The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1911-03-10
STATE BRIEFS.

year after the village was founded in
1928. by Titus Bronson. Is dead
The young girls OF the Coldwater
high school graduating class of 1911
have voted to wear gingham dresses
at the graduating exercises, nade by
themselves.
Reps. Holcomb and Happier were
IN Saginaw to inspect the Michigan
Employment Institute for the Blind.
They placed the stamp Of approval on
the institution.
Isaac Sturt, aged 81, foreman In the
Buick factory. Flint, was struck on
the head by pieces of bursting fly
wheel and his skull fractured and left
shoulder broken.
A petition in federal court was filed
by Godfrey M. Hyams of New York
In an effort to prevent the proposed
merger of the Calumet & Hecla and
Osceola mining companies.
Posses were organized by Sheriff
Evans at Cadillac to search for EN-
erson Sanford, Al. crippled mute.
He wandered from home Christmas
day toward Pine river swamps.
Mrs. Melvina Beers, aged 20. was
found dead in bed on the upper floor
OF Jackson apartment house, of which
she Is the owner. 1t Is believed the
woman died from natural causes.
For the second time the proposition
to bond the city of Ludington for $780,
600 for street improvements was lost
at special election. But so votes
were lacking to pass the measure.
Edwin Stapleton, AZ. an official Of
the Saginaw & Flint electric line and
prominent in railroad circles in Sag
NAV for years, died of acute bron-
chitis, leaving widow and six chill
dren.
L. E. Hewlett, Howell, selected by
the Democrats to run against Selden
5. Miller, of Owosso, for circuit Judge,
declares he is not a candidate, and
has discouraged activities of friends
in his behalf
All the surveying and advance
work on the proposed Owosso-Sagi-
nav electric line has been completed
and the project, 1t is said, is now in
concrete form. The line will tap
rich farming country.
Jacob Kujawa, aged 80, ended his
life in Grand Rapids by shooting him
self in the head. He was identified
h by papers found on his body, which
showed that he was veteran of the
Spanish-American war.
Clara Phillips, of Portland, has
asked for legal separation from
Harry circuit, having learned that he
was previously married in June, 1908.
He was arrested for bigamy in Kala-
mazoo. but escaped from the county
Jail there.
The coroner's jury which spent two
days investigating the death Of Mrs.
Martha Howard. a wealthy Kalama-
zoo negress, whose body was found
in the river, returned a verdict that
she had been killed and her body
thrown into the river.
Jefferson Vincent, SO, of Durand,
who died recently. leaves nine chill
dren and five brothers. The COM
bined ages of Vincent and the broth
ers is 459 years. He was farmer
all his life and pioneer resident Of
Shiawassee county.
Speaking on Conservatism Of Mis-
At Boys" at the roundup institute,
Judge Charles B. Collingwood stated
that the present system of reforma-
tories is adding to the criminal class
instead Of reforming misfit boys as
they are supposed to do.
Every one OF the 1000 striking cor
set makers who walked out Of the
Kalamazoo Corset Co. Monday morn
ing returned to work Wednesday, fol-
lowing an adjustment of difficulties
by which the employers agreed to re-
store the old wage scale.
Dependent because OF a heavy
debt and the failure OF his crops last
summer William Thomas, a young
farmer living near Lake Odessa, end
ed his life. His young wife found
his body hanging from a rafter in
the barn. He leaves child.
Homer Fowler, newly elected regis
ter of deeds Of Ingham county, will
commence a friendly suit against the
county in an effort to prove the in
validity Of the recent ruling of the
Encouragement that county officers
cannot be paid under the fee system.
Mrs. Selma Swayze, one OF the first
oShOOl tSuChCAo VI A'AiShheyIhy anu WhO
had hundreds Of students scattered
all over the United States. died in
Grand Rapids after lingering illness,
aged 70 years. She was born in Bay
ham, Canada, and began teaching
when but Is years OF age.
John J. Coats, a pioneer blacksmith,
of Howard City, was probably fatally
injured. Mistaking a red gasoline
can for kerosene, he attempted to
light fire In his stove and an ex-
plosion resulted in which deep burns
we're inflicted on his face and body.
The burning fluid enveloped the man.
Mr.. Coats is past 20.
Declaring that local option in Shia-
wassee county has proved failure
and confident the wet regime will be
restored at the next election, former
saloonists and brewers are preparing
to reap the harvest May 1, 1912 Sew
eral desirable store buildings in the
county have been leased already as
| locations for saloons and are being
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