The Yale expositor., 1917-09-20
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS

The official flag pole of Camp Custer.
which will stand near the camp head
quarters, is the gift of citizens of Bat
| tie Creek.
Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall
and party, who have been spending
the summer at Petoskey, have return
ed to Washington.
More than 100 U. OF M. students
nance course to be taught this year
by Leslie +. Merch.
Fred Becker, 20 years old, died at
his home in Rochester of injuries he
received when he was thrown out of
buggy by runaway horse.
Carter Curtis. shift boss at the
was killed when his head struck
beam while he was riding the motor.
Michigan coal miners, who held
two-day convention at Saginaw ad.
journed without taking any action on
the proposed wage increase demands.
V. A. Goddard, SIS, who has for a
number of years lived the life of
recluse at his camp, Is miles north
west OF Iron River, was found dead
there.
A. A. Prentiss, 35, Of Chicago,
met an old friend in the Scott
hotel, Hancock. Let's go and have a
drink" he suggested. AS he turned
to enter the bar he dropped dead.
Declaring that it can no longer pro.
duce gas at the rate of S5 cents a
thousand feet, the Port Huron gas
company will submit a proposition to
the voters asking permission to raise
its rates to 81 thousand feet.
Mrs. Gilbert Archambeau, wife OF a
farmer near Bay City, after preparing
breakfast went out of doors to ring
the bell which calls the men to the
fell, striking on her head and frac-
turing her skull.
Heavy machinery caused the third
floor OF Moulton Grocer Co. building
at Muskegon to crash to the basement
during the night. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000. The Waterman was
killed. The accident in daytime would
have brought death to many employees.
Ten minutes after he had married
Emerson Russell and Mrs. Edith Malli-
son. Justice Gould of Hastings fined
the man $1,000 for drunkenness on
charge preferred by the former Mrs.
Madison. To insure a happy honey.
moon the Judge made the groom sign
60-day pledge.
When a maid in the home of c. B.
Chatield, Bay City, found a burglar
in the house, she tried to call police
on the telephone. The man dragged
her from the phone Miss B. Schanz,
telephone operator, heard her cries,
suspected something was wrong and
called the police. The man escaped.
Five unidentified men, believed to
be tramps, were killed at Cedar Lake
three miles east of Edmore, when a
Pere Marquette freight train on which
they were riding left the rails and was
ed although both engines of the dou-
ble-header left the rails. The wreck
was due to spreading rails. Twenty
five of the 80 cars derailed were de-
stroyed In two of the cars was a
quantity of dynamite which failed to
explode. The train was en- route to
Saginaw from Grand Rapids.
Eleven officers in the medical corps
of the United States army are at the
state psychopathic hospital at Ann Ar
Dor taking instruction in the determi-
nation and treatment of nervous dis
eases. From here they will go to army
hospitals designed for the care of ner-
vous diseases. 1t is probable that be-
fore the organization of the new ma
tional army is completed each canton
ment will have one or more of these
physicians to test nervous conditions
that would be likely to cause break.
down under the strain of trench war
fare.
Cosmopolitan Detroit. In 1t is rep
resented practically every known
country and part of the world as
shown by the final compilation OF the
school census just completed. This
year for the first time nationality Of
all children between the ages of and
20 years was recorded. More than SO
different countries or sections are rep
resented in the divisions of nationali-
ties. From the hot sands of Arabia
come 81, Iceland is represented by one
child; Macedonia has six, India ID,
Philippines two, Asia six, Malta II,
South America IL, Asia Minor four and
so the list runs. The census gives
total OF 1882 children.
The Duluth South Shore G. Atlantic
railroad rate case, which has been be-
fore United States Master in Chan
Gerry Baker for seven years, will be
tried In Grand Rapids November 20,
before Judge Sessions, In the United