The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-10-31
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

cut the salary of Judge Kinnie 1000.
The contract for the erection of a
state armory at Kalamazoo TO cost
$4,000, has been let.
The department at Washington has
granted Grand Rapids a weather
KIOSK to be placed in Monument park
Despondent because of family tro
bles, Mrs. r. H. Calkins, of Battle
| Greek, attempted to take her life by
swallowing poison.
The supervisors of Jackson county
have appropriated $74,5S5 for the
building OF good roads in the county.
The work will be started this fall.
Mrs. Frank Cole was killed by a
freight train in Perry while walking
on the tracks with her daughter,
Ella. The latter witnessed the acct
dent.
Lee Willard, II, ana Carlyle Pick
| ney 10, were instantly killed when
struck by q Grand Trunk passenger
Train in Lansing while playing on the
tracks.
G. X. Dodge, of Port Huron; Mr..
Swail and Mr. Andrews, of Detroit,
were appointed by the board of re-
gents at Ann Arbor as assistants in
the museum.
Thomas Il. Harper, former post
master at Brethren, convicted of en-
bezzling funds, was sentenced to two
years in the federal penitentiary at
Fort Leavenworth
State Factory Inspector NJ. c. Scully
states that the state asylum in New
berry is a veritable fire trap. He also
claims that the buildings are infested
with cockroaches.
Dean Cooley, of the engineering
department of the T. of NJ, has been
delegated by the state railway com
mission to make a valuation of the
Grand Rapids street railway.
Many Grand Rapids business men
nave appealed TO the state railroad
commission to compel the Pere Mar
quette railroad to take up a number of
dead tracks, once used as sidings.
Many business men in Lansing be-
lieve that the NJ. u. T. intends to build
an electric line between Charlotte and
Battle Crek. Several high tension
wires have been strung between the
two cities.
w. ID. Jerome, +. r. Halpin, +.
Harvey and c. w. Whitson, of De-
troit, were in Port Huron looking
for factory site. They propose to
organize a company to manufacture
auto bodies.
The dedicatory services of the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament in
Allegan which has been completed by
the Catholic society, were held Sun
day, being in charge of Bishop Kei-
ley, of Ann Arbor.
The tenth annual state boys con-
ference under the auspices of the Y.
M. c. A. of Michigan, will be held in
Grand Rapids from Nov. % to Dec. 1.
1t is expected that at least 500 boys
from IS or more cities will attend.
Sparrow hospital was thrown open
to the public nLansing, and it is esti-
mated $4,000 persons inspected the
new building. The building was made
possible by e. w. Sparrow, who gave
the site and $4,000 to aid in erecting
the hospital
Secretary Seiemiller, of the Owosso
Improvement association, has asked
the railroad commission TO compel the
Michigan Telephone Co. to establish
a uniform rate in Owosso business
places. Merchants complain that the
company discriminates.
Charles Carey, aged GO of Lansing
a laborer employed at the M. u. T. car
barns, sent his wife from the home
and then shot himself. Mrs. Carey
returned from the barns to find her
husband dead on the floor. He had
been i'll for several weeks.
The state must take some radical
action to prevent the pollution Of
rivers and streams. declared Prof
Griggs in talk to students at Ann
Arbor. The state board of health has
no control over sewage, and but very
little over the public water supply.
Bert E. Quirk was appointed to the
fellowship in botany by the
baord Of regents at the u. of NJ. Prof. |
T.. II. Kraus was made acting dean in
the summer school for the coming
year. DR.. W. A. Hubbard was made
secretary of the department of phar-
macy.
During the funeral of Robert Spot
wood, 10, in Grand Rapids Mrs. Eliza
beth Spotwood, grandmother of the |
lad, became slightly demented and |
with the chair in which she had been |
seated knocked the scientist, who was |
conduct the services, to the floor,
and when the undertaken interfered |
he also was knocned down. During
the scuffle the casket was overturned |
and the body rolled on the floor. The
woman was taken to the JAIL and the
services resumed.
Because working men of Battle
Creek complain that they cannotfi nd
4 place to eat and sleep at reasonable
prices, the Salvation Army began a.
for $4,000, $4,000 of this to
be used for buying a building from
Irny West, the owner, or South JEFF
'erson avenue, and $4,000 for remolde-
ing 1t into working mems hotel.
PRESIDENT William II. Mason, of the
Chamber of Commerce, gave the army
$500, followed by large offerings from
iarious members of the chamber
Harry X. Robinson, OF Detroit, an ex-
pert n this line of work, will conduct