The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-02-04
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

bureau gauge was paced at the Gene-
see bridge at Saginaw.
Eugene Mayrand. 81, of Hancock,
employed by the Quincy Mining Co..
as an electrician, was instantly killed
Friday while riding to the surface OF
the mine in skip.
Damage of $50 was done by a fire in
the home of Peter Ainsworth, of Sag
NAV, caused by a lighted cigarette,
with which he had gone To bed, COM,
ing In contact with the bedding. The
bed was destroyed.
With only one saloon in the viii
lage, local option enthusiasts of Coral
have started a vigorous campaign
here to put the saloon out of BUSH
ness. A branch OF the Anti-Saloon
league has been organized.
To examine Jackson creek, which is
about TO figure in a county drain case,
Sheriff Epplett, OF Sanilac county, and
IL jurors were compelled to walk and
follow the course of the stream from
Sandusky to Port Huron, 20 miles.
Four girls of tender age were found
intoxicated on the streets of Saginaw
Saturday and were heavily fined.
Chief of Police Kane has been asked
to investigate and arrest saloon
keeper who is said to have sold them
the liquor
Eight men formed themselves into
human chain and pulled Frank
| Hirsch, aged "a, a wealthy inmate of
the Oak Grove sanitarium, out of the
Flint river Hirsch was walking with
an attendant when he escaped and
leaped into the river
While Harvey Rodebaugh was
working in sawmill about five miles
south of Quincy, his arm was caught
in the big saw and cut off between
the elbow and wrist. The dismem-
bered arm was hurled distance OF
! 90 feet from the man.
john McKinnon, 1893, the Oldest res
! ident in the Saginaw section of the
! state. died Sunday at the home of his
/ daughter. Mrs. Hamlin Mcdonald, near
st. Charles, Mich. He came to this
! country from Canada so years ago.
| Five daughters and son survive.
By completing an organization that
/ is TO be known as the Workingman's
board Of trade and receiving petitions
/ bearing in the neighborhood OF 1000
signatures. the first active step in the
meat boycott situation was taken in
Grand Rapids by the workingmen Sat-
urday night
During the year 1909 1887 students
at Ann Arbor were treated at the
| homeopathic hospital which the med
! ical students were granted the privi-
! lege Of observing. The report for the
university hospital is not yet COM
pleted, but during the IL months fol-
! lowing July /. 1908, there were 4,259
| patients treated.
The accidental discharge CT a gun
! in the hands of Clare Hart resulted in
seriously wounding Sherman Coryell,
a companion. The accident occurred
at Seven Lake, five miles north of
| Fenton. The entire charge entered the
! leg just below the knee, badly shat
tering that member 1t is thought
that amputation will be necessary.
Helen Raynor, the principal witness
against the three Cinnamon who are
charged with harboring two white
girls, testified in Battle Greek that
Lem 10y had caused her downfall,
having sent her to Chinese in several
Michigan cities She also AYERS that
he gave her "doped" cigarettes. Ber-
tina Clement, her companion, related
similar experiences.
A civil suit involving 5000, already
having cost the defendants five times
that amount, may come up in the Ing
! ham county circuit court this week.
The litigation arose over the purchase
of traction engine by John G.. Water
man. The machine was listed at ST.
341, but it is said that Waterman
agreed to receive $500 when he
! transferred it to a firm of contractors.
Henry Benner an ex-saloonist of
Marshall, thinks he is being pursued
by inoodoo. His place has been sold
on a mortgage; he was recently ar
rested for alleged violation of the
! local option law; the sheriff has petit
! toned TO have two of his young
daughters sent to the House of tle
Good Shepherd, and now he Is threat
ened with arrest for passing spurious
coin.
Trains Collide; One Man Dead.
| A rear-end collision in the Hoyt
street yards at Saginaw when a heavy
| freight train going at the rate of Is
miles an hour crashed into the ca
boose of an extra Pere Marquette
freight train, resulted in the death
of one man and serious injury to
another.
William Hudson, 40. of Port Huron,
conductor on the extra train, was in
stantly killed, and Roy j. Fernett.
As, a brakeman. of Port Huron, was
badly brushed and cut. One ear was
cut off.
Wireless Telegraph Co. to Come In.
The United Wireless Telegraph Co.,
of New York, has made application
| to the secretary of state to do bust
ness in Michigan. The secretary of
state has asked the opinion of the
attorney general as to whether the
concern comes under the telegraph
act or under the general corporation
act.