The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-02-25
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

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A. Lanser to be postmaster at Bedford
and Chauncey Hummel TO be postmas-
ter at Chelsea.
| Five foreigners were arrested on
ton law when Flint police raided
three boarding houses.
Herman O'Connor, of Holton, was
nominated by President Wilson Satur-
day to be United States marshal for
the western district of Michigan.
The Republic Truck Co., of Alma,
has an order for 300 motor trucks for
the British government. Delivery
starts at once and will be completed
| by December.
Joseph Elliott Austin, of Gwinn, has
been reinstated in the United States
navy, from which he was dismissed
because, as midshipmen, he married
without the consent of the navy de-
partment.
The Jonesville Rod and Gun club
has been notified that a shipment of
$4,000 diminutive brook trout will ar
rive at Jonesville from the state fish
hatchery, on February 81 to be plant
ed in streams near there.
Because his wife refused to return
TO Bellevue and live with him. Albert
Martin, a 24-year-old Negro, Sunday
night shot and killed her at Kalama-
zoo. He was arrested early Monday
morning and does not deny the shoot
ing.
Frank Carter has been sentenced at
Flint to serve to Is years at Mar
quette prison for manslaughter in con-
nection with the death of Ralph Sova,
two years ago. Herbert Pontford is
serving time at Jackson for the same
crime.
At a special election at Flint tax
payers voted to bond for sanitary and
storm water sewers and for a subway
under the p. NJ. tracks at Leith street.
The amount of the bonds for the sew
ers is 100000, and $4,000 for the
subway.
Because members of the house be-
lieved a meeting of the American
Neutrality league, to have been held
in Representative hall Friday even
ing, would in reality be pro-German,
permission to use the auditorium was
refused.
Charles Adams was acquitted OF
manslaughter in the Gratiot county
OF In
with the death of David Sullivan, who
was found dead at the foot of the
stairway leading to Adams rooms last
summer.
Fire started by burglars to hide
thefts of clothing caused several thou
sand dollars damage in j. T. Persons
department store in Hastings Friday
night Bolts of silk found in the alley
led TO the discovery that thieves had
entered by cutting the glass from
rear door.
]. p Fournier has installed a sugar
cane crusher at his mill at Caro- and
is persuading farmers of Tuscola
county to raise sugar cane, for which
facture syrup and molasses from the
cane, which, it is claimed by expert
ments, can be profitably grown in
Michigan.
The Jackson prison binder twine
plant has established a new record,
turning out 26,500 pounds of the fin
ished product in 10-hour run. This
is 800 pounds more than ever made
before in the same length of time at
the prison factory. The amount OF
Irvine sold by the prison last year was
100000 pounds.
A special train of.2S cars will bring
livestock, household goods and imple-
ments of 80 Champaign and Urbana,
ILL.,, farmers to Gratiot county, where
they have purchased farms. The fam
lilies of the farmers will arrive in spe-
cial sleepers. The men sold their
farms in Illinois at 5000 to $500 an
acre and purchased Gratiot county
property at $50 to 500 an acre.
George F. Kenny, former Detroit
clubman, released from the county Jail
at Jackson when charge of stealing
1000 was withdrawn, is at the home
of his sister there. Physicians say
he cannot live more than six weeks.
Kenny insists, however, he has cure
for cancer, with which he is afflicted,
and that with the consent of the ply
sisian at the state prison, the remedy
will be tried on convicts suffering
from the disease.
The monthly mortality report OF the
secretary of states Office gives the
number of deaths in the state during
January as 3.237, as compared to s.
904 births. The number Of births cor
responds to an annual death rate of
1875 per 1000, estimated population,
while the birth rate is 22.9. There
we're $40 deaths of infants under one
year of age, and 1877 deaths of per-
sons So years old and over There
we're 161 deaths from tuberculosis of
the lungs, S1S from pneumonia and 1872