The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-07-21
MICHIGAN NEWS
ITEMS IN BRIEF
Paragraphs Of Interest TO VOL
VERNE State Readers.
News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points In the State and So
Reduced In Size That II Will Appeal
to All Classes of Readers.

I
at Ypsilanti.
Mrs. Smith J. Davis, Ypsilanti pio-
neer aged lightweight years. is dead.
Pike tourists opened their annual
trip az Chicago on the morning of
| July 10.
II. Teople, aged 16, of North Adams,
lost his right foot which was blown
off by cannon explosion.
About one hundred machinists at
Kalamazoo, employed by the Garage
Fan company, went out on strike.
With the thermometer at SO, drivers
employed by the Consolidated Ice COM
pany went on a strike at Battle Creek.
Edmund Haight, aged II, is held
for the theft of an automobile belong
ing to Jacob DeHollander, of Rich
land
Fred Newton, aged 20 years, of Up
silanti, accidentally killed himself
while loading double-barreled muz-
zle loader shotgun.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Heimler, aged SO, one
Of the pioneers Of that section Of the
state died at her home in Muskegon
after short illness
Rev. Father Joisten, As, of Norway,
a German Catholic priest is dead OF
appendicitis. He was pastor of st. Ma.
rvs church seventeen years.
Search is being made for William
Barnes, 67, a farmer, who is feared to
have ended his life or was accident
ally drowned in Maceday lake.
The sixtieth anniversary of Luth.
eran church was observed with crowd
ed houses at the services, both morn.
ing and afternoon at Marshall.
The MuskegOn-Oceana county cher
~ crop, injured by weather, will be
about siXty-fve to seventy per cent of
normal, leading growers estimate.
For the first time it is declared
in the history of the Justice courts
of Washtenaw, a man has been
found guilty by jury of being drunk
Sheriff Ralph Chapman of Kalama-
zoo county began the slaughter of
e;ghty-four dogs that are running
about the county without a license.
Prosecuting Attorney Kent Of Ma.
comb county has been taken to the
Washington hospital with a broken
shoulder, the result of an automobile
accident
John Godall, aged seventy-six, Of
Jackson, was struck by a passen-
ger train on the Michigan Central
railroad and literally smashed to a
mass of pulp.
John Human, deputy sheriff OF Mus
kegon county at White Hall for eight
years, died Unexpectedly Of apoplexy
He was a pioneer resident Of that sec
ton of the state.
County officers placed a charge of
manslaughter against John Musuadi.
an the taXi-driver. who ran down and
killed August Green, siXty-two years
old, a Muskegon carpenter.
Saut ste Marie's 100000 high
school, under course Of erection, has
been discovered resting on quicksand.
Large cracks have appeared in the in.
ner and outer walls of the building.
The body of a young man, pre-
sumably a tramp, and aged about
twenty years, was found on the
Michigan Central tracks at Hairg's
station, a few miles south of Jackson.
Valuation Of Wayne county is placed
for taxation at near the billion
mark in the report which was recon-.
mended to the board of supervisors by
the boards committee on equalization.
After twenty-five years in the ser
vice, Arthur Amsden, of Saginaw and
director of the Ihirty-third regiment
band, has been rejected for the regu-
lar service, according to letter re.
ceived from him.
Two Lansing children, Vera Hannah,
ten years old, and Edgar King, ten
years old, were seriously hurt, the for
mer possibly fatally, when an auto
mobile, rushing to answer a fire
| alarm, struck them.
| A search by Muskegon people for
four-year-old Albert Laurin, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Alec Laurin, who had been
missing, ended when his body was
|
dock, on Muskegon lake.
| Physicians of Owosso refused to sign
the death certificate of Mrs. Charles
Parkhurst, thirty-six years old, who
died suddenly at her home, near Ban
croft, believing she was the victim of
self-administered poison.
Bud Morris. of the Grand Rapids
aviation school, and DR.. E. w. Rey.
holds, riding as a passenger, narrow
ly escaped being killed. when their
hydroaeroplane turned over when
about fifty feet in the air.
Trustees of the Michigan institution
for the blind, in making up the bien
NAL budget, for the institution, includ
ed an item of $4,000 to establish sys
tenn of home teaching" for blind
people outside the institution.
Amendments recently adopted to the
Flint local option ordinance prohibit
any transportation company from de
livering any intoxicating liquors to
anv one except the person to whom