The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-14
'uTTI LOCAL STORIES

It 10 expected that the park commit
tee Of the council will get busy
with report In favor OF changing
the Belle Isle ferry license back to
the old conditions within few
weeks. The company has announced
that 1t will run no boats to the is
land until the old terms are restor-
ed and the ordinance requiring ser.
vice to the Western boulevard is re-
pealed.
The health board is considering a plan
which contempiates the purchase OF
Is acres OF land adjoining the 10
acres 1t already owns out Hamilton
boulevard and the erection OF the
new contagious hospital on that site,
Immediately adjoining the present
pest house. The plan was discussed
at meeting of the board Monday
night, but no definite action was
taken
The annual convention Of the manag-
ers of the CrinneiI Bros 10 music
houses opened in the new Grinhetl
music store, Monday, and will con-
tfnue through the week, with both
morning and afternoon sessions.
Tuesday evening there will be ban
quet, and Wednesday evening the
visitors will be entertained by the
firm with theater party in the De
troit opera house.
A contest for new members which has
been going on for the last few weeks
in the Loyal Guard lodge, which
was divided into two sides. the reds
and the blues, was won by the lat
ter, and they were given banquet
in the Kaiserhof cafe Monday nigh
by the Reds. Members of the order
met in the Elks' temple before GO
Ing to the banquet and admitted
several members.
Patrolman Samuel Davis was found
guilty by Jury In the police court,
Monday afternoon, OF assaulting
Peter Kruschinski, an elderly citi-
zen. last Tuesday. and was fined $50
with the alternative of 60 days in
the house OF correction. by Justice
Jeffries. Patrolmap Joseph Evans.
similarly charged. was acquitted.
There Is another case pending
against the same ocers for an al
legged assault on John Scepiaranski.
Davis says he will take an appeal
from his conviction.
Schultz, arrested Immediately
after his release from the house Of
correction, Monday. after serving
term of 60 days for obtaining
money from citizen on a promise
to get him job that did not exist.
was arraigned before Justice JEFF
fries, Monday afternoon. on a SINH
lar charge preferred by Paul Sch.
wochow. The court learned that
Justice Stein had taken the other
cases pending against Schultz under
consideration In sending him up two
months ago and sentence was sus-
pended
James WEIGH, aged 40, disappeared
from the home Of his sister, Miss
Caroline WEIGH, at No. 658 Brooklyn
ave-, last Wednesday, and his dead
body was found Monday afternoon
in a small piece OF woods near Mt.
Olivet cemetery. Coroner Bennett
had the body removed to the county
morgue, where County Physicians
Grimes and Stapleton held post
norton examination and concluded
otndt ucdtu was uut W tApObuft anu
heart disease. However. the stom-
ach was sent to County Chemist
Clark for analysis. WEIGH had been
I'm poor health for some years.
w. c. Weber has prepared memorial
to be presented at the next meet
ing of the trustees OF the Detroit
Museum OF Art, outlining project
for locating the museum on the
property bounded by Woodward,
Farnsworth. John r. and KIRBY
ayes. which site he considers has
many features most desirable for the
purpose under consideration. MIR.
Weber gives as reasons for moving
the museum that manufacturing In
dustries are encroaching rapidly.
that pictures and other objects OF
; art are injured IL not ruined by
smoke and dirt, and the site on
which 1t Is at present located Offers
no opportunity for the natural
growth OF the museum. The plan OF
Mr.. Weber. who Is member OF the
board of trustees OF the museum Is
TO secure subscriptions from the
city's wealthy citizens toward the