The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-07-31
MICHIGAN
HAPPENINGS

HAPPENINGS
Lansing.-The next annual en-
campment of the Landwehr Michi- |
gan regiment will be held In Saginaw
At the closing session held here the
following officers wer elected: Col
onel. Adolph Splottstoser, Jackson; |
major, Max Richter, Detroit; adjutant, |
Karl Koss. Detroit; paymaster, John |
Wolf, Detroit; trustees, Emil Resch, |
Lansing; Adolph o. Hasse, Grand Rap |
ids; Ferdinand Bergman, Saginaw.
Delegates to the national encampment
were Fred Rau and Otto Tiedmann of
Detroit
Port Huron.-Relatives OF John
Patton. twenty years old. the Pere
Marquette brakeman who was
killed by an inbound train in Balsey.
near Flint, and whose body has been
brought 10 this city for burial. take ex-
ception to the report that the youth
had fallen asleep on the track after
he had been sent back to flag the on
coming train. Railroad men say. how
ever. that Patton was overworked and
exhausted, and lay down to slumber.
and that this caused his death.
Boyne City.-The Bolted Basket
company's plant here was destroyed
| by fire with loss Of $4,000,
partly insured. heavy west wind
threatened the northern portion of the
| city where a big wood yard. owned
by the Boyne City Chemical company,
| is located but the department was
able to keep the fire in check. Several
dwellings caught fire from flying fire
brands, but were extinguished before
much damage was done. The plant
will be rebuilt at once.
Lansing.-One hundred survivors
OF the Ninth Michigan infantry
were in Lansing for the forty-fifth an
nual reunion OF that regiment. Henry
Ries came all the way from Dayton.
Wash, to attend the reunion. Lafay-
cite Davis and c. II. Rhodes of Sagi-
nav were members of Company F,
the same company to which Ries be-
! longed and the two Saginaw men met
their old Washington comrade for the
first time since they were mustered
out 81 years ago.
Kalamazoo. - Kalamazoo's celery
crop is endangered by the appear
ance of a new pest. Growers have
just discovered there is a small worm
working in the plant and unless some
immediate remedy can be found for it,
the plants will all be killed. The NJ.
A. G.. has been asked to assist in find
ing out what the pest is and to suggest
a remedy.
Lansing According to the month
ly mortality report compiled by
Secretary of State Martindale, 3096
deaths occurred in Michigan during
June, while $3.50 births we're reported.
There were $40 deaths of children un-
der one year of age. tuberculosis
claimed 1874, cancer Ola, pneumonia
ia, while 277 deaths were of violent
nature.
Calumet.-Twenty mines in this and
neighboring counties we're closed
owing to a strike called by the West
ern Federation of Miners.
Jacksonville automobile of Will
liam Edwards, of Munith, viii
lage a few miles northeast of Jack
son, turned turtle when it struck a
washout in the roadway. Two sons
of Edwards, Henry, thirteen years old,
and Robert, nine, were killed Their
father and uncle who were also in
the car escaped serious injury.
Holland.-Earl HENDERSON, five
years old, was killed when the
wheels of a wagon in which he was
being taken to a doctor, passed over
his body. Earl and his mother occu-
pied a loose seat on the wagon, and
when the horse SHE'D both were
thrown out. Mrs. Hendrixson was
uninjured.
Battle Crek.-Jesse Reincke, TWEEN
~ years old, was drowned while
bathing in Nottowa lake in Te-
konsha township, near here. The
lad stepped off ledge in the
lake and went down before any one
could reach him. His father. william
Reincke, and friend were with him.
and saw him go down, powerless to go
to his rescue because neither could
swim.
Traverse City.-Maggie Jatoga, an
Ottawa squaw, who was one hun
dred years old her last birthday.
died at her home In Yuba. She
spent her entire life in the Grand
Traverse region. being born in an
Indian village where Sutton's Bay is
now located. A niece, Angelina Ski
beEeosh Of Yuba, is her only known
relative.
Saginaw. The barn of George
L. Burroughs, in Saginaw county,
was struck by lightning and