The Yale expositor., 1911-02-09
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

Traverse City.-About 600 employees
will commence work when the Oval
Wood Dish company's plant will start
running after two months of idleness.
Cyril, five-year-old son of Eugene
Knight, was severely injured while
coasting near Kingsley. He ran into
a barbed wire fence, almost tearing
his nose from HE face. He also in
jured his eye1, but the eyesight Is not
impaired.
Saglnaw.-William Deegan, seventy
five, who wandered around in
swamp near st. Charles, will be COM
mitted to the asylum at Bridgeport,
O. The trial of John Mosteller,
charged with Staying William S.
Wynes last April is on in the circuit
court. This is the first homicide trial
in ten years in Saginaw county.
Grand Rapids-While watching an
automobile and forgetful of his own
safety, John Garry, fagman at the
Godfrey avenue crossing of the Pere
Marquette railroad, was struck by an
engine. Several ribs were crushed and
he was injured about the head. Garry
is seventy years of age.
Munising.-Mrs. A. e. Stockwell,
mother of ]. A. Stockwell, assistant
cashier of the National bank, is dead
at Marquette.
Cadillac.-The Commercial house
and the residence of Mrs. Charles FL
lison, next to it, In Harrietta, were
destroyed by fire causing a loss of
$4,000.
Lapeer-Capt. Guy M. Wilson Of
Company A. M. N. G., who was in
command during the smallpox cpl
demic, was in Lapeer and paid the
balance due merchants for provisions,
amounting to $1,361.29.
Flint.-Ora Carpenter, twenty-three,
son of a Montrose farmer, is locked
up on a statutory charge preferred by
a fifteen-year-old girl.
Holland.-Walter Dyke, seventeen,
OF iceland, jumped from moving in
terurban car and landed on his head.
Conclusion of the brain is feared.
Battle Creek.-Mrs. s. r. Bean,
lightweight, four miles west, died the
other night from burns received lie
the afternoon. She picked up a live
coal that dropped from the stove, and
her dress caught fire.
Vassar.-Mrs. Edward Reed Bar
mum, twenty-one, died suddenly of
pneumonia in Mt. Pleasant, where she
went few days ago to visit her per-
ents.
Owosso.-Great interest is being
shown In the request of the Union
Telephone company to obtain a new
franchise. The company promises to
build a new three-story building and
move its headquarters from Alma. 1t
also promises extensive improvements
to cost at least $4,000. Some sub
sCribers believe the seeking of the
franchise is a move to boost the tele-
phone rates. committee will visit
Grand Rapids, Detroit and Flint, where
an inspection of the system of the two
telephone companies will be made.
Portland-The Joseph Koblin cloth
ing store burned here, causing a loss
of $4,000.
Battle Creek.-Several thousand
people attended the funeral of DR..
John F. Byington, filling the Seventh
lay Adventist tabernacle, the largest
church in the state, to overflowing.
Saginaw.-One thousand Knights of
Columbus from various towns in the
state gathered here for the Initiation
of 100 candidates.
Flint.-Following the receipt of two
letters containing total of $50 and
request to give the money to Mrs.
Gage, Judge Wisner started an inves
tigation to learn the identity of the
writer William A. Gage. He found that
Gage is patient in the Pontiac asy
lum, halls from Lapeer and was never
married.
Owosso.-While Milton Davis, a
farmer of Morrice, was feeding his
pigs, a purse dropped from his pocket
into the pen. He missed the pocket
book later and returned to the pen to
find that the swine had devoured the
receptacle and sos in bills. Twenty
dollars lay on the ground.
Cadillac.-Rev. DR.. A. w. tombstone
OF the Presbyterian church. who has
been given a call to the Marquette
church, has been unanimously invited
by his church to remain here and Of
fered an increase of $500 in salary.
making it the same as offered by Mar
quette.
Jackson.-Arthur W. Vincent was
awarded a verdict of $3,625 against
the Detroit United railw.y for in
juries received in a wreck on that
road near this city last spring. Vim
cent sued for $4,000. The company
conceded responsibility, but contested
the amount Of damages.
Saginaw.-About $50 miners quit
work at the Bliss mine over a dis
agreement regarding the size OF the
screen mesh. The miners claim that
the mesh is more than seven-eighths