The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-04-04
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Hillsdale Gavaris, proprie-
tor of the Star cafe, was acquitted on
a charge Of selling adulterated milk.
East Lansing The Michigan Agri-
cultural college will graduate 80 men
In June who will be competent to
teach agriculture.
| Allegan.-As result of striking gu
pervisor Silas Lowe. for assessing him
for his dog, William Bremen was
fined SIS and ten days imprisonment
Albion. = Complaining Of feeling
tired after cleaning the snow
from his walk. William Hastings,
eighty-four years old, local Civil war
veteran and retired farmer. dropped
dead.
Standish-An examination for the
position as postmaster at Turner,
this county, will be held at Bay
City, Saturday, April IA. The
office pays s943. The vacancy was
caused by the resignation of Gus
Fuehr.
Menominee.-A bell procured for
his church at Banat by the eff
forts of Thomas LIGHTER, tolled for
the first time at LIGHTERS funeral.
LIGHTER was killed in hunting acct
dent.
Hillsdale.-Emmet Irwin, nineteen
years old, was sentenced to from
one to five years at Ionia for steal
ing a certificate Of $40 and $23.75 in
money from his roommate, Grover
Starlight Both came here from
Geneva. Ind.
Kalamazoo. = Thomas Kane, the
wealthy Colon farmer, who after
being arrested was found to have
| $1,000 in cash in his pockets, pleaded
guilty to a minor offense in court and
paid fine of So. officers found money
in nearly every pocket
Saginaw.-W w. Thompson died
in a local hotel under suspicious
circumstances. He was an adver.
Using solicitor and came here from
Detroit six weeks Ego. His home, 1t is
believed, was In Montgomery, Ala. He
Is said to have been behind in his finan-
cial reports.
Grand Rapids.-A dispatch from
Carson City says: Col. c. II.
Morse, state labor commissioner IN
der Governor Rich, and prominent in
Michigan politics for many years, IN
dead, following a stroke of paralysis.
He was seventy-fve years old and
served in the Civil war in the Third
Michigan cavalry.
Grand Rapids. - After escaping
with his life from fire which
all but destroyed the home of Mrs.
Jennie Wilson. John Labody was ar
rested charged with being intoxicated
According to Mrs. Wilson, Labody
went to her home, built fire in
stove and then went to bed. The stove
became overheated and set fire to the
home.
Monroe.-Dr. Orrin J. Fay. fifty
years old, for the last rs years
a practicing physician of the viii
lage of Carleton, arrested on CON-
plant Of Sheriff George Renner on
the charge of cruelty to horses, pleaded
guilty in justice court and was sen.
fenced by Judge Berthelot to the De.
troit house of correction for Go days,
1t is alleged Fay virtually starved
his horse to dea:h.
Alpena. William Weldon saved Hit
wife and three children from death
by lowering them through a win,
dow when their house caught fire.
Mr.4Weldon was aroused by the smell
of smoke, and rushing out of his bed
room, with his small son, he left him
with his wife, and the other children
while he went to investigate the Gauss
Of the fire. He had hardly returned Is,
the bedroom where his wife and chill
dren were when the roof of the build,
ing caved in, blocking the hallway. Alr
escaped in their aight clothes.
Adrian.-The block system averteu
a wreck on the Lake Shore q
Michigan Southern when the draw.
bar of freight pulled away eli
route from Cadmus to Adrian. The
brakes on the rear end set and the
fdrepart of the train was drawn into
Adrian. In the meantime the rear
cars remained on the main line. Fast
mail train No. 80 was between Hills
dale and Cadmus at the time. 1t was
then that the block signal worked al
the fast mail was not allowed to leave
Cadmus until the freight reached
Adrian. The mail is not supposed to
make any stops between Hillsdale and
Adrian.
Alpena.-After forcing their waS
through three miles of heavy ice,
Capt. George Written and three
companions from the fishing tug Fan
ME A., who were forced to abandon
their craft in Thunder bay and take to
a ten-foot yawl, succeeded in reaching
a small uninhabited island. Half
frozen and almost exhausted tire men
started bonfire, around which they
huddled until they were rescued by q
tug and brought back to this port.
With Captain Written were Engineer
Frank Morley. Frank Hoppe and John
Cameron. They had taken Captain
Bennett, lightkeeper on Thunder Bay
island, to his post and on their return
trip the tug was caught in the ice.
Lake City.-Eugene Wellington.