The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-02-18
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

tWenLy-nrtn Juulcldl circuit II. ".
Flanagan. In his first court session at
Menomiaee, fined Fred Meissnes $40
for violating the liquor laws.
Frank Fitzpatrick was convicted at
Munising of the. murder of Harriet
Hill at Shingleton last November. He
was sentenced by Judge Steere to 40
years In Jackson penitentiary.
Demolishing with an iron bar the
door of the l.. 8. & M. S. depot at
Saline, yesgs blew the safe with nj
troglycerias, secured $40 In cash, all
the money in 1t, and escaped without
molestation.
Frank Lahym, alderman OF the third
ward, the largest ward in Traverse
City, appeared In the recorders court
and pleaded guilty to a charge of vio-
lating the game laws. He killed only
one fox squirrel, but 1t cost him $15.
Allen N. Armstrong, dsposed war
den of Jackson prison, has closed a
deal by which he transfers his hand
some homo at Cassopolis to Thomas
w. McCully, n farmer OF Penn town
ship. The price is said to have been
$4,000.
Because he was brought to America
from Germany to take charge OF
beet sugar plant and was made
common workman, a jury awarded
Richard Breden $1,000 against Joseph
Cohn, superintendent of the Owosso
Sugar Co.
General Manager Schantz, of the
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co.,
has assured Saginaw shippers that
the boat service discontinued between
that city and Detroit last season will
be resumed at the opening of naviga-
ton this spring.
State Boiler Inspector ]. G. McCabe
reports that the exploded boiler in the
sawmill at Crump was not capable OF
holding 45 pounds of steam and that
it had been used for 100 pounds. He
said that the boiler was too rotten
to stand the pressure.
The announcement that President
Taft may attend the G. A. r. state
encampment at Holland next June
has caused the speakers committee
to forward An invitation to him and
Senator Smith and Congressman Die
kema will be prevailed upon to get
a direct promise at once.
The second annual meeting of the
Michigan Press association will be
held in Bay City Feb. "a and 20, with
a banquet on the second day, at which
William Allen White, the author, Cy
Warman, magazine writer, Chase S.
Osborn and A. II. Vandeberg, of
Grand Rapids, will speak
The town of Dollarville, Luce coun-
| ty, has been sold by the Danaher
Hardwood Lumber Co. to the Detroit
Cedar & Lumber Co, OF Detroit. The
deal includes the mill site, yards and
everything except the saw
mill, which has been sold to Wickes
Bros. OF Saginaw, who are now dis
mantling the plant and will ship it
elsewhere.
NJ w. Wentworth steward of the
Battle Creek sanitarium, has pur-
chased 200 acres on which he will
plant 10000 trees. Among the species
are several of the locust variety which
will be used for fence posts. The idea
| of Wentworth is to utilize the marsh
land for timber raising thus redeem
ing almost worthless real estate, use
less, at least, for any other purpose.
The recent report issued by Labor
! Commissioner. Fletcher shows that the
yield of soft coal in Michigan has de-
! creased in the past year. Last years
| output was 1,75S.020 tons. or about
| $4,000 tons less than the previous
year. 1t cost $1.65 to mine each ton
in 1909 while in 1908 the rate was two
cents higher. The wage paid to the
miner has fallen off nine cents per
| day.
The Junior hop given by the class
OF 1911 of the University of Michigan
is history. The big society event of
the year was held in Waterman and
Barbour gymnasiums Friday night. AL
most 800 couples of young men and
women representing every state in
the union and not few foreign coun-
| tries, danced and sang in the multi
| colored lights from $50 until o'clock
Saturday morning.
James K Griggs, president of the
board OF police commissioners, which
Office he has held several years, and
one of Saginaw's most prominent citi-
zens and Masons, dropped dead at his
home on North Washington avenue.
The fatal stroke occurred shortly af-
ter his return home from downtown
and was without warning. 1t is be-
| lieved death was due to heart failure.
Griggs was about 20 years old and is
survived by widow.
| The executive committee OF the state
grange adopted resolutions while in
session In Lansing favoring the par
cells post system and also the postal
savings bank. They will make a cam
| paign among their members asking
that when they vote for candidates TO
the legislature and state senate that
they choose those who favor a ton
mage tax on ores, the Torrens system
of land tracts, further progressive ac-
ton In the good roads work and the
project to make telephone lines COM
mon carriers.
Because high school functions are
proving such a menace to effective
school work the board of education
OF Ann Arbor has put a ban on az
fairs. The action was taken when IL