The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-12-04
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

term contains IL criminal cases, all or
which are for criminal assault.
Carson City.-David Henion, seven
ty-two years old, killed himself by
shooting. He was Respondent. A
widow and five children survive.
Alpena.-Fire of undetermined origin
DESTROYED six barns on the Frutchey
ranch at Hubbard Lake with loss Of
$1,000.
HllIsdaie.-samuei Curtis, for many
years superintendent of the Acme chair
| factory at Reading, was crushed to
death when caught between two cars
OF lumber.
Traverse City.-Robert Meyer, alias
b. F. Clark who claims to be a gradu-
ate of the University Of Pennsylvania,
is in jail here charged with forgery.
He will be examined as to his sanity
Saginaw.-A Caesarian operation
was recently performed on Mrs. Au-
gust Gutzner of st. Charles, and both
the mother and the boy are doing
nicely.
Bessemer.-Stanley Kieltor, who ac-
cidentally shot and killed his uncle,
Leo Kieltor, near here, was acquit-
ted by a coroner's jury and left
for his home at Manistee. with the
body.
st. Joseph.-Amateur cracksmen es-
capped with five cents after breaking
the knobs of the safe in the St. Joseph
Press office. They left five pennies,
there being but ten cents in cash in
the building.
Ypsilanti-The Normal College Ora
torical association arranged for joint
debate with Adrian college, January
8. The subject of debate will be the
California land act which prohibits
Japanese ownership.
Kalamazoo-Mrs. Frey Ray is in
the hospital ward Of the police
station suffering from severe cash
in the head inflicted when she was hit
over the head with a water pitcher.
The affair followed a Thanksgiving
dinner.
Harbor Springs.-Friends OF Rev.
A. Vandermeer, pastor of the
Presbyterian church here, are anxious
to know his whereabouts. Mr.. Wander
meer told his landlady that he was go
ing to Petoskey for dinner with
friends.
Grand Rapids-More than 1000
pounds of turkey and chicken
were condemned here by Deputy State
Dairy and Food Commission w. J.
Nickel. The poultry was killed last
| ha nj in a hugo
pile, drenched with kerosene and
burned.
Adrian.-West-bou passenger train
No. 167 on the Jackson branch
of the Lake Shore struck a trac-
| ton engine on a grade crossing at
ottawa Junction, Is miles east Of here,
demolishing the traction engine and
smashing the pilot of the leading en-
CINE of the passenger train. The men
on the traction engine jumped and es-
capped injury. No one on the train was
hurt, although the passengers were
badly shaken up. No. 167 was delayed
two hours.
Flint.-With the arrest of two
men the police believe they have
in Jail two pickpockets who came here
to work" during the Thanksgiving
rush. The men give their names as
Bert r. Milton and Samuel Green. The
latter bears the aliases of Charles
Lewis ard Henry Lewis, and his pic
ture and records under all three are
in the Detective, a police magazine.
The Detroit police say Green has
record there as a dip" Both men
name Chicago as their home.
Lansing-The body of Fred ].
Bradt, a well-known farmer of Ma
son, who has lived here with his daugh-
ter for the last year, was found in the
river at Waterloo, Ind, according to
dispatch from that place to the local
police Bradt disappeared from his
daughters home last week. The au-
thorities at Waterloo are inclined to
scout both suicide and murder theo-
ries and are OF the opinion that Bradt
accidentally fell into the water. The
body bore no marks of violence.
Bradt's aged wife has been i'll for some
time, and news of the finding of her
husbands body is being withheld from
her. The man was identified when a
letter addressed to him at his address
here was found in the clothing.
Monroe.-Conductor Doll of a
north-bound Detroit electric car
found the body Of man on a waiting
bench on the right of way of the De-
troit, Monroe & Toeldo electric line,
two miles north of here near the Spald-
ing farm. There was a bullet hole in
the mans right temple and near at
hand a 80 caliber revolver with three
empty shells. Search of his pockets
disclosed a bank book on an Ann Ar
Dor bank and two cents in money.
There was also letter in his pocket
signed John Hannah, addressed to the
writer's father at Plymouth, stating
that he had been vainly searching for
work The letter was written on the
stationery of the Jefferson hotel of To
ledo. The young man is supposed to
have killed himself in fit of despond.
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