The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-07-16
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fractured his skull
Davis Scott. aged 81. and the Oldest
Mason In Calhoun county, dropped
dead at the dinner table.
Several hundred thousand dollars in
public improvements will be spent
by Owosso this summer.
A $4,000 fire in Allegan destroyed
the e. e. Sherman grain elevator, be-
sides damaging other buildings.
Peter Brinker, doing 60 days for
larceny, climbed the wall at the Kent
county jail, waved goodbye TO guards
and prisoners and escaped.
Fire that threatened to wipe out
the village of Bridgeman was extin-
guished after destroying five houses,
a saloon and several barns.
A few scratches comprised all the
injuries to the crew of q Pere Mar
Quette freight train derailed and
wrecked in the Saginaw yards.
Worry over the Imprisonment OF
his son, who stabbed his sweetheart
TO death with a pair of scissors two
years ago. has driven Joseph Enrich,
ST.. Of Adrian. insane.
Bert Peck, clerk at an Indian River
hotel, kicked a roll OF greenbacks con-
tanning $500 out of the dust in front
of Arndt's drug store. He has placed
it in the local bank to await an own
er.
After a four-mile chase, DR.. Fair,
president of the Durand bank, cap
tured two strangers who were run
ming away with his automobile. recov-
cred the machine and landed the men
In Jail.
lowering Zell, a Jackson prison con-
Wet, has begun a $4,000 suit against
the Michigan United road for injuries
received in the derailing of a car at
Marshall. Zell was aboard in charge
of an officer.
Mrs. Ora Fleming. OF Marengo, was
blinded in one eye by the explosion OF
torpedo on the street. The young
man who threw the torpedo has
agreed to pay for the treatment of
the injured eye.
When Mayor Allen, of st. Joseph,
found a farmer drunk and happy on
the streets Sunday, he induced the
fellow to buy him a bottle of liquor
from the same drug store. Then he
had the druggist arrested.
George Banaszak expectorated on
the sidewalk in front of John Szczo-
zodrowsh's home in Bay City and
Johns wife struck him with a broom.
He knocked her down and beat her
so severely that she may die.
Mrs. n. w. Kujewa, 70, who was
picking up coal in the G. r. & l. yards
at Grand Rapids, crawled under a car
to escape a rain storm, and switch
engine struck the car. The woman
was run over and instantly killed.
The injunction that prevented the
New Haven Coal Mining Co. from
building a six-mile railroad to connect
their mines with the Ann Arbor road
has been dissolved. The mines will
now be opened full force with 800
men instead of so.
PlainweT Village claims the distinc.
ton of having turned out more dent
lists than any place of its size in the
country. At a recent meeting of the
Della Sigma Delta, a dental fratern-
ity, It was found that twelve members
claim Plainwell as their home.
Verne Sheldon. 16, son of farmer
west of Greenville, disappeared from
picnic ground at Baldwin lake Mon
day and cannot be found AS he car
ried a gun it is feared he may have
accidentally shot himself and be ly-
ing dead or wounded In the under
brush.
During the severe electrical storm
near Bay City a strong gust of wind
picked up the horse and buggy with
which Joseph Plant was driving and
carried them 20 feet into a potato
patch. Neither the man nor horse
were injured, but the buggy was
wrecked
Henry H. HILL a prominent resident
Of Rochester, is dead of a nosebleed,
which continued over Ga consecutive
hours. He had been affected with fire.
quent bleeding from the nose since
last November. He was 60 years old
and is survived by a widow, one
daughter, four stepsons and two
brothers.
The last log cabin in Calhoun coun-
ty, the home of James Baker, of Ma
rengo township, was burned to the
ground, together with all his house.
hold goods. defective chimney
caused the blaze. The family escaped
in their night clothes, jumping from
the bedroom window Loss, 1900; no
insurance.
Withholding enough to pay salaries
| and taking account of vouchers now
out, the state treasurer found himself
without a dollar of public money
Thursday. There is still $4,000 In the
strong box, but 1t will have to 60 10
pay bills already o. KID. There will
be no more coming In till the Deem
Der taxes arrive.
When she attempted TO burn 2sso-
line-saturated rag with which she had
cleaned a skirt, Miss Agnes Ford,
bookkeeper in Saginaw paint store.
set fire to her clothing, and was saved
from serious burns by customer,
who extinguished the flames by wrap
ping his coat about her A few feet
away stood 30-gallon tank of gaso-
| line.
Because the council recently grant
ed a 10-year contract for the street
! lighting TO the Michigan Power Co, OF
Lansing, thereby cutting OF the chief