The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-09-19
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Hastings.-Mrs. Mortimer Freshney,
Of Vaudeville. dislocated her jaw
while laughing.
jackson. -Thomas Haines, thirty
six. escaped Michigan state prison
farm convict, was arrested at Pinck--
ney.
Three Oaks.-Mrs. Ethel Edwards,
| twenty-one, Of Dowagiac, was struck
| by train and instantly killed. while
standing on q double track waiting,
for friends.
Kalamazoo. - Frank Scott. sixty
years old. well-known resident of Cas-
county, while hitching up horse In
his barn fell dead. He was found I'M
der the horses hoofs.
Nenominee.-Anton Stitzers. aged,
twenty-one, was probably fatally
stabbed by Blueford Lawrence. aged
eighteen. In . quarrel over . jack
knife.
Lake City,. Lashonts sustained
. broken collarbone. Edward Bevrer
and Charles Olsen received So.
we're bruises when IN automobile
owned and driven BY LAshonts. turned
turtIs one mile south Of here when the,
machine struck bridge. All Of the
men are Of jennings. The car was.
slightly damaged
Flint. Charles Kubinyi. taken
into custody to await hearing
a. to his sanity. terrorised the prison
ers in the county jail by demolishing
tables. chairs and other articles OF
furniture In the lookup. The fright
ened prisoners sought refuge in their
cells. until two patrolmen overpow-
cred the craxed man.
F1int-With only one witness avail
able and that one unable to 70
veal whatever information he might
Prosecuting Attorney Bishop was
Obliged to ask Justice Torrey to dis
charge Wilbur Bradshaw, charged
with burglary. The willing but help
less witness was q deaf mute and a.
he could neither read nor write the
| prosecutor had no alternative but to-
drop the case.
Battle Creek.-Miss Gertrude Cali
lagher. Chicago. twenty-five years
old. was drowned here while ca
noeing on Goguac lake. Three other
members Of the party, names unknown.
were saved, two of them by Victor
Crothers of this city. The body Of Miss
Gallagher has not been recovered. The
Chicago young woman was visiting her
sister, Miss Alice Gallagher. formerly
OF Chicago. now trained nurse In the
Battle Greek sanitarium.
Howell.-One Of the prominent fg-
ures at the Livingston county fair
among the 5000 persons on the
grounds was w. X. Sexton. the man
who started the Holstein breeding
movement in this county more than
twenty-five years ago. At that time
he was laughed at. Now the breeding
of these cattle IL the chief industry Of
Livingston county and Holstein-Frie-
sian cattle exhibited at the fair were
valued at more than $4,000. Mr.. Sex
ton is more than eighty years old. but
displayed keen interest In the exhibits
Houghton.-August Lahnala, farm
or at Oskar. i've miles west OF
Houghton, was murdered. Lahnala
was called to his door and shot dead
in sight Of his wife and i've children.
who did not see the murderer. The
latter Immediately made his escape
into the woods. The murderer had
cut the telephone wire to Houghton to
prevent sending the alarm. The
widow did not tell Of the killing till
daylight, az she was afraid to leave
the house and watched by the body Of
her husband all night. No probable
motive for the murder IL known.
Detroit.--Mrs. Sarah T. Fulton Of
Rochester, N. Y, was elected ma
tional president Of the Woman's Re-
lief corps. winning out over four other
candidates. Mrs. Fulton was elected
on the second ballot, but the pre-
hminary discussions took so much
time that elections Of all other ofYicers
had to be postponed. Reports submit
ted by the treasurer, Mrs.. Abbie
Lynch. showed that since the organiza-
tion of the Womna's Relief corps there
had been expended for relief work and
for Memorial day $4.42S. 064.52. Last
year the amount for relief and me-
mortal work totaled $246,140.43. The
total assets of the organization are
$1s.615.44. with no liabilities.
MISUNDERSTANDING about in
neighbor's yard three-year-olA John
William Woln. SON of local rail-
road oficial. caught hold of
broken wire that dangled near the
house. Four-year-old Edward Downs,
q neighbor's SON, caught hold Of VIII
liam because he saw smoke coming
from the hand that held the wire. and
tried to pull the baby away. He
shrieked with pain, and neighbour, At
tracted BY the cries, pulled the wire
from the Wolf child's hands with
sticks. The WolR baby was dead,
while the Downs boy va badly