The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-04-18
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Heart failure caused death.
Detroit.-Production and delivery
of beer manufactured by Detroit
breweries was practically stopped by
strike of 1900 brewery employees
| working In the various plants.
| Ann Arbor.-The board of direc-
tors OF the University School of
Music announced that they had Sc
cured Theodore Harrison Of Philadel-
| phia to succeed Prof. William Rowland
as head Of the vocal department. Pro-
fessor Rowland recently resigned and
will go to Detroit to open studio.
Saginaw. Rev. Wilbur Nelson.
| former pastor OF the First Baptist
church of Saginaw and now holding a
| similar position in Connellsville, Pa,
has recovered his speech. Several
months ago Rev. Mr.. Nelson lost his
voice He came here and recovered
| from his affliction.
Boyne City.-Lucy Fineout, sixteen
year-old school girl, committed sui
| eide at the Evangeline district
school by taking poison. The motive
is said to be because she quarreled
| with young man OF the neighbor-
| hood, whom she had been recently
keeping company with. He took out
another girl.
Adrian.-Sitting straight up in bed.
with a cup of coffee in one hand
and a piece OF toast in the other,
George Rising. an inmate Of the county
home, was found dead by Superintend-
ent Youngs. Being bent almost double
from the effects of rheumatism, and
unable to do manual labor, Rising. for
the past few years, has sold shoe
strings about the city for living.
Pontiac.-Miss Chloe Crofoot a
local newspaper woman, has been
chosen head OF the Oakland Coun-
ty Equal Suffrage association. Other
officers elected for the year were:
First vice-president, Mrs. Fred
Bailey; second vice-president, Mrs. ].
l.. Sibley; corresponding secretary,
Miss Ella Smith; recording secretary,
Miss Cora Bailey, and treasurer, Mrs.
Harry Coleman.
Pontiac.-Orders from Adjt. Gen.
r. C. Vandercook, Michigan Ma
tional Guard, are to the effect that
Capt d.. l.. Kimball has again been
placed in command Of Company + of
the Third regiment, NJ. N. G., stationed
in this city. Captain Kimball will sue
coed Victor N. Dumas of Detroit, who
has been in charge of the company
since July. Captain Kimball will take
charge Of the company at once and
| q ~ 70 f,tlI
strength.
Saginaw.-Herman Whalin. charged
with stealing chickens, was SEN
fenced to Jackson to serve from
one and half to five years and Cliff
ford Scrimshaw. convicted of the same
offense as an accomplice of Whalin's.
got six months to five years in the De-
troit house of correction. Jesse Til
lotson, convicted of the charge OF
abandonment, was sentenced to serve
from one and half to three years in
Jackson.
Bay City.-Mrs. Mary William,
full-blooded Chippewa Indian, be-
lieved to be the oldest resident OF
Bay county, died at her home In In
diantown, Bangor township, at the age
of one hundred and three. She came
TO Bay county when 1t was a wilder
ness more than sixty years ago. Her
first husband was William Aubwa-
coaum who died some years ago, at
the age of ninety years. The woman
lived under the name of her first hus-
band
Lansing-The supreme court al
firmed the decision of the indus
trial accident board in the case Of
Mrs. Lydia Rayner of Grand Rapids VS..
the Sigh Furniture company. The
woman will receive $1,S66 compensa-
ton. Rayner was employed by the
Sigh company, and was running to
punch the time clock when he collided
with another workman, and suffered
injuries resulting In his death The
company refused payment on the
ground that Rayner was not perform.
ing his regular duty.
Escanaba.-Two masked men forced
Edward Anderson, station agent for
the 500 line at Gladstone, to
open the station safe and turn over to
, them it's contents, amounting to $3.50.
Several persons sat in the waiting
, room adjoining while the robbery was
, being carried out in the private oiiice.
, and were not aware Of the crime until
after the bandits escaped When An
, derson returned to his Office he was
met by masked man. who thrust a
; revolver against his side and pointed
, to the safe which belonged to the
: Western Express company, Not a
word was spoken, the robber indicat-
. Ing by signs what he wanted. II is be-
, lieved one OF the robbers was the lone
, bandit" who robbed the 500 line sta
ton here three times recently, obtain
, ing 5000. Sheriff Curran and posse
. OF citizens are searching for the
[ bandits.
/ st. Clair--Capt. Willis w. Stew
! art, former prominent shoe mer-
chant OF this place, was found dead on
/ the Summerville grounds by w. M.
: Barron. Heart trouble was the cause
of death. He was sixty-eight years old