The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-11-16
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supervisors.
John e. Longacre, milk man of
Marquette was burned to death when
the hunting camp he owns near For
restville, 10 miles from the city, was
destroyed by fire.
Judge Weimer sentenced Earl I.
| Countryman, of Greenville, Mich, to
from one to five years in Jackson, for
stealing an automobile at Portage.
Countryman was caught at Dowagiac.
Coloma capital, discouraged with
what it terms the discrimination of
railroads and express companies
belt, is boosting canning companies
all over this district.
There were 10000 hunters in the
woods of Michigan when the deer
season opened, according to William
r. Oates, state game warden. More
licenses were issued this year prior
to the opening of the season than ever
before
Daniel Donnelly, 65 years old, OF
Jackson. was knocked down and run
| over by an electric car driven by Mrs.
John l.. Senior. Donnelly's skull was
fractured and his back and arms bruis.
ed. He is at the City hospital In a
serious condition.
Johnny Boggio, a four-year-old child.
was drowned in an old cistern at
Three Rivers. His mother, who is en-
ployed at laundry, missed the child.
After a half hours search, workmen
found the body in an old abandoned
cistern near the Three Rivers House.
Six persons were injured, one
OF them seriously, when a west
bound local and an eastbound
limited interurban car on the Detroit,
Jackson & Chicago division of the De-
troit United railway collided head on
at Duffield's curve half mile east OF
| Dearborn.
Infantile paralysis claimed its third
victim at Kalamazoo when Paul, two
year-old son OF Frederick N. Fricke,
died after an illness OF only two days.
Thirteen cases in all have been re-
ported to the Kalamazoo health de-
partment since the epidemic spread TO
this city last August.
Six suits. aggregating $4,000. were
started at Ann Arbor by Charles, Mi
chael, Mary, Gene, Dennis, McAuliffe
and Miss Gertrude Duffy, OF Ann Ar
Dor, against the Detroit, Jackson and
Chicago railroad, alleging injuries in
the head-on collision between electric
cars at Leoni, in Jackson county, May
4, last.
More than 500 hunters crossed the
straits, the first day OF the deer
season. 1t is estimated that more
than 5000 hunters have gone into the
upper peninsula by way OF the straits.
Hndreds OF hunters arrived several
days before the opening of the season.
to see the new fire trucks, recently
purchased here, make the runs.
The first victim of the hunting sea.
son in Marquette county was Eli
Green. % years old, OF Muskegon, who
died in his fathers arms in the bag
gage room OF the Munising Marquette
& Southeastern railroad from a wound
inflicted when he was accidentally
shot by Fred Burke. OF Big Bay, while
hunting with his father near Antlers.
Lifesavers began dragging in the
bayou north OF Wakazoo for the
bodies OF Edward Hanson and William
Mccartney. who. 1t is believed. were
drowned while on hunting trip. The
men rented boat from a boat livery
at Jenison Park and failed to return.
The boat was found upside down.
Both men are single, about 20 years
old, and are employed at the Holland
sugar factory
Andrew Moore. convicted several
weeks ago of manslaughter at Kala-
mazoo, was sentenced to serve 2 TO Is
years in Jackson prison. Moore was
found guilty OF causing the death OF
Isadore Pelone. farmland in Alamo
township. The men engaged in a fight
and several hours afterward Pelon
was found dead in fence corner. A
post norton examination disclosed
the fact that his skull was crushed.
Four boys living at Monroe are
being held at Kalamazoo by the police
awaiting the arrival of their parents
to take them back home. They are
George Dewey and Kenneth Shafer,
both aged Il. and Lyle Wilson and
Kenneth Hodgeman. aged IL They
declared they wanted to see the
world" but upon arriving in Kala.
mazoo decided to 20 back home and
begin their migration in the future.
One man is alive who would not be
had Carl MADAM, clerk in David Lar.
kins' gun store at Battle Creek &C.
cepted SO for a SO revolver. The re.
fusal angered the would be purchaser,
so David LarlSin, proprietor of the
store. followed the man to Strong &
Barkers store and prevented his buy.
ing a gun there. A deputy sheriff
detained the man until he could be
identified as w. II. Lippert. OF Cleve
land. sanitarium patient, whose