The Yale expositor., 1912-10-24
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES

Battle Creek-Gov. Chase 8. Os-
born and his brother, d. ID. Os-
born, will shortly commence the con-
struction of sanitarium at Three
Rivers, which, when finished, will cost
100000. The treatment and cure of
locomotor ataxia will be the object of
the institution. Tentative sites are
architects have been instructed to
submit plans.
Saginaw.-O. l.. Arnston, a local
engraver, completed engraving on
the head of an ordinary pin the
English alphabet, Mich, 1912, and his
initials, o. l.. A. OF course 1t is i'm
possible to discern the characters
with the naked eye, but with the use
of jewelers. magnifying glass the let
tiers are seen to be properly spaced,
and not one OF them joins another.
Grand Rapids.-Harry Schmitt Of
Cleveland anG A. e. McGraw of
Milwaukee, confessed white-slavers
under the Mann act, were each
sentenced to two years impris-
onment in the federal penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, by Judge
Clarence W. Sessions in the United
States district court. They imported
here two girls, Josephine Martin of
Cleveland and Opal Fisher of Milwau-
kee.
MISUNDERSTANDING his machine
nearly forty miles an hour, an
unidentified man ran down Harley
Baxter, dangerously injuring him. He
did not stop his machine, but in
creased its speed and within another
block struck Elmo Devrie, knocking
him from bicycle and seriously hurt
ing him. The auto number was so
blurred people could not read it. 1t
is not believed the two injured men
will die.
Detroit.-Alarmed because he did
not communicate with the house,
nephews of Samuel Humphrey,
231 Baltimore avenue west,
Waterman for Lennsne Bros. on some
contract work for the Michigan Cen
trail railway, started in search Of him
and found his body on the tracks. He
had been struck by a switch engine.
| Coroner Rothacher was called
Humphrey was sixty-eight years old.
Bay City.-It cost Bay county
| S25,231.98 to take care of it's pau.
pers and INDECENT people during
the last fiscal year, absorbing to re-
port submitted to the supervisors by
the poor commission. OF the amount
| $,847.20 was expended in the care
of the SO persons who were housed at
the county farm.
Jonesville.-The house and all
the outbuildings on the farm of Ar
thur Merchant of Scipio township
were destroyed by fire. The insur.
ance of $1,000 will not cover the loss.
illsdale.-Although no defense
was made and evidence was Of
fered by the prosecution showing that
the child was strung up by her thumbs
for 80 minutes so that her toes bare
ly touched the floor; that she was
whipped for Is minutes to make her
own up to lie; that she was tied
TO the bed with her hands above her
head that she was whipped until the
welts bled-yet the Jury in the circuit
court acquitted David Miller Of unlaw-
fully Furnishing his five-year-old step
do oh
Observation-Disclosures Fromme, thir-
ty-fve years old, who when I'M
der the influence of liquor is said |
to have a mania for breaking into |
other peoples houses and sleeping |
there, was shot and killed by Sheriff |
Fred Nelson, when, according to the |
officer, he attempted to break into the |
county Jail. He was entering the |
kitchen window of the Jail building
when the sheriff fired.
Houghton.-A forest fire of seri-
Gus proportions is raging between
the villages of South Range and Tri.
mountain, 20 miles from here The
villages are mining towns, unequipped
for fighting serious fires, and much
anxiety is felt. The Northern Forest
Protective association is taking steps
20 confine the fires.
Morrice.-A $1,000 fire occurred
in Bancroft burning to the ground
cider mill owned by Charles
Hunt. There was no insurance. The
fire originated about the boiler It is
thought and gained Roadway. This
place noticed the fire and telephoned
10 parties east of town thinking ii
was a farm residence.
Kalamazoo.-C. II. Snyder OF
Lawton was thrown from his wag-
on here and dangerously injured
Snyder struck on his head on brick
pavement when his team started to
run away. He lies unconscious in
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