The Yale expositor., 1917-08-09

A dog standing beside him was
killed.
Traverse City won the 1918 meeting
OF the Michigan Association OF Chiefs
OF Police, Sheriffs and Prosecuting
Attorneys
Charles Legg, of Oak Grove, was In
stantly killed when struck by freight
train on the Michigan Central railway
at the first overhead bridge east of
Ann Arbor. He was a patient at the
University hospital.
Marquette circuit court must decide
II a pig is worth decent burial The
pig in question died a natural death.
The owner wouldn't bury 1t and was
fined SO by the justice court. She
has appealed.
Frank Heath, So years old, wealthy
farmer living two miles from Fenton
shot himself through the heart with a
shotgun. He was Respondent over i'll
health. Heath was said to have the
finest stock farm in the southern part
OF the state.
Diving from a dock at Woodruff
lake, near Charleston, Jack Peters, 25
years old, of Detroit, struck his head
on a submerged log and was stunned.
He came to the surface but sank again
before aid reached him. The body
was recovered.
II. o. Young, 67 years old, for IL
years representative from the Twelfth
district in Congress and one time dis.
trict attorney for Marquette county,
and one of the most prominent attor
neys in the upper peninsula, died at
his home at Ishpeming.
TO prevent Frank Kozin and John
Kujava, two prisoners on the county
road gang who tried to escape last
week, from again "hotfooting" it
across country in an effort to escape
from the gang, Sheriff Green, of Pom.
tiac, has caused a chain and 25-
pound weight to be attached to the
legs of each of the two men.
Continuous cultivation of gardens to
save moisture is recommended in a
bulletin issued by the NJ. A. c.
A committee of seven men has been
appointed by the city commission to
look after interests of Pontiac men
called away to war.
A Kalamazoo commission merchant
paid 1926 a bushel for two carloads
of new wheat, the highest price ever
paid in Kalamazoo at the opening OF
the harvest season.
Segregation of the habitual and
moral degenerate criminals from the
accidental wrongdoer was advocated
by Capt. Brice Disque, warden OF
Jackson prison, before the Michigan
Association of Chiefs of Police. Sher.
ifs and Prosecuting Attorneys in con-
vention at Grand Rapids.
National guardsmen who have been
by the recent medical ex-
aminations have the right of appeal to
Maj Gen. Barry, at Chicago, according
to Mai Keen, at medical inspection
headquarters here. Hundreds of tele-
grams, telephone calls and personal
appeals, some of the latter reaching
the governor, are being received.
The discovery of salmon in Lake
Superior by Edward Rompi and other
Houghton fishermen, promises that
within a few years the fishermen OF
Lake Superior may have another
game fish to catch. The land locked
salmon were caught in Fall river in
Baraga county. How the fish came to
be in Lake Superior waters is I'M
known.
A report that the newly organized
Chamber of Commerce Of Port Huron
had repudiated an agreement entered
into between the old Business Mems
association and the Detroit. Bay City
& Western railroad. whereby the asso-
citation pledged itself to raise $4,000
as a bonus, is erroneous. The Cham
Der of Commerce has appointed COM
mittee of nine business men to pro-
vide a plan for raising funds to make
up the bonus as pledged, and every
effort will be made to fulfill the city's
obligation.
The forty-ninth annual reunion OF
the Ninth Michigan Infantry associa.
ton was held at Portland, Aug. IL.
Four sons of Bishop G. Mott Will
liams of the Episcopal church at
Marquette have offered themselves to
the United States army.
Charles Orvis, As, of Greenville. was
loading hay on wagon when pulley
fell on his head, crushing his skull.
He was moved to hospital, but lived
only two days after the accident
One of the fastest motor boats ever
operated in the waters around Detroit
has been delivered the United States
government for use in connection with
the Selfridge aviation field near Mt.
Clemens. The boat is to be used at
the Mt. Clemens field as a retriever
boat for student aviators who may fall
into the lake off the coast from the
field.
Postponement of the time when the
Northumberland draft army shall