The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-18
: IN DETROIT

In LIE tNOt
The personal service league, in the "
VI. 4. A., MOnday evening, Will be
addressed ~ the Rev. Ernest Bonr-
ner Allen. OF Toledo.
Police have been asked 10 locate clark
Inman, "A brIeISIRyer. believed 90 be
working In Detroit, and notify him
that his wife h dying OF paralysis
In her home In Muskegon.
Funeral services for George Dunn, No
1871 BrOoklyn-RVe., were held THURS
day, Ia 81 Mary's Roman Catholic
church In Woodstock ont where
Mr.. Dunn was born and resided be-
fore coming 20 Detroit TO make his
home.
Intervention OF the federal court la
the affairs of the standard Electric
Car Co, OF Jackson. Mich. IN asked
In a petition filed by the stockhold-
ers 81 the company against the di-
rectors and officers. Charges are
made that the company has been
exploited for the persons gain OF
the directors
Harold Robinson. II years old. of No.
- Heeln-ave.. was captured by "a
Lyceum theater employe as he was
attempting TO drive away with an
auto owned by Alton n. Warner
manager OF the theateT. The youth
had In his pocket newspaper clip
ping telling OF his arrest four
Work ON Wayne county ronds viii he
started. Monday, when "a force OF 100
men, din ided into three gangs. Will
begin grading between Romulus and
Wyandotte on the Eureka, Dix and
Seven mile roads. The force Will he
Increased until, 10 il estimated. 800
men Will be in the employ OF the
apartment before the latter part OF
May.
Henry Mrock. "A porter I'm Joseph INO-
pitzskPs saloon az No. 2IO Grandy-
ave. smelled gas I'm the cellar OF the
saloon Friday evening. and went 70
Investigate lie lighted match
and other employees of the place
picked him up several feet from the
scene or his Investigations His face
and hands were badly burned and he
VAS sent TO 81 Mary's hospital,
Thirteen city and county officials of
Erie, Pa, spent Friday la Wayne
county inspecting the concrete roads
constructed here Commissioners Ed
ward y. Hines conducted the party
over the system. The members or
the party Informed Commissioners
Hines that the national pike in Ohio
would probably be constructed after
tho specifications adopted In Wayne
county
intendent OF construction, with an
office In the local federal building
has rendered his resignation to the
Washington authorities, MIR. Me-
GintxN has %An-Ihe- Service ~
Years and is being urged 70 remain
tn the emp' - r. We
new federal building IN Big nap,.5s
n ~ mtJnhcy- pIsRs orr o4efr1 4gsH ~c0ff2
tracing office in Detroit
william CobhIedick. 3s years old.
street fight AT Monroe-ave. and
Farmer-st,. early Thursday morning,
has been removed from ST Mary's
hospital TO his home in. ROYAL Oak.
- N
William Kline. policeman. = George
Whitman, and Charles kaul, news
boys. have all admitted that they
were present when Cobbledick was
struck, Maurice Miller refuses 10
make any admissions.
Scores OF shoppers had narrow escapes
from injury or death Friday after
noon when a runaway horse attach
al 10 one OF the J. L. Hudson Co, de-
livery wagons. dashed through the
crowds at Gratiot and Farmersts
/ narrowly missing many shoppers, \
man leaped for the bits of the horse
and managed TO swerve the animal
slightly, IL crashed into plate
window or the Liggett drug store.
Many men ieaped on the PROSTATE
horse and held Ii down
DIR. 4. Gideon. OF the University Of
Wyoming. I'm an address before the
principals in the Central high school.
fed spelling in the Detroit schools.
lie told OF the work of the simplih ed
X,
that between 10000 and 10000 words
have been simplined The new spell
ing has been Endorsed. said l)r.
Gideon by the state superintendent
OF a half dozen states. Postpone
ment Of action, he declared Is keep
ing the regents OF the University OF
Michigan from adopting the system.
Detectives Collins and GIinsky are
Frank Horn, OF Napoleon. O., who
came 70 Detroit, month ago, with
$1,000 In his pockets. intending TO
buy store and locate here, and who
dropped from sight after paying a
deposit OF $500 on the confectionery
store OF Arnold ilartz, No. 1908
had been F0oming-on Fourteenth
ave near Grand River, but he has
not been seensthere since negotlat-
Ing the deal for the candy store, and
his effects have been removed from
the house
Harrison SadIer, No. no Baker-st. this
city aud Frank SadIer, of Tarentum,
Pa brothers. who had not heard Of
each other in 20 years; were brought
into communication, Friday, through
letters and will shortly visit one an
other. Frank Sadler was adopted
by a Pennsylvania family when five
years old. and thought himself a
member OF the family until he ac-
Cidentally happened upon birth cer-
tihcates OF himself and his brother
Harrison. lie Immediately began a
search for Harrison and located him
in Detroit. This may De the itfSt
step in reuniting our family said
Harrison Sadler Friday evening
FOR have dim recollection that
We had a sister
Mrs. u. II. Ashbnugh. president of the
Federation of WOmcn's Clubs, APP
peared before the council committee
on charter and city legislation Fri
day afternoon 10 urge a change in
the proposed amendment for a rec
reatlonal commission. She suggested
increasing the commission to 10
members by providing for the APP
pointment- Of at least one woman on
the commission. James ID. May civil
service commissioner, asked that
amend ments he submitted changing
the civil service provisions so that
salaries could be given the commits
sioners by the common council. and
also so the pay Of the secretary
could be raised with the approval %
the commission and the council
DetrOIt's parcel post shipments have
shown "a phenomenal Increase dur
ing the past six months, according
10 Postmaster Nagel The figures on
careful count OF all parcels hand
led from April ] TO l5 viii he made
public by the postmaster In a day OF
two This count was taken under
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