The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-09-17
MICHIGAN 5REVITIES.

Mrs. Ellen Field, chief cook at a
Quincy hotel for As years, during
which she never had a vacation, is
dead, aged 70.
The w. A. Patterson Co, of Flint,
large carriage manufacturers, will go
into the automobile making business
on big scale.
John Kearney, 16, is in jail on
charge of robbing stores in Midland,
Bay City and Saginaw. For the most
part, hardware stores were entered
and shotguns stolen.
John Lamont, a tramp, is the first
to be sent to prison from Pontiac
under the new vagrancy law. Justice
North gave him So days in the De-
troit house OF correction.
The coroners jury has found the
recent wreck of the Grand Trunk ex'
press by collision with a freight
train near Capac to have been the
fault of the freight crew.
The inspection of the state reward
road in Saginaw county was completed
Friday afternoon, and State Highway
Commissioner Ely announced that the
county Is entitled to $S,232 bonus from
the state.
Flint labor men combined their cele-
bration with the local order Monday
for a Labor day celebration at Win
ona beach. All saloons were closed
in the city, but liquor was plentiful
at the road houses.
Charles p. Collingwood, postmaster
at East Lansing, was on Wednesday
appointed circuit judge for Ingham
county, under the act passed by the
legislature providing an additional
judge for the county.
The safe in the d. u. r. depot at
Atlas was blown early Monday morn
ing, and Frank Chapman, who is well
known to the police of Flint. is in the
county Jail on suspicion of knowing
something of the affair.
While his $4,000 damage suit is
still pending in the court in Saginaw,
Edward Rigge, justice of the peace
and politician, is dead of injuries re-
ceived three years ago while working
on a structural steel job.
From present indications this sea.
sons crop of sugar beets will be the
largest yield in the history of the in
lustry in Michigan. 1t is estimated
that the sugar produced from the crop
will reach the $10,000.000 mark
Because he told the immigration
officials that he was a resident of
Detroit when he came across the river
a week ago, Reaume Bridges. of Lon.
don, Ont, Is held at the ST. Clair
county Jail on a charge Of perjury.
Ava and Carrie, daughters of VIII.
lam Gardner, of Burt, started for Sun
day school together and have not
been seen since they disappeared
down the road near their home. They
are IA and II years old respectively.
Edward Munger, a Ravenna farmer,
while working with a gang of men,
was attacked by Andrew Englemeier,
through whose property they were
digging a ditch, and chased mile,
Englemeier, who is said to be men
tally deranged, brandishing a pitch
fork
William Staten and James Hall,
two of the gang of rowdies who start
ed a riot on a Saginaw-Flint car and
beat up the conductor and motorman,
have been sentenced to Go days in the
Detroit house of correction. William
Hall, a third member of the gang,
was given ten days in jail.
Because they were in a hurry to
catch a train middle-aged couple
who were married by local minister,
Friday, provided only one witness to
the ceremony. Later the groom, fear.
ing that the marriage was not accord.
ing to law hunted up another witness
and the ceremony was gone through
with again.
BY a decision by Judge Law, of Port
Huron, in the case of Edward Lea
turno against Mrs. Sarah Tudhope, a
mechanics lien can be placed on a
hole in the ground. Leaturno sunk a
we'll for the woman and when she
refused to pay him for the work ap
piled for the lien. The case is unique
in the history Of Michigan courts
AS a result of a raid made by
Sheriff Bean under the new search
and seizure law. the first prosecution
since local option went into effect in
Jackson county. last May. was com
pleted when Judge Parkinson sen,
fenced Edward Eagan, convicted OF
keeping place where liquor was
sold, to pay a fine of 800 and spend
80 days in the Detroit house of cor
rection.