The Yale expositor., 1915-01-28
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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Albion has been promised a new
theater in the spring or early summer,
by c. F. Beach, of Battle Creek.
For the first time since the hoof
and mouth disease was discovered last
fall, Lenawee county is entirely free
of quarantine restrictions.
Felix Wagner, convicted of helping
two Chinese cross the border at Sault
Ste. Marie, has been sentenced to Is
months at Leavenworth prison.
While on the way to his sisters fu-
neral, Rev. E. V. Armstrong, of Kala-
mazoo, was stricken with apoplexy
and died in a Chicago hospital.
The jury at Jackson in the case of
Charles NJ. Jaquish, charged with at
tempting to slay his son, Percy, dis
agreed after being out six hours.
For the first time in the 35 years
she has been a teacher in Adrian
schools, Miss May B. Patch was abb
sent Monday. Illness was the cause.
The home of Matt Kelly at Strongs,
Chippewa county, was destroyed by
fire and his two children, aged Is
months and years, were burned to
death.
The Frankfort Grain Co.'S mill
burned to the ground Saturday morn
ing. The loss is $4,000, partly in
sured The origin of the fire is un-
known.
Live stock in Michigan is valued at
$1S4,913, according to figures compil-
ed by c. F. Schneider section direc-
tor of the department of agriculture
at Grand Rapids.
Albion college sophomore team lost
in a debate with the sophomores from
Beloit college at Albion Friday night
by vote of two to one. The question
discussed was the government owner
ship of the telegraph and telephone.
President F. w. McNair, of Michi-
gan College of Mines, Houghton Sat
urday announced that the legislature
would be asked for an appropriation
of $154,780 for maintenance and spec
ial purposes this year. For mainten-
ance s64,345 is wanted.
The contract for four and a quarter
miles of concrete road connecting
Birmingham with the similar road
now laid on Woodward avenue from
Detroit through Royal Oak was let
Saturday afternoon by the Oakland
county road commissioners.
Fire starting from an overheated
stove in a room where cotton batting
is kept, on the third floor of Seitner
Bros building, Saginaw, spread over
two business blocks and three stores
and caused damage, mostly by water,
estimated at about 100000 here Thurs
day afternoon.
Mrs. August STANCE, OF Vassar, was
bruised and injured and scores of pas
sengers were imperiled when train
No. 20S, on the Detroit-Bay City di-
vision of the Michigan Central, crash
ed into the rear end of an extra
freight on bridge 20 feet above Clin-
ton river near Utica Wednesday.
William Sides, So, liveryman, re-
siding near Elmire, who inflicted ia
tai injuries upon his son during a
quarrel on November 22, Wednesday,
was found guilty Of manslaughter by
a circuit court jury at Gaylord. Evi-
dence was introduced regarding Ill
feeling said to have existed between
father and son.
Fire Thursday night destroyed the
plant of the Metal Products Co., west
of Battle Creek with a probable loss
of $25,000. Although the plant was
outside city limits the motor equip
ment from the fire department went
to the scene, but could only watch
the factory burn as there was no
available water.
Normal college representatives for
the state oratorlcal contest at Alma,
March 5, chosen at Ypsilanti Friday
night are: Eva r. Aren't, Coloma, sub
jject "The Sport of Kings" with Flor
ence Tenant, Carson City, alternate;
Glenn Smith, Ypsilanti, THE Public
and the Criminal" with Elwood Stan
berry, Deerfield, alternate.
Carl Wiederhoft, an Augusta town
ship farmer, was run over by an in
terurban car in this city Saturday and
so badly injury that he died at night.
He had boarded the car, but when his
hat was blown off he leaped to the
ground to recover it. In trying to
board the car again after It had start
ed he slipped and fell under the
wheels.
Driven out into the cold by the
burning of their house, Mrs. Chris
Christensen and her three little chill
dren, living near Boon, had to walk a
mile through the snow clad only in
their night clothes with the thermo-
meter at zero to reach the nearest
neighbors house. The toes of two of
the children we're frozen and all are
in serious condition.