The Yale expositor., 1913-11-27
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

r. & |, train, at Kalamazoo.
VIM Carrier, 23. of Watervliet, is
reported lost near Northland, Mich,
by hunting party that returned
The Commonwealth Power Co, will
in two weeks begin the work of build
ing the Junction dam in Manistee
county.
The NJ Rumley Co. will remove its
Laporte. Ind, separator plant to Bat
tie Creek in 1914. This will triple the
manufacturing of separators in the To-
cal plant.
A dry kiln In the Hanson-Ward
Veneer works, at Bay City, burned
causing loss of about 100000. The
blaze is supposed to have been caused
by sparks from drying fan.
With the cooperation Of Congress-
man Cramton, a committee of the
Port Huron Business Mems associa
ton has secured from the government
a temporary lease OF a portion OF the
light house reservation for the Grand
Trunk railway.
Joseph l., Hooper, president of the
Calhoun County Bar association, de-
clares the salary of Circuit Judge Wal
ter II. North should be raised from
$4,000 TO $4,000 a year, and will rec
ommend that the supervisors make
the Seavy volume of work.
Kenneth Allen, S-year-old son OF Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Allen, of st. Louis,
was fatally shot by his 16-year-old
brother, Vern. The shooting was ac-
cidental The bullet entered Ken
neth's forehead lie was the young
est of family of eight children.
When the board of public works, of
Saginaw, officially accepted the new
Johnson street bridge over the Sagi-
nav river last week, the final reports
showed that the bridge cost $4,000
and that there was $4,000 left in the
original fund. for the structure.
After three years Of elaboration
the Saginaw council has denied the
Pere Marquette the right TO cross four
streets and the city attorney has been
ordered to proceed against the rail
road, because of a street which was
made into a ditch and tracks laid
without right
The Revenue Cutter Morrell has re-
turned to Port Huron after making
complete search of Lake Huron as far
north as Point Aux Barques. Captain
Carmine states be found no wreckage
or bodies or in fact anything that
would give an inllling of the location
of the missing steamers
Jacob Scotsman, %, an employe of
the Bryant Paper Co, at Kalamazoo,
was fatally scalded, dying an hour
later in the hospital Scotsman was
working near a boiler when one of
the connections broke. Boiling water
poured over his entire body, the cook
ed flesh dropping on.
There are 1881 lots in Michigan
that will be taken over by the state
for delinquent taxes this year. In the
following counties no delinquent taxes
were returned: Calhoun, Cass, Clin-
ton, Hillsdale Jackson, Macomb, Mon
roe, Oakland, Oceana Osceola, st.
Joseph and Van Buren,.
A precedent that an employee of a
sub-contractor can receive compensa-
ton from the company employing the
sub-contractor, was set when the in
dustrial accident board ordered the
Johannesburg Lumber company to pay
compensation to Mrs. Jessie Harring-
ton because her husband was killed
when struck by falling tree.
A message written with death near
by Chris keenan,, United States
marshal and custodian of the barge
Plymouth, who lost his life with six
others in the storm of November 8,
was found in a Bottle FIVE miles from
Pentwater. II was addressed TO his
washed ashore near Manistee.
Farmers in central Michigan will
be asked to stand q reduction of so
cents a ton for sugar beets over the
1910 says
Walt of the Lansing branch OF the
| Owosso Sugar Co. Secretary OF State
Martindale says the estimated yield
of sugar beets in the state this year
is 1851 tons. The crop in 1912
was $50, $50 tons.
Postmaster w. J. Smith, of Cadillac,
has received notice from the treasury
department at Washington that the
site of the proposed new postoffice
must be cleared within 80 days. 1t
is now occupied by a brick livery
barn. The site cost Cadillac people
$4,000 and the government has appro-
priated $4,000 for the building, which
will be of gray granite.
Gov. Ferris issued executive elem
ency to two prisoners. Melvin Kelly,
sentenced from Port Huron, Novem-
Der 10, 1910. to serve three to ten
years in Jackson for assault to rob,
was given a parole, to take effect No
vember 2S. James Butler, sentenced