The Yale expositor., 1916-10-26
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

in Boyne Falls.
State tax commissioners will con-
duct hearings in ten townships in
Delta county beginning Oct. 26.
Rollie Strong, of Lansing, driving
an automobile, was struck by an
M. u. T. street car and thrown 80
feet.
Mrs. William II. Waite, of Ann Ar
Dor, was reelected state regent of the
Michigan Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The board of supervisors Of Shia-
wassee county voted to reduce the
county road commission from three
to one man.
Thirty clerks in the capitol are
forming plans to secure salary raises
from the legislature. The general
salary is $1,100 a year.
Gov. Ferris has appointed Robt.
l.. Taylor judge of probate in Lapeer
county to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Daniel H. Zuhlke.
n
Protective Legion was formed at a
convention of delegates in Kalama-
zoo from every local legion in
Michigan.
battle to enforce it's 75-cent gas or
dinance, ignored by the Michigan
Light company since it went into ef-
feet August /.
A Carleton professorship of oratory
in Hillsdale college, Will Carleton's
alma mater, was founded as a mem
orial to the late Michigan author by
the Carleton Memorial association.
The board of control OF Jackson
prison will meet in a few days TO
take up the selection of a successor
to Warden Nathan Simpson, whose
resignation becomes effective Jan.
l.
Attorney General Fellows has ruled
that the clerks and election boards
have authority to take the names
OF Progressive candidates off the bal
lots, IL requested to do so by the
candidates.
Gustaf Burmen shot a large wolf
in the city limits of Norway after
his dogs had rounded it up and
held it at bay. It's pelt was taken
to the county clerk, who paid Bur-
men S25 for 1t.
Rev. f. NJ. Sherman, for several
years pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Mason, has accepted a call
to the Petersburg and Deerfield Pres
byterian churches. He will begin his
work here Nov. 8.
Charged with the murder of VIII
liam Travers, Newaygo farmer, Mrs.
! Traverse and Clarence Myers, her
youthful lover and former boarder
at the Traverse home, went on trial
in circuit court at White Cloud.
The body of James Siebel, 46
years old, of Trenton, was found
floating in the Detroit river opposite
Ecorse with a rope attached to a
stone tied around his neck. Siebel
is believed by the police to have COM
mitted suicide.
The Worcester Lumber company,
OF Chassell, has given two acres of
land to the Chassell high school, to
be used for a playground. The work,
necessary to put the ground in shape,
will be done by the pupils. All games
are to be supervised by competent
leaders.
Michigan industries are able 20
furnish the United States govern
ment, in the event of war, with all
pharmaceutical supplies. automobiles
and motor trucks 1t will need, be-
sides contributing considerable mu-
nitions and raw material for deadly
gases, according to the report re-
Gently completed by the organization
for industrial preparedness, appoint
ed last spring to gather data from
industries.
Because of a split rail, a super
heater compound freight engine on
the Michigan Central belt line in
Detroit jumped the track and pushed
by the weight of 81 cars behind 1t,
turned turtle and turned completely
around at the foot of Mt. Elliott
avenue. in the rear OF the Marine
hospital, fireman and the conductor
of the train we're in the cab at the
time and had miraculous escapes
from death.
According to the mortality report
for September, 3,544 deaths occurred
in Michigan last month, of which
86S were among children under one
year Of age Infantile paralysis
caused 43 deaths during September,
the largest number ever recorded
from this disease in one month in
Michigan. other important causes
of death were tuberculosis in its
various forms, 10; pneumonia, 1923;
diarrhoea and enterit is among chill
dren under two years of age, 431;
cancer. 1913, and violence. 241. The
total number of births reported dur
ing September was 6,7SS.