The Yale expositor., 1919-08-28
Wolverine
News Brevities

Holland-Jacob Brat, injured about
six months ago, when a heavy crate
of glass fell on him, crushing both
legs, died at Holland Hospital.
aginaw-Filtration offers the only
practicable solution of Saginaw's wa
ter supply problem, according to Maj.
E. d. Rich, state sanitary engineer.
Port Huron-The last Of four sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. Z. F.. Lamb, of this
city has just returned from service.
All saw active service and none was
injured.
Owosso-Hog cholera has broken
out in Victor township, Clinton county,
and veterinarians are vaccinating all
healthy herds to prevent its spread.
Losses have been heavy.
East Tawas-An automobile in
which Mrs. j. II. Bean was riding
with her mother and children rolled
down an 1S-foot embankment The
only injury was suffered by Mrs.
Beams mother, who suffered broken
arm.
Detroit-Custer's Michigan Cavalry
Brigade association will hold its 1919
reunion in Detroit, September "a and
20, the first date being the fifty -fifth
anniversary of the fight at Luray, Va,
where the brigade suffered severe
casualties.
Bay City-Andrew PietrowslN, 81
years old, was fined $25 in police court
for assault and battery on child
four years old. Pietrowsh keeps a
little store and the children IN the
neighborhood have bothered him. He
used a whip.
Charlotte-Within 10 hours of the
time a girl baby was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Ogden, daughter was born
to Mr.. and Mrs. Loyal Ogden at the
same home. The mothers are sisters
and the fathers are brothers, both re-
turned soldiers.
Dearborn-Judd A. Richardson,
wealthy farmer of Novi, was instantly
killed here when he drove his auto
mobile directly in front of an APP
preaching interurban car. Richardson
was decapitated and his body badly
mangled. His automobile was wreck
ed.
Big Rapids-A borrowed automo-
bile Elmer Coe was driving through
a fog after a doctor hit a wagon
driven by Theodore Schwartz. The
automobile was demolished, a wheel
taken from the wagon, the horses de-
nuded of harness and neither man
injured.
Monrce-Dean Trabbic, of Erie,
short distance from Monroe, former
deputy sheriff of Monroe county, was
called from his home and shot and
killed by four unidentified men. Trab-
bic is believed to have been slain by
whisky runners whom he arrested
some weeks ago.
Detroit-Stanley Morris was robbed
of his coat, hat, shoes and $25 at
Loyno road and Michigan avenue. He
appeared before officers In the Vine
wood avenue police station clad only
In an abbreviated union suit and
pair of socks, and said that two neg
roes and a white man had disrobed
him.
Hudson-Colonel William b. Thomp-
son, 81 years old, prominent In Michi-
gan politics for half century, former
second assistant postmaster-general
and at one time treasurer of the ma
tional Republican committee, died at
his summer home at Hayden, near
Middleton, Me. Colonel Thompson,
formerly lived in Hudson.
Muskegon-Five hundred employees
of the G. r. and l railroad, including
his wife, saw William Sedma, "a
years old, drown in Lake Michigan.
Mr.. Sedma became exhausted swim
ming in the heavy sea and John
Brownlee, fellow employee, battled
10 minutes with the waves, before
finally bringing the lifeless body to
shore.
Lansing-The first appeal to the
secretary of state to override the de-
NAL Of an applicant for an automobile
drivers license was received by the
department from Fred A. Dressell, of
South Haven. The chief Of police of
South Haven refused to approve Dres-
sells application. In an affidavit ac-
companying the formal appeal, Ores
sell states that he has but one arm.
Ludington-The food probe in this
county is under way, under direction
of Prosecuting Attorney Kirk b.
Mathews. One Of the first steps to ar
rive at costs was the issuance Of
subpoenas for Jacob Lands, wealthy
Freesoil farmer and president of the
Mason County Marketing association;
Ben Wilson, also wealthy farmer and
acting secretary of the Mason County
farm bureau, and County Agricultural
Agent Cook.
Lansing-Michigan's new railroad
rate law, at least insofar as it applies
IN a1acfrfc intarurhan lfnaa will ha