The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-09-03
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.


Hubbardston is suffering severely
from the drouth, gardens being a fail
ure and no feed in sight for cattle.
Saginaw county jail Is empty for
The first time in five years. Only
seven prisoners are being held in
any institution in the entire county.
The body of Sanford Silver, of Ira
verse City, marine cook drowned by
fall from a steamer, was recovered
on the birthday of his two small chill
dren
of Detroit, fell from a freight train
ON which he was riding to Jackson
to take a job. He will die from his
injuries.
William Bowes, one of the Oldest
residents OF Arenac county, dropped
dead while looking at land in the
Jereth mountains of New Mexico on
Monday.
Fearing that the death Of his pretty
young wife and baby would make
drunkard OF him, Herman Pollock
took his own life by inhaling gas at
the home of his brother-in-law.
Over 1000 Knights of Columbus
from Mt. Pleasant, Bay City, Flint
and other towns, were in Saginaw
Sunday to initiate a class of 100. The
banquet Sunday night was attended
by 1000.
Hon. Charles ID. Lawton, former re-
gent of the University of Michigan
and for nine years state commissioner
of mineral statistics, died at his home
in Lawton Tuesday night of heart fail
ure, aged "A.
William Crandall, who cut his
throat at Battle Greek Saturday night
after killing his wife, followed a fam
lily precedent, his father and grand
father having both ended their lives
in the same manner.
Trying to couple a switch engine
to a string of freight cars in the Pere
Marquette yards. in Flint, Engineer
George Eagan and Fireman Harry
Gibbs were caught between the bump
ers and their arms crushed.
The wife of Edward w. Alger.
preacher of the Millennium Dawn Bible
society. has reported to Jackson Off
GERS that her husband has dsap-
peared. The police believe that do
nestle troubles are responsible.
Ralph Osborne, coming from Free.
port to Muskegon to spend his twelfth
birthday with his mother here, found
that she had disappeared several
days before. The police are helping
him in his search for her.
That Flint has lost three big indus
tries and is likely to lose more, is
the claim of W. H. Little, Of the
Buick Motor Co. High prices charged
for board, rooms and accommodations
by the thrifty citizens did it, he says.
Former pupils and others perpe-
trated a noisy charivari upon Ray
Russell, principal of the Walled Lake
school, and his bride, who was Miss
Bessie Johns. The mother OF the
bride tried to drive away the noise
makers with a horsewhip, but failed.
Worried over the threatened short.
age in the water supply, the Eaton
Rapids water board set men at work
drilling a new well at the waterworks
station. At a depth of 175 feet
gusher was struck which for several
hours defied all attempts to harness
il.
Louis Jones, woodsman of Cope
mish, was killed in a peculiar acct
dent Wednesday. A limb of the tree
he was telling struck him in the back,
and in falling he struck his nose on
the edge of an ak. His face was split
open and Jones died a few hours la
ter
After spending the entire summer
in shooting and mounting fine speci-
mems of Michigan birds, Bernard Rog-
ers and Mccormick Jewett, of Chi
cago, were arrested in Traverse City
and their specimens confiscated for
failure to procure a state hunting H.
cense.
Arthur Watkins, a mulatto, %,
and Ethel Gale a white girl, II, were
taken into custody in Boyne City
Thursday by Allegan county officers,
who claim the pair ran away from
Fennville several weeks ago. They
have been securing the country for
them.
Michael Burkhart, convicted of man.
slaughter in connection with his kill
ing Robert Barrows in Detroit on the
night of July 4, was sentenced We'd
nesday morning to serve from IL to
IL years in the Jackson prison, with
a recommendation that he serve the
maximum term.
In his address at the Indian camp
meeting at Traverse City, Rev. T. c..
Thomas, full blooded Chippewa. whose
Indian name is Nabanayash, prophe-
sled a bitter war in the future be-
tween the white anG colored races of
the United States, followed by an
Indian president
The big cofferdam which a force
OF men have been building to repair
the head gate of the Otsego power
dam, was washed out by heavy
overflow of water from the dam of
the Commonwealth Power Co. above.
Two paper mills are shut down be-
cause of the accident.
The Buffers Salt & Lumber Co.
plant at Buttersville, across the Pere
Marquette river from Ludington, was
completely destroyed by fire Wednes.
day morning. The property destroyed
includes the sawmill. the single mill.
the salt blocks, four million feet of
lumber, the docks, two houses, IL 900
barrels of salt ready for shipment. H.