The true northerner., 1916-05-12

fire thought incendiary.
Abner Crump fell dead at Ann Arbor
Had he lived one more day, he would
have been sixty years old.
According to the monthly report
just issued there was balance
Of $7,337, ,017.76 in the treasury May
The people of the village of
Plymouth, who for more than a year
have banned saloons, must vote again
on the issue.
George Chaplin, 20, and Roy Allen,
seventeen. both of Jackson, were ar
rested on a charge of stealing two au-
tomobiles at Ypsilanti.
According 10 reports of government
bureaus, Michigans 1915 output of
copper was the largest in the history
of the business.
The body of 6-year-old Billy Miller
of Charlevoix was found in ten feet OF
water near Wilbur's dock The little
fellow had been missing all day.
The disbarment proceedings in los.
co county against Prosecuting
Attorney A. W. Black were dismissed
by Judge Howard West, Of Lansing.
1t will cost Saginaw $4,000 to
place in condition its bridges which
were wrecked by the high water, ac-
cording to estimates furnished by the
city engineers Office.
Funds are being raised to buy an
automobile for Ann Arbor's visiting
nurse, Miss Malinde Havey. She has
10 ID,
month and 26 in one day.
Thomas Salkeld, laborer living at
Saginaw, has died from pellagra,
the first case known here to the
health authorities, and one of the very
few reported in Michigan.
The state industrial accident board
ruled in a recent decision that de-
putty sheriffs and policemen do not
come under the terms Of the working
mems compensation act.
Martin V. Rork, former NJ. E. min.
lister, aged eighty years, pioneer resi-.
dent Of Hastings, who had been i'll
since he returned from the west sew
eral months ago, is dead.
Word was received by Bay City
friends Of the wedding in Chicago of
Miss Gertrude Grabowsky, supervisor
of music in the public schools of Bay
City, and Edwin Simon, of Omaha.
Despondent over i'll health, Mrs
Bethuel Martin, slxty-fve years old,
widow Of a prominent Jonesville resi-
dent, committed suicide in her home
by slashing her wrists with a razor.
Section men, shop men and train
men and many others OF the in
terurban running between Grand Rap
ids, Muskegon and Grand Haven were
granted a ten per cent increase in
wages.
The authorities Of Iron county are
investigating the placing Of a stick of
dynamite on the porch of Justice OF
the Peace w. D. Van Allen. The deed
follows numerous decisions against
the drys
When Mrs. Jennie Hayes, of Owosso,
went TO call her husband, Charles
Hayes, to breakfast, she found him
dead on the stairs. He had started
upstairs to bed the night before and
was stricken with apopleXy.
One hundred and fourteen died in
fires and 2O9 were injured while $5,-
1S4 Ala damage was done to property
valued at $32 S5.026 in 9,749 fires in
Michigan in 1915. according to the an
nual report of the state fire marshal.
Members of the Detroit Federation
of Women's clubs declare they will
refuse to accept membership in the
national federation unless the Detroit
Study club, an organization composed
of thirty negro women, is permitted to
affiliate also.
AS a result of a deadlock and much
bitterness in the Port Huron town
| ship board on the issuance of saloon
licenses, petitions are being circulat-
, ed for the recall Of Charles A. Bailey
and John Carrie, justices of the peace,
who are members Of the board.
Captain Smith, Of Cheboygans com
pany of National Guard for two years.
has forwarded his resignation to Ad-
jutant General Bersey at Lansing. 1t is
said that difficulties in maintaining
the high standard he set led to his
resignation.
Mantonites were surprised when
they learned Miss Rachael Frazer, 4th
grade teacher and Mt. Pleasant Nor
NAL graduate, had been married to
Frank w. Bale, formerly Of Lakeview,
Mich, and former Olivet student, at
Kalamazoo.
Unless there Is speedy truce
patched up between Mayor Begole,
of Marquette, and Prosecuting Attor-
ney Kennedy, Of Marquette county.
Gov. Ferris may be the final arbiter OF
the differences that have arisen be-
tween the Marquette officials.
Mrs VIM. Griffith, living at Green
vile, was found dead by neighbors
in chair at her home before an un-
lighted gas heater. She had removed
her slippers and apparently had fallen
asleep while warming herself, and the
gas had failed and then come on
again.
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