The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-01-13
MICHIGAN
BREVITIES


decided to establish municipal coal
yard to sell fuel to the public ut cost.
Alma.-Eight people registered for a
special election to be held here. and 1t
Is said that 1t cost more than So for
each registration.
Grand Rapids.-Henry w. Brobst,
siXty-seven years old, president OF the
Central Boiler works, died ut his home.
He leaves n widow and daughter.
Ann Arbor.-Word has been received
here Of the death In Dayton, o., of
L. L. Manwaring, former resident of
this city, who moved to the Ohio town
a few years ago.
Rdehester.-The Western Knitting
mill, second largest knitting mill in the
United States, has called In Its travel
Ing men after covering only half their
territory, as their output for the sea-
son Is oversold.
Kalamazoo.-Philip G. Blatz. vice
president and general manager of the
Rex paper mill, resigned and will leave
the company Saturday. He will be sue
ceeded by John Forsythe, a well-known
paper-mill man.
Observation-Disclosures Shenoesky of
Cross village, descendant Of the Chip
pewa chief, Katchewegagon, was found
In the Straits of Mackinac, near Mack
lnaw City. First-aid methods revived
her.
Monroe.-Mrs. M. Grodi, aged sixty
two, wife Of David Grodi, farmer of
Berdin township, was found hanging
dead from rafter In storehouse adj
Joining her home. Dependency over
lll-health. 1t is thought, caused the act.
Dexter. John Bruninger, living
four miles southeast of here, dropped
dead few minutes after he returned
home from helping his brother-in-law
butcher hogs. He was forty-seven
years old and leaves widow and sew
eral children.
Newaygo. = When the supervisors
meet Newaygo will ask them to return
the county seat to the village. The
county is now paying rent to White
Cloud and Newaygo offers the court
house building with $4,000 spent on it
in repairs.
Cadillac.-Heart-brok a mother
followed her baby to the grave. A
week ago the daughter Of Mrs, Elmo
Lehto Jennings died. The mother had
been very Ill, but had fought bravely
against death. When she learned that
the baby was dead she said she did
not care to live longer and died.
Big Rapids.-Within day Of each
other, Mrs. William ]. Montague and
her son, Henry, died of pneumonia.
Henry was forty-eight and his mother
seventy-eight. She died on the farm
which has been her home for 55 years.
He died in this city at Mercy hospital.
He was supervisor from Green town
ship.
Grand Rapids.--William Walker, for
many years the Michigan representa-
tive of large importing and jobbers'
concern of New York city, died here.
Death was caused by fall In Che
boygan hotel recently when Mr.. Walk
er sustained conclusion of the brain.
Mr. Walker was forty-seven years old
and well known throughout the state.
Grand Rapids.-Bishop Henry Jo-
seph Richter of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Grand Rapids, died of pneu-
monia in st. Mary's hospital. Death
came to the aged prelate about AZ
hours after he had been taken to the
hospital. Bishop Richter was nearly
seventy-nine years old and had been
at the head of the Grand Rapids do
cese since its establishment in 1888 by
Pope Leo.
Detroit.-"We want live fish," said
one of two men who entered the fish
and poultry store of Jacob Landgarten
at 1884 Rivard street. He pointed to n
tank of fish displayed in the window.
When the proprietor put net In the
tank to catch fish the two men seized
him and pushed his head in the tank.
While Landgarten struggled to prevent
being drowned one of the ASSISTANTS
took S463 from his pockets, he told de-
tectives.
|. Hastings.-Miss Effle Schaffhauser,
thirty-seven years old, formerly q resi-"
dent here, arrived at the home Of rela-
tives at Delton, en- route from Phoenix,
Ariz, to Washington. to lay before con-
gress the exposure Of a gigantic land
swindle in connection with the Roose-
welt dam reclamation project. She was
accompanied by two men who were
sent by residents of Arizona to assist
her. She was ordered committed to
Kalamazoo state hospital.
Battle Creek-Joseph Maurer, forty
five years old; Mrs. Joseph Maurer.
aged forty-fve,of near Goshen, Ind,
and Noah Stutzman of Ransom, Kan,
were killed and Miss Carrie Stutzman,
| aged twenty-five, was seriously In.
jured when a Goshen division train on
the Michigan Central struck an auto.
mobile Mt East Goshen. Grover
Maurer, twenty, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Maurer, who drove the car, es-
capped unhurt. The engineer, James
Maloney, of Battle Creek, says the
driver disregarded crossing bell and
| engine whistle.
| Muskepon- Fowler, owner