The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


Dor High school will number ITO, the
largest that has ever been graduated.
Several influential business men OF
Flint will organize a club for boys,
and have already secured a building
for a club house.
Louis Rossio, Louis Musso and John
Benjamin, miners. were killed 5000
feet below the surface in the Calumet
& Hecla mine by fall of earth.
Matte Sampson, Sc, or Marengo
township, fell a few weeks ago, and
injured her head. Later, hemorrhage
developed, and she bled to death.
Charles Spicer, of Pontiac. who was
recently found guilty of assaulting his
13-year-old daughter, has been sent
enced to from l to Is years in Jackson
prison.
The body of Dan Smith, the young
man drowned when the Grand Trunk
trestle went out at Saginaw, taking
with II the railroad wrecking train,
has not been recovered.
On Monday, May II, the tenth re-
union of the Thirty-first Volunteer In
fantry will be held in Jackson. The
regiment has held meeting each year
since the close OF the Spanish-Ameri-
can war.
In his report on the fires, Game
Warden Pierce places the losses by
the forest fires last fall at S2,57O,446
and SCOTS at the estimates OF fed
eral official, who placed the losses at
$40.000,000.
Representative Sheridan J. Colby, at
Harper hospital, Detroit. is reported
to be in a precarious condition. He has
been gradually sinking for the past
several days and no hope is held for
his recovery.
Frances, the 4-year-old daughter OF
Mrs. Otto Rush, of Menominee, drank
half-a-p.nt of kerosene while her
mother was absent from the house.
A physician with a stomach pump
saved the child's life.
Joseph Bunline, prosperous Perry
township farmer, has made applica-
ton for the admittance to an asylum
of his wife and daughter He says
they imagine that they are hypnotists
and try to put him under the inhu-
ence."
The United States court Of appeals
in Chicago, has denied the petition for
a rehearlng for Martin Gray, who is
serving a years sentence for using
the mails to defraud, in the conduct
ing of matrimonial bureau in Benton
Harbor.
A man walked into the postoffice at
North Lansing and asked for his mail,
but couldn't remember his name. He
was later identified as Charles Hois-
ington, a commission declared him in
sane, and he was taken to Kalamazoo
asylum.
Charles Garland, aged SIS. and very
prominent farmer of Grand Traverse
county, was instantly killed when the
wheel of his heavily loaded lumber
wagon passed over his head. 1t is
thought that Mr.. Garland had tainted
and fallen from the load.
John Stint, an Indian of Menominee,
spent all one day hunting on his way
home, disguised of his poor success,
kicked viciously at a decayed stump.
The stump fell to pieces and six young
wolves were discovered in nest.
The cubs brought John $50 bounty
from the county treasurer.
The wife of Joseph NJ. Rose, jailed
in Owosso on a charge of fieecing sew
eral people on a suit DEAL is trying to
get her husbands release. The woman
has written the officers TO the effect
that she is in South Bend, Ind, with
out funds and unable to care for her
family of three small children.
These are the third pair OF boots
/ ever wore, and they are dandies,"
said C.. w. Greenleaf, wealthy far
mer, when discussing a pair of old
fashioned fine boots he was wearing.
He has worn the boots over 20 years
and says that with a new half-sole
they will be good for some time to
come.
Mrs. Stella NJ. Champeny, a Trav.
erse City newspaper woman, Is plan
ming an unusual trip. In June she
will go to Oberlin, o., where her son
Is attending school, and with the boy,
who is Is years old, will walk to Trav'
erse City, a distance of 400 miles.
Small knapsacks. containing bare ne.
cessities, an umbrella and a camera,
will comprise the baggage of the trav'
elers.
The attorney general will probably
be asked to decide whether William
Sawyer, of Rush township, can hold
TWO OI1Ctb. ne Is HOW JUSTICE VI luS
peace, and highway commissioner.
and the point is raised, 1t is said, by
the friends of Joseph Smith, who was
recently sentenced by Sawyer for as.
sault and battery. They say that be.
cause of the two Offices, the sentence
is void.
The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. is TAX
ing measures for the prevention and
suppression of forest fires along its
tracks, and near its mining proper
ties. Every employe of the company
will be furnished with fire report
blanks, and on them must file a COM
plete report of every fire which oc.
ours. They are also required to at
once notify the company of any blaze
which they may discover
An electric current that merely gave
his partner a jolt killed Michael Las
key, miner, aged 30, in the What Cheer
shaft, Bay City. Laskey and William
Brabbs operated an electric chain min.
ing machine and the insulation evil
IDENTIFY wore on from some connection