The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-06-07
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF


Mayor Woodruff OF Bay City will be
a candidate for the Republican nom
ination as Tenth district congress
man.
Sheriff James Byers OF Houghton
county is working the prisoners in the
Houghton county jail on the public
highways.
The trial of Jacob Elder, the Han
cock shoe dealer, for the murder of
Ernest Hendrickson, will be started
August 5.
Lansing will graduate 46 girls and
AZ boys from its high school June
IL, the largest senior class by 20 in
the history of the school.
According to a recent ruling of the
attorney-general, township officers can
not serve on school boards, the two
positions being incompatible.
John j. Sourwine, of Escanaba, has
announced his candidacy for congress.
Sheriff James Byers, of Houghton, is
also expected to be candidate.
Harry Spencer, of Reed City, state
Moose organizer, found, after he had
been treating three months for lum-
bago, he had two cracked ribs.
A final dividend of per cent will
be paid creditors of the defunct Ex-
change bank of Vernon, making a
total of "a per cent paid them.
The NJ. u. r. station at Dewitt was
broken into and $50 taken from the
cash drawer. The robbers made their
entrance through back window.
About 60 delegates attended the
opening meeting of the convention Of
the Protective Home Circle of Michi-
gan In Saginaw. Detroit will get the
The total valuation OF Pontiac prop
erty exceeds last years figures of the
board of review by $1.60O,000. New
buildings are largely responsible for
this.
The city council of Escanaba has
turned down a resolution to make an
appropriation of $3.50 for the enter
tainment of the Detroit Chamber of
Commerce party.
The hearing into the sanity of Harry
X. Thaw, which was scheduled to
come up before Justice Keogh at
White Plains on June 3, will be post
poned until next fall.
Scores of schools about the state
are nearly depopulated. The electors
at the annual election held July 8
may vote TO abandon any such school
and send the pupils to nearly schools.
Ex-State Senator Perry Mayo de-
clares he will be a candidate for lieu
tenant-governor If Sybrant Wesselius,
former railway commissioner under
Plngree, enters the race for govern
or.
Word has been received from the
Grand Trunk railroad management
that it is expected to have the new
Bad Axe branch of the road COM
pleted ip time to handle fall freight
business. q - 80. -.
With the settlement of the wage
question all obstacles to the resump-
ton OF coal mining in the Saginaw
district have been removed. The
mines will reopen after a shutdown
of two months.
Edward Vondette, of Marquette, had
narrow escape from death when he
fell on the carriage at local saw
mill Just as the big circular saw
entered the flesh it was stopped by
fellow workman.
Boston authorities are searching for
Samuel lien, the leper who escaped
from the U. of NJ. hospital several
days ago. 1t is said lien went to
Boston to board boat for Russia,
his native country.
The supreme court confirmed the
decision OF the Schoolcraft circuit
court which gave Mrs. Anna Johnson
verdict of 1928 because Phillip Grou-
den sold her husband liquor aph-he
beat her while intoxicated>u
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