The Yale expositor., 1915-07-08
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

sVNeHty-SlA STUDENTS are Registered lOi
the University of Michigan summer
school.
Jitney bus service at Grand Rapids
has been susIgnded pending court
action to test the ordinance which
went into effect Thursday.
Louis Geirsbach, As. Bay City
carpenter who fell four stories
sustaining a fractured skull, is report
ed to have a fair chance to live.
Battle Creek citizens are maintain
ing in their homes for two weeks AZ
children from the slums of Chicago
brought there by DR.. William c.
Henderson.
Bob" M. w. Clark, for more than
30 years a drayman at Albion, was
struck by a freight car while cross.
ing the Michigan Central tracks,
Thursday, and his body was so badly
mangled that he died later in the city
hospital. He is survived by a widow
and one daughter.
Jennie Sutton and John Drahim, of
Lansing, were drowned in Grand river
late Thursday afternoon, when a Ca
noe in which they were riding was
overturned. Howard Koon and Mar
garet Sanburn, riding in the same
canoe, were saved. The four attempt
ed to chance seats.
The supreme court Wednesday fin
ished its June term, hearing all OF
the cases which were listed. In or
der to finish up the court began work
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, 6,4S2 acres of
swamp lands and 5O,4SO acres of ag-
ricultural college lands.
When his automobile turned tur-
tie near Sturgis Thursday, Charles
| Callahan, well known and retired
farmer, was instantly killed and the
Misses Mildred Foreman and Belle
Martin were injured The accident &C.
Cured just outside of this city as the
party was returning from Constantine.
Two Holland men and a Chicagoan,
with a moving picture photographer,
will soon begin a trip around the
world in a 96-foot gasoline launch.
Joseph Jesiek and Richard Lantman
are the Holland boys. c. S. Colgrove,
of Chicago, and engine designer, will
accompany them. The motion picture
photographer has not been chosen.
A new 100000 corporation, the
Eagle ottawa Leather Co., has taken
over the Eagle tanning works, at
Whitehall and the Ottawa Leather
Co., at Grand Haven, and will oper-
ate both plants, manufacturing auto
mobile leather. Chicago, Milwaukee,
Grand Rapids and Grand Haven men
are interested in the new company.
John V. Hurley, deputy collector Of
internal revenue for the district of
northeastern Michigan, which includes
II countries, reports an increase in
the amount of taxes collected during
the fiscal year closed June 80, Of
S142, 931.62 over the preceding year.
The amount collected from July l.,
1914, to June 80, 1915, inclusive, was
1882, 1888.
Mrs. Myra B. Jordon, dean of wom-
en- at the University of Michigan, has
been promoted to a full professorship
in the university and her salary in
creased to $4,000. Mrs. Jordon was
appointed woman's dean, with no 9TH
err title than that, in 1902. She is
the Oldest dean of woman, barring
in any state university in the United
States.
Reports from federal departments
show Detroit already to be ranking
third among the export centers of the
country and that the commerce of
the Detroit river is the greatest in
volume of any city OF the country.
Detroit's export trade alone, 1t is
said, will be shown to be upwards
OF $15O,O00,00O per annum, and her
domestic trade of infinitely greater
proportions.
o. l.. Hindebrandt, of Lansing, was
reelected president, and Battle Creek
was chosen as the 1916 meeting place
at the closing session of the eighth
annual convention of the Michigan
Federation of Typographical Unions
at the state convention in Muskegon.
other officers chosen we're: Vice
president, c. B. Waddell. Grand Rap
ids; secretary-treasurer, c. ID. ANA
don, Port Huron.
The state Wednesday collected
through the attorney-general's Office
in lump sum $1S,4OO inheritance
tax, the largest tax fee ever collected
during the administration of Attor-
ney-General Fellows, although larger
LII n.