The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-10-14
State
Happenings

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Mrs. Hannah st. John, sixty-seven
years old. of Mayfield, ". Y, in a lonely
woods near here. The woman's body
was found in the woods by two boys.
Allen, who, 1t is said, used the names
OF James Allerton and John Williams,
Is alleged to have confessed that he
married Mrs. st. John shortly after her
arrival here from Mayfeld on Septem-
Der ID, and that the day following tho
marriage he took her into the woods
and killed her with revolver. He Is
said to have confessed that after shoot
ing Mrs. st. John he took what money
she had in handbag.
Grand Rapids.-Workmen on the
James Sharp farm, about ten miles
south OF Fremont, while digging
ditch, uncovered the body of William
Traverse, a former Ashland township
farmer and tenant of the Sharp farm.
Bullet holes were found in the head
and neck. Emma Traverse, forty-six
years old, widow Of the farmer, and
Clarence Myers, twenty-three years
old, formerly employed by Traverse as
farm hand, have been arrested. A
few weeks after the disappearance of
Traverse, October p. 1915, they re-
moved to Conklin. where they had been
living since.
Three Rivers.-Miss Mary Foresman,
forty-five years old, of Three Rivers,
| was fatally burned while standing In
front of range on which Mrs. w. j.
Dunn, with whom she roomed, was can
ming peaches. Miss Foresman had
smelled peaches scorching and left her
room on the second floor to help. Then
| the landlady heard her scream and
| found her with her clothes abalze. Miss
Foresman was charred from her shoul
ders to her feet and died six hours
| later.
Saginaw.-As u result of different in.
terpretations of the working agree
Michigan district all mines In the Sagi.
nav valley are closed. The miners,
numbering about 2,4O0, quit work, hav-
Ing been notified that notices were
| posted to the effect that the operators
would weigh coal only after the i'm
| purities had been removed and would
| charge an increase for mine supplies.
! Monroe.-The first attempt at a re.
| call under MonrOe's new city charter
has resulted in the recall of Mayor Il.
| G. BetZ. The mayor received 7S4 votes,
| his opponent, Adam w. Graessley, SIT.
Rumors were in circulation that sup
porters of Mayor Betz would immedi-
ately institute legal proceedings to test
| the validity of this election, on the
| ground that this was the third special
election of the year.
illsdale.-Although there were
more than dozen women contesting
| for first prize in cake-making contest
in the Hillsdale county fair. the hon
ors went to the other sex. Albert Dim
mers, twelve years old, Of Adams, car
ried away the prize. He made layer
cake that pleased the judges best Of
all. The judges sampled all cakes
without knowing by whom they were
made.
Saginaw.-Fire caused damage esti4
mated ut $4,000 when w. Il. Laur's
grain elevator. which he was to have
opened the following morning, caught
fire and gained such Roadway that 1t
was total loss. Sparks set fire to the
parish house of st. Andrews church
and an old building formerly occupied
| by the Eagle brewery. The latter
buildings were saved with slight dam
| age.
PontiaG.-AnnOuncem was made
by the Oakland Motor Car company
that 1t would spend half million dol
lars for expansions which will make
necessary the addition of approximate
ly 1000 men to its force. The addi-
tons are to be devoted largely to the
manufacture of engines for the Oak
land car, the plan being to prepare for
an output of 10000 cars annually.
Saginaw.-John Mclean, the Flint
| jitney driver who assaulted Ernest
Schmitzer, Birch Run hotel keeper.
several weeks ago. causing his death,
pleaded guilty In the circuit court. He
was sentenced by Judge Gage to serve
| lIOm SCNCh W hAtSNh yCdho IA JuShoOh
prison. Schmitzer attempted to quiet
Mclean and Mclean struck him over
the head with beer bottle.
Northville.-By vote Of 229 to 20,
Worthwhile decided to sell the muni-
cipal lighting plant to the Edison COM
pany for $4,000. The company plans
to erect an Office building here and
make this the headquarters for the en-
tire local district outside of Detroit as
far east as Romeo. The company re-
Gently bought the Plymouth plant.
Lansing.-Orla ]. Trask of William
ston has been appointed acting secre-
tary of the Republican state central
committee and will take entire charge
of the secretary's work until after the
election In November. Secretary Den
mis- Alwatd was unable to give the time
necessary for the work.
Spartas-J. II. Bettes received q
broken arm and his wife, mother4n-law
and son were slightly injured when an
automobile owned by Bert Horton OF
Sand Lake demolished buggy In