The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-04
UPPER PENINSULA


ole Dahl. the thirteen months-old
child OF ole Dahl. ll44 Garfield aven-
ue. Menominee. was terribly injured
by stumbling while toddling about the
floor and plunged both arms to the
shoulders in tub OF boiling water.
The flesh was literally cooked I'm plac-
es and dropped off. Or. Nadeau treat
ed the child and did what he could to
alleviate it's suffering. He states that
IL will be necessary 10 graft both arms
with new skin before tho child can re-
cover. II recovery Is possible.
lnvents a Trousers Rack
Thomas a. Cleary OF Escanaba has
rack. The number of the patent is
Y5y,ll2. 1he rack is AN ingenious con-
trivance described as can article OF
furniture" and is designed to meet
the wants OF clothing dealers and in
dividuals who desire to keep their
trousers In such manner that they
will retain their shape and good con-
dition. The technical description OF
the rack, as'published in a publication
devoted To patents, would require
more than a half column OF newspaper
space. Mr.. Cleary is member of the
Continental Clothing company.
Woman Enjoins Her Husband
Joseph Savoie, a saloon keeper at
Rapid River, Delta county, has been
served with a restraining order issued
upon application of his wife, Mrs.
Jennie Savoie which forbids him from
attempting to draw his money from
the bank where he has ii on deposit
or In any way attempting To dispose
of his property until action upon the
injunction is taken by the court. He
is also restrained from molesting his
wife or in any way interfering with
her movements. Mrs. Savoie in her
complaint against her husband alleges
that he at various times threatened
to do her great bodily harm and has
even threatened TO take her life. She
has begun an action for divorce based
on these allegations.
Fifteen Year-old Boy Eleetroeuted-
Trying to shake a blackbird off a
wire carrying 1000 volts of electricity
caused the instant electrocution of
Frank Meyers, aged fifteen, in the
yards of the Merryman hranufactur-
ing company at Menominee The boys
mother, standing in the door of the
house not one hundred feet away,
calling TO her son to come down from
his dangerous position, was a witness
of the tragedy. The wires carrying
the deadly voltage span the top of a
lumber pile, sagging TO within few
inches of it. The insulation win
worn off and II is bare in many spots.
Young Meyers had just placed his
hand on one wire to shake off the
bird when the shock made him in
stinctively throw back his hand and
touch the other wire There was n
slight twitch Of his body and he drop
ped in q heap on the lumber pile. The
boy was the son of Joseph Meyers,
barn boss for the Merryman company.
Bursting FlywheeI Menaces Lives
by the bursting of a large fly wheel
while revolving at n rapid rate, which
crashed through a solid brick wall and
skinned over the heads of a number
of women until stopped by an OBJ
struction, three employees at the plant
of the E-canaba Manufacturing COM
pany were slightly injured and the
liNUj OF many others were endangered.
The nywheel was attached to an en-
CINE that is known as the hopper.
While revolving at a rapid speed. the
spokes attaching the heavy rim to the
axle suddenly gave way. The rim Of
tho wheel shot upward through n
brick wall and entering the butter
dish room, where a number of girls
are employed at machines. skinned
over their heads and struck on oppos-
ing wall, loosening number of bricks
T. rec persons in the path OF the mis-
sic received minor cuts and bruises
nut luckily none were hit directly. A
stool on which one of the girls was
sitting while at work at her machine
Was struck and crushed and part -!
the ndchine was wrecked. That some
one IL. the path of the heavy piece of
iror was not struck and killed Is cor
sit cred by eye witnesses to be ma
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