The true northerner., 1916-05-26


Geo. Dumouchel, Menominee, %
years old, fell from a coal crane and
broke his right leg.
II. B. Grinder, Pomona farmer, of
near Cadillac, suffered a broken
jaw when struck by a falling limb.
Menominee reports one suicide,
five broken legs, one eye blinded as
the total of happenings of one day.
Louis Premo, SO, of Menominee,
lost the sight of one eye when a piece
of wood he was saving flew into the
optic.
A man, supposed to be Don Griffin,
plasterer, of Findlay, o., was killed
by northbound passenger train No. 80,
near Monroe.
Mrs. Hannah Anderson, aged 90, pio-
neer resident of Hastings, is dead as
the result of fall in which she broke
her hip ten days ago.
ID. Turrill, who escaped Ionia a
short time ago by jumping from a
second story window, was captured on
the peninsula at Traverse City.
Levi Morningstar, of Saginaw, is re-
ported an heir to the estate of the
late Jacob Baker, of Philadelphia, said
to be worth $70O,000,O0O
e. j. Ellis, Jackson, former clerk of
Jackson county and lifelong resident
ended his life by swallowing carbolic
acid and inhaling gas at his home.
Ernest Ross, living at Cadillac, en-
min tlA ~
from his cab at Harrietta and suffer
ed a broken arm and other injuries.
While wading in shallow water,
at Hastings, the ten-year-old son Of
Chester Granger fell In fit He died
an hour after being rescued by his
father.
Mrs. Adeline T. Chambers, who
resides near the Allegan-O Ottawa
county line, has just celebrated her
one hundred and third birthday ami
versary.
Cadillac Board of Trade has opened
ship and to engage a secretary who
will give all his time to the interests
of the city
Arthur Clark, farmer living at Lud-
ingtOn, narrowly escaped death when
a package of dynamite caps in his
coat pocket exploded. His unusually
heavy clothing saved his life.
Florence Hairurda, a Grand Rapids
girl, thought Nick Van Derlaan
a Polish fued enemy when he was
working at her home and emptied a
pail of ice water on his head.
After being out three hours. the
jury at Marshall in the Hastings
Horton $4,000 damage suit, in which
Miss Hazel Hastings accused her en-
ployer's wife, Mrs. Hazen A. Horton,
of slandering her, disagreed
Ezra Levins, in charge of the agri-
cultural department cf the Kalamazoj
public schools, and John Bursma, a
student, were seriously hurt when an
automobile driven by Levins went in
to ditch near Kalamazoo.
Ethel Pearce, a nurse who dis
appeared from her home two weeks
ago, wandered into ST. Mary's hospi-
tai, at Marquette, dazed and unable
to tell where she had been or what
she had done in her absence.
After keeping her wedding a secret
from her friends for two weeks, Miss
Gussie Woodruff, popular Cadillac girl,
told friends that she had been married
to George Morse, son of a Grand Rap
ids furniture dealer, in Grand Rapids.
Mrs. Mary Gates, a Sault Ste. Marie
NIrith
an Italian ex-convict, and afterward
as she passed where he was working
he beat her unconscious with a shovel.
Mrs. Gates lost half her face and part
of her scalp.
Henry Spencer, of Menominee,
while experimenting the clearing Of
some land was struck by log which
was drawn by horses. He rode on a
stoneboat across a forty acre farm to
his automobile, cranked it and ran it
10 the city. His right leg was fr7C.
tured.
Declaring that A. ]. Winslow, the
well-known and eccentric Kalama-
zoo capitalist who jumped to his death
a few weeks ago from a window in
Borgess. hospital was not in his right
mind when he drew his will, relatives
have protested the probatng of the
document.
Michigan is up against a paper IA
mine" The state printer has no pa
per upon which to print the compiled
laws and other books which should
be issued and the manufacturers, it is
said, refuse to ship PAPER, although it
was contracted for in advance almost
q year ago.
In court at Mason Reverend Hiram
Voo1hies former pastor of the Locke
township Free Methodist church, con-
fessed to slandering Miss Cecil Cobb,
when he agreed to the entering o
Judgment Of six cents in the $4,000
damage suit which had been brought
against him.
G.. A. Woodford, Menominee, 81