The Yale expositor., 1916-08-03
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS


first legal step towards the recovery
of 100000 fortune left by her moth
or.
Fire destroyed the Milton township
town hall. 1t was one OF the hnest
in rural district in northern Michi-
gan.
Russell Cole, IS, was drowned in
Chaplin lake when his horse stumbled
in hole, throwing the lad into the
water.
Jake Coos, OF Monroe county, II
years Old lost his right leg when he
attempted to board moving freight
tram.
When an emery wheel broke. Jacob
Reps lower jaw was terribly torn, at
the Continental Motors company plant
at Muskegon.
The smallpox epidemic is consider
ably improved several guarantees be-
ing lifted Only one new case has
been reported at Hudson.
Fred j Northway, 81 years old, one
of the best known members OF the
! Shiawassee county bar, died in Dur
and, where he had lived II years.
James Allen, IS, is in hospital at
Bay City paralyzed as result OF
fractured vertebrae sustained when
ne dove into shallow water while
bathing
Kalamazoo's first case of infantile
paralysis was reported to the Board
Of Health. A two-year-old daughter o.
Mr. and Mrs. James ID. Firestone is
the victim.
Clayton Updike, a Sturgls baker,
lost two fingers, his arm broken IN
two places and his shoulder dislocated,
when he tried to clean moving
bread mixer
A. C. Kingman, former state senator
from the ninth district and not long
ago candidate for the Republican nom
nation for state treasurer, died Of
stomach trouble.
ruin of sugar beet crops on farms In
Woodland township and many farmers
declare they will never again attempt
TO raise beets.
Floyd Fox Is years cid OF Adrian
was killed by lightning while working
in a field Sunday afternoon. The
binder he was riding was wrecked and
the team stunned.
Michigan's share of the FIRST years
appropriation of S5,000,000 under the
new fedora good roads act has been
Officially apportioned at $145,7 1888 by the
secretary of agriculture.
Shiawassee county road commission
, ers have closed a contract with To
+. ledo bank to sell $4,000 worth o.
I road bonds the coming year. About
so miles of road will be built.
Because a small stone was thrown
by an automobile tire through a win
} dow of her department store, Mrs
Segal has asked the coancil of Harbol
Springs to pay for the damage.
Arthur Allerding and Elsa Evart
of Woodland were seriously injured
when a scaffolding upon which the.
s were working broke, allowing them t
g fall upon some brick. 20 feet below
A special bonding election to cove
the cost of additions and extension
D TO the Flint water works system, es
T. timated at 100000, has been author
u lied by the common council for Al
- gust 10.
. Rapidly increasing freight bushes
n and the necessity of quickly handlin
q the same, has forced the Michiga
' East & West railway to begin work o
"A huge addition at the Manistee tel
=. minal.
1t All records were broken for the pas
ID % years Saturday when the Unite
e. States weather bureau at the Michiga
" Agricultural college registered 1O1 an
the state board of health bureau CAV
it as 103.
Morris Lesley, of Muskegon. age
10 years, an employe OF the Brun
wick Bake Collender compan,
"a choked to death at Mercy hospiti
= while vomiting. A piece Of me;
,s blocked his windpipe.
N The mother and step-father of e
n. ward F. Martin, of Tecumseh, privat
IN in Company b, Thirty. second regimen
Of M. N. G., have received notice of II
es boys death in the base hospital {
III Fort Bliss Tex, from pneumonia. i
ty was IS years old. He leaves, also tv
lie brothers and three sisters. He is II
Cd first Michigan guardsman to die c
the border.
Id With reports of one death of infa
ne tile paralysis and four new cases--oi
lie In Flint, one in Detroit and two
he Bay county-makes a total reports
be n the state of % cases, four of viii,
were fatal.
in Tossed skyward when the gasolil
It's engine on the fishing tub Walhal