The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-26

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MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.
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Charlotte Louis Il. Breen has
brought suit against John Bodell e
collect on a judgment for 5000. Breer
is drain commissioner in Clinton coun-
ty and recently paid back $125 advanc-
ed to Bodell for work which ne failed
to perform. Breen is trying to set aside
a deed given by Bodell conveying
property to others. Breen claims, after
he had contracted the debt sued for.
Saginaw-Willlam c. Neumann has
begun suit against the Pere Marquette
for damages in the sum of $4,000 for
personal injuries which he claims he
received while running one OF their
engines. He was struck by a telegraph
pole which had sagged over close to
the track.
Muskegon-The first cars turned out
by the Henry company have been tried
out i'm the deep drifts about Muskegon.
and large number OF orders have al
ready been booked for the coming year.
The company expects to turn out 900
cars the first year
Hastinss-The annual meeting of
the Barry and Eaton Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance company, the second
farmers mutual concern in the state.
will be held at Hastings Feb. Is. The
company has a membership of S,67S.
representing risks amounting to s14.-
297715. The company paid s9,72O.23 in
losses in 1909.
Monroe-John Henry. aged 4. is. dead
1t is believed from eating the heads Of
matches. causing phosphoric poisoning.
Grass lake-Mrs. Martin Hoyt. wife
of well-to-do stock farmer four miles
from here, was found drowned in the
watering trough after search of sew
eral hours for her. Beside the woman
was an empty carbolic acid bottle. in
dicating that she had first taken the
poison and then jumped into the water.
Worry over her husbands IN health is
said to have been the cause of the act.
Ssginaw-Joseph Clark stationary
engineer. while eating mush strangled
to death. He suffered a partial paral-
ysis OF his throat two years ago and
had since been unable to take anything
but liquids.
CharIotte-The scarlet fever scare
which prompted the closing of the
schools and all other public places
where people congregated. is over and
meetings have been resumed
Muskeson-Contractor William f..
Wiselegel Is celebrating the 55th anni-
versary of his arrival in the state and
the 45th anniversary of his arrival at
Muskegon.
lapeer-Michael White. a Grand
Trunk brakeman residing at Port HUI
ron, waststruck " something while on
top of freight car and was found
lying there unconscious. He died
shortly afterward without regalning
consciousness.
Muskegon-Mary Dykstra and Ernest
E. Lueders have begun suits against
the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven &
Muskegon Railway company for $1,000
each. Both allege that they were in
jured by the car starting before they
alighted.
Cadillac-Flossie Williams, aged 16,
is in critical condition as the result
of some sort of poisoning. The girls
parents went to church, leaving her
and a gentleman friend at the house.
When they returned they found the
girl in convulsions. She made state
ment concerning the affair which the
authorities decline to divulge. They
reside at Temple.
Grand Haven-Benjamin Jorgeson,
aged Is. was badly burned while kind
ling a fire in n stove at the Congrega-
tional church. He was putting in
some wet coal when gases formed and
exploded in his face.
Bay City-Bert Smith, a miner, was
badly hurt at the Akron coal mine by
being caught in some manner between
the cage and the side of the shaft He
has but slight chance for recovery.
He has wife and two children.
PortIand-By the falling of large
piece of frozen gravel at gravel pit
near Goodwin bridge, Claude Goodwin
suffered broken leg and other serious
injuries.
kalamazoo-A three quarter million
dollar hotel will replace the Burdick
house. burned Dec. 8. The Arcade Co.,
which will erect the same has just
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