The Yale expositor., 1915-06-24
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

bdDCOck, OF MlcnlBan, 10 De udIShai
of the consular court at Foo Chow,
China.
John Henning. %. was killed near
Mearle Beach when his motor car
overturned while he was attempting
to avoid a hog.
Freesoil, Mason county, voted Satur-
day to incorporate as a village, and
five commissioners were elected to
draft a village charter.
Twenty-four students graduated
from the Barry County Normal school
at the eleventh annual commence
ment exercises at Hastings.
Alice, 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Brewer, of Gains township,
is dead of injuries sustained when
she was crushed under a motor car.
Frank Harris, of Marcellus, was
killed in runaway accident, his neck
being broken when he was thrown
from the wagon. He was rs years
old.
At the annual consignment sale Of
the Michigan Holstein Breeders as
ISOLATION, held at Howell, 104 cattle
and several calves were sold. The
sales amounted to $20,050.
Atticus Woodruff, Sc, of Ypsilanti.
son Of the late veteran editor. Chas.
Woodruff, and a brother of Chas. M,
Marcus T. and Cass of Detroit, died
Friday in the hospital at Ann Arbor.
Word was received by friends in
Grand Rapids of the marriage of
Amos Musselman, Grand Rapids CAPT.
talist and former Republican candi-
date for governor, TO Mrs. Margaret
Burrell. of Washington.
Every sheriff in Michigan will
again be notified by me TO enforce the
state laws regarding prize fighting,
and If there are any more violations
of the law someone will have to an
swer for it," declared Gov. Ferris on
Wednesday, when asked regarding
the prize fight situation in Michigan.
Leaving the state hospital Tuesday
afternoon for a walk, Miss Jessie
Winters threw herself in front of a
train on the Grand Trunk railroad,
and was instantly killed. She had
been a patient at the institution for
ten years, having come from Detroit,
where she was formerly school
teacher.
Detroit's Official tax rate this year
is $23641 per thousand. This is an
increase of $3.96 per thousand over
last years rate. The total increase
in assessed valuation amounts to $685.
0S7,S5O, making the total assessed val
uation $554,3S2,2 $50. The total budget
which is to be raised by tax levy
amounts to $13, 106,1S739
Though she was shot by her older
brother, the little daughter of Roy
Harding, of Jackson, is none the
worse for it. The boy got hold of
small revolver and when it was acct
dentally discharged, the bullet entered
the child's nose, passed up the nos
tril without even breaking the skin,
and was swallowed by her.
Judge c. w. Sessions has announced
that Sept. has been agreed upon by
the court and attorneys for the final
hearing on the merits on the petition
of the Ann Arbor Railroad Co. to re-
strain the Michigan railroad commits
sion from enforcing the two-cent pas
senger rate law. Many railroads are
awaiting the decision of the case,
which will serve as precedent.
When thieves stole a team of work
horses from the barn of Henry Wal
lace, three miles north of Durand
they took the precaution to cut to
pieces every piece of harness in the
barn, so that Wallace could not drive
in pursuit of them. Saturday morn
ing the stolen team was found In a
swamp near Durand, where the
thieves had abandoned the animals.
A special election will be called
July Is to give Pontiac electors an
opportunity to vote on an electric
railway franchise, giving the Detroit,
Pontiac & Owosso Railway Co. the
right to enter the city from the west
COnHtCl Will INC iihCo Vi lhC H.
u. r. DR.. o. II. Lau says 1t is the
company's intention to build an cleo
trio line from Detroit to Grand Rap
ids.
The Michigan Association of the
Deaf closed its convention at Flint
Tuesday night with banquet at which
the speakers were l.. L. Wright, su-
perintendent of the M. s. d., Attorney
George w. Crook, and Frank e. Colet.
During the convention the member
ship of the association was more than
doubled. II was the largest conven-
ton of the deaf ever held in the
state.
Six bottles of morphine tablets,
valued at $50, were found at the Jack
son prison Friday while prisoners
we're cleaning out the attic of a shed.
Warden Simpson says the traffic In
dope, which fiourished at the prison
for many years, has been stamped out
and he believes the finding of these
bottles, covered with dust and with