The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-07-11
State
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EFT to his wife. following family
quarrel. He turned up bottle and
drank about two ounces of poison. He
died In q few minutes.
Escanaba.-Three arrests have been
made in connection, with the wound
ing Of Joseph Kosinski, his farm
hand and hired girl in Wilson. Menomi-
nee county, Kosinski 10 farmer and
colonizer. A number Of Poles have
been located by him on farms. and the
recent frost caused them to have a
grievance against him. The assassin
fred through kitchen window.
Coldwater.--Don Dexter. who plead
ed guilty to q charge Of forgery of
bank checks, was sentenced to the
Ionia reformatory to serve from eight
months to fifteen years by Judge
Knowlen with the recommendation
that he be paroled at the end Of the
minimum term, the court stating the
recommendation was due to the help
less condition of his young wife and
children.
West Branch.-While Probate Judge
H. s. Karcher was driving his
car up to the Michigan Central
tracks just a. passenger train was
coming in, the brakes on the auto
failed and the machine crashed into
the locomotive. The auto was skidded
around by the motion of the locomo-
tive 30 that Mr.. Karcher's face was
slightly bruised. but that was the
only injury he suffered.
Port Huron.-Thomas Byrne. pro-
prietor Of a tailoring and clothes
cleaning store, had narrow escape
from death when the delivery auto
which he was driving plunged into
Black river and sank to the bottom.
Byrne was in the rear of Petit's garage.
which Is on the river bank, and pulled
the wrong lever. Just before the auto
took the plunge into the river. Byrne
jumped. The auto is in'16 feet of wa
ter and can only be raised with the as
sistance of diver and derrick.
Grand Rapids.-vopper Lawrence.
whose career of crime will end.
according to him. with his sen.
tence for his part in the Thomson
murder. was sadly disappointed to
hear that his wife has deserted him
and will have nothing more to do with
him. Not 30 with his aged mother.
This gray-haired lady who has tried
every means to raise money for the
legal defense of her son, wrote Law
renee that she would come to Grand
Rapids Immediately. She does not
know her son has confessed.
Coral.-When John Ashley reached
the dock at Coral lake he found
the body OF Ferdinand Newell, sixty
years old. Newell had commit
ted suicide by shooting himself
through the right temple, while laying
on the edge Of the dock partly sub
merged. He was brother OF ]. 8.
and George Newell Of Newell & Co..
and brother of Mrs. d. L. Shook of
Shook & Son, merchants here. He
had been employed in the latter store
till June /. Since then he has been
Respondent, returned recently from
Detroit where his wife now Is. He
left three letters-one to his wife. one
to J. 8. Newell saying they would find
his body ION the slabs" and one to
A. N Shook. saying he bore no Ill
will to anyone.
Grand Rapids.-Section Director G.
r. Schneider OF the federal wealth
or bureau in his weekly report on
weather and crop conditions in Mich
iyan. says: Weather conditions
were generally very beneficial to all
crops. but checked baying and cultiva-
ton. Some grain was beaten down by
the heavy rains. but no general dam
sge resulted. The ground is now well
Mled with moisture. Wheat and rye
ere ripening fast and are very prom
Using: there is some complaint of He's
sian fly in the southeastern portion of
the lower peninsula, but the complaint
10 not at all general Oats. corn, beans,
potatoes, garden truck and fruit are in
splendid condition. Corn is making
good growth and is receiving cultiva-
ton. Some early potatoes have been
dug.
Gladwin. - A bridge fell in near
Dale. about I'VE miles from Beaver
ton, and injured four men. one fa-
tally. Doctor Barber of Beaverton.
in an auto, came down steep hill to
the bridge on which Albert Richard. u.
8. Grant and his son were working. As
the car started across the entire bridge
fell In. 1t was q wooden structure
about one hundred feet long and was
condemned about q. year ago. All tho
men went down into the stream, q
drop OF about thirty feet. Richard suf-
fered Q fractured skull and arm and
died. Doctor Barber had q fractured
rib, but attended to Richard. setting
his arm before attending to himself.
Richard was found with his head un.
der water under . heavy beam. The
two Grants sustained minor injuries.
The bridge 10 on q well travelled road
and three autos were waiting y sgo
across.
Saginaw. Michael Ryan. ninety
two years old. died from general DE-
bility. Mr.. Ryan had lived in Saginaw
for the last 30 years. tf
Alpena. Fra1k, Gleknie aged thirty