The Yale expositor., 1910-07-15
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

the lighter Reliance left the 500 for
the steamer Black Rock, ashore near
Cheboygan. The barge Aurora will be
detained until the lighter returns from
the Black Rock. While coming up
Little Rapids, below the 500, the
steamer John A. Donaldsens wheel
chains parted. She took sheer and
was driven hard on pile of rocks at
the side of the channel. She is out
about five feet. and her entire bottom
forward is badly torn. She is full OF
water forward. The Donaldson is
loaded with coal. Ii may be three or
four days before wrecking operations
can be started on account OF the only
lighter in this section being in use
on the Black Rock.
Saginaw.-At the annual session of
the Saengerfest OF the Lake Erie cir
cuit, held here. the following officers
were reelected: President, w. +.
Berger, Saginaw; first president.
w. NJ. Fromm. Cleveland: secretary.
Emil Lohse, Erie, Pa; treasurer, j. w.
Kock, Detroit; district delegate to in
ternational saengerfest, Ernest Hadke,
Waterloo, Ont.
South Haven.-Fire, originating in
the clothing store of Max Shiowitz, en-
tailed property loss of $4,000. The
losses are as follows: w. A. New.
come. owner OF building. $4,000. with
$1,000 insurance; Max Shiowitz, cloth.
ier $2,700, with 1000 insurance: J.
Greenman. barber, $500; Combs res
taurant, $500.
hepherd.-Creech's drug store was
entirely destroyed by fire. entailing a
loss of $1,000. with insurance of $1,000.
Origin of the fire is unknown.
South Haven.-Fire of unknown
origin caused loss of $4,000 to the
business houses of w A. Newcombe.
J. ii. Johnson, j. A. Combs and Max
Shiowitz
F1int.-Assistant Fire Chief George
B. Taylor has been dismissed from
duty by the fire commission. His dis
missal is the result OF a fight which
recently occurred between two mem
bers of the department.
Marquette.-A special committee OF
the board of supervisors has decreed
that the able-bodied prisoners in the
county jail shall be employed on high
way and quarry work whenever they
can be used to advantage.
MISUNDERSTANDING Nesault drank
carLolic acid, mistaking II for whisky,
and died
Grand Rapids-After a desperate
struggle with a friend who tried TO
restrain him. w. III. Titus OF Oklahoma
City, Okla, jumped overheard from
the steamer Holland en- route from
Chicago to Holland. Mich. and was
drowned. Titus, who was thirty-nine
years old, was suffering from nervous
prostration.
Fredericksburg from his home in
Tyrone township, three miles south OF
the village. early Sunday morning, a
search was instituted for Joseph Buz-
zard. forty-eight, farmer. Homer,
the eight-year-old son, went into a
barn near the house and found the
lifeless body OF his father suspended
from rope tied 70 the rafters. For
several months Mr.. Buzzard had been
Ill and had domestic difficulties. There
are eight children ranging in age from
two TO twenty-one years.
Grand Rapids.-Susie Vance. so
years old, drank horse liniment yes
terday. Physicians used the stomach
pump with apparent success, but the
woman died She is said TO have been
slightly demented
Grand Rapids-Three prostrations
from the heat were reported when
the mercury jumped from 50 to IS
degrees. They were Katherine Dills.
"a; Mrs. Grace Method, waitress,
and Henry Brant.
Owosso.-Rev. George Laughton,
pastor of the Baptist church, sus-
tanned FIVE fractured ribs and a splin-
tered ankle, while carrying a heavy
storm door TO the second floor of the
parsonage. Laughton fell down stairs.
KalamaZoo.-Mrs. Christian Wied-
mayer was so badly burned by an ex-
plosion of gunpowder that had been
spilled under swing in which she
was sittin gthat she may not recover.
Sparks from a firecracker ignited the
powder.
Saginaw.-Mrs William Martin is
prostrated over the disappearance of
her 14-year-old daughter. Elizabeth.
who left homo with Hazel Moore,
same age. shortly after her 1i-year-old
brother disappeared. The police are
seeking all three.
St. Joseph.-In plain sight of sew
eral hundred bathers and spectators.
Benjamin Mendelsohn of Chicago was
drown in Lake Michigan, making the
total drowned in the state this season
AZ. The undertow caught the Chica-
goan as he was bathing and pulled
him down.
Lansing Prof. n. f. Cooley OF the
University of Michigan and an as
sistsnt were here comforting with con-
ferring with the state railway commits
sion relative to an appraisal OF the
properties of the water power con-
Germs, which have asked the commits
sion for authority to issue bonds.
Ssult Ste Marie.-A heavy pail Of
smoke still hangs over this section.