The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-11-09
michigan news BRIEFS

The Pere Marquette Will build new
freight and passenger depots at Buch-
anan.
The Mt. Clemens Gas Light Co. will
rebuild its plant at cost of about
$4,000.
The city tax rate OF Muskegon will
be 1913 per $1,000 assessed valuation,
an increase OF $4S4.
T. Corrigan, 76 years old. OF Camp
bell township. died of injuries receiv-
ed when his horse ran away.
Lazarus Bloand. 7S. Manistee's
Oldest tailor, died from injuries receiy-
ed when struck by an automobile.
In a free-for-all fight at Petoskey
Martin Blous, Russian, was killed.
John and Archie Sciallen are in jail.
William Marshall is dead as the
result of hunting accident His shot
gun was accidentally discharged
when he laid it down. The charge
tore a hole through his chest.
AS a result of injuries suffered
when COW he was milking crowded
him against the stall, Eli j. Saums,
"a years old, died at his farm home
four miles southwest of Eaton Rapids.
Bishop William Burt has notified
Grand Rapids Methodists that the
next semi-annual meeting of the
board OF bishops will be held in Grand
Rapids during the week of April %,
1917.
During the 10 months, 1913 per-
mits were taken out for new buildings
in Detroit the combined cost of which
totals $50, $50 ,O55 and for 1881 al
terations or additions amounting to
s5,755,540.
A chamber of commerce has been
organized at Monroe with $50 mem
bers. John S. Mcmillan is president;
w. G.. Sterling, Jr., vice-president;
ID. G. Rollinger. secretary, and August
Radke, Jr., treasurer.
Struck on the head by the weight
of an ascending elevator in the Flint
p. Smith building. William McCarty.
30, was instantly killed. McCarty was
painting m tie elevator shaft when
the weight struck him.
William Morgan OF Battle Creek
while returning from the cemetery
was informed that his 1o-year-old son
had been killed by an automobile
while returning from school.
Malcolm Mcdowell, of Marshall, In
written confession made public by
Sheriff Davis, admits that he helped
Dewitt Henning, prisoner in Ann
Arbor, escape by smuggling saws
into the jail, which Henning used to
break jail
The increase in postal receipts in
October over the same month in 1915
was the largest since William J. Nagel
became postmaster at Detroit. Total
receipts were s372,203.52, as compared
with s297,79290 for October. 1915, an
increase of $74.410.62.
Mrs. Margaret Mullen, so years old,
suffered injuries which will result in
her death when she was run down by
an automobile driven by Mrs. Cass
Loyne, OF Chaplin, who was on the way
to funeral. Mrs. Mullen made her
home with a daughter at Chesaning.
Hurled from the buggy in which
they were riding when their horse,
| frightened by the explosion OF a hunt
er's shot gun, ran away, John and
James Hogan, farmers OF Muskegon,
were fatally hurt, the former having
both legs broken above the knee,
while the latter had his right leg
fractured just above the ankle.
Paul Forcla, an Indian, was arrested
and fined for having beaver and musk
rat pelts in his possession at Jacobs
vile. He appeared before Justice
Little and appealed the case to circuit
court He claims that an old treaty
between the Indians and the United
States reserved the right to the In
dams to hunt perpetually over their
former lands.
An incendiary attempt to burn down
the Pillsbury school was frustrated
when Lester Wright saw flames in the
basement and turned in an alarm.
The basement stairway had been
flooded with kerosene. Entrance was
obtained by forcing rear doors, one of
which was barred by a three-inch
piece of pine flooring, and the other
by an iron pipe in staples. The loss
will be small.
Gov. w. N. Ferris was elected pres
ident of the Michigan Unitarian con-
ference held in Kalamazoo at its final
session. The other officers elected in
Guided: Vice-president, Rev. ID. Roy
Freeman, OF Grand Rapids; secretary
treasurer, Rev. F. c. Gauld, of Toledo;
directors, Rev. George r. Patterson,
Kalamazoo; Mrs. E. l.. Fuller, Jack
son; Mrs. F. II. Holt, Detroit, and
Rev. r. S. Lorring. Ann Arbor.
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