The Yale expositor., 1917-04-19
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

was working in her kitchen when
neighbors rushed in and told her the
house was on fire. A defective chin
ney fiue was the cause of the damage,
which is estimated at $1,000.
Geo. Nugent, 35 years old, of De-
troit, died from the results of a pecu-
liar injury. An emery wheel at which
the man was working. collapsed strik-
ing his body and causing fractures to
four ribs. One of the fractured ribs
punctured lung causing death.
Life savers at Whitefish point sta
ton have gone on strike because of
the dissatisfaction with government
pay, according to a report received at
Sault Ste. Marie Whitefsh point, Irish
point and Deer park stations are the
most lonely ones on Lake Superior.
The newest stunt in patriotism took
place in Flint, when Charles G. Rich
ardson, fiagman at one of the city
railroad crossings, held patriotic
hte-raising. A large red. white and
blue kite decked with flags, with bunt-
ing streamers suspended from the
string, was sent up by Richardson.
A year ago an Overland car left
in front of a Mt. Clemens garage, the
property of DR.. f. X. Lenfesty, was
stolen and never recovered. The in
surance company, which carried the
risk against theft, has brought suit
in the circuit court for $1,000 against
John Smith, an employee of the garage,
in whose care the car had been left.
firing of the confinement at Eloise
inirmary, George Harrington, 92
years old. one Of the oldest inmates
of the institution, started on a walk
to Detroit. A short distance from
the institution, the aged man, who was
partly deaf was struck by a Detroit
bound interurban electric car. and his
left leg was severed above the knee.
He was taken back to the infirmary
where he died shortly after the acct
dent. The old man had no known rel
atives.
Because Old Glory did not float from
the flag pole of the Bliss mine at Sagi-
nav, the coal workers refused to go to
work. A flag was purchased and raised
the same day.
The Ann Arbor branch of the Amer
lean Red Cross has completed ESQ
comfort bags and 40 sewing kits for
the Seventh and Eighth divisions of
the Michigan naval reserves.
Disobeying orders. 100 Canadian
soldiers rushed the gates of the Port
Huron-Sarnia Ferry Co., at Sarnia,
boarded the boat and came to Port
Huron. All of them have been court
martialed.
Carl f. Schmidt, one OF Detroit's
representative German-Americans,
subscribed $4,000 to the Detroit chap
ter OF the American National Red
Cross society for the establishment Of
a complete Detroit base hospital unit.
When the body of Edward E. Howell,
of Owosso, Al, killed by freight train,
was taken to the morgue, a paper
sack containing four apples that he
was taking home to his children,
was found clutched in his lifeless
hand.
Vacant lot farming" is to be a big
factor in combating the high cost of
living in Kalamazoo this year. The
city council, at the suggestion of
Mayor James B. Balch, is working on
plan whereby every vacant lot in
the city will be under cultivation this
spring.
A German flag that hung with the
Stars and Stripes in the hall occupied
jointly by the Owosso Maennerchor,
the Arbeiters and the Hermann Sons,
has been taken down, and picture
of General Won Hindenburg covered up.
The action was taken at the sugges-
ton of Jacob Barrie, prominent in the
societies, and who was born in Ger
many and has a brother fighting in
the kaisers army.
Allan MacNeill and Joseph Marshall,
of Sarnia, narrowly escaped drown
ing when upset from a rowboat on
the St. Clair river near Port Huron.
Mdrbndll, ClnBlnB 10 the upturned
boat, drifted down river half mile be-
fore rescued by a tug. MacNeill
chung on boom logs nearby for Is
minutes. until pulled out by the crew
of lumber barge. Both were exhausted
as the waves were high and ice form
ing. This is the first river accident
of the season.
Judging from the replies to tele-
grams received by State Highway
Commissioner Frank F.. Rogers, coun-
ty road commissioners throughout
the state do not take kindly to the
proposition to stop road work as a
war measure and put the labor on
farms. Mr.. Rogers asked the COM
missioners in Is or 20 counties for an
opinion as to whether they thought
it advisable to stop work. Almost
uniformly the county officials are
against the plan. Their chief opposi-
ton is that they believe but a small