The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-03-26
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF :

Fire destroyed the greenhouse OF
Frederick H. Stevens at Saginaw. The
loss is $4,000.
Frank I. Door. OF Hainesville. has
been appointed a teacher in the Sante
Re. N. M, Indian school.
Fire in the Peter Lafrance furniture
store at Bay City did about $4,000
damage TO store and goods.
The Muskegon Trades and Labor
council has issued an appeal to local
union men to donate clothing for the
Calumet strikers.
After lively contest, in which FIVE
citizens engaged. John Brewer has
been nominated for the appointment
as postmaster at Inlay City.
City officials. Of Saginaw, have APP
pealed to the United States district
engineer to have Saginaw river deep
cned to Is feet to the head waters.
Congressman Cramton delivered
an address on Railways and Water
Transportation" at the annual banquet
of the business men at Port Huron.
Atty-Gen. Fellows holds that cities
of the fourth class have the right to
regulate by ordinance the closing
hours OF pool rooms and billiard halls.
The residence of VIM. Burns. of
Burns, was burned to the ground
when fire of an unknown origin gain.
ed great Roadway before being dis
, covered.
Roy Malmann was elected president
of the Upper Peninsula Older Boys
Y. M. c. A. society which is meeting
at Escanaba. About 400 delegates
are present
Col. M. NJ Patrick, chief OF govern
ment engineers at Detroit, has given
approval of an Is instead of a 16-foot
channel in the Saginaw river from
Genesee bridge south.
A proposition submitted to the town
ship voters at Kinde for the erection
Of a new city hall carried by a vote
of 43 to 6, and work will start on the
new structure this spring.
Mary Petoskey, granddaughter of
Chief Petoskey, is dead at Petoskey
at the age of Al. She. with her sis
ter and uncle, were the only direct
descendants of the famous Chippewa
ruler.
The state railroad commission has
given the Michigan e. Chicago Rail-
way Co. permission to change it's
name to the Michigan Railway Co.
The company plans to circle the state
with electric lines.
! William Christensen, % years old,
of Escanaba, brakeman on the Chi
cago e. Northwestern railway. was
killed Friday night when he was i'm
paled on the coupling between two
cars at Quinnesec, near Iron Noun.
tain, Mich.
The Eastern Michigan Power COM
pany has paid the state $1,000 for
gravel taken from state lands in Ros-
common county. The state trespass
agents reported TO Lansing that the
corporation had taken about 10000
cubic feet of gravel.
Because of the excellent showing
made by the municipal light and wa
ter plant, at Hillsdale, the board of
public works recommended that ST.
600 in light bonds, falling due on
May /, be paid, and the council has
approved the request.
Thos. Miller. little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos Miller, south of Adrian,
awoke at IL o'clock at night to find
the air filled with smoke. He arous-
ed six other members. of the house
hold, who escaped with him. The
house was destroyed.
There will be a state conference of
the National Progressive party In
Lansing, April 2. The call was issu-
ed by Secretary Hoffman, of the state
central committee, Saturday. Con-
gressmen Woodruff and Mcdonald
are expected to attend.
In the vest OF Peter Jensen Of Green
Vile was found $4,000 after his death.
Eight nephews and nieces will share
in the estate Michigan will receive
$500 Inheritance tax.
The state sanitary live stock com
mission is gathering data on which
to base a request to the next legis
lature to pass a law whereby a west
ern horse carrying a brand cannot
be shipped into the state without
being examined for CHAMBERS. Many
horses in Arenac and Mecosta coun
ties are said to be afflicted with this
disease.