The Yale expositor., 1914-09-17
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


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+. w. Speer of Houghton has been
elected vice-president of the American
mine safety association.
A special election will be held in
Albian October II to elect commits
sioners to revise the city charter
The city commission of Port Huron
has raised the salaries of the police
and fire department employees s. a
month.
Vincent Vandyke, infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Vandyke, of Muskegon,
fell in pail of boiling water and died
several hours later.
The Michigan grand lodge of the
Knights of Pythias, in session at
lspheming selected Saginaw as the
place for next years meeting.
Thomas Proctor farmer near Car
! sonville, was struck by a wagon drawn
by team of runaway horses and in
stantly killed. He was Go years of
age.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Sturgeon said to be
the oldest woman in Michigan, is dead
near Muskegon at the age of 107 years
months and Is days, death following
general decline.
Attorney General Fellows holds that
saloons must close only until after
the polls close on a general or local
primary day. On regular election days
they must close all day.
Within day after he came to Kali
amaZoo from his home in Jackson TO
work in the Michigan Central yards,
Frank Daugherty was caught between
cars and fatally injured.
Grand Trunk railroad ticket agents
have received orders to sell no more
tickets for passage through Canada to
foreigners whose mother countries
are involved in war against Great
Britain.
Mrs. Lillian Hall, of Jackson, is
dead, and her husband, James Hail. is
seriously i'll as a result of mushroom
poisoning. Their little girl is reported
to have escaped the effects of the
deadly toadstools.
Helen Brown, IS, daughter of Joseph
Brown, was instantly killed Wednes-
day night when motor car driven by
Henry Hasley, jr., of Carleton, turned
turtle while rounding a corner. Mr..
Hasley was seriously injured.
John Botbyl, Jr., IS years old, Of
Grand Haven, died from a broken
seat of his dray. He is believed to
have tainted before the fall. He was
married and has several children.
The tents and other accessories of
the Thumb District Fair association
have been seized to satisfy a judg-
ment recently rendered by the circuit
court. Adverse weather conditions
are blamed for the failure of the fair
this year
Albert Armstrong, who has a sum-
mer cottage at Woodhulls landing, on
Long lake, near Fenton, has purchased
a Curtiss' aeroplane. The machine,
which weighs $3.50 pounds and car
ries two passengers, arrived Saturday
morning from Hammondsport, n. Y.
Joseph Wallraff, who was arrested
in St Paul and brought to Kalama-
zoo on suspicion of having been i'm
plicated in the Staying OF Hal Davis
seven years ago, will be turned over
to Joliet, H., officers, who want him
for breaking a parole. Not enough
evidence to warrant holding him could
be gathered
One million five hundred thousand
bushels Of wheat were marketed in
Michigan during August, according to
the crop bulletin issued by Secretary
OF State Martindale. The average
estimated yield OF wheat In the state
is 1884 bushels per acre, while the
quality, as compared to the average,
is "a in the state
The Saginaw Pure Ice Co. was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000 and put
out of commission, and several fire.
men we're overcome, early Saturday
morning, when ammonia pipes burst
driven back and couldn't get into the
building until the ammonia fumes
were dlssipated.
With reports partially in, the board
of directors of the West Michigan
state fair which closed at Grand Rap
ids Monday, faces a deficit of from
| $4,000 to $4,000. Chances for a fair
next year are decidedly slim as it is
known that the fair last year was a
financial loss, with gate receipts al
most twice those of this year.
Judge Clarence w. Sessions, in fed
eral court, has appointed George b.
Pulfer, of Kalamazoo, and Max, Berg,
of New York City, city receivers for
the Kalamazoo Corset company, oper-
ating principally in Kalamazoo and
conducting a large branch in Daven-
port, la. The action leading to .ae APP
pointment of the receivership was
voluntary on the part of the creditors
and the defendant company.
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