The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-08-29
Michigan News
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fC4 VVVYY N
Monroe According to the attend.
ing physician. the condition OF Miss
Mabel Stark, aged twenty-seven,
animal trainer with the Barnes circus.
who was attacked by half-crazed lion
during the parade in Wyandotte. and
suffered q badly lacerated right leg.
Is not serious. =
Marshall.-Dr. Frank 8. Patterson.
son of the late Hon. John @.
Patterson, prominent member Of the
Calhoun county bar, was taken to jail
when drowning himself, and his
brother. Rev. George L. Patterson of
New York, petitioned the probate court
to have him adjudged insane.
Grand Rapids.-Huddled OF the
doorstep OF the house where the
estranged wife was living. Cyrus Web
er was found dead, having drained a
bottle Of poison. Six weeks ago Weber
was released from the asylum at Kali
amazoo, where he was committed last
March after repeated attempts to kill
his wife and himself. Mrs. Weber was
granted divorce few days ago.
Flint Discovery was made that
the residence of John ]. Carton,
former speaker OF the Michigan house
of representatives, had been entered
and ransacked from top to bottom. 1t
Is not known when the burglars made
their visit or what booty they secured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carton are In London,
where they are being detained by the
war.
Kalamazoo.-Why DR.. r. u. Adams.
former county physician. is de-
tanned at Halifax is something his
friends and relatives here can't ex-
plain. He returned from England on
the Mauretania, few days ago and
upon landing wired that he would
come directly home. Now a message
has been received which says he is be-
ing detained.
Saginaw-Through pathetic circum
stances, Mike Cizecki has been an
inmate of the tuberculosis hospital,
and his wife an inmate of the county
farm. Ciznecki disappeared from the
hospital. A letter from Mrs. Ciznecki
which was found, indicated that the
couple intended to commit suicide. The
farm authorities were notified and they
prevented the threatened tragedy.
Saginaw.-Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lift
and their three children of Sag
NAV county narrowly escaped death
and were seriously injured when
their buggy was struck by an auto
said to have borne license No. 10097.
The auto contained three men. The
accident occurred on the vassar plank
road four miles from Saginaw and the
occupants of the buggy were thrown
out. The horse had to be killed.
Sturgis.-Sixteen persons were in
1ured, five of them seriously, when
a terrific windstorm blew down q
mammoth circus tent here just be-
fore time for the performance to be-
gin. The injured persons occupied a
section of the seats which collapsed.
The frightened animals in the arena
were caught before they trampled any
one. but were returned with difficulty
to the animal tent
Eaton Rapids.-When two-story
cement block building which, they
were erecting collapsed Ira Near.
thur. sixty years old, and Bert Robin
son, thirty years Of age, we're terribly
injured. McAruthur's leg and arm
were, broken and he was injured inter.
nally. Robinson Is badly injured about
the spine and has internal injuries.
The other workmen on the building es-
capped with less serious injuries. The
building is a total wreck.
Neutrality-suspicious. effort is being
made to bring about a transfer
OF the Confederate battle flags cap
tured on southern battlefields during
the Civil war and Secretary of the
Navy Daniels has asked Governor Fer.
ris whether 1t is not possible for the
state of North Carolina to secure the
return of the North Carolina battle
flags now in the war museum. Attor-
ney General Fellows has held that It is
impossible to return the flags.
Iron Mountain.-A boy came run
ming into the police station and
informed the police that he and
several other berry pickers were
chased out of the woods at Kelley
ridge, south of here, by an unclad man
The police and 20 deputies in autos
hurried to the scene but the man es-
capped them. He is believed insane. A
few days ago a man chased and caught
a little girl near Pine Mountain, but
was frightened away before he harmed
her.
Lansing. -Cne hundred boys in
the Michigan Industrial School for
Boys prevented the school build
ings from being destroyed by IRE by
assisting the Lansing fire department
in laying line of hose 500 feet away
from the factory and trades school
building TO city plug. Fire broke out
In the attic of the factory building,
and owing to inadequate water mains
in the grounds proper 1t looked az
though the blaze might consume the
building. some 200 feet long. Before
It was controlled q loss Of $4,000 wss
sustained.
Alma --John Taft prfsoner IN