The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-04-02
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

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Unionville has voted to bond the
village for $4,000 for an electric plant.
Capt Arthur c. Warren. of Company
!, of Ann Arbor has resigned. He
served in the Michigan National guard
for 20 years.
Mrs. c. C.. Miller. So, widow of one
of the oldest Circuit riders" in north
central Michigan, died Saturday morn
ing at her home in Cadillac.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
granary and 500 bushels of oats, along
with farm implements on the farm of
Rudolph Engel near Greenwood.
Bonding propositions to come up
in Huron county at spring election for
good roads are; Austin township,
$4,000; Caseville township, $4,000.
City officials, of Saginaw, have APP
pealed to the United States district
engineer TO have Saginaw river deep
ened to Is feet TO the head waters.
Judge Wisner has denied the petit
ton of William A. Garner that the
city Of Flint be restrained from pay
ing $1,000 for 16 voting machines.
A two-day meeting of the North
western Michigan Highway associa-
ton was held at Traverse City with
100 officers from 10 counties present.
Dean Karl Gutz. of the University
of Michigan. has been appointed by
President Wilson on a commission to
correlate research work in this coun-
try.
John Prue dropped dead when his
horse went through the ice in the
straits near st. Ignace. A stage COM
ing from Les Cheneaux found the
body and rescued the horse.
Class day honors have been an
nounced in part by the faculty at
Albion college. D. Stanley Coors, of
Bellevue, was named valedictorian,
and Miss Charlotte Johnson. of Gin
ton. salutatorian.
The state sanitarium board has pur-
chased 10 acres of land in Sanford.
Midland county. This will be merged
with 10 acres already given by that
county for the new sanitarium. Build
ing will be started soon.
Officers of the Michigan Farmers
Insurance Co. have been notified that
the supreme court has upheld the
decision of the circuit court judge law
that the company is liable to taxation
and must pay its back taxes to the
city of Yale.
Kennedy w. Saunders. deputy war
den at Jackson prison since the riot
ing in 1912, has resigned. w. H.
BORNE, special officer, has been APP
pointed deputy warden. Mr.. Saun-
ders will take up farming in Kala.
mazoo county.
Mrs. Catherine Josnson of Port
Huron was awarded $4,000 damages
against the Fidelity & Casualty Co.
She brought suit to recover on an
accident policy carried with the COM
pany by her son, Lawrence, who, she
alleges, lost his life as result of an
injury.
Luka Plez, a striking miner, who
has been at L'Anse, Baraga county on
the charge of having murdered Deputy
Sheriff Pollock, of Houghton county,
October %. was mound not guilty
Saturday. The case was transferred
TO Baraga county on change of
venue.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the lower court in award.
ing Henry Brush, Armada farmer,
$4,000 damages against the Grand
Trunk railroad for injuries suffered
when his team ran away. The horses
were frightened by box car which
projected into the highway.
The supreme court did not sustain
the circuit court in the case of David
Foley, of Toledo against the Detroit
& Mackinac railroad. Foley alleges
that a misunderstanding of the brake
mans call resulted in his leaving the
train at Twining instead Of Turner.
He then attempted to get back on the
lEdlu bub was ihJuAVus AAS was biNth
judgment of $4,000 in the circuit
court. The supreme court ordered
new trial.
Statistics at the Michigan Agricul-
tural college show that 40 per cent
Of the agricultural students return to
the farm and as per cent take posi-
tons for teaching agriculture in col
leges and high schools or engage In
agricultural experiment work.
A temporary injunction has been
issued restraining the Citizens Tele-
phone company of Cadillac. from rails
ing the rates to $50 and SIS. The
court has ordered the company to
show cause on April 20 why the in.
junction should not be issued. The
rates are now SIS and $24.