The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-09-14
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Gov. Ferris appointed John Phelan
OF Ludington probate judge of Mason
county to fill a vacancy.
The schools of Medina township
will not be opened as usual this year
on account of the prevalence of dyph-
iberia.
Fifteen cases OF infantile paralysis,
the largest yet in a single day, were
reported September TO the state
board Of health in Lansing.
E. l.. Edwards has been elected
president of the Hay Fever club" of
Ludington, organized to wage war on
hay fever producing weeds in the
city.
Fred Tate was nearly electrocuted
at the Reid drydock at Port Huron.
He attempted to turn on an electric
light and was shocked by a crossed
wire.
The one year old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace Luce is the first
victim of infantile paralysis in East
Tawas. The case is considered
serious.
Greater Detroit is now the fifth
city in size in the United States, ac-
cording to the estimate made in the
new directory. The population is
S29,77S.
Raymond VandepVte, IL years of
age. Of Mears, died of cholera infan-
tum after eating too many green
apples. His sister, Lena, is very i'll
from the same cause.
Timothy Collins, so years old, OF
Emmett, Mich, is dead of injuries
suffered in a fall down sliding-pole
hole in the Detroit fire department
ladder house No. Is.
Walter Horvath, u, of Menominee,
while loading hay fell on pitchfork.
The tines entered his stomach. passed
under a rib, penetrating the lungs, but
he is expected to recover.
After having been kept alive for
several weeks by the sacrifice of
blood by relatives William Bramwell,
60 years old, of Kalamazoo, is dead
He had been Ill for months.
Chief A. A. Carroll of the Grand
Rapids police department, was elected
president of the Michigan State as
sociation of Prosecuting Attorneys,
sheriffs and chief of police at Manis-
tee.
]. Wallace Page. pioneer wire fence
manufacturer, died at Adrian. He
was 73 years old. Fifty years ago he
built barn in RolliD township in
which he manufactured the first wire
fence.
Howard Wade, returning from the
Michigan state fair, drove his auto
head-on into farmers team of horses
three miles west of Dearborn. One
horse was killed Wade was cut by
flying glass.
The board of county auditors of
Bay City has offered a reward OF
$500 for information that will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the two
! men who shot and killed Franklin e.
Parker in Bay City.
Nearly 200 yardmen and trainmen
employed by the Grand Trunk railway
at Port Huron will share in the adj
vance in wages granted by the rail-
road last week. The increase ranges
from to per cent.
The rapid growth of Albion has
caused all records for school enroll
ment to be broken this fall 1899
pupils being registered. In the high
school are gil and extra teachers
have had to be secured.
II present plans go through, Muske-
CONS first sky scraper, a ten-story
block. will be built by the local
Knights of Pythias lodges, with the
upper two or three stories forming
the temple of the order in Muskegon.
Herman w. Sass was instantly
killed at Miller's coal dock at
Port Huron in fall from
the top of a coal chute to the con-
crete dock Sass, who has been in
the employ of the Miller concern for
many years, was directing the hand
ling of the bucket, which was filling
the chutes and missed his footing.
Theodore Holmborn, OF Manistee,
whose grip containing a $4,000 life
insurance policy, some foreign cur
rency and stocks and bonds were
found in the bay, did not perish in the
July storm. He was on Santa Rosa
island for his health and a storm
washed away the building and grip.
Deprived of his money he was CON-
PEELED to work as a laborer in saw
mill.
Clyde Bennett, 2S, member of Co.
A., signal corps, and Hazen Thorn.
IL, Of Willis, and James Patterson, of
Ypsilanti, and young man whose
name could not be learned were in
jured near Sheldon, when the auto
mobile driven by Bennett shdded into
a ditch. Bennett probably fatally
tofurod Thorn o,tfforad q hrOkot, ool.