The Yale expositor., 1916-02-10
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

FIRE destroyed mail car Oh INC
Pere Marquette railroad at Grand
Junction. The car was filed with par
eel post matter and was locked.
Several reports to the police of
purse -snatching followed Flint's big
gest pay day, when four large fac
tories distributed 100000 among their
employees
4 A campaign against the sale of to-
bacco TO minors is being waged in
Port Huron by the police department.
One dealer has been convicted and
/ fined $3.50.
Worry over being subpoenaed as a
witness in an assault and battery case,
caused Joseph Steber, of Menominee
4 "a years old and well known grocer,
to hang himself.
Operations in the Michigan coal
negotiations for a new scale, contin'
uation clause being unanimously en-
dorsed at a joint meeting OF oper-
ators and miners.
Fire, attributed to defective wiring,
damaged the stock of the +. w. Wool
worth companys store at Owosso TO
the extent of about $4,000, and the
building about $1,000.
Following treatment at Ann Arbor,
Luther l.. Wright, superintendent OF
the Michigan School for the Deaf, is
recovering from illness said to have
IL
Businessmen of Grand Rapids have
decided TO organize a military COM
pany and conduct drills each week. A
two-week summer camp under a reg
ular army officer is favored.
Robert Taylor, member of the Sault
Ste. Marie customs Office staff, was
held up Monday night by a masked
man while crossing the Central high
school grounds. He lost $50.
Samuel Galliher, who, it was proved,
alighted from a street car backwards,
while carrying two suit cases, lost
his suit for damages against the Sag
NAV and Bay City street railway.
Norman F. Fite, of otter Lake, has
started suit to collect $4,000 to re-
cover on insurance policies for ST. 400
on the Garland hotel, at otter Lake,
which was destroyed by fire June 3,
1915.
Lack Of water supply for a time
threatened destruction by fire of the
new Grace Episcopal church in Stan
dish. The blaze, communicated from
the furnace, caused $1,000 damage to
the interior.
Fourteen hundred employees of the
Mohawk and Wolverine mining com
panies of Calumet will receive 10 per
cent bonuses on their January wages.
Five per cent bonuses have been paid
since July.
andrew Weaver, farmer was kill
ed by bull at Alto. where he had
taken the animal to butcher. He vas
attacked while he waited for the
butcher to go into the house for the
money to pay for the bull.
While a deadlock exists in the board
of health over appointment of
health officer, the Office in Kalamazoo
Is vacant. DR.. A. II. Rockwell resign
ed because his salary was reduced at
the suggestion of the mayor.
A municipal market is to be
established in Flint very shortly
Petitions for the market, signed by
more than 500 farmers and many
business men, were presented to the
common council recently, and the
council voted $4,000 for the project
Rather than go to court to explain
his having hired a fellow with brass
knuckles ito punch the face" of his
son as a chastisement for disobe-
dience, Joseph Steber. a Menominee
grocer hanged himself. The son had
the assailant arrested, and the father
was called as witness.
While the members of the family
of Sam j. Coax, a farmer living near
Grand Rapids were attending church
Sunday night, an overheated stove
set fire TO the home and burned it to
the ground. The smouldering ruins
greeted them on their return from
the service. The loss was $4,000.
The will of Adolph E. Guensburg,
retired merchant, who died in st. Paul.
was filed for probate in Menominee.
Guensburg, a bachelor and reputed to
be worth $250,000, bequeathed $40, 900
in stocks and bonds to Miss Marie
Mercoullier, Menominee young woman
employed for several years as sales
woman in a department store owred
by Guensburg, on condition that she
remain single after the will was ad-
mitted to probate.
Governor Ferris edict against gam
bling applied only to Flint the execu-
tive declared. in explaining that he
was a strong believer in home rule
and wanted each county to handle its
own problems as far as possible. He
said he acted in the Flint case be-
cause citizens had petitioned him 70
do go. He urged Genesee citizens to
"play fair with the sheriff" giving