The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-12-17
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

NJ. A. c. students are furnished
meals at daily cost of 81 IL cents,
college clubs report.
Miss zelie Emerson. noted militant
suffragette, has returned 60 her home
in Jackson from London, England.
Forty members of the Oakland Bar
association rendered a complimentary
banquet at Pontiac to Aaron Perry,
president of the organization for 10
years.
Store building occupied by John
Muss' grocery store, Alex. Gillespie's
shoe store and the postofice were de-
stroyed Friday night at Hanover With
loss of $4,000
Jesse Parks, of Greenville, Monday,
was accidentally shot while hunting
near Sheridan, by George Harrington;
death resulting almost instantly. He
leaves a widow and baby.
Donald Mckenzie, 16 years old, of
Yale, is dead as a result of a fall of
20 feet from a tree. He was climbing
to get a squirrel he had shot that had
become lodged when he lost his hold.
Lewis Wager, of Lima Center, who
died recently, willed the residue of his
estate, estimated at $4,000, to Wash
tenaw county for the erection of a
county house. The will was probated
Saturday
A strict prohibition against all
horses entering Sarnia from Port HUI
ron has been posted because of the
hoof and mouth disease. This action
will stop shipments of army horses
intended for Europe.
The proposition of granting the
Flint Electric company a franchise to
furnish electricity for power and light
for Mt. Morris was carried Saturday
by vote of 100 to 2. Thirty-seven
women taxpayers voted.
The state board of pardons, acting
as a board Of transfer, Saturday or
dered 20 prisoners sent from Mar
quette is only SO while there are $40
prisoners there. No lifers or long
termers were transferred.
After contest over the legality of
the petition presented to the board
of supervisors of Sanilac county by
the wet" forces, the board has de-
cided to submit the local option ques-
tion at the spring election.
The first of the county organiza-
tions in Michigan to promote improved
conditions for growing and marketing
beans, was launched at Saginaw Tues
day under the name of the Saginaw
County Bean Growers association.
Harvey Snow. aged 81, was drowned
his brother Herbert and Wallace
Meyers and Joseph Grimes, all of the
Canadian 500, had narrow escapes
when they broke through the ice in
Echo bay Saturday morning. The
men were on a hunting trip.
After being i'll but few days with
typhoid pneumonia, Joseph Adams,
who originated "Carnation day" in
honor of the memory of President
William Mckinley, is dead at his
home in Kalamazoo. Mr.. Adams
served as city treasurer for two years.
Judge O'Brien. Saturday morning,
at Houghton, sentenced the three
men convicted of second degree
murder as a result of a robbery in a
roadhouse, Aug. IS. Dominick Loca-
ria was given 10 years and Giuseppe
Ombrelli and Nick Ricci seven years
each.
Mrs. T. L. Dorr, of Saginaw, has
received a telegram from her son-in-
law, Victor Won Borosini, that he is
a prisoner of war at Southampton,
Eng. He spent much of his time in
Saginaw, but at the outbreak of war
offered his services to the German
army and for some time has been un-
heard of.
Joseph Kosecki, on trial at Bay
City on the charge of Staying his wife,
was convicted in the second degree
Saturday afternoon, the jury being
out one hour and half. Kosecki
was placed on trial exactly a month
after the crime was committed. Emo
tional insanity was the chief reliance
of the defense, which also brought
in "unwritten law" features.
John c. Davies, a municipal owner
ship advocate of Saginaw, has started
a petition to have the council provide
special election Feb. % to vote on
bond issue of $$75O,OOO for an cleo
trio lighting plant and distribution
system. He wants 2,10O signatures or
over % per cent of the last vote. I'm
der the new charter, providing for a
referendum. it will be mandatory for
the council to call az election.
Two hundred men were thrown out
of work and the engine house and the
tipple of the Shiawassee coal mine I'm
jamestown. Saginaw county, was Gam.
aged $4,000 by a fire of unknown
origin. William Golden, engineer. and
Earl Bussinger. fireman, discovered
the fire and worked in the boiler room