The Yale expositor., 1915-04-29
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

States Marshal to succeed William
Ross.
Superintendent Earle b. Engle, A.
NJ, Of Ann Arbor, has been appointed
superintendent of school at Harbor
Beach to succeed /. F. King.
Gov. Ferris has appointed Rt. Rev.
Frank A. OBrien, of Kalamazoo, as a
member of the Michigan historical
commission for the term ending May,
| 1921.
Hunt as head of the domestic science
department of the NJ. A. c. has been
accepted by the state board of agri-
culture.
A heavy iron statue in the yard at
the home of Fred Anderson, at Port
Huron, toppled over, crushing to death
his daughter, Isabella Anderson, two
years old.
Fires lighted by caretakers to burn
dead grass caused the destruction of
the new horse sheds at the county
fair grounds at Sandusky. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
Through the efforts of his sister,
Earl Eadle, of Muskegon, convicted
of holding up and shooting at John
Wellman, a farmer, October 5, 1910,
has been granted a parole by Gov
ernor Ferris.
DR.. Charles A. Walsh, one of the
founders of Harper hospital, Detroit,
is dead at Bay City. He was one of
the Oldest physicians in Bay City and
was a prominent Mason. His widow
and two sons survive.
The legislative investigation of the
alleged slush fund a few weeks ago
cost the state of Michigan approx
mately $400. Vouchers are being
drawn for the payment of the wit
nesses and the stenographers fees.
The common council of Cheboygan
has overruled Mayor Rittenhouse's
veto in the matter of issuing saloon
licenses and settled the dispute by
granting an additional license, making
the total number IA instead of 10, the
for.
A cOroner's jury in the case of Cecil
Cogsdill and his daughter, Harriet,
who were killed when a Detroit Uni
ted railway car struck their automo-
bile Sunday night near Redford, Satur-
day returned a verdict that father and
child had come to their death by ac-
cident.
Mrs. Emma Garland, of Bay City,
received a verdict of $4,000 damages
in her suit for $4,000 against the
Michigan Central railroad. She and
others were injured when a train
struck their automobile several years
ago. The case will be taken to the
supreme court.
A batch of 100000 whitefsh,
Matched at the Point Edward hatch
cry, are about to be turned into Lake
Huron, just above that place. Fisher
men are placing their nets for the
spring opening Of the fishing season.
Already good catches of lake trout
have been made.
H. A. Townley, SO, Clarence town
ship, Calhoun county, farmer, stepped
into a pantry to get bottle Of medi.
cine, but instead got one filled with
carbolic acid. He drank some of the
acid in the dark and died within an
hour Deputy Sheriff Robert Towns
ley, of Battle Creek, is a brother.
Charles Stevens, a resident of Fen
ton since the early sixties, was killed
by westbound Grand Trunk special
freight train Saturday. Stevens had
been in Holly, few days, and was
walking home on the tracks when
struck He was laborer, SO years old
and single. Several relatives sur
VIE.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Association of the Deaf will be held
at Flint June IL to 16. Most of the
members are graduates of the Michi-
gan School for the Deaf, and for them
the annual meeting will be in the ra-
ture of a reunion. One of the enter
tainment features will be exhibition
of motion pictures Of addresses In
sign language by nationally prominent
educators.
Plans for a campaign to raise $780,
600 for the erection of a union club
house similar to that at the Univer-
sity of Michigan were made public
by the secretary of the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College Alumni association.
A site on the campus probably will
be chosen for the building, which will
include a clubhouse for undergradu-
ates and the alumni, and dormitories
for alumni visitors.
A new record for shaft sinking has
been made by the Newport Mining
at Ironwood. In 30 days it |
sunk steel shaft, Fl by 10 feet, 100 |
feet. The shaft will be 1000 feet
deep. The Newport company has re-
sumed work with its full force. The
interests will resume
work at the Portland mine, an open |
pit mine near Michigamme, and ship |
ming will hcRin at once