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his cell and cut MS throat.
The Pontiac council committee on
ordinances has been instructed 10 pre-
pare an ordinance TO increase the
liquor bonds from $4,000 10 $4,000.
The attorney general insists that
the ballot on the question of revising
the constitution must be on a sheet or
paper separate from all other ballots.
Mrs. Paul Goehle, of Sault Ste. Ma
rio, and four of her children were al
flicted with ptomaine poisoning. the
physician who was called attributed
tho cause 10 lemon pie.
Three new paper companies Were
organized in Otsego Tuesday, and the
building of these and the opening OF
the Mac Sim Bar mill. now nearly
completed, will boom that place.
Farnum Bros, OF Pontiac, are pro-
noting an electric line 10 connect st.
Charles, Alma, st. Louis, Ithaca and
Owosso. Ii Is proposed to use COM
bination gasoline-electric motor.
Business men and farmers will con-
tribute 81 900 toward building a per
manent model roadway between Ian
sing and Michigan Agricultural col
lege. The state appropriates $4,000 ad-
ditional.
A steel rope $500 feet in length-al-
most two miles-is being completed
for the No. shaft of the Calumet
branch of the Calumet & Hecla mine.
Ii will be the longest rope in the world.
Its diameter is / 3-S inches.
Arthur A. Cole. the defaulting clerk
of the Menominee circuit court who
skipped out with widow, leaving his
wife and babe destitute, and was cap
tured in Chicago, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced TO 2h years in prison.
BY eight majority 7. S. Martin, Nor.
rice, who was indicted by the grand
jury and acquitted in the circuit court,
was nominated BY the Republicans for
supervisor TO succeed himself. He was
elected president of the village recent
~.
The crossing gates in Decatur not
being lowered, Harvey Warner, we'll
to-do retired farmer, who was quite
deaf, drove in front OF Michigan
Central train and was almost instant
~ killed. He had bat recently moved
TO town.
Foy Poyser was sentenced TO lonia
prison for from one 10 Ia years Tor
forgery. Poyser was arrested two days
after his elopement from Kalamazoo
with Miss Laura Grape, and ii is said
he forged the checks TO get the money
for his wedding.
Miss Luella NJ Burton, OF Detroit,
woman factory inspector, is just COM
pleting her annual report. Generally
Lei 81,
women employed IN factories are inn
proving. She says employers are
steadily lettering conditions.
The Standard Oil Co. has dropped
the mask In Michigan and owns up
that the Republic Oil Co., operating IN
many Of the larger cities, is but one
of it's creatures. All of the agencies
of the Republic OIL Co. have been
transit red to the Standard Co.
Warren Pratt, of Mason. unmarried
and 81 years OF age, died Saturday
OF blood poisoning from injuries re-
ceived at the Oldsmobile works at
| Lansing two weeks ago. when two fin
gers were taken off. Very little was
thought of the accident al the time.
Saginaw bay. II miles out from Quani-
cassee, is dotted with upwards of 80
fish shanties. The ice Is l. 10 II inches
thick, but large cracks have appeared.
Should n sudden wind storm spring
up there will be the usual scurry for
shore by tho fishermen. AS Lake Huron
is open, when the ice lets 90 ashore 1t
Will probably move out rapidly.
Caught in the shafting al the Boyne
City lumber mill, Charles Allen had
his clothes stripped from his body as
he was whirled around with the rapid
/ ~ moving shaft. Had it not been that
his apparel had given away when i
did his career would have been ended.
! AS it was his left leg from the hip
| to the knee was torn and lacerate1
and his flesh pounded almost into a
| Jelly where his limbs came in contact
with the shaft.
The examination of Evangelist Geo
| Allen, charged by Rev. &. II. Ander-
son, Of White Pigeon, with improper
/ relations with the latters wife, did
not materialize Saturday, the defend
ants counsel. Attorney Knappen, of
! Kalamazoo. waving to the circuit
| court. Allen was placed under $500
| bonds Ia appear for trial Quite an
audience had gathered, anticipating
| that some racy evidence would be
| introduced, and they were greatly dis.
| appointed.
| TO protect his family from disgrace
| and save his aged mother pain. Frank
| Hartman sent to lonia for slashing
| Under Sheriff Warner. Of Ann Arbor
| in the arm with a knife. will probably
! serve the maximum sentence of two
years instead of Is months. He was
| supposed TO be q vcritable ignorant
hobo when sent up. but letters re-
! ceived by Judge Kline and Mr.. War.
ner asking them to intercede To have
! him paroled shows him TO be finely
/ educated man.
| Lapcer Is still without city physl
clan and is likely to be until after the
new council meets. The council fixed
the salary at $500. but the physicians
Jointly declared that they would not
accept, consequently for the past year
| the Office has been vacant. Finally the
state board of health ordered the coun
Gil to appoint a health officer at once
| or mandamus would be served. Tho
council named DR.. w. j. Robinson
without consulting him and he says;
IL will not accept IL. ] refused IL once
| and I'll not take II now \"