The Yale expositor., 1917-02-22
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

~ ItpOIl lIOn mountain bldACS
that Gust Freeden of Norway has cut
100000 feet OF lumber this sea-
son.
Frank Jubimzelee, OF Saginaw, fell
so feet while working on a trestle on
an ice house. In spite of the high
fall he only broke leg.
The boad of commerce of Marshall
sent telegram to the interstate com.
merce commission at Washington
asking relief from the present coal
shortage.
The annual convention or the Michi-
gan Hardware Dealers Association
was held at Detroit last week. Over
600 members from all parts of the
state attended
DR.. Guy Kiefer. of Detroit. was APP
pointed as a member of the state
board of health by Governor Sleeper.
DR.. Kiefer succeeds DR.. J. II. Kellogg,
OF Battle Greek.
Traverse City was in darkness sew
eral nights last week as result of
the street lighting system being
frozen" Supt. Clifford says that the
oil in the rectifying transformers was
CONCEALED.
Lee West, proprietor Of the North
vile Garage & Sales company, died at
his home in Novi tC..a-ip Of pneu
monia. He contracted tho disease on
a return trip from California where
he went to bring his aged mother
home
A broken brake beam on freight
car tossed the car into an oil house
of the Michigan Central railroad at
Kalamazoo, causing an explosion from
which three cars were destroyed with
'thei rcontents. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Mildred Halstead, IA years old, a
Wyandotte high school student, was
killed and three of her friends, all
Of Wyandotte, suffered serious in
juries when a Detroit, Monroe & To-
ledo limited car, struck an automobile
in which they were riding.
The state senate confirmed the ap
pointment by Gov Sleeper of ,ir.
Charles A. Blaney, OF Kalamazoo, to
succeed o. H. L. Wernicke Of Grand
Rapids as a member of the board Of
control OF Jackson prison. Mr.. Blaney
is a member o fthe Kalamazoo plumb
ing firm OF Wheeler and Blaney.
The lives of several nurses were
imperiled and Miss Brightup, night
nurse, was nearly caught by the fall
ing roof, when fire destroyed the
nurses home of Mercy hospital at
Benton Harbor. Miss Brightup was
carried from the burning home by fire.
men a few minutes before the roof
fell.
Rev. Charles Gerran, of Cadillac
read in the newspapers that an effort
was being made by the state game
warden to have a bounty placed on
fox, owing TO destructive habits of
the animals. He went hunting for one
near the city, without securing a IL
cense The deputy game wardens were
on the job and he paid fine of $40.
Infected with rabies, horse owned
by Benjamin Groendyk OF Grandville,
died in the street before the village
marshal, called to kill the animal
arrived. The night previous the
horse ate great holes in the beams
and timbers in the barn and as re-
suit most Of the barn will have to be
torn down and burned to prevent the
danger of spreading the disease.
Robert WINERY, 20 years old, was
buried Tuesday in a casket, which he
built three years ago, and which has
been used as a couch in the family
home at Grand Rapids since
that time. The casket is made
Of mahogany and is lined with
silk American flags. Mr.. WINERY,
who for A years was an engineer en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania lines,
brought the first train to Grand Rap
ids over the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad.
That all OF the mines of the Michi-
gan soft coal district may be closed
down by a strike on the part Of the
organized miners OF the Saginaw dis.
trict, was the announcement made by
President John M. Crutchfield, Of the
State organization, at time when
the mines are way behind orders and
the state is crying for coal. Crutch-
field intimates a strike may be caused
because OF alleged violation OF the
contract between the miners and
operators, and the latter and owners
of the mines.
Among those who have been watch.
ing the increasing tension between
this country and Germany with anx-
iety are Prof. 7. A. Boyle, Of the law
faculty at Ann Arbor, and Mrs. Boyle,
whose daughter, formerly Miss Cath
crime Boyle, has been in Berlin with
her husband, Hugh r. Wilson, a Sec
rotary OF the American legation there.
Word has just reached Prof Boyle
that his daughter and her husband
will not return to this country with
Ambassador Gerard. Mr.. Wilson has
been assigned to Berne.