The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1915-08-05
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

AtadAb i-A6SAlOlAi 10 bAht was
drowned. He got a mouthful of wa
ter and strangled before help could
be called.
Daniel Burch, an employee of the
Lewis Electric Co., of Grand Rapids,
was fatally burned by the explosion
of a pail of gasoline which he was car
rying He ventured too close to a
lighted forge.
State Grange Master John C.. Ketch-
am has gone to Colorado, to deliver
a series of lectures in the interests
of the Colorado State Grange. He
will deliver lectures in Nebraska dur
the latter part of August.
The Michigan Agricultural college
annual report shows that it cost $685.
$40 to run the institution for the fiscal
year, ending June go The tenth mill
tax netted the college an income of
$2S0,000. Student fees were S48,475;
federal appropriation, 100000; other
sources, $115,579.
Bion ]. Arnold, a graduate of Hills
dale college, has been elected by Sec
rotary Daniels, Of the navy, as one of
a committee of five to form a national
reserve corps of civilian engineers.
He was recommended TO Secretary
Daniels by the American Institute of
Electric Engineers.
Mayor Bean, of Albion, has named
August IL and 10 as special city
Cleanup days" on which property
owners art to tidy UP their premises
and the city is to cart away the rub
bish free, to give the city the best
possible appearance for the first an
nual Homecoming celebration, August
10 to %.
While Mrs. Neva Lipman, of Pow
hatan, W. Va, and her sister, Mrs. d.
G. Moon. Of Escanaba were wading
IN the river at Escanaba they were
caught by the swift current. Mrs.
Lipman was drowned and Mrs. Moon
rescued by workmen on a dam, who
Joined hands and formed a chain to
reach her.
The appeal in the Chas. Kimbrough
case will not be made TO the state SUI
preme court until late next month, too
late for the September term, because
the attorneys agreed Saturday to post
pone the hearing on the bill of eXcep-
tons until August %. The extension
was granted at the request of the
prosecutor.
Poor superintendent Gleason Of
Cass county has learned that John
Hopper of Glenwood, who has been
pronounced a leper is a legal charge
on ST. Joseph county. The Cass cOun
ty board refused to received him on
the ground that he had not been in
the county long enough TO establish
residence there.
At the annual meeting of the trus-
tees of Epworth assembly, held at Lud-
ington Saturday afternoon. William
Rath, director Ludington State bank,
was named to succeed w. L. Ham
mond, treasurer Of assembly. Other
trustees elected: J. w. OLeary, Chi
cage; f. c. Sherman, Akron, Ohio;
Lee Clark, Kansas City.
The transportation department OF
the Grand Rapids Association of Com
merce will file with the state rail-
road commission complaint asking
It to order the Grand Trunk to put
on a local train from Detroit, arriving
at Grand Rapids before noon, as
matter of importance to commercial
interests and conventions.
The Wolverine and Mohawk mining
companies Saturday made a present
to all at Calumet classes of employees
Of five per cent of their earnings dur
ing June. The present prosperity of
the mining companies is ascribed as
the reason. About 1000 men are af-
fected. These properties are con-
trolled by the Stantons, of New York
and Boston.
The supervisors of Calhoun county
must elect new county school COM
missioner to succeed Mrs. Emma Will
let's. who claimed her right to the
Office for four years because e. L. Nc
Pherson, who was elected to succeed
her, could not qualify. The prosecut-
ing attorney held that her claim was
wrong, and the Encouragement has
sustained him.
The committee of five to investi-
gate housing conditions in Michigan,
which the last legislature empowered
the governor to name, in order that
data may be at hand for the next
legislature on the subject of housing
conditions has been appointed as fol-
lows: Fred II. Begole, Marquette;
Lewis T. Wilmarth, Grand Rapids
Robert f. Todd, Detroit Charles Z.
Kolb, Battle Creek, and j. Dallas bort,
Flint.
John Sprague, appointed a rural
carrier out Of the Owosse postofiice,
on November 1, 1898, being the first
rural carrier in the county and the
third in the state. has resigned be-
cause Of i'll health. Mr. Sprague has
beeu unable TO carry mail for several
months but his job was held open
Lo.,e that he xr-nt,ld 10