The Yale expositor., 1912-06-27

Florence Upjohn of Kalamazoo at
'Tdlewild," a cottage belonging TO her
father, Doctor Upjohn. The girls were
having a merry time in the wafer
when Miss Bauman strayed beyond
her depth and sank almost without
warning Within four minutes her
body had been recovered, and Tor TWO
hours every effort at artificial res"
piration was made, but in vain. MISS
Bauman was twenty-five years old ana
had just graduated from Chicago
school.
Calumet - Abraham Nickassaari,
aged thirty, married, blew himself to-
pieces near here. He is the third
man to kill himself in the same man
ner within two weeks.
Grand Rapids.-C. B. Smith, repre-
senting the agricultural department
at Washington, was here and con-
ferred with Secretary M. G. Hug
gett of the Association OF Com
merce regarding securing scientific
farm management for Kent county,
which work the government is prepar--
ing to start about July 1. Kent will
pay half Of an agents $4,000 salary
and establish the system locally. The
government pays the rest.
Traverse City. - After being out
almost 90 hours, the jury in the
case of the people VS.. William and
Laura White, charged with manslaugh-
ter for causing the death Of their child
by cruel treatment, returned a YER
dict of guilty of assault and battery
for both of them, and recommended
the mercy Of the court for Mrs White.
This case has occupied the attention
of the court for two weeks. The YER.
dict was a great surprise to the city.
Witte was given 80 days IN the De-
troit house of correction and fined 500,
and in default of the fine an extra so
days; Mrs Witte was given 80 days in
the Detroit house of correction.
KalamaZoo.-Peter Van Dam, aged
g. who few weeks ago suf--
fered terrible burns to both feet in
foundry where he worked, refused
to be removed from Borgess. hospital
and taken to the poor farm. The own.
er of the foundry where the accident
happened notified the poor officials
that he would no longer pay the hos
pital bill Van Dam being without
finances, was ordered removed to the
poor farm. Later when the poor SUI
perintendent went to the hospital to
l.; H.
hospital officials finally consented to
keep Van Dam until he had recovered
without expense.
Jackson.--Lying down upon the
Michigan Central track near Ing
ham street, Edward Charles, a
we'll known Jackson man, was run
over by train No. 4, and instantly kill
ed. The body, terribly mangled, was
found by J. l.. Connell. Charles was a
bartender at the Calkins buffet up I'M
til about two years ago, and had many
friends. He has been crippled for sey-
eral years, his condition recently be-
coming very serious. Without funds,
and too proud to call upon his friends
for aid. Charles became respondent.
Portland. - With the closing Of
the school year the teaching staff
of the local schools undergoes a num-,
Der of radical changes. Several
teachers have rendered their resigna-
tons and the board Is scurrying about
to select their successors. Prof. J.
Howard Johnson, at the head of the
science department, has resigned and
will fill the position of Prof William
McCracken in the Western State Nor
nal college, at Kalamazoo, next year,
while Prof. McCracken makes an ex-
tensive tour of Europe.
Flint.-The first arrest in con-
nection with the derailing of Pere
Marquette passenger train No. which
went through an open switch in the
north end of the city, was made when
Edgar Hunt, aged Is, was taken into
custody The lad at first denied he had
tempered with the switch, but when he
was visited by Detective John Peters
of Saginaw at the county house, where
he is being detained, he is said to have
admitted his guilt and implicated two,
other boys.
Saginaw Henry O'Brien, aged
81, superintendent at the Uncle
Henry mine in Buena VISTA was in
stantly killed when his clothing was
caught in the hywheel of the gasoline
engine used for pumping purposes. His
body was hurled around several times
before the engine was stopped. One
of O'Brien's legs was pulled from the
socket, both arms were broken and his
scalp was torn from the skull. He
was standing close to the engine when
his clothing caught in the ma
chinery.
Lowell-I!rs. Thilo Seger, far
mer's vile. aged 35 years, living
"a.