The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-05-09
MICHIGAN NEWS
TERSELY TOLD

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Kalamazoo.-Miss Josephine Casey.
general organizer of the Interna-
tional Garment Workers union. and
eight officials Of the Kalamazoo Cor
set Workers union are in Jail. being
held on charges of contempt OF court.
Notwithstanding the arrest of their Of
fcials, nearly 100 of the striking cor
set workers marched to the plant OF
the Kalamazoo Corset company and
not only picketed 1t, but hooted and
Kissed the nonunion workers. 1t was
stated that other arrests will probably
follow. Officials of other unions who
are sympathizing with the corset
strikers, declared that they would
force the court to order the arrest of
every person who picketed the factory.
Chelsea. - Mrs. Fred Niles and
Charles Doud were struck and in
stantly killed by a Michigan Central
passenger train at Francisco, seven
miles west Of here. They were stand
ing close to the west-bound track,
waiting for freight train to
pass on the east-bound track, when
them. They were instantly killed and
their bodies thrown to one side, clear
Of the wheels. Mrs Niles is survived
by husband and three young chill
dren, the smallest six weeks old,
while Doud was the sole support OF an
aged father and mother. The two
were first cousins.
Ann Arbor.-Mrs. Anna Sleater,
forty-eight, was found dead in the
bathroom Of her home by her son, w.
w. Sleater, with her throat cut from
ear to ear. At her side lay a razor
with which. it is thought she killed
herself. Mrs. Sleater, who had been
in i'll health. retired at her usual time.
She seemed cheerful, but her son,
u. of NJ. instructor, recalled that she
was unusually nervous all the eve
ming.
Ann Arbor-Lester Butterfeld, aged
twenty-three, a University of Mich
igan student from Belfast, ". Y,
who has been seriously i'll with
typhoid pneumonia in the university
hospital, attacked his male nurse and
escaped. A searching party lost all
track of him at the river and it is
thought he was drowned. The student
had been in delirium for several days.
Lapeer.-With no demonstration, the
saloons and hotels opened again
fo- business after two years
drought. Everything has been as
quiet as usual. No more DRINKS have
been seen than at any time during the
reign of local option, when one could
always see few little the worse for
liquor, as it has always been obtain
able
Bay City-All of Bay Citys sa-
looms closed and will not be permit
ted to reopen until the common coun-
ell and Mayor Roy o. Woodruff reach
an agreement as to the fitness Of ap-
plicants for license. The mayor re-
fused to approve the list submitted
by the council until the names OF sew
eral men whom he classed as "undesir-
ables" were stricken from ii.
Saginaw-.Milk dealers are doing
business without the necessary IL
censes. This condition is due to the
20 ot hot t1 Cd
agreement that their property and
dairy utensils would be opened for in
spection at any and all times at the
request of the health officer of Sagi-
nav. They did not decline to pay the
dollar fee, but said that the producers
would not comply with the order.
Rochester. Mrs. Susan Burk.
seventy-seven years old, for 90 years a
resident of this vicinity. dropped dead.
She had been in poor health. An
eighty-two-year-old husband, three
daughters and one son, the latter q
wealthy contractor of Florida, survive.
Mt. Clemens.-Complaint that the
Appliances tHey wear on tnelr
heads cause corns to grow on their
ears, 80 telephone girls have given
the manager an ultimatum that they
will strike If the contrivance is not
changed. 1t produces headaches as
well as corns, the girls say.
Cadillac-The change from wet"
to dry" times here was not at
tended with the noise and general
drunkenness that characterized the
change of conditions four years ago.
Four of the saloons closed out their
stock of goods early in the day and
locked their doors.
Carleton.-The good roads propo-
sition to bond the township of Ash
for 100000 for stone roads was
defeated by 214 to Isl. This was the
first attempt Of the good roads advo.
Gates, who say they will try again and
educate the farmers to the advantages