The Yale expositor., 1911-06-29
STATE NEWS
In BRIEF

| was iuSlduliy hlllSu az
Turner, IL miles northeast of here
She had just finished her duties as
principal of Maple Ridge schools and
had driven from there to Turner to
take the d. & M. midnight train to
| Hillman, where she was to conduct
normal school. She lay upon couch
in the Turner hotel to wait the ar
before the train was due a through
freight whistled. Thinking it was
her train she hurriedly grasped her
books and suitcase and ran far the
station. Some cars which stood on
sidetracks INSTRUCTED her view, and 1t
is thought she stepped in front of
the fast train.
Observation-Disclosures proved no
barrier to the marriage of Miss
iElma Barger and ]. Paul Ten
hume, sweethearts since childhood
The groom, young business man Of
this city, was unable to leave his
work at the time the couple had
planned to wed SO the girl, who re-
sides In a western state, came 1000
miles to Kalamazoo to wed the man
she had always loved He met her
at the train and went directly to the
courthouse, where the license was Sc
cured and the wedding performed.
Ann Arbor.-Delegates from all
over the country are in the city
in attendance upon convention
OF the Sinfonia musical fraternity, be-
ing held at the local chapter house.
Seven men from the Boston conserva-
tory Of music, and about forty from
Philadelphia and Baltimore are here.
A banquet was rendered the dele
gates at Whitmore Lake. The fra
ternity was founded in 1892 and now
has II chapters, and this is the elev-
enth annual convention of the nation
al organization.
Laingsburg.-Endeavo to cross
the Michigan Central tracks in
front Of a freight train In Laings-
burg, Joseph Ketchum, eighty-six
years old, was struck by the locomo-
tive and thrown over a rod. He died
as physician reached the scene.
His skull was fractured and his right
shoulder, hip and leg were broken.
Ketchum was a pioneer of this Sec
ton and lived on a farm two miles
west of this village.
owagiac.-Harris Dorman was
drowned in the upper mill pond
at Colby's mill. With several
companions he had gone to the mill
for a swim, and the boys he was with
were busy with boat some distance
away. They were making consider
able noise and did not hear Dorman's
cries for help until too late for them
to reach him in time. He was
eighteen years old
Adrian.-John Berry, a painter
at the local condensery, sus-
tanned injuries that proved fatal when
he was hurled to the cement floor
by breaking of a scaffold. Berry was |
working about thirty feet from the |
ground and the force of the fall
broke both arms beside fracturing his
skull. 1t was the latter injury which
caused his death couple of hours
after the accident.
Cadillac.-The careless handling
Of a lighted match in boat
house resulted In the explosion of |
a can Of gasoline which set the boat
house afire, destroyed the launch and
badly burned Swan. There were five
men in the house at the time and
three were compelled to dive under
the rear door and swim away. The
loss will reach about $1,000.
Jackson-Harry Bosler, who es-
capped from Jackson prison last
April and was captured in Provo,
Utah, few days ago, will have to
serve three additional years when his
five years sentence for larceny in
Calhoun county expires 10 months
hence. Bosler was served with
warrant, issued under a state law,
which makes it a. felony, with three
years penalty, for a convict to es-
cape prison.
Petoskey.-The grand council of
Michigan, Royal and Select Mas
ters, came here to confer the
royal masters degree. A large num-
Der of members of the grand lodge
were hero from surrounding cities
and banquet was held. Grand Lee
turer Arthur M. McCloud held
school of instruction.
Adrian.-From all parts of the
the comrades of the "Old
Fourth the famous fighting regi-
ment mustered during the Civil war,
in southern Michigan, gathered to
honor the fiftieth anniversary of their
enlistment under the old flag. Nearly
100 of the veterans were present
The citizens of the city turned over
ontoo for ba ,,co pf tho yatarops