The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-08-07
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Edgar Davis, 10, of Saginaw, was
drowned while swimming with sew
eral companions.
The state board of health and state
dairy and food exhibit train left Lans-
ing over the Grand Trunk for
months tour of the state.
While making a flying coupling in
the Pere Marquette yards at Saginaw,
Andrew ]. Fisher. switchman, was
crushed between two cars. dying in
stantly.
There were 100 present At the TWEEN
tieth reunion of the Clement family
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. o. E.
Williams. at Hillsdale, several states
being represented.
In attempting to board a moving
train, at Jackson, Henry Goldaen, 35,
a Michigan Central brakeman, was
thrown under theSwheels and so bad
~ crushed that he died.
Through the game warden depart
ment 6S convictions were secured last
month for violation Of the fish and
game laws of the state. The depart
ment collected $7S4.62 in fines.
Three children of MIR. and Mrs.
Henry Schroeder of Pigeon, all born
on April . in different years, have
succumbed TO phtheria, two daugh-
ters dying the same morning.
The Grand Trunk Railroad Co. will
be made the defendant in suit for
100000 damages as the result of the
fire which destroyed the business Sec
tion OF Perry few weeks ago.
Hurrying in an automobile to Ian
sing to procure flowers for the fun
eral of his wife, who died Monday,
Andrew Dunn, of Haslett, was him
self killed at Okemos Tuesday after
W. Pancock, 81, division engineer
for the Pere Marquette road between
Grand Rapids and Detroit, died at the
home of his parents at Port Huron.
He had been in the employ of the road
for Is years.
Children playing with matches
caused a fire which destroyed two
barns belonging TO John Burgess, of
Riley Center, and five acres of wheat
just harvested and large quantity
of hay.
The Church of Christ, Disciples, of
Cadillac, sent a call TO Rev: j. II.
Versey, of Swindon, Willis, England,
several weeks ago, and received word
that he will become their pastor on
the first of September.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Robin
son and State Labor Commissioners
Cunningham are preparing to make an
inspection of all hotels in the state
to ascertain how we'll they are equip
ped with fire escapes.
Members of the First Congregation
al church at Alpena, presented Rev.
/. w. Stuart, their pastor, who was
formerly assistant pastor of the First
Congregational church of Detroit, with
a 9O-horsepower, four-cylinder motor
car.
The corner stone of the new Elks'
temple at Muskegon, to replace the
building burned six months ago was
laid Sunday Several thousand per-
sons witnessed the ceremony, and
heard an address by Lieut.-Gov. John
l. Ross.
Almost in front of his house, Ferris
r. Fales, aged so, a Lansing laborer,
stumbled and fell on the street car
tracks and was run over by a belt
line car. Both legs we're severed, and
his right arm amputated. He died
an hour later at the hospital.
Helen Molloy, % years old, of Ber-
lin, was drowned at Spring lake when
she walked from dock while walking
with a girl friend. Miss Molloy's
companion tainted and when she re:
covered consciousness, 20 minutes
later, gave an alarm. She then again
collapsed.
While in swimming just north of the
Court street bridge in the Saginaw
river Edgar Davis, 10 years old,
was drowned. Davis could not swim
well, and when he went in over his
head he became excited. Companions
were afraid to rescue him. The body
was recovered.
Master Herbyn Maynard, messen-
ger boy for the Western Union, at
Hillsdale, has a new method of de-
livering kilograms. A message came
for a man across Baw Besse lake.
Young Maynard swan across the lake
with the message in his teeth without
getting Ii wet.
A Detroit park was the scene of a
strange suicide in which man of
30, apparently, CARRIED himself in his
best clothes, drank carboiic acid
somewhere on the green, and then
tried to ease the torture of the burn
ing drug by clamping his lips to a
drinking fountain and locking his
legs about the iron tub beneath. He
was not identified and had only II
cents in money.
Before closing its two days session
at Flint, the Michigan Hay &, Grain
Dealers association elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, +. e. Now
lin, Albion first vice president, A.
w. Cutler, Adrian; second vice presi-