The Yale expositor., 1916-09-28
MICHIGAN News BRIEFS

Two cases of infantile paralysis
We're reported from Deerfield town
ship.
The enrolment at Alma College this
year shows 10 per cent increase over
last year.
Fire destroyed the $4,000 farm
house owned by Allen Bechtel, OF
Gaines township.
Peter Rasmussen, Spencer township
farmer. took his life by hanging him
self an his barn.
On account of infantile paralysis,
the public schools of Adrian Will be
closed until Oct 2.
Gypsies are believed to have started
fires in Burlington township which
destroyed seven barns, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
Enrolment of delegates TO the inter
national recreation congress, to be
hello IN Grand Rapids. Oct. 2-6, is
steadily increasing.
In a fit OF insanity, Mrs. William
McEwen shot and MORALLY wounded
her husband and then killed herself at
her home in Alpena.
John II. Valentine, 20, one of the
few surviving hunters of early
pioneer days in southern Michigan, is
dead at his home in Hope township.
The heavy frosts killed late potatoes,
tomatoes and garden corn in Superior
township. The potatoes are about the
size OF hickory nuts on many farms.
Fifty-four non-commisioned officers
and privates OF ambulance Co. No. 2,
of Bay City, have petitioned Congress
man Loud to use his influence to have
them mustered out OF the service.
Because of the long drought In
Oakland county there has been in
creasing danger OF grass fires IN the
county. and during the past week
there were several OF serious
nature.
peninsula is evidenced by the fact
that game licenses Issued in Delta
county thus far this year are below
half that of last year. The total last
year was about 1900.
Another convict, the second in two
weeks, has left his bed and board at
Jackson prison. Harvey Stone left in
perfect disguise, having appropriated
clothes to make his getaway from the
wardrobe OF guest of Warden
Simpson.
julius Allenfort, a Midland county
farmer, was instantly killed about two
went into a ditch, and heavy
gasoline engine it contained landed
on top OF him. The body was almost
cut in two.
The state tax commission alleges IT.
Irregularities in assessments in certain
districts of St. Clair county and has
called a meeting OF the assessing Of
fcers OF Port Huron, st. Clair, Marine
City and st. Clair township at Port
Huron, Oct. 3-6.
Virgil Elliott, 80 years old, of De-
troit. secretary and general manager
of the Holly Plate Glass Co, was
found guilty in the circuit court at
Pontiac of manslaughter for crushing
the life out of ]. p Saukhoff in an
accident.
Suit for $4,000 against the Detroit,
Jackson and Chicago line has been
started In circuit court at Ann Arbor
by Mary A. Palmer, millincr. She
claims she was thrown from a car at
Ypsiland on July 8, 1916, when alight-
ing at the car barns.
Three prisoners escaped from tho
Otsego county jail when the lights at
GAYLORD failed. Someone entered the
Jail and found the keys hanging near
the cell block with which they opened
the cells OF John Cobb, William
Vaughan and Henry Mallory The
latter was in for forgery and the 9TH
ers for robbery.
OdIIN ing d llnts IlifdIc LltWlS Il
Bunker, Co. d., Kalamazoo, Mich, hied
himself to the Rio Grande after the
military parade held at FL Paso, Tex,
bent on capturing Villa. Disrobing he
crossed the river and fired one shot
toward Juarez. Then he was fanked
by immigration officers. Bunker Is
now in the guard house OF the Thirty
second Michigan regiment.
No. 1885, formerly of Marquette pri-
son, has been added to the list of
more than 500 ex-convicts who will
punch a clock at the Ford plant No.
1885. convicted of safe blowing, was
in 1904 sentenced to serve 10 years,
from Kalamazoo. Four years later,
a victim of tuberculosis, he was
paroled. Since then. he has been in
various sanitariums as a tubercular
patient.
Edward Cover, hardware merchant
Of Eureka. is painfully injured as a
result of his auto upsetting while on
route to st. Johns. However Cover
is thankful he is alive. In the auto