The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-09-21
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS


William Martin, alias Robert Dicker,
was arrested at Powers, Menomlnee
county, for stabbing Mike Koezero, of
Iron county.
Steps have been taken by Lenawee
county autoists to organize an au,o-
mobile club. There are 1000 autoists
in the county.
Tustin high school has been closed
for one week on account of an epide-
mic of measles. Several pupils are
suffering with the malady.
Harry Watson, a member OF the
Jackson prison choir. escaped by saw
ing bar In a window in the prison
chapel and sliding TO TIE ground on a
rope.
Capt. John Hanson. for q years
keeper of the Manistee station OF the
u. s. Coast Guard service, has ended
his career as a mariner and life
saver.
Seventy out of the % young men
who were examined by the state board
of law examiners successfully passed
the examination and will be admitted
to the bar.
Ulisse Ventura was Sentenced for
from seven TO fifteen years when con
yicted OF the Staying of Aloysius Gun.
Vile, an Ishpeming high school boy.
on July Il
Gov Ferris has paroled Thomas
Merritt who was sentenced to Mar
que-tc prison from Munising June ..
1913, TO serve from three TO II years
for a statutory offense.
Announcement was made that the
United States governmtnt will estah.
fish an examining board in Grand
Rapids to examine officers for the ell.
gineers corps of the officers reserve
corps.
Sixteen children found to be tuber-
cular by the state board OF health
clinic have been refused admission TO
the public schools of Sault Ste. Marie.
They may be cared for in an open
air school.
John Cramer, Missaukee farmer,
was blown 20 feet and frightfully in
jured when a stick OF dynamite with
which he was blowing stumps Went
off just as he was investigating its
failure to explode
Sleeper's plurality over Leland for
the republican nomination for COVER.
nor will run close to $4,000, according
to complete returns from GA counties
by the state canvassing board. Die,
kema will run third.
An argument over the war in Europe
led TO the fatal shooting of Lewis
Pasinant, French. age SO, at Hermans.
vile. Menominee county. William
Ceusterhoest, German, was arrested,
charged with murder.
Arrangements have been completed
FOR the eighty-first annual session o.
the Michigan conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, which will De
held in First Church at Grand Rapids.
September 26 to October ..
After fighting for life for 20 hours
with his intestines torn. as a result
OF a gunshot wound inflicted when his
wife. in d demented state, shot him.
Edward Rockwell. aged so, died at his
farm home in Van Buren, county
E,rontv D,,uf,-.r
a. b. Stove company Of Battle Creek
made wager he could lift $50 pounds
from the floor to a truck. He did. but
soon after the truck was wheeled
out OF the room, Runiger followed on
g stretcher He is now in Nicholas
hospital in serious condition. The
effort nearly broke his back.
Robina Johnson, five years old. OF
Pontiac. one OF the first Michigan
victims OF infantile paralysis after
the outbreak of the epidemic in New
York, is beginning to walk again. At
the Children's Free hospital, where
she has been patient for six months,
her legs, which were paralyzed from
the hips. are resuming normality.
An official proclamation was issued
by Secretary OF State Vaughan, put
ting into effect the Ogg bill passed at
the last session OF the legislature,
which requires fraternal beneficiary
societies to maintain rituals. The bill
would have become effective year
ago, but initiatory petitions were filed
to submit 1t to vote at the November
election this year. The petitions were
defective.
Joseph Ecklekamp. a Spring Lake
young man, received the charge of a
shotgun full In the face from an I'M
known hunter shortly after he had
started with q party of friends on the
first duck hunt Of the. season. The
sight of both eyes will be lost. Eckle-
kamp was placed upon a special inter-
urban car and taken to Grand
Rapids hospital where IL is said he
had an even chance to live.
Charles Madison, 81, suffered n
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