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MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

900 auditorium, IL the citizens of Sagi-
nav will raise the rest
John Keliher, a Grand Trunk en-
gineer. was thrown from the cab OF
his engine near Marcellus. Monday,
and lies In critical condition.
Senator William Alden Smith sold
a lot and building In Grand Rapids to
the Peoples Savings bank at price
said to have been about $4,000.
A jury In the circuit has awarded
Mrs. William Rouseman $1,000 In her
suit against the ID. u. r. for injuries
received in the Birmingham wreck
last November.
Judge Quincy A. Smith, aged SO,
who died at Ann Arbor. after an III
ness of several months, was an al.
most lifelong resident OF Ingham coun-
ty and Lansing.
Mrs. Nettie Marrinane has been
awarded s5.925 damages against Fred.
Miller, former saloonist of Grass
Lake. Miller sold Marrinane liquor af
ter he had been posted.
While playing with boys his own
age about Grand Trunk cars just north
of Grand Rapids, Leo Moffitt. aged 6,
fell under a moving switching train
and had both legs severed.
Mel Trotter, director of the Grand
Rapids Rescue mission, who raised
$4,000 and bought the building, re-
fused an offer of $4,000 year lease
from vaudeville circuit.
Emeil Hopkie, of Sterling, was ar
rested on the charge of attempting
to kill Marion Mott, also OF Sterling,
because of a fancied grievance, and
will be examined as to his sanity.
Kleber p. Rockwell, recently elected
member of the constitutional conven-
ton, has resigned his position as
member of the board of public works
of Pontiac because of lack of time.
Charles Bowen, aged Is, was arrest
ed at Webberville on a charge of plac-
iEg an iron plate on the Pere Mar
quette railroad tracks. The plot was
discovered before a train was due.
Kalamazoo won the first round In
the fight with the NJ. u. R., Judge
Adams issuing an order to the com.
pany TO show cause why it should not
comply with the councils order to lay
grooved rails.
IF Gov. Warner is reelected / will
manu- III lily Sdlu I1lSH-
way Commissioner Horatio S. Earle, in
prefacing his statement that he would
soon announce his candidacy for the
governorship.
Accepting the advice of the police
commission, the Battle Creek council
will pass an ordinance demoving the
stalls from saloons, demand made
by the women OF the National Purity
| association.
AS she finished a hearty dinner Miss
Ella Cooley, SO, of Coldwater, presum-
ably in perfect health, dropped from
her chair and expired. She was the
daughter of one of the first citizens
of Branch county.
State Game and Fish Warden Pierce
and his deputies succeeded in round
ing up seven fishermen off the north
shore of Lake Michigan, who had I'M
| dersized fish in their possession. They
were fined $50 each.
At the inquest into the death of
Kenneth Stuart in Saginaw 1t was ties.
titled that he went to sleep under a
freight car while intoxicated and was
| dragged about for an hour while 1t
was being switched
AlDtIt Oiuo, dBtu Il, VI X,
took poison because a 15-year-old girl
refused his attentions, and when he
recovered said. II told the druggist
| wanted poison to kill a dog and |
guess l was about right"
A committee OF Detroit's representa-.
tive colored citizens waited on Police
Commissioner Smith Friday morning
for the purpose of offering assistance
to the authorities IN Kidding the city OF
undesirable colored men.
Tainted money is all right provided
| 1t in no way closes the mouth of the
acceptor toward the evil means used
to obtain it," said Rev. Lewis G.. Will
son, of Boston, before the Michigan
Conference of Unitarian churches.
| Representative Nelson G. Rice is
one of the leading members and of.
ficers In an organization effected in
| st. Joseph by the local retail merch-
ants for the purpose OF fighting the
big catalogue firms Of the country.
The supreme court affirmed judg-
ment for $4,000 obtained by william
Culver for the loss Of both legs against
the Fidtlity q Deposit Co. of Mary
| land, which was on the surety bond of
| the South Haven e. Eastern railroad.
T. w. Bearn, a Lawton miller, be-
came entangled in the machinery In
f. Bearn & Sons Touring mill, and
while being whirled around a shaft
had every particle Of his clothing, save
his shoes, torn off. He Is badly in
! jured.
To test the constitutionality OF the
| juvenile act, Prosecutor Mcdonald, of
/ Grand Rapids, will ask the supreme
court for a writ of mandamus TO com
pei the authorities of the industrial
school to accept those sent under the
| juvenile act.
! A break in an engine throttle sud-
denly started It, throwing Engineer
Reniamin Burke Of Port Huron tn IN a