck, a vaudette singer,
wanted in Hersey, Mich, on charge
of wife desertion, after month OF
married life, was arrested and re-
turned 10 Hersey.
John Schmidt, a prominent farmer
of Clam Lake, is dead as the result
board which was Kicked from saw
on which he was working.
City Treasurer E. E. Corliss, of Bay
City, has been cited to appear in court
and show cause why he did not turn
over certain rolls of state and county
taxes TO the county treasurer.
The prohibition movement was
started in Muskegon in a speech made
by William VanDometen, predicting
a local option victory and the wiping
out of the "A saloons in the county.
Montgomery Ward, 10, patient at
the Oak Grove sanitarium. has
escaped from the institution. He is the
son of wealthy Chicago people and
escaped from the sanitarium once last
summer.
The identity of Harry Monroe"
who died at the hospital in Port HUI
ron, has not yet been established. The
corpse will be photographed and the
pictures distributed among the police
OF several cities.
Flint merchants who still believe
that Harold Moon was kidnapped, have
caused 1000 double-size postcards,
bearing a picture of the boy to be
printed, and they will be sent broad
cast over the country in the hope OF
locating him.
Charles w. Hitchcock, Bay county's
prosecutor. has expressed the opinion
that the curfew law is a bad thing for
the child; that too much discipline is
left to the mothers and that both par
ents should have hand in the rear
ing OF the family.
Crime is at low ebb in Holland, ac-
cording to the annual report made by
Chief Fred. Kamberbeak, Of the board
of police, Wednesday. Only 141 ar
rests were made in the year, the
highest month being 10 in october and
the lowest November, with only four.
The white pine lumbermen are up
in arms against what they call the
"Fordney retaliatory clause" in the
Payne tariff bill, whereby maximum
tariff of 81 thousand still will be
charged unless Canada remove her
embargo on log shipments to the Unit
ed States.
Mill Creek saloons added another
death to their long list of old soldier
tragedies Saturday night, when Henry
Sill. a veteran of the soldiers home,
died after drunken spree. He was
GA years old and entered the home in
1904 from Hackettstown, N. Y. No
relatives are known
Judge Law has decided that the will
of the late Thomas Kennedy, of Port
Huron, by which James Cavanaugh is
made heir to the $4,000 estate must
stand good. The Kennedy descendants
claimed that the will was drawn sim
ply as a blind to enable Kennedy TO
live peacefully with his brother-in-law
Cavanaugh.
The two men arrested by federal au-
thorities in lonia for fraudulent use
of the mails, are said to have con-
fessed to the charge. The men sold
potatoes in carload lots, thin layer
of large tubers on top, concealing the
small ones. which constituted the
greater part of the load, receiving a
fancy price for the whole lot.
Believing that games, music and
drills will aid In curing the insane,
Miss Florence Marsh, instructor of
music at the Western Michigan Nor
NAL, has begun classes at the Michi-
gan asylum, and each day she teaches
songs to female patients of the institu-
ton and teaches them new drills.
Almost any day now in the vicinity
OF Jellalabad, Afghanistan, one is apt
to see bodies whistllng through the
air. A plot was discovered against the
life Of the ameer and 1.200 men al
legged to have been concerned In Il
were arrested. Now they are being
used In target practice by the ameer's
] artillery, replacing shells.