The Yale expositor., 1912-02-22
MICHIGAN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

| working for Bert Kenyon, four
miles southeast of here, was bound,
gagged and robbed while the family
were away at a social. Mr.. Meyers
sat doing In his chair and hearing a
dle-aged men In the room. He sprang
at one and knocked him down, but be-
fore he could strike the other, he was
knocked senseless. The two men
bound and gagged him, then proceeded
to take his watch, chain and money,
about $40. The house was ransacked.
When the members of the family re-
turned Mr.. Meyers was on the couch
with a handkerchief saturated with
chloroform tied over his head and a
quilt fastened over all. 1t took the
rest of the night for physicians to
bring him back to consciousness.
Ypsilanti.-Miles Latin, who re-
sides Az miles south of this city,
has mysteriously disappeared. He
attended the Lowden 8chool No. g.
in Augusta township and left there
during recess, telling his companions
that he was going over to another OF
his fathers farms to look after some
traps he had set. He wore high-cut
shoes and overshoes, brown overalls.
gray overcoat and a red stocking
cap. His parents and others tele'
phoned all around to neighbors and
relatives, but failed to get any trace
Of the boy.
Pontiac.-Patrolma West of this
city surprised a burglar attempt
ing to gain entrance to the hard
ware store OF Gaulller e Barker on
South Saginaw street. The officer was
shot in the forehead by the fleeing
burglar. The bullet glanced and tore
a hole through the officers cap. He
was knocked down, but quickly re-
gaining his feet fired three shots, none
of which took effect. The man fled
out of the alley and down Auburn
avenue, but no trace of him could be
found. The bullet merely grazed the
officers head.
wine Robinson, sophomore lit
erary student. was injured in a bob
sled collision while coasting on Felch
street hill. While her injuries are not
considered serious, they are very pain
full She was coasting down on one
bob which overlook smaller one
stalled in the second hill. A girl who
was steering turned out too late, Miss
Robinson's left leg being caught be-
tween the two bobs.
Pontiac.-Albert e. Harling, in
dustrial gas expert for Hodenpyl,
Hardy d Co., was almost instantly
killed here by an explosion of oxygen
gas at the plant of the Michigan Rem
ming company at Whittemore and Per-
kins street Charles A. Nesbitt, pro-
prietor of the refining plant was cut
and bruised by the force of the eXplo-
sion, but not dangerously injured
Kalamazoo.-Mrs. Hartney A. Ben
nett, prominent resident of this
city, died suddenly. Mrs. Ben
nett had been in i'll health for the last
few weeks, but her death caused sur
prise. Her husband is one of the best
known business men of the city.
Shelby.-Joseph Shessie was struck
and instantly killed while using
the railroad tracks as a highway.
He was very deaf and failed to hear
an approaching freight train. 1t is
not believed that the train crew is
in any way to blame.
Kalamazoo. - DR.. Milton West
brook, for forty years one OF the
best known physicians Of Kalamazoo,
who for the last six years has been
resident of Chicago, died there.
Saginaw.-W. d. Trump, general
superintendent of the Pere Mar
quette railroad, issued signed
statement in answer to the protest OF
the Saginaw Board of Trade filed with
the attorney general of Michigan,
denying the charges that the railroad
was financially unsound and that
transportation and traffic conditions
were "intolerable." Mr.. Trump de-
clared the roads bonded indebtedness
per mile is less than any other road
operating in Michigan except one. He
also denied the charge that the road
has expended but little money in max
ing improvements in the Saginaw ter
ritory and other PAL. IS of Michigan.
Alto.-Nine cars of a west-bound
Pere Marquette freight train went
into ditch here, the accident
being due to broken rail. No one
was hurt. The locomotive and tender
passed the broken rail In safety, but
nine cars of the train rolled into an
eight-foot ditch. Traffic was delayed
several hours.
Muskegon.-Ellis Ferguson, fifty,
engineer in the Stewart Harris
horn plant. froze to death. He was
found lying on the sidewalk in Pine
street and died shortly after being
carried into police headquarters.