The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-15
|uTTlf LOCAL STORIES
:red c Aarxex nurchased the steam.

Fred c. Harvey purchased the steam.
er Samoa at marshaFs sale Tues
day, for $3,675 and will use her In
the iron ore trade.
The independent Stove Co., Of which
J. &. Ellis ie secretary and treas
urer. has decided TO leave Detroit
and locate in Owosso. Possible labor
troubles are given as the reason
. for the move.
Judge Swan has signed an order turn
lna over $4,000 to Frank Reich,
which was the amount paid by the
CITY on the unfinished municipal
brick plant. and which has been ~
litigation since.
Secretary Anthony Pratt, Of the Mu-
nicipal league, has stsrted can
yass TO get the names OF business
and professional men who will serve
as Jurors. He will furnish his lists
TO the Jury commission.
II cost Frank schenck, Russell-st.
saloonkeeper, $3.50 to beat up Harry
Zeigler, a young man who frequent
= ed his place Ziegler having been
awarded this amount by n jury In
Judge Murphy's court Tuesday af-
ternoon.
A specialist In liquor law is William
Houah, the ST. Louis attorney, who
will be associated with Joseph N.
Choate and Alfred Lucking in rcf-
resenting Hiram Walker & Sons In
the case which comes before the
federal court April 10 The dispute
!. is one between the government and
proper method Of labelling
The present building ordinance Is 4
rather infIexible thing. Schadt g.
Mathewson, feather dealers. wanted
to build O warehouse or Champaign
st. and planned for 12-inch walls.
The code calls for 1s-inch walls and
the fire marshal held that he could
not depart from the law because the
building happens to be built 10 hold
feathers II might be turned into
some other kind OF storehouse III
later years.
The mother, sister and other relatives
. Of Arthur c. Wells, who left his
b home here in April. 1904, are max
ing every effort TO locate the young
man, owing to the death OF his
father three weeks ago. Arthur
was last heard from In May, 1904,
when he sent a letter from Hong
Kong, saying that he was thinking
OF joining the United States navy.
He was then 16 years old His
mother lives at No. $40 Harrison
ave.
In addition to the first general plans
for the new House Of Providence
wing avfand
eastward from the main structure
has been decided upon and will &c
erected as soon as the detail plans
are completed. II will be about !C
feet long by so feet wide to corre-
spond with the main building IN
architecture and height. and VIII
cost about $4,000. With the new
wing the cost OF the entire structure
will approximate 100000.
Mrs. Cecil Roosevelt and Mrs. Ella
Fox were each released after CIV
ing $500 bond when arraigned be-
fore Judge Swan, Tuesday. on
charge OF bringing an allen woman
illegally into the country. II Is al
legged that Mrs. Roosevelt met the
cir; In Windsor and that she was
brought to Detroit by a doctor in
an automobile and taken to Mrs.
Roosevelt's hospital. Both wo-
men indicted say that they took
the young woman's case from charit-
able motives.
David Miller. recently arrested IN
purand after being paroied from
Ionia prison and taken to Port Hur-
on on a charge Of stealing watch
from O Mrs. Moffet, OF the tunnel
city, was released by Justice Benc
dict and reached Detroit Tuesday
afternoon At the station he was
met by his wife and three children,
who had been anxiously awaiting
his coming. The Port Huron JUS
tice quashed the complaint of Mrs.
Moffet on the ground that he was
technically In prison until his term
: had expired and could not legally
be charged with another offense I'M
I'll he had served his time for the
first.