The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-05-24
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

The quarterly report of Oil Inspec-
tor Neal shows that his department
has turned $S,209 into the state treas
ury above expenses.
The First Reformed church has
been organized in Dunningville and
work will be started at once on the
erection of new church.
The state board in control OF the
| school for the deaf in Flint has in
creased the salaries of all teachers
receiving less than $1,000.
A Masonic temple, thing that has
been needed for some time, Is to be
constructed in Romeo Every promi-
nent man in the village is a Mason.
Jacob Ehler, wealthy shoe mer-
chant or Hancock, will be placed on
| trial at the May term of the circuit
court for shooting Ernest Hendrick-
| son.
Howard Wood, 1S, was drowned
when canoe occupied by himself
and another young man overturned at
Lake Gognac. The other boy es-
capped.
Mrs. w. II. Kenoyer, a club woman
OF Fair Plain, sat down in her favor
lite rocking chair in her home, turned
on three gas jets and asphyxiated
| herself.
The members OF the Grand Trav-
erses grange have organized and will
start campaign for the betterment
OF the methods of growing and mar
keting fruit.
Managers of resorts and hotels met
In traverse City and organized an
association for this district. Fred 8.
| cummings, of Neatawanta, was chos-
en- president
The annual reunion of the famous
LOOMS battery was held in Coldwat-
er. Sixteen of the original men,
bers were present. hurry Tilton was
chosen president.
ii. j. Kennon, Kalamazoo, aged 35.
was instantly killed when he fell
from 40-foot tower at the Monarch
paper mill. kennon was employed in
removing the tower.
| The ID. s. s. & A. railway will uuild
a steel bridge 100 feet long over the
Sturgeon river, Hancock, to replace
the wooden structure, where recent
washouts occurred.
Reports from fruit growers OF the
| vicinity OF Traverse City indicate that
the peach crop was not hurt as much
as first thought. Nearly all OF the
| fruit trees are in blossom.
The Hancock mine is supposed to
have struck the Pewabic lode. IL 1t is
not the Pewabic, it is said to be as
rich as anything the Pewabic ever
showed in the Quincy mine.
At a special election. held in Ira
verse City, it was voted to bond for
$150000 to buy the Queen City light
ing plant. A similar election. was held
earlier, but was declared illegal.
Forty-nine Port Huron young men
have organized company and will
apply for admittance to the Michigan
National Guard as a cavalry company.
HomE w. Smith was elected cap
tain.
At the closing session OF the laun-
drymen's convention in Flint. Battle
| Greek was selected for the next con-
vention. John NJ. Ryan, OF Kalama-
zoo, was chosen president for the
year
| Rate Clerk Darwin, of the railroad
commission, will meet representa-
tives OF the water companies in the
state at Grand Rapids May II and
attempt to formulate uniform
schedule.
Rudolph Nelson, q, a fireman on
the Mineral Range railroad rock train,
was killed by being crushed beneath
the tender when the locomotive broke
away from the train, dropping him on
the rails.
At meeting of Port Huron's city
commission it was decided to inves-
tigate the epidemic Of typhoid fever
which has been raging in this city
for several weeks. An outside expert
will be employed.
Victor p. Vanpoppel, head of the
Stafford factory, lonia, was asphyx-
lated while taking a bath. A defec-
tive gas heater caused his death. His
wife and children arrived in the city
only few days ago.
The University of Michigan now
has a total enrolment of 5,582. This
is the largest in the history of the
school. Michigan leads all the states.
with an attendance OF 2,941.. There
| are Sc Chinese enrolled.
l Atllns III Ihotl uttlOns lIOui ISdUOL
Commissioners Powers, who wants
salt mines protected as well as coal
mines, State Mine Inspector Stew.
enson will start work in Wayne coun-
ty and go over the entire salt dis
trict.
Congressman w. w. Wedemeyer OF
Ann Arbor was the principal speaker
at the semi-annual banquet of the
Port Huron Bankers club al the Har-
rington hotel He spoke on THE
Panama canal and its relation to bust
ness In this section"
George Essen. aged 20, OF Petrolia.
Ont, was taken to Ionia, where he
will serve from four to Is years for
his connection with the death Of
Thomas II. Major, whose body was
found under the First Baptist church
In Port Huron last February.
Joseph Muernier, sentenced to Jack
son from Detroit Feb. 2, 1904, for
murder in the first degree, and Irwin
Hurst, who came May /, 1911, from
Detroit, for 10 years for manslaugh-