The Yale expositor., 1915-03-11
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

lake at Frederic, north of Standish
Wednesday, bodies were recovered.
The historic old Astor house. found
ed at Mackinaw by John Jacob Aston
in 1909, has been purchased by John
Davis e. Sons. under whose manage
ment this resort hotel will be con
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Albert Barber, 60, president of the
Grand Rapids Bookcase and Chair
Co, OF Hastings, and one of the most
widely known furniture manufacturers
of this country, died Saturday morn
ing in Los Angeles, after a brief i'll
ness of Pneumonia.
Stephen A. Aldrich, 70 years old
former probate judge of Muskegon
county, and veteran OF the civil war,
died at Lansing Saturday at the home
OF his daughter, Mrs. w. S. Thompson
with whom he had made his home
since the death of his wife, IS months
ago.
An executive meeting OF the Sum-
mer Resort Association of Michigan
was held Saturday in the association
OF commerce building to protect
against heavy state taxation. The as
ISOLATION wants a law enacted provid-
ing that so per cent of the taxes lev
ie4 on resort associations be returned
to be spent on Improvements at the
resorts.
No report on its investigation of the
Michigan copper strike will be made
by the federal house committee, which
made an exhaustive inquiry during
he spring and summer of last year.
Representative Taylor, of Colorado
chairman of the committee, said that
"a discussion of strike conditions now
would only cause recrimination and
disturb conditions.
Thomas Moloski, Is, was kicked to
death by a colt on his fathers farm
in plymouth township near Saginaw
Friday. He was leading the colt by
rope tied around his waist When
the animal became frightened. it rap
idly wound the rope around the boys
body and being drawn close to the lad,
the colt kicked him in the back and
head, fracturing his skull.
John Lahnola, who for three weeks
has been on trial for the murder of
his father at Oskar, Houghton county,
was found guilty of murder in the
first degree Saturday, after the jury
had been out all night. Evidence was
largely circumstantial. Lahnola, who
is II years old, was charged with call
ing his father to the door of his home
at night and shooting him down.
The annual election of the Michigan
Miners, held Tuesday, resulted as fol.
lows: President, Harry Elliott, Sag.
NAV; vice-president, Frank Heath,
Bay City; secretary-treasurer. Ralph
Dearden, Bay City; international board
member, Robt. Jassney, Bay City; dis.
trict board members, Geo. Dunn, Bay
City; Chas. Krause, st. Charles. The
annual state convention of the miners
will be held in Saginaw March 9.
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Cooper Saturday dismissed 30 criminal
cases in Albion, all of them for non
payment of board bills. and announced
that hereafter the county will not act
as a collecting agency for boarding
house keepers. In eight years there
have been 81 cases of this kind start
ed in Albion, with only three convic-
tions, the complainants having re-
fused to act further after the often
ders had paid up.
Tecumseh's two newspapers, the
Herald and the News, have been con-
solidated and will be published semi
weekly hereafter under the name Her
ald-News. The Herald is the Oldest
paper in the county, having been es-
tablished in 1S49, and since the deaths
some years ago of G.. n. Stacey and
his widow, has been published by +.
S. Turner, who will be the editor of
the Herald-News. Tom w. Hingay,
of the News, retiring
Hiram Starks, of Perry, was award
ed verdict of $1S,936 in his $32 900
damage suit against the Grand Trunk
Railroad Co. in which lie alleged that
sparks from an engine set fire to his
elevator in July 1913. The elevator and
large section of Perry's bust
ness section were destroyed in the
fire. Claims of $4,000 more are repre-
sented in several others suits now
pending against the company. The de-
PENDANT probably will appeal Thurs
days decision.
Fire originating early Saturday
morning in garage operated in con-
nection with the Berton A. Spring
Co.'S undertaking establishment, at
Grand Rapids, destroyed the building,
which was one of the finest of the
kind in the state, endangering the
lives of eight persons and causing a
loss of $65,000. Four persons we're
carried from the building by firemen,
and two dead bodies in the building
were carried out just as the flames
reached the room in which they were