The Yale expositor., 1915-07-15
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

The state sanitary live stock COM
mission has ordered all cattle in Alger
be inspected for tuberculosis.
Earl Daniels, 16 years old. of Chi
cago, while visiting relatives at Glad
stone, was drowned Saturday after
noon in a contest in long diving.
The Ypsilanti Normal college sum-
mer enrolment has reached 1858,
breaking all records by 9S. OF these
221 are from other states, Is states
Canada being represented.
Hugo r. Delfs, chief of the fire de-
partment at Lansing for IL years and
a member OF the department for 20
years, and president of the National
Chiefs association, has resigned.
Cyrus Coon, OF Camden, rural mail
carrier, was shot and fatally wound
ed at o'clock Saturday night during
an alteration with E. Slaybaugh and
Guy Slaybaugh over the killing of
one of his chickens.
Seized with cramps while swim1
ming in the Kalamazoo river at
Saugatuck, George Eagle, of Milwau-
kee, 16 years old, an employee of the
steamer United States, was drowned.
The body was recovered.
Mrs. Edward r. Loud, OF Albion,
was reelected for the fourth time TO
the Office Of grand president of Alpha
Chi Omega, a national Greek letter
sorority. at the convention of the or
der held at Los Angeles.
Sheriff Clute and several deputies
Friday restored quiet at the Alton
stone quarries, near Cheboygan when
striking employees threatened and
stoned those who refused to walk out
in an effort to obtain higher wages.
No one was injured.
A new canning factory will be es-
tablished at Keller by Warden N. F.
Simpson of Jackson state prison and
his son, Nate Simpson, who manages
the wardens farms in Keller. The
business will be conducted under the
firm name of Simpson & Son.
The removal of A. ]. White & Sons
sawmil and the taking up of the
Crescent & Southeastern railroad
marks the passing of the village of
Crescent, North Manitou island, Mich,
which had been a hustling little lum-
bering town for several years.
The supreme court Wednesday fin
ished it's June term, hearing all of
the cases which were listed. In or
der to finish up the court began work
a half hour earlier than usual and ran
beyond the usual closing time. There
will be no more public sitting of the
court until September.
The annual report Of the public
domain commission filed with Gov
ernor Ferris Friday shows that Mich
igan has 592,416 acres of public lands.
The state owns 235,245 acres of for
est reserve lands, 6,482 acres of
swamp lands and 50,4S0 acres of ag-
ricultural college lands.
At least one high school in every
three in Michigan will offer courses in
elementary farming and gardening to
students during the coming year, ac-
cording to figures which have been
given out by Prof w. H. French,
head of the department of agricul-
tural education at NJ. A. c.
When his automobile turned tur-
tie near Sturgis Thursday, Charles
Callahan, a well known and retired
farmer, was instantly killed and the
Misses Mildred Foreman and Belle
Martin were injured. The accident oc-
Cured just outside of this city as the
party was returning from Constantine.
Lawrence Peltier, % years old, of
Marine City, was fatally injured Sun
day, when the automobile which he
was driving collided with a telegraph
pole. He lived but half an hour after
the accident. James Henshaw, who
was riding with him. sustained
broken arm. Skidding of the auto
caused the accident.
Following the decision of the Unit
ed States court upholding the Austin
company in its court fight with the
Cadillac Motor company, of Detroit,
over the two-speed axle, James E. and
Walter S. Austin will incorporate the
Austin Automobile company as $780,
900 concern and a $1,000,000 corpora
ton to build two-speed axles. The
Austin company is now partnership.
DR.. M. S. Gibbs has purchased Uni
versalist church and parsonage at
Marshall and will remodel the church
building into a hospital. The Univer-
salist church was erected in 1880 as
cost of $4,000 by Rev. w. T. Gibbs,
now of Concord, father of the pur-
chaser. No services have been held in
it for ten years. Only three members
of the congregation now reside in
Marshall.
In an opinion given Saturday Judge
Durham, of the superior court, stated
that the section of the Grand Rapids
city charter which provides for the
referendum of ordinances to popular