The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-08-08
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

| ing the following: President, Charles
Daske. Detroit; yice-president, Al
bert Boehringer, Bay City; record
ing secretary, L. Appold, Sebewaing;
corresponding secretary, i. Winter
stein, Saginaw; treasurer Mr.. Liebig,
Detroit; trustee, A. G. Stoll. Adrian.
The retiring president. John PETE. who
has been the executive officer Ut the
bund for Is years. was presented with
diamond stickpin and an umbrella,
the gift of the delegates as an appre-
citation OF his long service for the
bund.
Morrce.-A kerosene lamp filed
with gasoline exploded in a suite
of rooms occupied by Mr.. and Mrs,
| Tewesbury, proprietors OF the Com
mercial house here. The fire was con-
fined to the one suite of rooms, and its
origin was a mystery until the second
lamp which had been lighted and
placed in the kitchen exploded. Then
1t was discovered that gasoline had
been sold to servant for oil and used
in the lamp.
Hastings. Prosecuting Attorney
Potter has ordered out Of the
state Palo Sparratto, aged fifty-eight
years, an italian who made a murder
GUS assault upon his wife and after
wards tried to carve his son-in-law,
Charles Diamanti of Nashville. Spar
ratio said he thought this was a free
country, and il he wanted to kill his
wife he had a perfect right to do so.
Battle Creek-This city has a
house famine and 1t Is expected that
the 400 people that come here next
week with the Castle Lamp company
of Amesbury, Mass, will have to live
in tents until houses can be built. The
situation has become so serious that
a meeting of citizens will be held to
bring out an idea as to how the diff
Guilty can be surmounted.
Lansing. - Charles Willoughby, a
farmer, Is In the tolls because, ii
is alleged, he beat his horse until it
died. The complaint was sworn out
by Humane Officer Moore. 1t is
by became angry because the horse
could not pull heavy load and beat
1t over the head with a club.
Battle Creek--Afflicted with diph-
iberia, Daisy Stevens of East Le-
roy, broke quarantine and disappeared.
All efforts TO find her have failed so
far, although officers all over the state
have been notified. AS she has rela.
may come here.
misunderstanding to an or
der issued Michigan Central en-
gineers will be discharged immediate
ly by the company If they exceed the
speed limit of ten miles an hour when
running through kalamazoo.
Holland. Joseph Dickerson OF
Chicago, twenty-one years old, was
drowned in Black lake while swim
ming from a rowboat. Dickerson dove
in about seven feet Of water and was
caught In the weeds.
Richmond. -Miss Eva Stephenson
dropped dead after returning from
a visit down town. Heart failure
was the cause She was thirty-two
years old and had been in poor health
for some time.
Marquctte-C. F. Rydholm of
Marquette was elected supreme pres
ident OF the Sons OF Sweden at
their annual convention at Manistee.
Other Marquette men chosen for of
flee were G. A. Carlson, supreme sec
rotary. and G. A. Larson, one of the
supreme auditors.
Charlotte.-John Hockenberry, so,
for 40 years a resident OF Wal
ton township, is dead at Ann Ar
Dor, the result of an operation for
cancer OF the stomach. He was
prominent member OF the Masonic
order
Calumet.-Plans are now under
way for the holding of a Cornish
wrestling tournament in connec-
IlOH WIFI TIC hG"cSHdW COuulJ ldlI
this fall.
Escanaba.-William Hail has been
elected ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the In
ternatonal Railway General Fore
mems association.
Grand Rapids. - Because local
druggists are said TO be violating
the state liquor laws by serving ginger
ale high balls over their soda fountain
counters on Sundays, Prosecuting At
torney Phelps and Sheriff Hurley have
begun a vigorous investigation War
rants may be issued.
Kalamazoo.-The managers OF two
moving picture theaters and mes
senger service were arrested on
charges of employing children under
sixteen years of age.