The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-07-24
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

HkAFEGIVElNNSS
Lansing.-State Treasurer Haarer
has received a remittance OF $17.-
900 from the Marquette prison To
be placed In the general fund, the
amount representing the first deposit
on state account resulting from the es
Enlistment OF an overall factory in
the prison. Under the law requiring
the prison TO abandon the contract
system and manufacture of state &C
count, the overall factory was estab-
lished and this is the first amount
turned In since the system was estsb-
| lished
Lansing Whether the state or
| the Stearns Salt and Lumber com
pany of Ludington, win pay John Ken
! ely OF Ludington, compensation as the
| result of injuries he received while
! lighting a forest fire, will depend upon
| the decision rendered by the industrial
accident board. Kenelly was regular
| ly employed by the Stearns company.
but was asked to assist the state de-
partment in extinguishing forest fire
and was badly burned.
Kalamazoo.-Tha former Deputy
| Sheriff Patrick Burns, who sud
denly disappeared two weeks ago. is
dead is the belief of Kalamazoo Off
GERS who have conducted search for
him. Absolutely no trace of him can
be obtained and officers fear that he
has either met foul play in northern
Michigan or has been killed In the
woods. He was appointed deputy game
warden last spring.
Grand Rapids.-George Brown, TWEEN
! ty years old, is dead from injuries re-
ceived when an automobile he was
cranking ran over him, dislocating his
neck and causing complete paralysis.
Pontiac.-Charles II. Teaney, for
merly well-known saloon man OF this
city, was arrested charged with wife
desertion. Teaney left his wife and
family here several months ago.
Fllnt.-Five alleged pickpockets-
four of whom give their homes
as Detroit, are held in the county Jail
here. They we're following the wild
west show. The men are Shorty
Brown, Charles Franklin and Eddie
Pitts, colored, and George Wilson
white, of Detroit and Charles Leray,
who claims Kalamazoo as his home.
Holland-Herman Abel, fifty years
old, a Bauer farmer was struck
! by lightning while working In the
| field. When he failed TO return
| home after the storm a search was
made, and he was found lying uncon-
scious in the cornheld. He lived only
few hours.
Caro.-P. c. McHeter was found
dead on his porch where he had
been sleeping during the warm
weather. Traces of carbolic acid wero
evident. Besides his widow, he leaves
three sons and a daughter, Mrs. James
Mckay banker at Prescott.
Allegan.--A coroners jury re-
turned a verdict that the body of a
man found in the Kalamazoo river be-
| low this city few days ago was that
of Mendon Barlow, who disappeared
two years ago from near Kalamazoo
Muskegon-With a bullet lodged
| in the center OF his liver, where
doctors dare not remove 1t, Theodore
| Cjeisky, a Hungarian, was released
from Hackley hospital after one OF
the most surprising recoveries in the
| history of the institution. When
Cjeisky was brought to the hospital
four weeks ago after being shot by
John Stepoin, physicians said he had
no chance to recover. An operation
was performed in an effort to remove
the bullet, but the doctors decided II
would be fatal to cut open the organ.
Lansing-It is unlikely that more
than 100 miles OF the main trunk
highways to be built in Michigan will
be completed this year, according to
an announcement from the state high
way department In fact, IL will prob
ably be two years before the task is
| finished. 1t is stated that more time,
and money will be needed. Only
places which sent in early applica-
tons have succeeded in getting the
preliminary work done.
Flint.-..Thomas w. Linfoot, one
OF the few survivors of the ia.
nous Charge of the Light Brigade"
at Balaklava during the Crimean war.
died here of old age. He was born in
England in 1882 and served seven
years in the British army. He came
here from Germany seven years ago
Lansing.-lnsurance Commissioner
John T. Winship has appointed
Frederick Grogan of Dearborn
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