The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-11-30
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


Thomas c. Woodin, 80 years old,
pioneer of Gaylord, was struck and
killed by the train known as the Can
non Ball, northbound, at Vanderbilt.
The Exile, bound from Alpena to
Cleveland loaded with lumber, sprung
a leak and the crew of seven took to
small boats and landed at Harrisville
half-frozen.
Struck by a Toledo-bound interur.
ban car at st. Cosmo road, an unidenti-
fled man, 35 years old, thought to have
been resident of Toledo, was almost
instantly killed.
Detroit's industrial activity is TO be
augmented Immediately by erection of
a steel tube mill in Ecorse by the
International Steel Tube and Rolling
Mills, Inc, capitalized at $2,5OO,OOO.
Beware OF pneumonia" warns the
Detroit board of health in bulletin in
which it is predicted that the LOLA
deaths from that disease in the 1915
epidemic will be greatly exceeded this
winter.
With the arrival at Jackson prison
of James Walton, the Burroughs pay
car robber, there have come from De-
troit in the last week, II convicts on
sentences running from nine months
to life.
Ina Holstrom, 20 years DID, whose
home is in Rapid River, Mich. was
found unconscious in an alley at the
rear Of $40 Bowen avenue, Chicago,
by two men and died as she was being
assisted to the automobile.
DR.. Saunders, practicing physician
of Adrian and formerly of Bay City,
is under arrest on the charge of UNI
professional conduct by using drugs
habitually, in violation of state law
regulating the medical profession.
A thief entered the postofice at Gin
ton through a cellar window and Sc
cured $3.50 in change. A neighboring
grocery store was robbed of $3.50 and
also some goods. The thief ate
lunch of cakes and milk before leav-
ing.
Grace Methodist Episcopal church
OF Houghton, was so seriously dam
aged by fire that it is looked upon as
almost a total loss. The belief of the
church officials is that spontaneous
combustion Of coal in the furnace room
caused the fire.
municipal dock to furnish coal at
cost TO the needy was the plan unani-
mously resolved upon at meeting OF
Kalamazoo officials and business men
as a solution of the local fuel crisis.
A fund of $4,000 will be raised by
popular subscription to finance the I'M
dertaking.
Wintry weather Notwithstanding,
the allies bazaar, which had been in
progress at the Sunday tabernacle at
Detroit for IL days, closed Saturday
night with a large attendance. It is
estimated that nearly 10000 persons
passing through the doors brought the
total attendance to more than 100000.
Because his wife of few months
left him and went back to her former
husband, who had been divorced the
day she married him, Arthur Race,
Missaukee county farmer, killed him
self by drinking poison. Other mis-
fortunes, including the loss of his
home recently by fire, are also blamed
for his act.
Shot and fatally wounded by berlin
Jacobs as they hunted partridge, John
Sprague, "a, a Spratt farmer, was car
ried to the home of his father. Know
ing that he was about to die, Sprague
called his wife to his bedside, gave
her words of advice, and then told
her to bring their six children to him.
He kissed them farewell and fell over
dead as he caressed the youngest, an
infant OF six months.
Finding from a detailed investiga-
ton that an acute situation In the
movement of freight in and out or
Muskegon, handled by local manufac-
turers, has arisen and that this situa-
ton is due largely to the Pere Mar
quette's inadequate and antiquated
terminal facilities, the Muskegon
Chamber of Commerce has taken
steps to demand immediate improve
ments from this railroad.
William Kilmer, Oldest prisoner in
point of service in Jackson prison,
was paroled by Governor Ferris. Kill
mer was sentenced from Newaygo
county, March 2, 1888, for the murder
of Jacob Baldman.' Kilmer gained his
release through the help Of the Saliva
ton Army of Jackson and the per-
sonal appeal to the governor by Mrs.
Maude Booth, daughter-in-law of the
late Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
Army.
David Moorehead, IS, who escaped
from Jackson, Mich, prison, August
16, was arrested at Denver, Col. Detec-
tives believe he had a part in the rob-
berry of the First National Bank OF
Walsenberg, Col, November II, when
$50, 900 was stolen. Moorehead escaped
from prison by crawling through a
sewer pipe. He was serving 15-year
sentence for holding up a man at Cold