The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
MICHIGAN news BRIEFS

The extremely warm weather has
been driving hay fever sufferers north.
All hotels and cottages at St Ignace
resorts are packed.
Joseph Sesdido, aged &c. of Mime
apolis, Mimi. is dead at Mackley hos
pital, the first victim of spinal menin-
gifts in Muskegon in years.
Ontonagon county board of super
visors voted unanimously TO submit a
bond proposition to voters, for $685.
600 to build state trunk line roads.
William Henry SocweI, who says
! his home is i'm New York, is in Kala-
mazoo Jail and officers declare he is
one Of the smoothest and most sue
cessful forgers in the country.
Enactment by congress of a law
providing for universal military train
ing was urged in resolutions adopted
by the Michigan State Medical So
ciety in a session at Houghton.
Mrs. Therisa Smith, so, a resident
of st. Clair county for seventy years,
died at the home of her son, Fred A.
Smith,. Mrs. Smith is credited with
having resided longer in the county
than any other resident.
Mrs. Eliza Mead, OF Ann Arbor, has
retained an attorney and will tight the
proposed plan of the University of
Michigan 10 condemn property she
owns near the site OF the proposed
new hospital laundry building.
The reading of the will of the late
William Rath discloses a bequest OF
$4,000 for the clearing and laying out
of what is known as the Cartier park
an SO-acre tract presented to the city
of Ludington by the A. L. Cartier
sons.
a total increase of 25,501 employees
in IA Detroit automobile factories, or
1904 per cent, over 1915 is the record
for 1916 as compiled by the state la
Dor department. official figures being
given out based on a years showing
ending May l.
Ann Arbor has developed six eases
of typhoid since August Is. The city
health officer says there is nothing to
fear, that the cases are sporadic and
not epidemic. The citys supply OF
drinking water and the milk supply
are tested daily.
Three vacancies in the faculty OF
Hope college have been filled by the
selection of the following men: For
the choir Of physics Professor w. Il.
Pietenpol. chair of mathematics, Pro
fessor j. w. Beath; department of edu-
cation, Professor G. J. Knock
A marriage ceremony by proxy be-
tween Detroit girl and a Danish
soldier stationed in Copenhagen.
which it will take at least three weeks
to perform with the ocean between
the principals, is being arranged by
the bride-to-be, Miss Marie Klock,
aged q.
The village of Blissfeld, has pro-
flied more by the war than any other
Lenawee county town. It's actual re-
ceipts from indirect benefits derived
from the European war would total an
astonishing large sum. Blssfeld's
largest single interest is the beet sug-
ar factory.
An liberated tooth caused the death
of Frank Smith. %. at Coney Island,
near Muskegon Smith died of blood
poisoning and officers assert they
could not obtain the services of a
physician before Smiths death, his
condition not being considered seriouG
at any time.
Joe Bodnar, alias Szilard Mizatav,
alias Joe Gustie, the confidence man
who is alleged TO have fleeced Frank
Frankas, Muskegon Heights butcher.
out Of $500 and who escaped from
the Muskegon county Jail through the
aid Of Mrs. Fred J. Collins, the sher-
IFS wife, it is alleged, was recaptured
in Chicago.
Mrs Mary Laker, 60 years old, of
Flint, is dying; her daughter Mrs.
Zachariah Gray 80 years old, is SER
iously burned, and her sonin-law.
Zachariah Gray, is slightly burned as
the result of a moments carelessness
in the handling of gasoline while Mrs.
Laker was trying to remove a spot
of paint from her dress. In an instant
of Observation-Disclosures Mrs. Laker set
the gasoline can on the button that
controlled the pilot light of her gas
stove, causing the flame to flare up
and the gasoline can to explode. Mr..
Gray was injured trying to save the
two women.
The old buildings Of the Ionia hos
pital for the criminally insane, at
Ionia, close to the reformatory. which
figured in a battle in the 1915 legis-
lature. promise to come TO the front
again at the 1917 session. At the 1915
gathering the buildings. now known as
an annex. were suggested as com
promise for the woman's reformatory.
but the advocates OF a new and ad
vanced reformatory succeeded in de-
feating the plan in the senate. Now