The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-07-01
Michigan News
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daughter of Probate Register and Mrs.
@. A. Clinton, was severely injured
when q tombstone, on which she was
sitting, tipped over, pinning her un-
derneath.
Flint.-Cyrus Chatfield is in. Hurley
hospital and expected to die as the re-
suit of fractured skull which he suf-
fered when his motorcycle collided
with an automobile driven by Lewis
Smith. Chatfield is thirty years old
and single.
Saginaw.-George Williams of Che
suning and Bart Smith of Milwaukee,
were the victims of pickpockets. Will
liams lost $3.50 In cash and $1,000 in
certificates of deposit and Smith lost
SOB In currency, according to their re-
ports to the police.
Clare.-Joseph A. Simpson, Civi1
war veteran, is dead from cancer
Several children live in this vicinity.
Ypsilanti.-There was $5O6 raised by
the tag-day committee for the purpose
Of continuing the services of the city
nurse.
Niles.-The city Of Niles will pay
laborers 50 day in the future in1
stead of SITS and teamsters $3.50 in-
stead Of "a.
KalamazOo.-Determ to see that
delinquent husbands pay alimony as
ordered by the court, Judge George
w. Weimer appointed Frank Brown
as "alimony agent" to get after delin-
Quents.
Muskegon.-Ten thousand people
paid tribute to the American flag on
Hackley field. Five thousand pupils
of almost every nationality joined In
the exercises.
KalamazoO.-Carl Bushnell, wealthy
Chicago contractor, and his bookkeep+
er, Miss Elizabeth Powell, slipped
away from the Windy City and were
married here.
Iron Mountain.-Joe Strom, twenty
three, section hand employed on the
G. NJ. & st. p, was instantly killed
by IN ore train at Merriman, seven
miles from here. Strom was shipped
here recently from Chicago with a
number of laborers.
Miles,. Walter Wood, son of the
late Mayor Wood, has been elected
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Mayor Wood. Another son of the
former mayor has been elected to fill
the vacancy in the council caused by
the election of J. Walter Wood as
mayor. The new alderman is Floyd
j. Wood.
Muskegon.-R. J. Macdonald, chief
ranger of the Foresters and prom,
inent western Michigan attorney, an
nounced he would enter the race for
the Republican nomination for state
senator, Ottawa county district.
Cassopolis.-Because there are so
few old pioneers left and no one
anxious to take up the work, the an
nual picnic usually held by the early
settlers of Cass county will probably
not take place this year.
Clare.-The suit of Joseph Cou-
sineau of Big Rapids against Elton
Allen in the circuit court at Harrison,
resulted in a disagreement. The case
will be argued again at the Septem-
Der term.
Kalamazoo.-John Greves, an aged
farmland from Elk Rapids, was
robbed of $3.50 here when an uniden-
tilted man snatched his pocketbook
and ran down the railroad yards.
Greves says the stranger asked him
for dime to buy something to eat.
Benton Harbor.-Evidence of the
growth of Benton Harbor was revealed
when Manager Stevens of the local
division of the Michigan State Tele-
phone company announced that $1O,-
600 had been advanced for expansion
of the local service.
Ypsilanti.-John Reynolds, aged sew
enteen years, son of Thomas Reynolds
Of Dearborn, was seriously injured
here by falling down the elevator
shaft at the office of the Eastern
Michigan Edison company. He was
taken to a private hospital.
Jackson. = Warden Simpson said
that at the next session of the legisla-
ture he will recommend that the name
"Aiichigan state prison" be changed to
the "Michigan Industrial institution"
Other states have or are about to
make such change in the designation
of their prisons.
Hillsdale.-O1icial investigation Is
being pushed to find those responsible
for the blowing up Of the Stock mill
dam here. Mr.. Stock said that the
dam was built to take care of water
only to the high-water mark and that
II it rose higher, 1t naturally would
overflow. This was In reply to critl-
cism recently made by the mayor Of
Hillsdale.
Corunna.-Mrs. Pearl Atherton Of
Durand filed bill for divorce, charg-
ing Albert Atherton with cruelty and
unbearable jealousy. Judge 8. s.
Miner, In refusing divorce to Ather-
ton recently, declared that the coin-
plainant had failed to substantive his
allegation that his wife was too friend
fy with HIS brother and rebuked tho
husband for his jealousy.
Battle Creck.-The board Of review
turned down the protests of the Cali