The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-05-23
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

Frankfort.-A careful inspection of
the orchards near the shores OF
Lake Michigan indicates that bar
ring late spring frosts there Will
be a good fruit crop this season.
The apples and sour cherries have
come through the winter in excellent
condition and the peach trees, where"
| orchards have been located so as to
enjoy good air drainage, will give fair
yields.
Manistee.-Prosper Laroche, well
known drayman and old resident.
aged sixty-eight, was found dead in
his bed by a neighbor who noticed he.
was not about as usual. The coroner
and a physician held an autopsy,
which showed the cause of death to-
have been fatty degeneration of the
heart. Laroche's wife died about four
weeks ago. He Is said to have left a
son in Toledo and a sister in Quebec.
Manistee.-Mrs. Huntley Russell
Of Grand Rapids spoke to a large
audience in the public library,
here, after which she was rendered a
luncheon at the Briny Inn by num-
Der of Manistee equal suffrage advo-
Gates. She talked informally Of the
campaign being carried on around the
state. In the evening she spoke at
church supper in the Congregational
church.
Lansing.-Health officers and po-
lice authorities throughout the
state are on the lookout for Samuel
lien, a Bay City leprosy suspect. who
escaped from the university hospital
after physicians had completed an
examination and pronounced him af-
fected with the disease. According
to physicians lien can be easily de-
tected as he is in the advanced stages
Of leprosy.
Grand Rapids.-One boy was ,
killed, second badly injured and
a third narrowly escaped death here
when a sand bank on which they were
playing gave way, throwing the three
into pit 20 feet below. Robert Rl5k. .
six, was buried under several tons of
sand and stone, and suffocated before
he could be dug out. William Quig-
ley, eight, was buried in sand up to
his waist, but escaped serious injury.
Edward Chamberlain, eight, was also
hurt
ST. Joseph.-Mrs. w. II. Kenoyer,
a prominent club woman of Fair
Plain, suburb of this CITY, took :,
her life by seating herself in her IA
vorite rocking chair and turning on
three jets in gas heater. She was
found three hours later by her hus-
band. Mrs. Kenoyer's daughter died
four months ago and she had brooded
constantly over the loss. She was fif-
ty-five years old
Jackson.-Plunging headlong from
scaffold on which he was work
ing, John S. Holden, painter,
was killed. Holden was working with
Lewis M. Blackman on the White
block at the time of the accident. He
turned about to grasp a pail which
was about to fall. when he lost his bal
ance and fell to the ground, distance
of rs feet. His neck was broken.
Calumet-Rudolph Nelson, twenty
seven, a fireman on Rock Island
train of the Mineral Range rail-
road, was killed by being crushed be-
meath the tender of the locomotive,
that broke away.
st. Joseph.-Henry Schalon, nine
year-old boy, lost his balance in
casting fishing line and was drowned
in the st. Joseph river. He was swept
could reach him.
Caro.-Detective Louis Bell of
Cincinnati and Robert Nichols, ia
Their of the kidnapped Nichols children,
accompanied by Cincinnati Newspaper
reporters, left here for Detroit after
spending day in interviewing differ
cnt members of the large party of
Hungarian beet workers recently
brought here from Cincinnati. The
Hungarians talked freely through in
terpreters and denied having any
knowledge of any American children
being on the special train which
brought them here. The searchers
were satisfied that the children are
not In this vicinity.
Grand Rapids.-Mrs Mary Spen-
Ger, state librarian at Lansing.
the Grand Rapids Associa-
ton of Commerce on the need of fire.
proof quarters for the valuable con-
tents of the state library. She urged
that local influence be brought TO bear
on the members OF the legislature.
Ironwood. - After nearly TWEEN
tyfour hours six of the thirteen
miners who were imprisoned in the
Norrie mine of the Oliver Mining COM
pany, were rescued. Those rescued
are: Frank Jaszczak, Jacob Anderson.
Oscar Kanghs, George Kronkin, Frank
and August Clvs