The Yale expositor., 1914-10-22
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS.

iutOuplt Outll, %, was Instantly
killed by his own gun while crawling
through a fence near Roscommon.
Stephen Thinker, tender of the
Grand Trunk bridge at Ferrysburg,
fell out of his boat and was drowned.
Martin Hoisenga, wealthy farmer
near Cadillac, died Monday, the result
of being kicked in the head by horse.
The survivors of the First Michigan
Engineers and Mechanics held their
annual reunion at Charlotte Thursday.
A dividend of Is per cent will be
paid to the creditors of the defunct
Jossman bank of Charleston in No
vember.
Eaton county will vote on local OPP
ton next spring. Eaton county has
voted on this question more than any
county in the state.
The Leelanau county supervisors
have voted an appropriation of $500
for the use of the western Michigan
development bureau for 1915.
The supervisors of Delta county
have decided that hereafter all coun-
ty Jail prisoners will be used in build
ing and repairing county roads.
The 100000 bond issue for good
roads in st. Clair county which was
defeated last spring will be resub-
mitted to the voters in April.
The Genesee county supervisors
have purchased 14-acre tract OF land
and will establish a cement and tile
works, where county prisoners will be
employed.
Andrew Leppa was killed and John
He'll seriously injured when the lat
ter lost control of his motor and it
dove into Powder creek. near Besse-
mer. Three others escaped with slight
hurts.
Travelling statesmen have petitioned
the Pere Marquette to run the new
motor car through to Port Austin in
stead of stopping it at Bad Axe for
five hours before returning to Port
Huron.
The water commissioners of Flint
have recided on a new schedule of
rates, higher than those now in force.
The raise is necessitated by the in
creased expense in running the new
filtration plant.
John Reigle, superintendent of the
Linden schools, was Saturday elected
by the Genesee board of supervisors
to succeed Horace +. Potter, who re-
Gently resigned as county superinten-
dent of schools
Albion's special election Monday to
choose a charter revision commission
resulted in the election of Homer G.
Blair, A. +. Cooper, Frank ]. Simon.
DR.. F. T. Carlton, Henry Keck, DR..
Delos Fall and DR.. Geo. c. Hafford.
William Komloro, %. an Italian sec
ton hand, was struck by Michigan
Central passenger train at Ann Arbor
and instantly killed. He attempted
to get out OF the way of freight train
and stepped in front of the passenger.
Paul MOTTO, of Chelsea while duck
hunting, used his shotgun as a ham
mer in repairing a defective oarlock,
and when the shock of the blow dis
charged the weapon, the charge en-
tered Noto's heart, causing instant
death.
Announcement was made Saturday
of the sale of the Pontiac Daily Press
Gazette, owned by Harry Coleman, to
Howard II. Fitzgerald, George II.
Gardner and Harry Y. Fitzgerald,
former owners and managers of the
Flint Daily Journal.
The board of supervisors voted to
submit the proposition of creating a
county board of three auditors to the
electors of Genesee county at the
November election. If the proposition
carries, the auditing of all bills
against the county will pass from the
supervisors to the new board.
Lawton T. Hemans, state railroad
commissioner, made the principal ad-
dress Saturday afternoon at the un-
yelling of the monument at Eagle Riv-
er to DR.. Douglass Houghton, scien-
fist and explorer, who made the first
survey of t. copper district in 1874
and was the first state geologist.
Deputy Sheriff Wyman, of Dexter.
handcuffed a man who was found
stealing merchandise from a freight
car, and then left the man in charge
OF farmer while he went to Ann Ar
Dor to get a warrant for him. While
he was away, the man escaped, taking
with him Wyman's new handouts.
Thomas Murphy will serve six
months in the county Jail at Kalama-
zoo instead of two years in Jackson
prison because he revealed to officers
Jail delivery plot. Murphy, who
pleaded guilty to picking pockets,
heard a number of prisoners planning
on getting out. His tip stopped the
plan.
Joseph Short, a private detective,
has started suit against the Pere Mar
quette railroad for twenty-five thous-
ond dollarc damaOaa for In iuriae said