The Yale expositor., 1916-01-27
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

Arenac county will be held at STAN
dish on Thursday and Friday, Feb
ruary 10 and IL ext.
Michigan senator's have received
protests against the proposed taxes
on gasoline and motor cars from the
Big Rapids board of trade.
Postoffice receipts in Bay City
doubled during the last three years
and bank deposits in 1915 increased
$1,500,000 over the previous year.
Clarence Bailly, Is. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. C. e. Bailly, of Big Rapids, who
was accidentally shot in the head
while examining 22-calibre rifle. is
dead.
Congressman Louis c. Cranlton has
notified the local branch of the Ma
tional Defense league that he is OPP
posed to a radical increase in arma-
ment.
Charles Petrine, burglar from Wash
tenaw county, who has been confined
in Jackson prison since 1905, has been
transferred to the asylum for insane
at Ionia.
Hannah M. Towar, believed to have
been the oldest woman in Detroit, died
at the age of 1913 Wednesday morn
ing. She had resided in Detroit for
more than 60 years.
To evade trial on a charge OF non
support of his family. William Taylor
went to Sarnia and enlisted for SER
vice with the American legion being
recruited in that city.
Charged with having burglarized,
with her husband, home in Sturgis,
Winifred Wilson, Il years old, has
been taken TO that city. She was
arrested in Port Huron.
Caught while attempting to sell
some junk to Saginaw junk dealer,
Oscar Wentworth, OF Saginaw, is
held in Flint, charged W it'll robbing
ID. U. r. power station.
Because the epidemic of grip has at
tackled the attorneys in charge of the
remaining cases on the calendar, the
circuit court in Saginaw has been ad-
journed for several days.
Prof. George w. Bissell. dean OF
engineering at Michigan Agricultural
college, was elected president by the
Michigan Engineering society at the
close of its annual convention.
Major General Leonard Wood has
accepted an invitation of the Ann Ar
Dor branch of the National Security
league to speak on Preparedness" in
Hill auditorium Monday evening, Feb.
ruary 81.
Further cases of smallpox having
failed to develop, John A. Craig, prin-
cipal of the Muskegon schools. an
nounces that the order barring unvac-
cinated children from the schools will
be revoked.
The body of Mrs. Peter Beltinck. Of
Mt. Pleasant, who disappeared the
night of January 10, was found frozen
in cake of ice and washed up on a
bank by high water about mile be-
low the city.
Prof w. p. McCurdy, %, of the fac
ulty of the Michigan Business and
Normal college, was found dead in
bed at the home of his parents in Bat.
tie Creek, Sunday morning. Death
was due to natural causes.
The Chandler homestead in Man.
chester, N. H., birthplace of Zachariah
Chandler, of Michigan, secretary OF
the interior under Grant and for 20
years United States senator from
Michigan, was destroyed by fire Sstur-
day.
Claude Pennock, 12-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Pennock, of the
village of Pennock, is dead as the re-
suit of being shot late Saturday by his
cousin, Will Roth, also 10. The lads
were playing with the elder Pennock's
shotgun.
In stepping from one track upon
which passenger train was approach
ing. Mrs. Rose Mills, 60 years old,
stepped directly in front of an east
bound Michigan Central fast passen-
ger train at Jackson street cross
ing Sunday. She was struck and
thrown 100 feet. Every bone in her
body was broken, the coroner reports.
The National Guard bill of Senator
Cummings, provides for a peace
strength of 100000, which would be
doubled in war time. Three-year en-
listments, three times the camp ma
neuver and rife practice now required
no obligation to perform police duty
after 1920 and conversion OF six army
posts into federal schools for reserve
officers, are their principal features.
Promiscuous distribution by Michi-
gan congressman of free seeds fur
nlshed by the United States depart
ment OF agriculture was strongly con-
demned by members of the Michigan
Z Experiment association. A resolution
3 was adopted requesting that 1.-THE
; congressman from Michigan distribute
/ farm seeds only to such persons as