The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1911-06-15
STATE NEWS
I'm BRIEF


connected with a circus which showed
here engaged in fight with the re-
suit that one, William Virgins. hail
ing from Tennessee, was badly cut up
with knife welded by one of his OPP
|, ponents and may die. Virgins left
| arm was broken In two places and
| badly cut and a knife was thrust In
his left side, the cut extending three
inches upward under his ribs. For an
hour after he was slashed he wan
dered around the fair grounds looking
for the man who knitted him, and final
ly caught him and slashed him terri
bly, across the arm.
Lansing Announcement has been
! received by the state military
department that Lieut.. Col. ]. G..
Galbraith. Fourth cavalry, and Capt
o. l.. Spaulding, Fifth field artillery,
have been detailed as inspectors and
instructors for the M. N. G. camp Au-
gust 8 to 10 at Port Huron. Captain
Spaulding Is a Michigan man, the son
of General Spaulding of st. Johns. and
graduate Of the University Of Mich
igan. Captain Spaulding was adjutant
at the field artillery camp at Sparta.
Wis, last year. He is at present on
duty at the war college in Washing
ton.
Hastings. - After lying nearly
three days unconscious in her
home in Yankee Springs township.
south of Vaudeville, Mrs. Amos VIII
son, aged eighty years, is dead. Her
only companion was her middle-aged
daughter, who is partially demented.
She did not realize her mothers con-
dition, and the aged woman was dis
covered by a visitor, who Immediately
summoned a physician from Middle
Vile. His arrival was too late, how
ever, as Mrs. Wilson soon passed
away.
Birmingham. happy
afternoon with members of the
Clio Literary club OF Detroit at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. John Starr,
at Willow Brook, about three miles
south of here, Mrs. G. d. Whitney of
Pavilion, y. Y, aged sixty-seven, was
struck and almost instantly killed by
a Detroit-Pontiac limited car, soon
after the guests had taken a car for
home. The aged husband was COM
PEELED to stand helplessly by and wit
ness the tragic death of his wife.
Monroe. - William Curtiss and
Mary Curtiss. his housekeeper, OF
Bedford township. pleaded guilty of
sending a threatening letter through
the mail to Abraham Maybee. a farm
err of Lambertville. The man was
sentenced to one year in Jackson pris-
on and the woman to one year in the
county house upon condition of alb
staining from the use of morphine,
otherwise to the Detroit house of cor
rection for like period.
Pontiac. - Pontiac township will
build state reward road out
to Waterford township at once. A lit
tie later two miles of road will be built
out Perry street and residents of the
steam mill road are circulating sub
scription lists to secure funds to con-
tinue the state road built last fall to
the northerly township limit.
Saginaw.-With their wedding set
for June 81 and a case of scar
let fever in the family which would
prevent large wedding, Caro- Whit
ney, daughter of Senator Whitney OF
Merrill, after being fumigated by the
family doctor, came to Saginaw. Here
she met the bridegroom, III. r. Spend
love. of the same place, and they were
quietly married.
Alpena. - Lightning struck the
Moench tannery. The fire which
started did damage to the extent OF
$4,000. A big water main burst from
the heavy fire pressure and flooded
the streets In the vicinity Of the
Fletcher paper mill to a depth OF two
feet.
Richmond Mrs. Wilhelmina
Lindke, a Lenox pioneer, is dead. aged
seventy-six years. She is survived by
six children. Gustave A. Lindke and
Herman Lindke of Detroit are her
sons.
Flint.-P. G. Daiagan. who was
sentenced to five days In jail for
died in jail. When Dala-
gan appeared In court he pleaded to
be allowed to return home, stating
that he was i'll. but the court
decided to send him to jail. Excessive
is given as the cause of
death.
Saginaw.-Mrs Nellie Hemp has
asked the help of the police to locate
her nine-year-old son, Monroe. who
went away two months ago with a
blind man. The child is also sightless.
The Icy lSs been seen in several
Michigan towns. but not OF late.
Kalamazoo. - Clarence Walker, an
eighteen-year-old boy, was arrest
ed, charged with forging his moth
er's pay check at the Kalamazoo
Laundry company. The arrest of the
boy was made upon complaint OF his
mother, who told officers that her son
had spent the money he had planned
to buy groceries with. The boy admits
his guilt.
Lansing. -Tom Williams. from Mid
forger sent 10 Jack
son prison In 1908. is lucky in